I've watched this movie over 200 times, and it was a big part of my childhood. It's easily my favorite film of all-time. Even to this day, it blows my mind how amazing the puppetry is! It never gets the praise it deserves!
the best puppet ever made. ever. i tell everyone i show this movie too that "man thats crazy, he was actually looking at this giant plant singing to him. unlike nowadays where it would be cgi. " such an amazing job
@Ethan Harman This was over half a decade before Jurassic Park. Check out "The Last Starfighter" if you want to see what CGI was like back then. When I first saw it I thought it was really good stop motion.
I always wondered how they got Audrey II's lips to move so naturally, but it's because they record the puppeteering at a slower frame rate than the final cut, so in the movie he's sped up a little bit, making it look even better
@@andyjohnson4907 At 19:54 you can tell that the audio is slowed down while they’re filming and then it’s sped up in the next shot when it’s the final version from the film.
@@andyjohnson4907 They don’t specifically reference it in the video. Especially with how stupid people are today, I wouldn’t put it past someone. One can never be too sure with dumbness on the Internet. 😉
@@The_Mimewar , They discovered how to do it by accident. They found that by slowing the timing down, moving at the rate the plant could move at, then speeding the film rate up by 30%, its movements looked much more fluid. In the scenes where Seymour is singing with the plant, he's actually singing and moving at two thirds speed.
Just to add in here: the original play was written by Alan Menkin and Howard Ashman. Ashman is also credited as the screenplay writer, and is responsible for much of the music in The Little Mermaid. He was a gay man who would unfortunately die of complications of HIV/AIDS in 1991. Wanted to mention him so his incredible talent would be remembered.
Thank you so much for taking the opportunity to highlight Ashman. It's true - he and Alan Menken were recruited by Disney based on the amazing work they did on "Little Shop of Horrors." If I may add to your comments, the two of them actually composed music for not only "The Little Mermaid," but also "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" as well. I've heard in various documentaries that Howard Ashman was also responsible (or "to blame," if you like - ha!) for Ursula, the Sea Witch's design to be heavily influenced by the legendary Divine, the original actor and template for Edna Turnblad in 1988's "Hairspray" and whose wild, larger-than-life stage and screen persona was born in the films of John Waters.
Exactly!! And Levi is just as important to the character and story as the plant. I can't find anything that discusses his involvement with this film. Pisses me off.
This is only my guessing, but if an actor is being used to promote a movie, which a behind the scenes featurette per definition is, they need to get a higher salary. You could compare it to Disney's "Aladdin" (where Ashman/Menken also were involved), where Disney fell out with Robin Williams over a similar agreement.
The work that goes into bringing Audrey II to life is incredible, like wow! All those people working individual levers and such. And he moves so smoothly. All these years later and I’m still blown away by that plant (and the movie as a whole)
Seymour Krelborn was Rick Moranis' breakthrough role during his acting career. Great movie! And to Rick Moranis if you're reading this, Thank you for entertaining us over the years. We miss you very much, Please come back to acting.
He's returning to acting. In 2020 he signed up to do Shrunk, a sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids, as well as appeared in a Mint Mobile commercial with Ryan Reynolds
Everyone has that one movie that they love no matter what. It's exciting, comforting, and almost a best friend. This is that movie for me. I have easily seen it over 200 times in my 40 years, and I STILL get goosebumps every time the opening song begins! I don't want to get carried away with this comment, or I'll write a whole story. If you haven't seen this movie, I beg you to give it a chance. It's infinitely rewatchable.
THANK YOU, Frank Oz, for keeping Ellen Greene, a true Broadway powerhouse talent, in the film, instead of doing the all-too-common practice of casting Hollywood "stars" who can't sing!
I’m glad too. To me, Ellen Greene is the definitive Audrey. No matter how many different actresses played her in different revivals of the show, to me Ellen Greene IS Audrey. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely she’s going to come back in the upcoming remake due to her age. They got Scarlett Johansson playing her in the upcoming remake, but that might be one of those examples of Hollywood bringing in an a-list celebrity to play an iconic role.
@@hunterolaughlin Well, I've never heard Ms Johansson sing, so I can't pre-judge, but I fear you're probably correct. Audrey is a formidable role, even for a trained Broadway belter.
What's ironic is that Frank Oz thought that this was the first time that the person who originated their role on stage got to reprise it in the movie. That actually happened long before LITTLE SHOP with other stage-to-screen adaptations of stage musicals such as... GUYS & DOLLS THE KING & I THE PAJAMA GAME DAMN YANKEES THE MUSIC MAN MY FAIR LADY HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING FUNNY GIRL OLIVER! 1776 CABARET THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Jeffrey Kare And Jesus Christ Superstar. Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, and Bob Bingham reprised their roles from the Broadway show. Yvonne and Barry even have played their roles in the original concept album.
