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I wholeheartedly agree. Seymour in the movie is a lot nicer, so i get how he didn’t deserve to die. But in the play he was a total jerkass so he deserved his demise.

I honestly prefer the directors cut to be honest

or have semore think about the ending, like what @jasoncook7378 said, then kill audrey dieing with it

IN the off-broadway production, planty tentacles dropped from the ceiling of the theatre.

Yeah Mary Jane sucked lol

Also, as a possible metaphor for consumerism and the dangers of capitalism- the original ending is superior.

First time a movie musical brought back an actor from the role they originated????? Yul Brenner, Rex Harrison, and Joel Grey scoff at you. Not to mention half the cast of Rocky Horror!

I have a bit of a mixed opinion here. I do kind of agree with the general consensus about the endings however I fully understand why the film ending needed to be what it needed to be for palatability. I also completely agree that the final sequence of the original ending is about 3 minutes too long but I do think storytelling-wise it’s a better ending in general. I do feel kind of let down by the “ppl want happy” nature of the theatrical ending. And I also agree that Seymour not having his spine in the original film ending is a bad choice but also realistically speaking his courage is more believable on stage but on film it’s a bit more of a “this is actually happening” and he wouldn’t have as easy i time against the plant. also given the fact that the movie plant is like 4-5 times the size of the final stage plant size so it’s also a bit more believable on stage that he could potentially win. in the movie looking the 2 of them it’s abundantly clear that Seymour has absolutely NO SHOT and he’s not dumb he knows this too and he’s scared shitless. I get y they did it that way in the movie but it still doesn’t make me think it’s a good choice in general. Him at least starting the fight with some backbone but then realizing he actually is not going to win this fight would have been better. And then trim the final sequence in half!

My favourite of the endings, the original Roger Corman ending from 1960.

I just watched the live musical (with Jinkx Monsoon playing Audrey, she was amazing!) and I actually felt the ending was kinda contrived. Like, Audrey's death and her final wish to be fed to Audrey II didn't make sense to me. And Seymour just jumping inside it with a machete is the dumbest move ever, JUST USE FIRE IDIOT!

My problem with the theatrical cut is that, on the opposite side of the coin, it’s too happy. Seymour gets everything he wanted, and nothing is lost permanently. Mushnik may have been a jerk, but he did take Seymour in and even tried to offer him a way out of his situation. There are differences in the play that make his demise feel less harsh there, but that’s neither here or there. We never see Seymour suffer guilt from it, and most of all, Seymour’s actions never come back to bite him in a meaninful way. The faustian plot is incomplete. An ending that's too mean doesn't have that issue. It has others, but it comes through with the main message intact. Horrifyingly, beautifully intact

Another thing I didn’t like about the original ending is after the “Don’t Feed The Plants” song followed by Audrey II eating us at the end, it immediately cuts to the end credits with the end credits theme. Like we get this intense song with Audrey II taking over the world and then immediately follow it up with the happy song; hey everyone, you’re gonna get eaten alive by giant alien plants but here’s a happy song for you. For me, it left a very bad taste in my mouth

Great effort

I think it is disappointing Seymour Krelborn is made far less of an active player in this film, and the major events happen much more despite and in spite of him. He is far more passive than he is in the 1960 film and especially the stage version. Yet you mention this title, and people will always associate it with this movie over the two prior ones it is based on. Yet it loses much of its poignancy in translation. Theming is much lighter, and the moral is nonexistent. I give it points for the casting and performances. Rick Moranis, Steve Martin and others carry this film. If the deleted scenes were all in this film, and omitted dialogue restored, this could be a more faithful adaptation. As is, the lighter ending is sudden and tacked on, even for the more lighthearted story as they retold it.

I gonna see it at the theater. But do there actually die or not?

Luckily, Oz would have the original cut aired on television for whatever time was limited.

It was not the first time a film brought back an actoer the orignated a role. Tim Curry originated Frank n Furter.

