Film Theory: The Lorax Movie LIED To You!

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, the show that tells jokes that ooze so easily, but those jokes are so full of cheese that the joke police might one day raid my house and say they'll freeze the keyboard, they'll take over the demands, they will be mocked and now everyone is screaming, stop it please, today we are talking about a Dr. Seuss classic, the

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, the classic story of how a flourishing forest full of truffle trees was reduced to a barren wasteland when a businessman comes to town and exploits trees for profit.

It's a classic story about how something beautiful that everyone loves can be ruined by greedy corporate interests and what better way for the creator of the Minion

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s to teach that same lesson. to a new generation that takes the iconic story and adds an extra hour of runtime. Now some people might call this an unnecessary cash grab that totally negates the message of the original story. What did you expect? A butt at the end of that sentence. totally negates the original message of the story, but not as much as the decision to take the pro-environmental icon

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and use it to promote a mazda suv, not hybrid or electric or anything like that, just a suv that consumes a lot of gas and also hp and ihop printers and damn comcast you see this right here it's called spot lighting entertainment you missed it but look they're not alone because when it comes to the

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lorax the audience missed the point too and to be honest Of course, I'm talking about that movie. itself and everything that was put into it to extend that story from 30 minutes to 85 minutes long, the Lorax movie seems to have a pro-tree message that ends with a great musical about how we should all let it grow, but if you really look at it what's really happening in this movie, neither the old nor the new villain aloysius oh hey it's their fault and yes i sang it's the way i remember how to pronounce his name every song in this movie is a bop movie in itself . yes, questionable quality, but man, the songs are just lovely, unpleasant for everyone involved, it's not clear anyway, the villains of this movie are not the villains here, rejoice everyone who was once insulting and greedy shippers, How come they're not as bad as you might think they see in the meantime?

The characters that the movie tries to portray in the role of heroes are not as heroic as they might seem, in short, no one understood this story, which is a little worrying since in a very literal sense the way the fate of the world depends on his message, to start, let's take a look at the main villain of the story, as you may or may not know that the classic story of the lorax is about the once enterprising businessman who cuts down all the truffle trees to manufacture These tremendously popular clothes are called that, but in this new Lorax movie that's all in the past, it's a story within a story in the present of the movie that we are living after the one that once was ler, there are zero trees and the only town we see Needville is a synthetic consumerist mecca run by a new businessman come to power, Aloysius O'Hare, who built his empire selling bottled air, while Mr.

O'hara is officially a man business, he basically just runs the works. per location and he has his own secret police who try to stop our main character, Ted, when he tries to escape from the city. cenidevil is basically a corporatocracy, a word that sounds like it was made up in a Dr. Seuss book, but no, it's actually correct. here in the dictionary because truth is more ridiculous than fiction, we are sometimes told that O'hare Airline's business model is that bottled air is manufactured in a factory that makes plastic bottles. You must be kidding. You really think people are pretty stupid.

To buy this, our research shows that if you put something in a plastic bottle, people will buy it, of course, there is an obvious conflict of interest: the factories that make O'hare's plastic bottles spew smog, which a in turn prompts more people to buy bottled air. The more smog there is in the sky, the more people will bomb, but if you look closer at what's happening, O'hare may not be the villain the movie presents because, as much as what I've described, it sounds like a dystopia. If we look at the real lives that the people in Sneedville lead, the movie actually tells us a completely different story.

For starters, the most dystopian part of this might be the idea that people are paying for air, it would be pretty evil if o' The Hare monopolized the most vital resource of all and then locked it behind a paywall forcing people to pay you if they want to live, but that's not what's happening here, it's not like everyone in this society spends their lives tied to an oxygen tank, I'm sure some of them buy bottled air for their homes, but they can go out at any time and breathe the air for free. In fact, in the extended version of the opening song that appears on the soundtrack, O'hare tells us this fact, something they can do. get it for free and it's not like the air outside seems so polluted that people are dancing and singing in the streets without having any health problems, they're not coughing, they're not struggling in any way, compare that to what the city was like. like before aloysius o'hare came along, you have a different story.

