the-ice-castle:

the-ice-castle:

to this day, i still wonder how exactly the production for the 2012 lorax really went down. there’s not much record about it, at least that i could find, but honestly, looking at the earlier concepts, you can see that it was originally intended to be pretty different than what ended up on screen.

which by itself it’s pretty normal, of course. movies often change greatly from their original concept during production, sometimes retaining only the most basic set-up of what once was, but what i truly mean is that we know for sure that the lorax was, at one point, a movie that seriously considered including a rock opera villain ballad such as this

yet somehow the song intended for this exact same sequence ended up being. well. this 

and i just want to know what was lost in the transition there because in my opinion, there is no way that the cutesy and sickeningly cheery lorax that we know could have even intended to include a song like the first one in it. this belongs to a very different movie.

sorry to bring this up again but, the one thing that gets me the most regarding these two songs is the fact that how bad me be actually re-used some of the exact same lyrics from biggering, and yet the difference in the delivery of both is so big that somehow it doesn’t sound the same at all. case in point:

I think it has to do with like
in biggering, the principals of nature are followed up with “my companys and animal, just tryign to survive” which gives that line context whereas in bad it the principles of nature arent followed up by anything which makes it seem out of place.
in biggering, the “who cares if a few trees are dying” looks like hes still questioning and trying to justify everything hes doing but in bad hes already gone all the way douche and relishing it. a huge part of it is just how he sings it. in biggering its someone who is trying to justify his action to himself and in bad its him justifying the actions to the world.