The darkness of the film, the set design, the music, and the animation is just perfect, it’s a true piece of art. If it were made today, it would be filled with CGI crap.
15:18 Steve: Waddaya say? Rick: **looks at person with a script** **puzzled** Guy with a script: Uhhmm. No, you say no... Rick: **dramatically** NO Also... 15:30
There is nobody on the planet who is a bigger fan of this movie than me. My favorite movie since I was 5 years old (1988), a year after it came out. It’s been my favorite movie since! Amazing, amazing, amazing!
it is NOT in fact the first time an actor who originated the role in a play reprises that role in the movies. In 1975 a good 10 years BEFORE this movie, Tim Curry who originated the role of Dr Frank - n - Futer was cast to play him in the movie adaptation
Also not the first time. In 1973, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, and Bob Bingham reprised their Broadway roles in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. Chaim Topol played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, the West End and film in 1971. In 1968, Barbara Streisand did it in Funny Girl. Rex Harrison in 1964 for My Fair Lady. The list goes on and on.
That's because I don't believe he truly was invested in the movies he produced. They're all on an assembly line and he just banged out movie after movie as cheaply as possible.
@@deletedwaffles that’s not really fair. You look at interviews with people he worked with and who he mentored like Martin Scorsese and they’ve all got nothing but good things to say about him and he worked. Sure he was very mechanical the way he went about things, but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t creative or he didn’t care. He was able to get results with little money and little time and I think that’s really quite amazing
I have been making puppets for ages and was super proud of them, I have even spent several months a few versions of Audrey 2 and this has just made me feel so lazy! 😂
I'm watching this for the first time since, like, 1992. I liked it as a kid and had an urge to revisit it, and I've been grinning with delight the whole time coz it's genuinely good as hell, but I'm only halfway through coz I HAD TO pause it to look up how in the hell they were achieving these plant effects in 1986! I was expecting strings, jerky motion, and mouth shapes limited to open and closed. I had forgotten or, let's be real, had no appreciation as a kid of how impressive and flawless this puppetry actually was.Heck, I'd still be impressed if it was managed this smoothly and expressively without CG today. Arriight, I'm gonna go finish the movie now.
A bit of Trivia: The director of Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz did the voice of Cookie Monster, Grover, and Bert in the children's TV show Sesame Street
I think the blur was done by the person who uploaded this video since those scenes are part of the copyrighted movie so UA-cam wouldn't bring this video down
@@user-cx9un9fs7q I think a great option is using cgi to enhance the puppetry. But if it was one or the other then yeah, practical wins almost everytime
Myles Harris Tichina Arnold! She sounds the exact same now as she did in this movie lol. I’m convinced she came out the womb sounding like an angry mom.
Everyone in the comments love this film... but it scared the shit out of the child me in the 80s. From the theme song, to HBO announcing up next little shop....I overcame my fear and now I love it too
19:54 here's one of the famous digitally time-stretched Audrey II recordings they used to let Rick Moranis understand his cues while filming undercranked. They played the tape at a slower speed, but that really lowered the pitch of the audio too and made it hard to understand what was being said a lot of the time, so to compensate for the lowered pitch and only make the playback speed different, they ran that slowed down tape's output through an Eventide Harmonizer, an early digital pitch shifter that was in heavy use in the late 70s and the 80s, raising the pitch back up. So that was the 80s way to time stretch!
@@filmSCHOOLarchive Wait.....copyright issues?? In the scenes leading UP to the blurred sections, you clearly show Audrey II !! How is showing the plant in ONE scene okay, but not another??
mega blast she talked like that on stage too for the role she was used to it (plus her natural voice isn’t that far off from Audrey’s just not as high)
This video is sped up slightly I think, or the audio is otherwise altered to avoid copyright issues. You can tell with the songs, they sound a note or two higher than normal.
One of my favourite musicals and movies little shop of horrors has a special place in my heart even though when I first watched it had nightmares for quite some time because of the the dentist scenes I’m surprised I don’t have a fear of the dentist as an adult
It made more than it cost (albeit only a little), so it was a success in the theatres - but only just. A whole lot more came from VHS and Beta sales, though.
@@aussiebloke609 it came out in the dumping ground of January so people were probably put off by it it was nominated for a oscar and I enjoy the film it is a cult film.
I know I didn't see it in theaters- but I have probably watched this movie over a hundred times when I was a kid. Then, when I had kids - they actually wore out my VHS tape because they loved it and watched it so many times! Now, I just had to rewatch it today with Halloween and October around the corner on HBO. It's really stood the test of time. The music and humor holds up, the effects are seamless and mind boggling because you think: this movie is almost 40 years old!
