Can I do a "well akshully"? Seymour doesn't kill the dentist with a gun. He intends to but while he's hemming and hawing, the dentist asphyxiates himself to death on the laughing gas. Seymour's hands are relatively clean (other than chopping him into pieces to feed to Audrey II).
I hate to be that guy (especially three days after the fact), but there is no "The" in the title of this film. The original Corman film from 1960 is The Little Shop of Horrors; the musical and the 1986 film are just Little Shop of Horrors, no "The".
To be honest, and compared to the stage play? It goes too far with the campiness, and Rick Moranis's Seymour is such a pathetic schlub that going with the play's original ending just seems like the entire world pissing on Seymour and Audrey even more than it already has. The finale song from the play that's on the Blu-Ray (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=2371 ) would not have worked in Frank Oz's movie because Seymour, as Moranis played him, had no tragic flaw that Audrey II could exploit, because he's just passively pushed from one harmful act to another.
The Seymour of the play (my former wife and I saw it when it was Off-Broadway) was flawed enough to enjoy his rising celebrity (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=566 ), and shared a song with Scrivello where he justified letting the sadistic dentist die by laughing gas as Scrivello sung about how the gas was killing him and "It is really is a rotten way to go!" (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=1507 ) When he's approached about Audrey II franchising opportunities, it's not by Jim Belushi as a fast-talking hustler, it's by several hustlers for NBC and BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS, all played by the same actor who played Scrivello—and he almost reaches the conclusion "The Vegetable Must Be Destroyed!" no matter what it does to him, until he thinks that Audrey wouldn't love him without the plant, so he goes along.... (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=2050) You can hear the music getting darker and more ominous as Seymour has to find more bodies to feed Audrey II.
(all links to a copy of the Original Off-Broadway Cast Album)
One of the five best movie ever made.
One of the best musicals ever made.
Can I do a "well akshully"? Seymour doesn't kill the dentist with a gun. He intends to but while he's hemming and hawing, the dentist asphyxiates himself to death on the laughing gas. Seymour's hands are relatively clean (other than chopping him into pieces to feed to Audrey II).
I hate to be that guy (especially three days after the fact), but there is no "The" in the title of this film. The original Corman film from 1960 is The Little Shop of Horrors; the musical and the 1986 film are just Little Shop of Horrors, no "The".
To be honest, and compared to the stage play? It goes too far with the campiness, and Rick Moranis's Seymour is such a pathetic schlub that going with the play's original ending just seems like the entire world pissing on Seymour and Audrey even more than it already has. The finale song from the play that's on the Blu-Ray (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=2371 ) would not have worked in Frank Oz's movie because Seymour, as Moranis played him, had no tragic flaw that Audrey II could exploit, because he's just passively pushed from one harmful act to another.
The Seymour of the play (my former wife and I saw it when it was Off-Broadway) was flawed enough to enjoy his rising celebrity (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=566 ), and shared a song with Scrivello where he justified letting the sadistic dentist die by laughing gas as Scrivello sung about how the gas was killing him and "It is really is a rotten way to go!" (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=1507 ) When he's approached about Audrey II franchising opportunities, it's not by Jim Belushi as a fast-talking hustler, it's by several hustlers for NBC and BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS, all played by the same actor who played Scrivello—and he almost reaches the conclusion "The Vegetable Must Be Destroyed!" no matter what it does to him, until he thinks that Audrey wouldn't love him without the plant, so he goes along.... (https://youtu.be/J0Dvo9cVvK0?t=2050) You can hear the music getting darker and more ominous as Seymour has to find more bodies to feed Audrey II.
(all links to a copy of the Original Off-Broadway Cast Album)