I like the theatrical ending better myself because it's hilarious. Audrey II saying ''Oooooh shit!!!'' before he explodes is priceless. For the unused darker ending, instead of the extended ''Don't Feed The Plants'' instrumental, they should've used dramatic orchestral library music tracks (the same music tracks that were used for the 1960's Viacom Marvel Superhero or Spiderman cartoon series) or Alan Menken could've written a new musical dramatic sequence. Menken's quite a good composer

You know what? Now I agree with you. It would have been way more satisfying at least in the bad ending for Seymour to at least go down with a fight, at least maybe grab a knife or the power plug or something, send it at Audrey II as he's grabbed by it, only for Audrey II to crush it almost effortlessly at the last minute. He tried. He _did_ almost get there. He put up a fight. But it was all in vain in the end, the plant was too strong. It'll feel more satisfyingly tragic this way, not like we should somehow mock this pathetic little man for thinking he has a chance. Anyway they should have kept the solilquy in The Meek Shall Inherit (which barely exists in either version of the film)

Here's my opinion, LSoH's grim ending is an important piece of media to acknowledge when talking about movies that have alternate endings. in essence, the grim ending solidified what LSoH set out to achieve, which was to tell a campy horror story. the theatrical ending not only turns the movie into a half-assed rom-com with a minor horror subplot, but it also absolves Seymour of his crimes of murder. the stage show and the original ending showed people what happened when you made deals you couldn't or wouldn't honor. the theatrical ending ruins that moral by saying "If you safe a woman from an abusive situation you too will get the girl."

I really wanna watch the one when there get married 1:20

I watched this today now i ardored it 0:31

I was fortunate enough to be able to obtain an original DVD from the first release of this back in '98. It has a black-and-white / pre-color-corrected version of the original (20-minute?) ending on it, and even *that* looks slightly different than the colorized / color-corrected original ending that was later released on DVD and blu-ray, using some alternate shots / angles, etc. Rumor has it that David Geffen, the producer (and *original* backer of the original off-Broadway stage production back in '82 or so), was SOOOOOO pissed that the non-colorized version was released on DVD as a "bonus feature" that he *immediately* recalled all of the retail copies that had been distributed and locked them away somewhere and / or destroyed them! Apparently only about 10,000 copies or so nationwide had been sold and got out at that point, so he was pretty successful in doing so. Fast-forward some 10-12 (or more) years later from '98, and we have the color-corrected release of the original ending, a clean and very professional cut - also about 20-minutes or so long. So while it's great to see such a well-composed, neat release, it *does* make you wonder exactly how much extra footage was left on the cutting room floor! 😲

I love the original. I think the creators should be very proud of the last piece.

Your opinion! I like the dark ending much more

So then the apes must have eaten the plants

The director's ending would have been more earned if they simply left in the longer version of The Meek Shall Inherit, where it's shown Seymour had a his chance to kill the plant but chickened out at the prospect of losing his fortune (e;g Audrey's love). Without it he's more of a sad pawn in the plant's game who doesn't really have any choice in the actions he takes rather than someone who's doing wrong, knows he's doing wrong and proceeds to do wrong despite that instead of taking his chance to do right by it. Not to mention the climax of the song they cut was total bars

No

I think they're happy ending is better for a general audience. As a kid I really liked the happy ending. Now I have appreciation for the tragedy. Maybe I'm just more cynical.

my school is doing little shop of horrors, and how i’d love to be doing the version where audrey and seymour survive and live happily ever after, i love the ending where audrey and seymour are eaten by the plants. (it also has an amazing finale number, so that’s a plus)

The original downbeat ending is better. Its totally in keeping with the tone. The silly upbeat ending is trite and pedestrian.