As much as I'd like to see what Scorsese would've done with the movie, I can't imagine it'd be as good as what Frank Oz did. No disrespect to Scorsese, he's certainly not called one of the greatest modern filmmakers for no reason. I just think that this is a movie that requires a different skill set.
I was scrolling for so long just to find this one comment mentioning either of them. They are the two musical geniuses behind this musical as well as so many others and there's no recognition for them with this movie? That's so wrong
The narrator said that the production team built 'an exact replica of skid row in manhattan." An exact replica? Of Manhattan's skid row? Sure, Jan. Where exactly in Manhattan is skid row? Can i get that address?
One of the first cassette soundtracks I ever purchased as a kid was the one for this movie. I was obsessed with this film growing up. As a musician and a songwriter in my adult life, it wasn’t until I got older that I really started to realize why I gravitated to the music in this film. It’s not really my style of music, but the music is brilliant and I love every song, but for me about the clever lyrics. Lyrics that rhyme. That has always been one of the things that has given me great euphoria all of my life, and lines that rhyme have always been a massive conviction of mine in the music I write. As a little kid, I wasn’t looking much into the production credits of the album jackets in my cassettes, so I still find it incredibly amazing that 3 of the first 4 movie soundtracks I ever owned were Little Shop of Horrors, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast. The common denominator(s) of those three albums? Alan Menken music, and maybe most importantly, Howard Ashman lyrics. I will also add that one of the most mesmerizing batch of song lyrics I was exposed to as a kid, were the tunes to The Little Mermaid. Do you wanna guess who was responsible for the music and lyrics in that film? Yep! Brilliant!
Yes, they are both good singers. Re: Martin. Yeah.. there were so many hysterical moments on that show. I think one of my favorites is when he "defends" himself in court against a traffic ticket ;D Oh, and when they're at the island resort with the "dog".
I could tell it was Ed Bishop doing the narration, and I was correct. This wasn't the first film to use someone from the original stage cast. 1972's "1776" used most of the original cast, and director as well. Anywho, when I saw this in a cinema in 1987 there were just a handful of others present. A shame as it's a great movie.
copyright issues on a 23 minute "making of"? that only does a tiny snippet of any songs, usually talked over? What sort of income should they be expecting to lose?
Don't know... maybe people could show some respect to modern CGI artists. They work as hard as puppeteers back in the day. Hollywood adapts to whatever new technology brings to tell stories and CGI is no easy thing at all. Without 3D animation, James Cameron would had never risked doing Titanic, or Peter Jackson would had never attempted doing Lord of the rings. So many other great movies only exists because CGI exists We all agree Little Shop of Horrors did amazing with animatronics, but Tron or Jurassic Park are also amazing with CGI
"As hard as" definitely isn't true. They work VERY hard. But it's not fair to say as hard as. It isn't comparable, the reason those things only exist is because without cgi they'd be so much HARDER to where it doesn't make sense to do. Cgi in an of itself reduces the effort needed. That's NOT a bad thing but it is a large factor to it's success and near complete overtake of practical effects in the modern age.
@@XSI5 Audrey II in it's biggest form took around 20 people to operate, and given the frame they probably strained themselves plenty, plus the puppet builders and assistants - I think it's pretty safe to say that in thia particular que movie, they worked harder than a modern CGI team realtive to the final product
there's a lot of irony in listing the other actors that the film stars without mentioning the name of the guy singing in the background. you know, the freaking PLANT???
What's with all the random blurred out sections of the video? You even completely blurred out Audrey II for nearly an entire minute near the end. And why the hell isn't a single other person asking this question?
I really liked the part where they animate the robot slowly and then speed up the image because it's obvious that you can't move a robot that weighs almost a ton quickly
I have seen the movie I loved movie and I got my mom and dad singing it and I have seen the high school play’s of little shop of horrors I did not see the Broadway play yet when my sister got my watching it I started to watching it a lot of times well Frank oz do another hardCore musical of Heathers the musical on the Silver screen if he is gonna do it I would like to be in it
Good point. It would have been interesting to hear how that bit of casting came about. As far as Audrey, if Ellen Green wasn't available,Cindy Lauper would have been good. Barbra Streisand wouldn't have worked. She and Audrey Two would have been battling it out for screen time, til FrankOz decided, *"I might as well get Miss Piggy to play Audrey!"*
I've watched this movie over 200 times, and it was a big part of my childhood. It's easily my favorite film of all-time. Even to this day, it blows my mind how amazing the puppetry is! It never gets the praise it deserves!
I also love the music. The Suppertime bassline is legendary.
@@Hinatachan360 all of the basslines are FANTASTIC!