I wonder what the next million dollar invention will be. Yeah, I wonder if the air quality was so bad that people outside were coughing and wheezing. What I want to say is that. people act as if this bottled air is something they need to breathe. The bottled air they buy does not actually improve the quality of the air they have access to in their homes or outdoors. It is pure placebo effect and we can prove it. Using science, if we take a closer look at those bottled air machines inside people's homes, we see that they dispense air from bottles that are similar to standard water cooler bottles that are around 5 gallons or 19 liters in capacity. and something about that should surprise you. is out of the norm, the human being breathes between 7 and 8 liters of air every minute, which is more than ten thousand liters of air a day, which means that if the citizens of Needville depended only on the air jugs of O'hare, they would run out in just minutes, I'm sure they could get some psychological boost from thinking that O'hare's air is cooler, but it's just psychology, not biology, the fresh air that they buy from O'hare is no different from the fresh air they would get.

If they just opened a window, it's like another resource that we have in real life that is available to us and that many choose to pay for because it comes in little plastic bottles that claim to be cooler. Imagine, I'm talking about water. The kids thought the metaphor was pretty obvious, but I feel like I need to explain it. Bottled water. O'Hare's air is just the substitute for bottled water, but one thing we can say is that before O'Hare, the city was a wasteland. Thank you. much to the one who once cut down trees in the present day of the movie Needville is an artificially created utopia where everyone is happy, where the air is cleaner than anything that exists around it, we saw how barren it was before. 'hare and in the present day we see Ted coughing into the smoggy air as he leaves the city walls as Ted moves further away from the city, the more air pollution there seems to be, if anything, Thineville is the only place that seems to have escaped.

From this fate, somehow, in a prostitute's way, Aloysius O'Hare managed to create what is, by all accounts, a thriving city despite the lack of trees, he found a way to allow people to breathe air free even when they are not consuming their bottled air. If you look at it that way, O'Hare almost seems like a hero at the end of the movie, when we look at the ruined wasteland, it's important to understand that that's not what O'Hare created, but what he had to overcome for the his company. and the city to succeed and it did, the people are happy, as we see in the opening song of the

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, its consumers are clearly thriving, happy with it, happy with the city they live in, welcoming its entrance and to the new parking lot of the city in a great refrain in fact, if you look at the living conditions of the people of sneedville, it doesn't seem bad at all for a film that is supposed to be about the evils of modernity and the damage caused because of capitalist greed, we don't see anyone in sneedville who appears to be a true victim of o'hare companies, we don't see people left poor and destitute, we don't see people forced to do jobs they don't like to support themselves up to date with the rat race. or worse yet, in order to breathe, people happily prance around while at work and everyone seems to have tons of leisure time and enough money to buy giant cars.

The inciting incident in the movie where Ted goes in search of a tree. It's not because someone is suffering from lack of trees, it's because they want a kiss from Audrey, the sexy girl next door, so they are in love with what I want more than anything in the world is to see a real living tree if a guy somehow he got you one, well I'd probably marry him on the spot. Hell, she doesn't even long for nature, she doesn't want to see a forest, she just wants to see a tree in her backyard for fun, for the novelty. these are the concerns of the people of Needville, not bad at all, so o'hare doesn't seem like such a bad guy here, he sure doesn't want to grow the tree at the end of the movie. but other than that, he took a desolate and polluted wasteland and turned it into a consumerist utopia where everyone is happy, sure that he is rich, but he is rich for producing a product that people were willing to pay for, so if o 'hara is not the bad guy. so surely bad guy is the only insult I'm not bad, I'm the good guy here it looks like someone has seen a movie

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episode before, but seriously, it's hard to defend this guy considering he's definitely the one to blame for all the trees. . being cut off, I mean, technically it was his overbearing mother who pushed him over the edge.

