Whether it is a movie version or a musical version, "The Little Shop of Horrors" (The Little Shop of Horrors) is a wonderful work with a clear mind, but it is very appetizing to the audience and has become a cult blockbuster.
The Little Shop of Horrors first began with the work of Roger Coman, known as the "king of B-rated films", filmed in 1960. Rumor has it that it took two days and US$27,000 to complete the filming. It can be called the film industry. the legend of.
In 1982, the work was adapted into a musical by composer Alan Manken and playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman and moved to the Broadway stage, which immediately achieved great success. The songs written by these two can be said to be the first beautiful, the first classic, and later Disney's "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" songs were also written by these two.
In 1986, this musical was adapted into a movie, and it was a great success. Since the release of the DVD, it has been praised by more and more people, and it has become a recognized Cult classic.
What is a cult film? Translating Cult movies into cult movies, the words "evil" and "dian" summarize the two situations of this type of film:
The first is "evil". Most Cult movies are low-cost small films produced at B-level. They are usually shown in lower theaters. The plots are mostly bizarre and the shooting methods are free and unrestrained. A small but very loyal movie fan.
"Rocky Horror Show" is the most representative one.
But Cult movies are not all weird and crazy small films. Many classic blockbusters can also be included in its category, especially some old films, such as Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and Tarantino. "Falling Water Dog".
What these cult films have in common is that the films will last for a long time and will always be shown in theaters, making fans devote themselves like religious enthusiasm, constantly exploring the details and connotations.
I think there is a simple criterion for judging whether a movie is a cult movie or not. By the time of Halloween, if you see a lot of people at parties and social media posing as characters in a movie you haven't seen, this movie is 80% a Cult blockbuster.
The characters in the film are very characteristic. Wearing glasses is the male protagonist Seymour, a clumsy employee who works in a flower shop. One day he came across a strange plant, bought it and started raising it, and named it Audrey II after the girl he liked. It turned out that the plant feeds on human blood. After feeding it a few drops of blood, the plant grew up, attracting many customers and media reporters, and kept Seymour's job and reputation. So Seymour embarked on the road of no return...
The plot trend of the play is "floating world German." Goethe's Fausta trades with the devil and finally reaps the fruits of it. Seymour in "Alien Flowers" trades with alien plants in exchange for fame and money. In the 1960 film version and the musical version, Seymour ended up making a deal. The same was true for the ending of the first version of the 1986 film version, but due to the rejection of the audience during the trial screening, the ending was changed to a happy ending when it was released.
What I saw was the first version. After the ending male protagonist was also eaten by plants, Audrey II spawned countless small Audrey II trees and entered thousands of households in New York. The movie ends with a group of cannibalistic plants occupying the streets of New York like Godzilla, trampling on high-rise buildings, and dominating the Statue of Liberty. It can be said that it is rare in sci-fi movies that aliens finally defeated human beings. It can be called a clear stream in sci-fi movies.
In addition to the big brains in this movie, the characters are all logically moving. The heroine Audrey, who is always holding her throat, has been abused by her boyfriend for a long time, but she does not leave him.
After being bitten by a plant, I asked Seymour to bury her in the belly of the plant, because "I will always be a part of it and be with you." This proper masochistic logic can see Sword Girl The chin couldn't close.
Then Seymour really fed her back to Audrey II's mouth...
Seeing this, I have seriously suspected that the male protagonist and the plant have developed a kind of love that transcends the race. Otherwise, why should I give it to his wife? ! Recall that plants do launch tentacle offensives from time to time, fiercely playing the male lead, and also present their sexy big lips...
As an extraterrestrial plant, Audrey II has been living in the white circle since it came to Earth, but inexplicably said an authentic black accent street dialect, with a few dirty characters from time to time, and his singing is also the essence of black soul music. What I want to know most about watching the complete movie is, who did it learn this English from?
In addition to the sadistic Audrey II and the masochistic male and female protagonist, there are two more extreme SM freaks in the film. Audrey’s domestic violence boyfriend has been a pervert who abused small animals since he was a child. Excuse me? The meticulousness of this perverted logic really makes me admire the ground.
When the dentist came out, a song Dentist vividly realized his tormented and refreshing state since he became a dentist.
You read that right, the dentist is played by Steve Martin. This song is the favorite of Swordsman in the whole film. It is abnormal and funny enough. Steve Martin played the exaggerated abnormality of talking, singing and dancing in the way of Elvis, which fully proved that a dentist who does not want to be an Elvis is not a pervert. This film also allows the audience to enter a person's mouth and look out for the first time, which is incredibly magical.
It's such a dentist who scared the patient to make Spider-Man climb to the canopy, and there are even masochistic patients who come to the doctor and pretend to be sick when they are not sick.
What a harmonious scene, is there? A masochist and a masochist, a picture full of emotion, is there?
However, a person who takes pleasure in torturing people suddenly meets a patient who takes pleasure in being abused, not to mention being depressed. If every patient is like this, what fun is there to be a dentist? There is nothing wrong with this logic.
Yes, you read that right, this masochist was played by Bill Murray, and this short scene in which he played was a three-day joke. Look at this little face that was abused to the point of violence~
In short, "Alien and Strange Flower" is such a musical that combines horror, science fiction, interracial love (?) and black comedy! There is no one in this combination~
The logic of the characters in the film is different from ordinary people, so it triggers a plot that does not develop according to the usual routine. Just after reading it, it makes people feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable. After taking it for two days, it is really fragrant. The more Yuepin felt that this movie was strangely new, strangely beautiful, and strangely beautiful, refreshing my aesthetics. This may be the magic of cult movies.
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