Same as a child this movie was everything to me. Even in my adult years me and my family walk around the house quoting random lines. Lol
the best puppet ever made. ever. i tell everyone i show this movie too that "man thats crazy, he was actually looking at this giant plant singing to him. unlike nowadays where it would be cgi. " such an amazing job
I love how Audrey II's mouth has a proper mouth formation of the letters he's saying instead of it just opening and closing.
I am constantly amazed at the puppetry in this film too. It really is remarkable and I’ve never seen anything else that compares.
@Ethan Harman This was over half a decade before Jurassic Park. Check out "The Last Starfighter" if you want to see what CGI was like back then. When I first saw it I thought it was really good stop motion.
i remember not being able to believe that it was real even when i was a kid
I always wondered how they got Audrey II's lips to move so naturally, but it's because they record the puppeteering at a slower frame rate than the final cut, so in the movie he's sped up a little bit, making it look even better
They should have put that in this documentary.
@@andyjohnson4907 At 19:54 you can tell that the audio is slowed down while they’re filming and then it’s sped up in the next shot when it’s the final version from the film.
@@simplicitylost I was teasing Sam Davey because everything he said in his comment was on the video we all just watched.
@@andyjohnson4907 They don’t specifically reference it in the video. Especially with how stupid people are today, I wouldn’t put it past someone. One can never be too sure with dumbness on the Internet. 😉
@Greg Elchert Levi Stubb's vocals also had to be pitch shifted so they would sound normal to the actors who had to work with the slowed down version.
I loved the segment where they showed 20 people working together to make the plant move; I wish they had shown more of that.
Yep! We don't appreciate how much effort it took to get Audrey 2 to move real-like and look real...
Audrey 2s movements are so smooth! Even the speech, the lips move fast, and accurately. Love this movie
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@@The_Mimewar , They discovered how to do it by accident. They found that by slowing the timing down, moving at the rate the plant could move at, then speeding the film rate up by 30%, its movements looked much more fluid. In the scenes where Seymour is singing with the plant, he's actually singing and moving at two thirds speed.
Just to add in here: the original play was written by Alan Menkin and Howard Ashman. Ashman is also credited as the screenplay writer, and is responsible for much of the music in The Little Mermaid. He was a gay man who would unfortunately die of complications of HIV/AIDS in 1991. Wanted to mention him so his incredible talent would be remembered.
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Thank you so much for taking the opportunity to highlight Ashman. It's true - he and Alan Menken were recruited by Disney based on the amazing work they did on "Little Shop of Horrors." If I may add to your comments, the two of them actually composed music for not only "The Little Mermaid," but also "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" as well. I've heard in various documentaries that Howard Ashman was also responsible (or "to blame," if you like - ha!) for Ursula, the Sea Witch's design to be heavily influenced by the legendary Divine, the original actor and template for Edna Turnblad in 1988's "Hairspray" and whose wild, larger-than-life stage and screen persona was born in the films of John Waters.
Yes thank you. So weird that the video doesn't include them more
@@nadelacanal or alan
The original off-Broadway production was also directed by Ashman.
How dare they not discuss casting Levi Stubbs! That voice is iconic!!!
I literally watched this twice to see if I just missed. They don’t even mention him smh sad lack of detail.
Levi Stubbs tries not to overshadow his Four Tops friends, Duke Fakir, Obie Benson, and Lawrence Payton.
Hi you 3 what is odd is that the plant was female & levi stubbs was male I think the baby plants are cute.
Exactly!! And Levi is just as important to the character and story as the plant. I can't find anything that discusses his involvement with this film. Pisses me off.
This is only my guessing, but if an actor is being used to promote a movie, which a behind the scenes featurette per definition is, they need to get a higher salary.
You could compare it to Disney's "Aladdin" (where Ashman/Menken also were involved), where Disney fell out with Robin Williams over a similar agreement.
11:35 That sound Audrey makes after Rick says... " I hope You don't mind..." Priceless.
Jonathan Sweeting bahahahaha
the closed captions for that say "AUDREY SQUEAKS" lol
Apparently that squeak was totally random on set from Ellen, someone asked her about recently (if she could still do the squeak)
My favourite part of the film!
First time watching it with my friend we nearly cried laughing
The work that goes into bringing Audrey II to life is incredible, like wow! All those people working individual levers and such. And he moves so smoothly. All these years later and I’m still blown away by that plant (and the movie as a whole)
Seymour Krelborn was Rick Moranis' breakthrough role during his acting career. Great movie! And to Rick Moranis if you're reading this, Thank you for entertaining us over the years. We miss you very much, Please come back to acting.
He's returning to acting. In 2020 he signed up to do Shrunk, a sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids, as well as appeared in a Mint Mobile commercial with Ryan Reynolds
He stopped acting because his wife died and he stopped acting to look after his kids
He did an album of comedy songs. It’s called My Mother’s Brisket
That was Ghostbusters
STRANGE BREW.
