#the lorax illumination

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

Can't believe I'm making a post for The Lorax but here we are

I listened to the song that got canned for How Bad Can I Be

Biggering

And oh boy

Do I fucking HATE Illumination for cutting this song and going with How Bad Can I Be

This song would've cemented The Lorax as a iconic film with one of the greatest villain songs ever

But Illumination was too scared to talk about corporate greed in the Dr. Seuss story that's about corporate greed and now the movie is just a meme remembered for its flimsy story, mediocre songs and the first Tumblr Sexyman

Anyways wanted to give my personal headcanon and personal thoughts on how Biggering and How Bad Can I Be could've co-existed

Basically have How Bad Can I Be play first have it be when The Onceler is telling Ted what happened he tells Ted a fabricated version of what happened and How Bad Can I Be is basically how he tells Ted how things went down and quite possibly how The Onceler sees himself then when Ted leaves to go back to the town with the seed show what actually happened show that everything that The Onceler told Ted was a lie show that How Bad Can I Be was a lie and show what actually happened and cue Biggering

He wasn't peer pressured into creating this business by his mom he saw the forest for the trees and knew that he could capitalize on this he painted himself in a likeable light when he told Ted what happened because he wanted Ted to like him because if he manipulated Ted by telling him a fabrication of what actually happened so that Ted would do what he wanted

Hell to make Biggering flow better in the story rather than having it play right after How Bad Can I Be you can have Ted go back to the town with the seed and tell everybody what The Onceler told him only for O'Hare to show up and be like "Is that what he told you? Because that's not what happened." and he explains that The Onceler was his inspiration for starting his own company and then have a flashback to O'Hare as a child and him living in the desolate wasteland The Onceler created and have us see The Onceler's monumental factories and cue Biggering and it's revealed that How Bad Can I Be and everything The Onceler told Ted was a lie and Biggering is actually what happened

Of course Ted and the other townsfolk would have no reason to trust O'Hare because he's a lying, greedy, corrupt CEO but so was The Onceler

Have The Onceler lie about what happened to make himself look better when in actuality he's just as or even more vile than O'Hare

[daisilynn]

How bad can he possibly be🤔

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[possiblyk9]

Made a Onceler design cuz I hate the one Illumination made

I don’t care if Illumination’s Onceler is Tumblr’s baby boy I HATE HIMMM

:3

[emj4yart]

What Did They Mean By This

[wiggybe]

Just for funsies, some sketches of the Once-ler being a big corporate boss who doesn’t read the complaint box. 

[blackberryjamboree]

Can’t stop thinking about how alike they are

[areallysourlemon]

12th Anniversary <3

Happy 12th anniversary to my roman empire <3

[moonlight-1108]

Vas caer¡¡XD

[theoncelerswifearoo]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️URGENT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

WE NEED TO SAVE THE LORAX (2012) FROM BEING REMOVED FROM NETFLIX!!!!!!

Everyone needs to start watching the Lorax on Netflix like crazy!

Reblog and repost this to keep the chain going!

UPDATE ON THE LORAX

WE DID NOT SAVE IT FROM BEING TAKEN OFF NETFLIX

The last day to watch it is August 1st

[venskih]

I redrawn the detail seen in the cartoon

sooo here's another Onceler🤲✨

He is so damn hot, I can't😩😩😩❤‍🩹❤‍🩹❤‍🩹

[tooningin]

2012 Lorax Rewrite

The movie would open up with the scrapped Thneedville song. In the visual department, there would be this subtle yet noticeable sense of sadness and resignation from the citizens, indicating that maybe they regret their plastic dystopia, but are too far gone to change.

As for the song itself, Ted would be given a verse at the end, expressing his dissatisfaction with the lifestyle Thneedville has, and wondering if its really too late.

The song ends, and he then walks home and finds his family gushing over the new oxygen masks they’ve invented. Ted tries to tell them that instead of celebrating these oxygen masks, they should see the fact that they’re needed as a massive red flag, but his points are dismissed as jokes. Ted’s dad then hands him some packages with the oxygen masks to deliver

Ted rides his bike around Thneedville, further hammering in just how messed up the society is. Everyone happily accepts their oxygen mask delivery… Except for the girl that was Ted’s GF (Who I’ll just be referring to as Taylor Swift)

Taylor Swift’s reaction surprises Ted, who was used to the enthusiastic reactions from the customers. He asks her why, and she explains that she feels like a prisoner in the town of Thneedville, and yearns for a world where products aren’t being shoved down her throat (It wouldn’t be this on the nose I swear) Ted relates, and the two bond over this. Taylor Swift is called inside her home, and right before she heads in, she tells Ted that she’s happy that she’s not alone in her beliefs.

