Wednesday, March 28, 2012

                             The Lorax

So the movie "The Lorax" came out a while ago. Directed by Chris Renayd, and starring Danny Devito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Betty White and Jenny Slate. Even though the movie's budget was 70 million dollars, it was a very cute family movie. Based on the book by Dr, Seuss basically, the movie starts in a town with people very happy about having no nature. Everyone pays for air in this place called "Thneed-ville." Ted Wiggins a 12 year old boy is in love with a girl named Audrey, and knows that the one thing that will win her heart is a  "Tree." Ted will stop at nothing to find that tree and win Audrey's heart. His energized grand-mother tells him to speak to the Once-ler, but it involves doing something no one has ever done before. He had to leave the town. Here he discovered that the town was cut off to nowhere, and behind it lies an empty, dark wasteland. This is where all the town's people trash was going and they didn't even know or care to know.
Ted was even more determine, after the richest and greediest man, Mayor Aloysius O'Hare warns him not to leave the town, he sneak out anyway. He found the Once-ler who tells him a story of how he met the Lorax, a grumpy little orange "manimal." He was the protector of the forest who usually appears after someone chops down a tree. The Lorax tries to throw him out of the forest, but could not get rid of him so easy. After his thneed became very popular, he broke his promise to the Lorax and began cutting down more and more trees, which made him rich and heartless. Eventually when all the trees were gone, all the animals had to leave the forest. At the end of his story the Once-ler gave Ted a seed plant to put in the middle of Thneed-ville. It was a challenge, but he did it and that was the start of the trees growing in that special little town.
The Lorax Link