Everyone has that one movie that they love no matter what. It's exciting, comforting, and almost a best friend. This is that movie for me. I have easily seen it over 200 times in my 40 years, and I STILL get goosebumps every time the opening song begins! I don't want to get carried away with this comment, or I'll write a whole story. If you haven't seen this movie, I beg you to give it a chance. It's infinitely rewatchable.
I found it for free on UA-cam and have been watching over and over. Such a nostalgic experience.
Same on all counts!
When Ellen said "Sure Sweetie".
My heart had just melted.
She has a VERY distinctive Brooklyn accent.
I wish they would've talked more about Levi Stubbs.
I know! That shocked me actually!!!!
Yes. Its infuriating really. 😾
Maybe he didn’t want to appear?
Just a thought
@@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090 that could be......
He was just the voice he wasn't needed on set
mood: rick getting thrown around in the dentist chair
Rick the first few times:😮
Rick the 200th time: 😑
THANK YOU, Frank Oz, for keeping Ellen Greene, a true Broadway powerhouse talent, in the film, instead of doing the all-too-common practice of casting Hollywood "stars" who can't sing!
I’m glad too. To me, Ellen Greene is the definitive Audrey. No matter how many different actresses played her in different revivals of the show, to me Ellen Greene IS Audrey. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely she’s going to come back in the upcoming remake due to her age. They got Scarlett Johansson playing her in the upcoming remake, but that might be one of those examples of Hollywood bringing in an a-list celebrity to play an iconic role.
@@hunterolaughlin Well, I've never heard Ms Johansson sing, so I can't pre-judge, but I fear you're probably correct. Audrey is a formidable role, even for a trained Broadway belter.
What's ironic is that Frank Oz thought that this was the first time that the person who originated their role on stage got to reprise it in the movie. That actually happened long before LITTLE SHOP with other stage-to-screen adaptations of stage musicals such as...
GUYS & DOLLS
THE KING & I
THE PAJAMA GAME
DAMN YANKEES
THE MUSIC MAN
MY FAIR LADY
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
FUNNY GIRL
OLIVER!
1776
CABARET
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Jeffrey Kare And Jesus Christ Superstar. Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, and Bob Bingham reprised their roles from the Broadway show. Yvonne and Barry even have played their roles in the original concept album.
Gregory Schmidt she actually ain’t that bad of a singer but don’t know if she can hit Audreys notes
The darkness of the film, the set design, the music, and the animation is just perfect, it’s a true piece of art. If it were made today, it would be filled with CGI crap.
15:18
Steve: Waddaya say?
Rick: **looks at person with a script** **puzzled**
Guy with a script: Uhhmm. No, you say no...
Rick: **dramatically** NO
Also...
15:30
can we get a supercut of Rick Moranis getting tossed around like a ragdoll, please???
That actually looks like fun
20:00 who the hell needs to go the gym or have weights when you're bringing an animatronic cannibal plant to life
No, They're Controlling the Plant using those levers.
@@jinajoejet3366 you really missed the joke here buddy
The practical effects still look amazing, over 30 years later!
i love this movie so much, have watched probably a million times,watching Rick getting thrown in the chair is such a mood, he’s a sweetheart ❤️❤️
It was really cool seeing that real-time shot of the Plant singing.
It's official... The 80's was the best decade for movies.
Best decade for everything pop culture lol
@willstarbailey, I'm going to disagree with that. 90s music was better.
Ellen Greene's real voice sounds so soothing. I could listen to her read all day.
There is nobody on the planet who is a bigger fan of this movie than me. My favorite movie since I was 5 years old (1988), a year after it came out. It’s been my favorite movie since! Amazing, amazing, amazing!
I think I would disagree with you. I love this movie so much, I watch the cartoon.
So here's the big question: Do you prefer the theatrical version or the original version? Or are both equally acceptable to you?
The fact that huge thing is moving that fast in real time is insane
I love Little Shop of Horrors! It's the most hilariously shocking musical comedy film ever made!
it is NOT in fact the first time an actor who originated the role in a play reprises that role in the movies. In 1975 a good 10 years BEFORE this movie, Tim Curry who originated the role of Dr Frank - n - Futer was cast to play him in the movie adaptation
Also not the first time. In 1973, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, and Bob Bingham reprised their Broadway roles in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. Chaim Topol played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, the West End and film in 1971. In 1968, Barbara Streisand did it in Funny Girl. Rex Harrison in 1964 for My Fair Lady. The list goes on and on.
This should have millions of views. One of the greatest recreations of all time
Roger Corman seems to be so straight laced....its crazy the types of movies he makes lol.
That's because I don't believe he truly was invested in the movies he produced. They're all on an assembly line and he just banged out movie after movie as cheaply as possible.