Look, we're not sneeding fast enough. We could always start cutting down the trees. No wonder Tumbler fell in love with this guy. a tall, skinny nerd who plays guitar and wears vests, loves marshmallows, and has mommy issues. You always said he wouldn't amount to anything. Remember, oh, shut up, he was just trying to motivate you. I'm so glad you cleared it up because it really hurt him. my feelings for a long time, but yeah, at the end of the day, it's the old monkey that's responsible for cutting down the trees, which is bad, so he's the villain, except we see his backstory, he goes out alone to make a business because he has a product that believes in garbage oh no oh no you don't understand this is a revolutionary product that will change the world as we know it it has a million uses and no one believes in it no one but no one is going to buy that thing where he goes to the city every day for a week and is harassed by the horrible, terrible people there, like it's brutal just for this guy with his guitar and a dream and yet, despite all this adversity, keep trying and you know what eventually happens. it's worth it once he didn't make a mistake his product is something everyone wants the thread is the world changing product he thought it was sorry can't blame a hardworking guy with a dream who overcomes adversity to achieve a tremendous success as the bad one, in this case its only defect and this is important is that it does not replace the trees and that is not bad, it is simply stupid and a bad business, since you learn too quickly without trees your business dies, there is a reason why in real life between 80 and 90 of the newly planted trees are planted by logging and paper companies (to quote one of their websites) how would it be in their best interest to destroy the forests with no intention of replacing the trees used to make paper ? of usable areas is crucial to the long-term survival of any paper company and that means that sustainably managed forests are crucial to its business model.

Areas harvested for paper companies are also known as managed forests. Basically, detailed models are built that allow trees to be harvested sustainably. For each tree that is cut down, several are planted or regrown naturally in their place at a rate that keeps the environment stable. According to the U.S. Forest Service, more than 4 million trees are planted in the United States each day and nearly 2 million are planted by the U.S. Forest Service. The paper and wood products industries are reminiscent of the Mr. Beast's team trees 20 million dollars for 20 million trees amazing achievement, true, but in perspective, that's five days of planting for thesecompanies, businesses are not bad or at least they are not bad.

For these reasons, their commercial interests force them to be sustainable and that is the big mistake of the past: they did not see the forest for the trees, if you'll pardon the pun, then who is the villain of the Lorax? We are the consumer, it's us. It's easy to point at the big businessmen in this case, Once-ler and Aloysius O'Hare, and say, "You did this, you're to blame for all this," but they're just doing what we as consumers tell them to do. we say. they to make both o'hare and the once-ler reference the consumer at various points throughout the movie you gotta be kidding me you really think people are stupid enough to buy this can we double it for selling us a product What are we counting? the one we want doesn't believe it but if that's what we want he will sell it to us and again with the once-ler how bad can I be all the clients are paying and the money is multiplying the clients are buying, that is, us telling him that We approve of what you are doing, please continue to provide that service again.

Both men are just filling a need that the consumer is telling them they want to get more proof that once they were ready to pack up their needs business. when it wasn't selling, but increases again when consumer demand is through the roof, if it weren't for all those people who want to buy, the forest would still be intact from what we see and hear in the movie, the people of Los Needville are perfectly happy with their giant cars and their inflatable trees and their waste of batteries. They want those things and you know what they don't want.

The trees are enough with one insult and O'Hare are not the bad guys like the movie wants them to be. To put it, it is much more complicated than saying that here we are the bad guys because we are the ones who let their bad business practices pass, we do not prioritize nature, we do not care about the trees because we wanted a necessity regardless of the cost we did not care about the quality worrying about O'hare pollution to make change happen isn't on them, it's on us and if we disapprove of the way someone is doing business or what a company stands for, that's it. to the consumer to vote with his dollar, but for both O'hare and the Once-ler in the movie, the dollars until now had been telling him that we approve of what you are doing, that's why this line in the movie and in the book is so important. because unless someone like you cares a whole lot nothing is going to get better it's not about who once was it's not about o'hare it's about us and that's the message of the lorax that i think most people and especially lighting entertainment I totally missed it but hey that's just a theory a movie theory and thanks again for supporting this channel and for supporting today's sponsor nordvpn why use a VPN?

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