Little Shop of Horrors
SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

Bravo! Bravo! Everyone bravo! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Fun to watch this with some people who've never seen it. It's a great musical and the movie gets to do so much unique stuff. Loved seeing posts from those of you viewing for the first time as the show unfolded its magic.

And the PUPPETS! And the SINGING!

Gah. I'm not a fanatic for musicals or anything, but this one is mandatory reading IMO, it's great in any format and especially in this format with this budget.

Thanks @ryan for setting up the #WrongFrogs double feature, it's always fun to revisit this one.

Have a nice night/week y'all!

#Monsterdon

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

Once again, Ellen Greene strums at our hearts, and we get a callback to "Out of Skid Row".

It's still a way out of Skid Row, after all. Just not the one we were hoping for.

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

The physicality of the puppet really sells the horror of being eaten by this plant. And like, every single other thing about it.

Putting on a production of Little Shop is going to revolve around the puppets, to some extent.

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HE HAS A GUN
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HE INTENDS TO SHOOT ME WITH IT
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HOW AMUSING
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
DOES THIS AIR TASTE FUNNY TO YOU
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

"If that's what he does when he likes me, imagine what he'd do if he ever got mad"

Oof.

Ellen Greene is great as Audrey, I think she's just right for this role

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

"Twice as many" mouthed from the other side of the window is a perfect example of what you can do in a movie that just isn't going to play on stage unless you're *really* careful about it.

Anyway, bring in the woodwinds with the musical's theme.

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

I always forget about the extremely cool inside-the-mouth effect. "Dentist" as a tune is good but the movie is what freezes it in my mind. So much visual fun to bring Steve Martin into the story as the extremely bad dude that he is.

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

The theme is the song from this show that sticks most in my mind, but the soaring chorus of "Suddenly Seymour" makes it a close second.

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We snuggly watching Lucy
On our big, enormous
twelve-inch screen
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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

As a show-tune I find "Down on Skid Row" to be kinda mid. It's definitely an improvement to further establish these characters

but I *always* forget how goddamned good the opening bars are in this movie

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

"Feed Me" is of course also very memorable. Mostly for the actual performance IMO, the lyrics slip out of my mind easily, but not because they aren't great

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I have so
so many strong
reservations
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Sam Levine
Sam Levine
SRLevine@neuromatch.social

Oh wow, mixed animation and live action, I'm surprised this pre-dates Who Framed Roger Rabbit (by 2 years) because that's the best example of the format.

(if we ever do that for monsterdon I'm 100% on time for once and will gush about it, but I'm not sure Judge Doom counts enough as a monster and it would be one of the rare "good" movies)

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SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

The pacing of the musical is so good. Enough dialogue to get you between songs and keep things moving, and then all the rest of the interiority is the songs.

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