@@deletedwaffles that’s not really fair. You look at interviews with people he worked with and who he mentored like Martin Scorsese and they’ve all got nothing but good things to say about him and he worked. Sure he was very mechanical the way he went about things, but that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t creative or he didn’t care. He was able to get results with little money and little time and I think that’s really quite amazing
“aLAAAAAAAARRRRRMMMM goes off at SEVEN! Then you start up
T-AHooAHooAHooAH-Ahwn….” Chills …every time.
I KNOWWW
One of the first movies I can remember seeing in the theater......still has a special place in my heart
I have been making puppets for ages and was super proud of them, I have even spent several months a few versions of Audrey 2 and this has just made me feel so lazy! 😂
4:20 I love the way they just casually talk with Rick
The best musical ever. Greetings from Brazil. Had so much fun watching the making off.
17:02 I wish I had that puppet.
I'm watching this for the first time since, like, 1992. I liked it as a kid and had an urge to revisit it, and I've been grinning with delight the whole time coz it's genuinely good as hell, but I'm only halfway through coz I HAD TO pause it to look up how in the hell they were achieving these plant effects in 1986! I was expecting strings, jerky motion, and mouth shapes limited to open and closed. I had forgotten or, let's be real, had no appreciation as a kid of how impressive and flawless this puppetry actually was.Heck, I'd still be impressed if it was managed this smoothly and expressively without CG today.
Arriight, I'm gonna go finish the movie now.
Really interesting! One of my favourite films 😍😍 Thanks for sharing this
A bit of Trivia: The director of Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz did the voice of Cookie Monster, Grover, and Bert in the children's TV show Sesame Street
Voiced yoda he did
Also did Fozzie bear in the muppets.
@@hannahmabbott7370 Miss PIggy Too!
Damn blur block covering the stairwell scene during Suddenly Seymour, my absolute favorite scene 😡😡😡😡
Why is there blurring i never understood (never saw the movie)
I think the blur was done by the person who uploaded this video since those scenes are part of the copyrighted movie so UA-cam wouldn't bring this video down
If Rick Moranis's wavy little smile isn't the cutest ever.....🥰🥰🥰
Fuck CGI this puppetry is way better than cgi could ever be
I can agree
CGI isn’t as real
If they remake this (witch I hope they never do)
They better use Puppetry otherwise it’s just a money grab
@@user-cx9un9fs7q I think a great option is using cgi to enhance the puppetry. But if it was one or the other then yeah, practical wins almost everytime
@@user-cx9un9fs7q they are remaking it unfortunately
So you're saying CG is always bad?
One of the singing girls is chris’ mom in Everybody Hates Chris
Myles Harris Tichina Arnold! She sounds the exact same now as she did in this movie lol. I’m convinced she came out the womb sounding like an angry mom.
It's Pam and Gina from Martin series.
and the other one is the mom on my wife & kids
Two of them were on that '90s show, Martin! Pam and Gina!
I would have never realized that! Shes always just had that attitude then
Everyone in the comments love this film... but it scared the shit out of the child me in the 80s. From the theme song, to HBO announcing up next little shop....I overcame my fear and now I love it too
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. No matter what comes out of movie studios, this was musical movie perfection!
19:54 here's one of the famous digitally time-stretched Audrey II recordings they used to let Rick Moranis understand his cues while filming undercranked. They played the tape at a slower speed, but that really lowered the pitch of the audio too and made it hard to understand what was being said a lot of the time, so to compensate for the lowered pitch and only make the playback speed different, they ran that slowed down tape's output through an Eventide Harmonizer, an early digital pitch shifter that was in heavy use in the late 70s and the 80s, raising the pitch back up. So that was the 80s way to time stretch!
He said nurse this plant back to death “To DeAtH” HAHA
the plant, wow. I don't think 3D graphics can touch the amazing practical effects. I hope it never will.
whats with those random blurred out squares?!
Copyright Issues.
Ellen Greene, but only when she's singing (?)
@@StefanReich Ellen Greene has blurry face and body issues. I don't think it's PC to really talk about it. IT'S A CONDITION!
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@@filmSCHOOLarchive Wait.....copyright issues?? In the scenes leading UP to the blurred sections, you clearly show Audrey II !! How is showing the plant in ONE scene okay, but not another??
Poor ellen greene had to talk in such a high pitched voice the whole movie
mega blast she talked like that on stage too for the role she was used to it (plus her natural voice isn’t that far off from Audrey’s just not as high)
@@gmcnewlook probably just to sound like a shy girl
@@gmcnewlook Her Brooklyn accent is incredibly distinctive.
I never realized how much Rick Moranis sounds like Weird Al in this movie.