With this, Ted decides to leave for the Truffula Tree woods in the middle of the night. He’s not the only one who hates what the world has become, and if he can show proof, everyone will agree, and maybe, just maybe, Thneedville could have a better future

But once he arrives he sees the woods with zero Truffula trees and almost devoid of life, save for a tiny handful of struggling animals. At first Ted tries to tell himself that this state is just in this specific part of the woods, but as he wanders through the woods, this is all proven wrong.

At the end of the trail, Ted finds the Onceler’s house, and he bitterly tells Ted to leave, stating that the world is destroyed, and that he should just go back to Thneedville.

But Ted ain’t havin any of that. He wants to know how exactly the world came to be the way it is.

And with this, the Onceler begrudgingly begins his tale.

We flashback to a young Onceler and his family. They run a failing clothes business, one that’s doing so bad, they’re on the brink of poverty

One day the Onceler decided to go on a walk, and that’s when he found the Truffula forest. He’s awestruck by the beauty of the place and all the life in it, but it’s the truffula trees that really catch his attention.

He grabs on to some of the tree’s leaves/material/whatever and decides that maybe he and his family should try making clothes with its material. He gets ready to chop the tree down, but the Lorax jumps out and stops him. Lorax berates the Onceler for attempting to chop down the tree, to which the Onceler says it’s not a big deal, after all it’s just one little tree. How bad could he possibly be?

The Lorax grabs the Onceler’s hand and takes him around the woods, explaining how one little thing could affect the whole forest, and the importance of preserving the environment through song. However he does have some sympathy for the Onceler’s situation and allows him to take a small amount of the Truffula’s leaves.

The Onceler walks back home, but on the way, trips on a rock. He gets up and is about to pick up the Truffula’s leaves, but notices it coiled up. He places it on his head, and fiddles around some more with it, and gets the idea for the Thneeds. He runs home, and tells his family about his idea, who, having been backed into a corner in terms of financial stability, decide to give it a shot.

And the Thneeds end up being an overnight sensation, so much so that the family is soon pulled out of poverty. Talk of the Thneeds spreads, and soon, everyone wants one.

With the demand for Thneeds being so high, The Onceler begins taking more and more of the Truffula trees. Lorax worries about the effects, but tries to be somewhat lenient, after all, the Onceler and his family are no longer poor, much to the animals’ chagrin. But it isn’t long before the rapid success and profitability of the Thneeds gets to the Onceler’s head. He puts the money towards expensive stuff things that only benefit him, chopping down more Truffulas than necessary, and overall forgets the whole reason he began the whole Thneed thing in the first place: His family, who in his obsession with chasing profits and fame, he has pushed out. At this point the Lorax decides to put his foot down, the Onceler isn’t using Truffulas to provide for him and his family anymore.

With a montage of the amount of trees being chopped, the sky progressively getting foggier, and Thneedville’s growth, we transition into the one and only, “Biggering”

As we know, in this song, the Onceler knows damn well what he’s doing, but justifies it to himself. The song would end with the final Truffula tree being cut down, and the Onceler, seeing everything he’s done, the pain he caused, would have an absolute breakdown, one of both happiness and sadness. Happiness cause, as he would tell him himself, he has everything now, his biggered his business to the point where now he has an empire, and sadness because what all that stands for, and cost the world as a whole. Basically think that one scene with Simon from Infinity Train.

We then flashback to the present, with The Onceler looking to the side in shame, and Ted looking to the Onceler in pure horror. He tries to proclaim the Onceler an absolute monster, but is unable to bring the words out due to how much shock he is in, and instead turns around and is about to run back to Thneedville in tears, but before he does so, The Onceler gives him the last Truffula seed.

By the time Ted returns to Thneedville, the Sun is almost up, and upon seeing Taylor Swift sitting on the front steps, he rushes to her and tells her what he has learnt before revealing the Truffula seed the Onceler gave him. Together they plant it, and sit together watching life in the plastic wasteland of Thneedville go on

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Imagine explaining to Dr Seuss in 1971 that people will start thirsting for him decades later.

[mobumilktea]

Introducing… black AU Once-ler by me🥳🥹💜

[69constellationsinatrenchcoat]

The Lorax and Despicable Me 4 had some bangers.

Yes, this post is about Double Life, Let it Grow and How Bad Can I be

[whatiwishfanfiction]

which movie you think was wasted the most

The Lorax(2012) or Wish(2023)

also explain why

Great question! We've actually been really into rewriting both of these at the same time and see a lot of parallels. These two movies both have extremely sympathetic villains and good guys who seem too mean/bratty. Both movies tend to split up the narratives with too many unnecessary characters at the expense of the interesting ones, and both have a lot of plot holes. Right now I'm having fun releasing the Lorax Rewrite, but I'm also very into working on the first draft of the Wish Rewrite. There's so much lore, character development, and moral themes to fill in with both of them. Each rewrite is a unique, interesting experience, and I get really into whatever I'm working on in the moment!