O'Hare and his two henchmen pursue the dissidents until they manage to elude him and reach the town center. So what else is he suppose to do, give it out for free? It is the implement he uses when he first ventures down his dark destructive path by chopping down the first tree and it is likewise the implement he uses when he is redeemed by cutting down the boards enforcing his self-imposed exile. In an attempt to win over her affection, Ted seeks out the home of the Once-ler , who tells the regretful tale of how he brought down the forest. Lending their vocal talents to the project are Danny DeVito as the iconic title character of the Lorax and Ed Helms as the enigmatic Once-ler. The things you say just might be true, It could be time to start anew, and maybe change my point of view; nah, I say let it die! He sure has changed, huh? Remember, to the best of everyone's knowledge, the trees are gone. Cy the delivery guy Role in the film Cy's role in the film is not very big as he only appears few times at the beginning and at the end of the film, though he is the first character to be seen in the film after 's opening monologue. But can one seed undo the environmental catastrophe created by the Once-ler's biggering? Then the wagon gets unhooked from Melvin, and it rolls downhill backwards while Pipsqueak and Lou scream in terror.
By telling the boy his story and giving him the last Truffula seed, the Once-ler begins speaking for those creatures the Lorax spoke for before. O'Hare, still determined not to have trees undercut his business, takes heavy-handed steps such as covering Audrey's nature paintings, closing off the door that Ted uses to see the Once-ler, and forcibly searching Ted's room for the seed, which has begun to grow after coming into contact with some water from Ted's spilled water bottle. It may be suspected that as he did not have the jet helmet's control, O'Hare eventually crashed with the jet helmet, possibly getting killed or severely injured with the impact by force. He even misses the Lorax! Ted's Mom: Tedster, you're kissing the cereal again, hon. In the presence of Mr. This is especially noticeable in the climax, where O'Hare feels the need to join the chase himself. Remember, he's also the mayor of thneedville, the welfare of his citizens is still his concern, it would be irresponsible for him to let Ted the city and go out into the irradiated landscape.
On the other hand, though, if the townspeople did learn anything, it's the fact that not everything is as perfect as they thought it was now that they've seen how bad things were this whole time just outside their city. Seuss' sublime whimsy, is basically made fun of, or at least, dragged down to Earth. Yeah, that's what he told Ted, because Ted's a rebellious teenager. Which Ted, the hero of the story, later breaks, to reveal to the other citizens the real world out there: a desolate ground with gray cloudy sky with no signs of life in sight. The second of the book following the , the film builds on the book by expanding the story of the Lorax and Ted, the previously unnamed boy who visits the Once-ler. Over Ted's various visits, the Once-ler recounts the story that when he was a young man, he departed his family to find good material for his Thneed invention, a piece of cloth that has multiple uses, and make a business.
Rule 2 - Please provide evidence Evidence makes for a good theory, this will be judged at the discretion of the mods. That is until he starts talking about not caring if the trees are dying, while you see him destroying said trees with the soundwaves from his guitar and carelessly hacking down every tree left and right while the forest creatures run for their lives. Once-ler's mother is a threat because she can. In a way, he becomes the Lorax though the Lorax offers advice for free while the Once-ler charges. His facial expressions alone really sealed the deal for a lot of people. Well, that all depends on our boy, doesn't it? Not only does the song get so much darker, his voice gets a distinct malevolent echo at the end. Cy: singing You greedy dirtbag! When is escaping from O'Hare's cronies on his scooter, Cy is changing an air barrel, though sees Ted speeding towards him and runs away in fright.
When Ted spoke for the trees as though a part of the Lorax was within him by tearing down the walls of the town to reveal the truth and showing the last tree seed as a start of many much-needed changes for the all-artificial town of Thneedville, O'Hare tried in vain to get the citizens on his own side, revealing his true nature in the process by threatening to fire his delivery man named Cy, if he does not get the people on his side sings that the seed should shrivel up and die. Rule 7 - High Volume Standard Topics Topics we receive a large number of submissions about will be subject to higher quality standards than other posts. . Serenade Lou wants to impress a girl Barbaloot, but he has some competition. One enterprising old man sets up a stall to sell tomatoes to the crowd. Distraught, ruined, and filled with regret, the Once-ler becomes a.
In the boy, the Once-ler sees a chance to redeem himself in some way for destroying the beauty of the town and driving away the creatures who lived there. Deforestation presents us with all kinds of problems - soil erosion, landslides, loss of habitat, loss of wildlife etc, but it doesn't affect our air quality. Okay, we have no idea why the Once-ler didn't plant the seed himself. Rule 4 - Tag all spoilers Please do not include spoilers in the title of your posts, be as vague as possible. When the Thneed fails, they become genuine. No, the only way to get people air is to keep selling it. We ask for at least 2 paragraphs of writing about your theory and a specific citation from the work.
Let me remind you there are still no trees. Though after this latest fasco, maybe the will wise up and remove that restriction. Years later, O'Hare made a fortune selling oxygen tanks for a machine that he designed to keep the otherwise smoggy air fresh for Thneedville residents, but in order to sell what people used to get for free, O'Hare's air company went to great lengths to keep the locals from leaving town to prevent them from discovering an alternative planting trees to his bottled air. Wiggins implies that this has happened before. He is more or less a supporting character in the second act of the story, never appears in the main story except at the end and his story the main story of the book takes a back seat to the story of Ted and Audrey.
Appearance O'Hare has shoulder length black hair and is rather short himself, although he is idolized by the citizens. At the start of the film, Cy can be seen driving down a highway in an O'Hare delivery vehicle, then stops by a house to replace an empty barrel of air with a fresh one. He is very creepy and has no sense of personal space, touching Ted multiple times on the chest and forcibly wrapping his arm round him as if suffocating him and dragging him to a window at one point. She pays him the money for the barrel and they both enjoy breathing in the fresh air. And also Ted's mom when disco dancing; she wiggles her butt directly. But, sometimes looks can be deceiving—or ironic.
You really think that was his reason? Incidentally, Taylor Swift really is taller than Zac Efron, though not to quite the same extent. Meta - Posts regarding the sub-Reddit itself. Thus we have Once-ler Gray and O'Hare Black. The Lorax urges the Once-ler to leave the forest, but the Once-ler refuses. While this may at first seem to be a bad thing, it's eminently clear that the citizens of Thneedville don't particularly care much for real plants anyway, save for Audrey.