This video is sped up slightly I think, or the audio is otherwise altered to avoid copyright issues. You can tell with the songs, they sound a note or two higher than normal.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought this
@@area51l exactly! I noticed that! I listen to the soundtrack on my Alexa all the time. I play by ear on my piano so I could tell the difference.
David Geffin pestered Mel Brooks into turning his movie The Producers into a musical. I will always be thankful for that!
This movie is A work of art
“Anybody else want a go” 😂
Yes, please
Oz did amazing work with the puppetry on that plant
Rick Moranis is such a stand-up dude! Really like that guy!
17:50 Rick Moranis had me like 🤣🤣
omg how have i never seen this this is amazing
One of my favourite musicals and movies little shop of horrors has a special place in my heart even though when I first watched it had nightmares for quite some time because of the the dentist scenes I’m surprised I don’t have a fear of the dentist as an adult
Why didn't they mention Levi Stubb's, he's the voice of the plant? They everything about making the movie except who the voice of the plant.
It was a cult classic. Not a success. When I saw it, there was no one else in the the theatre
It made more than it cost (albeit only a little), so it was a success in the theatres - but only just. A whole lot more came from VHS and Beta sales, though.
@@aussiebloke609 it came out in the dumping ground of January so people were probably put off by it it was nominated for a oscar and I enjoy the film it is a cult film.
I know I didn't see it in theaters- but I have probably watched this movie over a hundred times when I was a kid. Then, when I had kids - they actually wore out my VHS tape because they loved it and watched it so many times! Now, I just had to rewatch it today with Halloween and October around the corner on HBO. It's really stood the test of time. The music and humor holds up, the effects are seamless and mind boggling because you think: this movie is almost 40 years old!
Love this film!!
wtf! Why didn't they talk about Levi stubbs?
As much as I'd like to see what Scorsese would've done with the movie, I can't imagine it'd be as good as what Frank Oz did. No disrespect to Scorsese, he's certainly not called one of the greatest modern filmmakers for no reason. I just think that this is a movie that requires a different skill set.
15:41 anyone else like a go
Movie fact: rick and Ellen actually got bruises on their lips from the kiss after “Suddenly Seymour”
That had to suck
Sweet and sour Potato’s love hurts
LMAO they *were* kissing like a couple of virgins 😩
I LOVE THIS SHOW SOOOOOO MUCH
I find it bizarre that there are no mention of Howard Ashman or Alan Menken... was this deliberate?
I was scrolling for so long just to find this one comment mentioning either of them. They are the two musical geniuses behind this musical as well as so many others and there's no recognition for them with this movie? That's so wrong
Why all the blocking out of pieces of the movie? Don't understand why? Copyright?
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did Levi Stubbs make a cameo in "Skid Row"?
because I SWEAR I'd heard that someplace, but now, can't find a thing
He did for sure, plus hes audrey 2
@@flyinglonghorn9266 he was awesome in the movie
Wasn't he one of the homeless bums climbing the fence?
I'm just a mean, green mother from outer space, and I'm bad.
*It's always time for dental hygeine, Seymour*
The narrator said that the production team built 'an exact replica of skid row in manhattan." An exact replica? Of Manhattan's skid row? Sure, Jan. Where exactly in Manhattan is skid row? Can i get that address?
They didn't interview or mention Howard Ashman and Alan Menken so 9/10
They didn't mention or interview Levi Stubbs either.
@@Hinatachan360 true
so disappointing
@@damaracarpenter8316 ikr
Can´t believe ... Levi Stubbs wurde mit keiner Silbe erwähnt! The voice of Audrey II !!!
One of the first cassette soundtracks I ever purchased as a kid was the one for this movie. I was obsessed with this film growing up. As a musician and a songwriter in my adult life, it wasn’t until I got older that I really started to realize why I gravitated to the music in this film. It’s not really my style of music, but the music is brilliant and I love every song, but for me about the clever lyrics. Lyrics that rhyme. That has always been one of the things that has given me great euphoria all of my life, and lines that rhyme have always been a massive conviction of mine in the music I write.
As a little kid, I wasn’t looking much into the production credits of the album jackets in my cassettes, so I still find it incredibly amazing that 3 of the first 4 movie soundtracks I ever owned were Little Shop of Horrors, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast. The common denominator(s) of those three albums? Alan Menken music, and maybe most importantly, Howard Ashman lyrics. I will also add that one of the most mesmerizing batch of song lyrics I was exposed to as a kid, were the tunes to The Little Mermaid. Do you wanna guess who was responsible for the music and lyrics in that film? Yep! Brilliant!
This doesn’t feel like a retrospective, but more of an Entertainment Tonight piece from ‘86 advertising the film
05:09 " Geena aka Martin's baby girl and his arch enemy PAM" On Martin sung together in the movie...I miss the sitcom Martin......