I think they should have just had Seymour escape the mouth as Audrey II was chewing, then have him and Audrey escape knowing they couldn’t win, and do the big climax rampage, and then either have 1 final fight on the Statue of Liberty or just have Audrey and Seymour living somewhere else and try to ignore it

I think why the Original ending didn't work for the film is more like Syemore's character In the stage show: Syemore is more willing to kill Like example: There is a song in the stage play called "Now/it's just the gas" Where Syemore decided to just let orin die from the gas and sticks with it, And also syemore lures mushnick into the plant saying there's money in it. In the movie. Orin dies by the gas in seconds and syemore didn't have time to react (he didn't save him either) And he did try to warn mushnick the last second. What I'm saying is. In the movie Syemore is more likeable where in the stage play he becomes Unlikeable

I've just watched this movie for the thousand time and it was the version with the new ending. I wasn't expecting it and to my knowledge there was only a rough version of it. I thought I was living a Mandela effect moment! I was sure it had an happy ending, and I couldn't understand why I didn't remember this "negative" version!... I had to check and find this video to understand that I didn't go crazy all of a sudden, and they restored this ending :D tbh this was a cool experience :D

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I respect your opinion and thank you for sharing it. It still sucks and you're still wrong tho.

Wrong. The happy ending is for wusses honestly. Its whats wrong with American cinema.

I'm a sucker for a Happy Ending. I want Seymour and Audrey to get that happy house and be alive. I do have to say though, it's criminal that the movie lost all that beautiful animation of all the Audrey II's wreaking havoc and the hard work they put into it. If you ask me they shouldn't have let it go to waste. They could've let Audrey II have an additional musical number fantasizing about what he'd do to the world with his pods spreading; but still ended it the way the Happy Ending ends.

Admittedly I’m not a musical connoisseur but I do absolutely love this film, I can still remember the first time I saw it during a drama class in high school, I was hooked right from the start!

I always argue that the reason the theatrical release feels so cliche, saccharine, and shallow is because it was tacked on last minute. I don't necessarily find it weak because of its content, but its execution. If they had planned from the beginning that the film would have a different ending that concludes with Seymour and Audrey wedding and living happily ever after (with that unsettling final shot of an Audrey II growing in the garden, hinting that we haven't seen the last of him), then that could have worked. But Oz only had so much time to rework the ending, and so it feels so incredibly rushed; Audrey II seems to have won, and he's laughing maniacally and celebrating, and then, in rapid succession, Seymour electrocutes the plant, the plant dies, Seymour and Audrey hug, and they get married. You talk about the director's cut being too long, but the theatrical ending was too fast! That said, I do respect that, with how theatrical audiences reacted to the ending, Oz had to do what he did. But it's still a crying shame that he had to remove a satisfying, albeit grim, conclusion that feels natural and purposeful for a cheap, rushed one. I think the problem, however, is not that film is more intimate or impactful than theatre. You said that people in the theatre know that they are all actors and puppets... don't film audiences know that just as well? I just think that the people who will tend to go to the cinema are different to the people who will tend to go to the theatre.

I like the happy ending better too! Great video!

I like the theatrical version for better. Simply because, it has a *HAPPY ENDING!*

I really like this video. The editing is great. Sounds is good. Your voice is loud and clear. And you talk about a lot of relevant and interesting stuff. I learned a lot from this video. It's clear that you put a lot of work into this video and I appreciated it a lot. I do think this video deserves more views. But I guess the topic of an old musical is not what most people would find interesting. Even so. I liked it. 👍🏻

Good points! I like the original film ending best because I do enjoy how out of left field it is to see him get eaten so fully and totally, but definitely agree it makes for a worse story then the stage play version, that small change in pacing and presentation changes a lot of how his arc goes

This ending was bad

Nosense. The theatrical version was a boring ass ending with a deus ex machina because they were too chicken to have the proper ending.

I happen to like the overkill and how long the ending sequence is in the original ending. The over the top length makes it good to me.

On one hand, Don’t Feed the Plants is an absolute bop and the giant Audrey Twos are epic. Plus the reprise of Somewhere That’s Green makes me tear up. It’s tragic, and it’s the first ending I saw when I saw the musical for the first time, which was a stage production done by a local university when I was a kid. That being said, I love the happy ending. Seymour and Audrey deserved to be happy, and I love the idea of them living happily ever after in the suburbs. The ending I saw, Seymour sacrificed himself and killed the plant from the inside with weed killer, but it was too late because the guy had already gotten clipping to make more Audrey Twos.

Hook is my favorite movie of all time. Ezekiel

Yes let Seymour get away with feeding human beings to a plant!