Yes, they are both good singers.
Re: Martin. Yeah.. there were so many hysterical moments on that show. I think one of my favorites is when he "defends" himself in court against a traffic ticket ;D Oh, and when they're at the island resort with the "dog".
I could tell it was Ed Bishop doing the narration, and I was correct. This wasn't the first film to use someone from the original stage cast. 1972's "1776" used most of the original cast, and director as well. Anywho, when I saw this in a cinema in 1987 there were just a handful of others present. A shame as it's a great movie.
Ellen Greene was not the first time an actress originated a role on stage to later play it on film. Barbra did it with Funny Girl.
copyright issues on a 23 minute "making of"?
that only does a tiny snippet of any songs, usually talked over?
What sort of income should they be expecting to lose?
Tim Carder just stop complaining. You’ve seen those parts of the song anyway.
Don't know... maybe people could show some respect to modern CGI artists. They work as hard as puppeteers back in the day. Hollywood adapts to whatever new technology brings to tell stories and CGI is no easy thing at all. Without 3D animation, James Cameron would had never risked doing Titanic, or Peter Jackson would had never attempted doing Lord of the rings. So many other great movies only exists because CGI exists
We all agree Little Shop of Horrors did amazing with animatronics, but Tron or Jurassic Park are also amazing with CGI
Yeh people always blast it and alot of CGI artists work just as hard as ANY artist of created puppets etc for movies
Yeah, like creating these puppets was incredibly complex and difficult, but so is making an entire realistic, alive-feeling creature digitally
"As hard as" definitely isn't true. They work VERY hard. But it's not fair to say as hard as. It isn't comparable, the reason those things only exist is because without cgi they'd be so much HARDER to where it doesn't make sense to do. Cgi in an of itself reduces the effort needed. That's NOT a bad thing but it is a large factor to it's success and near complete overtake of practical effects in the modern age.
@@UnknownArtistComics You have no idea about CGI
@@XSI5 Audrey II in it's biggest form took around 20 people to operate, and given the frame they probably strained themselves plenty, plus the puppet builders and assistants - I think it's pretty safe to say that in thia particular que movie, they worked harder than a modern CGI team realtive to the final product
12:10 Pam and Gina were so young!
Oh, yeah! Two of the three chorus girls from Little Shop of Horrors were on the '90s FOX sitcom, Martin! I forgot about it!
Little Shop of Horrors was filmed in London. Not NYC. It was at Pinewood Studios. Batman ‘89 was also filmed at Pinewood Studios.
I wonder what happened to the Mean green mother puppet after the film's production ended?
there's a lot of irony in listing the other actors that the film stars without mentioning the name of the guy singing in the background. you know, the freaking PLANT???
TBH the 3 singers made this movie for me
Facts!
the Greek chorus
I watched this whole thing without realizing it
Why did you censor Audrey twos final form but only the face??
Steve Martin’s character looks exactly like Elvis Presley.
It Makes sense It takes place in the late 50s early 60s Elvis was a bad ass of sorts back then...
no mention of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken tsk tsk
they pronounced it wrong.. it's an AMAZING, SADISTIC dentist*
RIP Roger Corman
enjoyed the Movie over the Play which I watched in 1982. Loved the ending
frank oz? u cant fool me, i see u tobias funke
CJ Feist 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boooooooo
What's with all the random blurred out sections of the video? You even completely blurred out Audrey II for nearly an entire minute near the end. And why the hell isn't a single other person asking this question?
Copyright Issues.
@@filmSCHOOLarchive Well you sure chose extremely random moments.
I really liked the part where they animate the robot slowly and then speed up the image because it's obvious that you can't move a robot that weighs almost a ton quickly
I have seen the movie I loved movie and I got my mom and dad singing it and I have seen the high school play’s of little shop of horrors I did not see the Broadway play yet when my sister got my watching it I started to watching it a lot of times well Frank oz do another hardCore musical of Heathers the musical on the Silver screen if he is gonna do it I would like to be in it
Ah... Thank goodness a section of the screen is censored for no reason.
/sarcasm
Dude. It's for copyright reasons. YT will take this stuff down unless the uploader alters the image or audio.
AlcideIzMine the whole video is copyrighted, not just the clips of the film lol
wtf is up with dubbed over kid at 3:52? that is an adult voice imitating a child
Good point. It would have been interesting to hear how that bit of casting came about.
As far as Audrey, if Ellen Green wasn't available,Cindy Lauper would have been good. Barbra Streisand wouldn't have worked. She and Audrey Two would have been battling it out for screen time, til FrankOz decided, *"I might as well get Miss Piggy to play Audrey!"*
A PERFECT MOVIE MUSICAL!
What’s up with the blocked out segments during “Suddenly Seymour” and “Big Green Muthah?”