Biggering Storyboard
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Published 2012-05-31
Also, if anyone's interested, I'm redoing it. I've been feeling really nostalgic about the whole thing and decided to go back and make a more polished animatic (I work in animation now so hopefully that'll help lol). Once it's finished, I'll post it over on my GloriaDrewThis channel: / @gloriadrewthis
Till then, if you want to check out what I've been doing in the past, yeah, eight years:
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An exercise done to try and work on the differences between presenting a board statically and presenting it as an animatic (also trying to work on finding a process I'm happy with....).
So.... this is what I was thinking- instead of a slow demise into greed.... what if there was one, precise moment where the once-ler had to make a choice about which way he was going to fall? I figured the "lighting ceremony" of Thneedville (aka turning on the power and zapping of all the natural resources of the area) would be a good place to start.
Characters and "Biggering" (c) Seuss and Illumination Entertainment
All Comments (21)
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"Here's an emotionally charged song that perfectly displays the Onceler's greed and also fits perfectly with the original narrative and theme of The Lorax." Illumination: We don't do that here.
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Imagine the emotional impact this would've had.
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I like how in “How Bad Can I Be?” The Lorax is trying to save the trees, but in “Biggering” he’s trying to save the Onceler.
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I can't imagine how pissed the guy who sung his soul out for this song was when Illumination rejected it
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Dr Suess is crying that this wasn’t in the movie.
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I like how you portrayed the Lorax as more of the Oncler’s morality. When the Lorax was talking to him about greed, we could see the Lorax shadow but not him actually. And the Lorax rejecting the Oncler at the end symbolizes his morality being all lost.
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“Hey why’d you cut biggering? Do you think it would scare the kids?” “No I think it would scare the adults.”
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Imagine how insane Tumblr would go if this song made it into the final cut
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The “Who cares if some things are dying?!” Would’ve hit so much harder to the audience. Especially since in the film we all got to know and love the adorable furry creatures the oncelor met.
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This is so ironic that this got cut because of corporate greed
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“Who cares if some things are Dying” This Oncler was built different
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Y'all gotta keep in mind, this was just one song. It would've been extremely weird for only this one song to be so dark, so it's safe to assume that the rest of the movie would've followed suit in tone had this gone through. One can only imagine just how powerful this movie's message would have been, and likely was planned to be at some point. A movie about corporate greed ended up being ruined by corporate greed. The joke practically writes itself, and yet I don't feel like laughing.
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"Biggering" is what really happened, "How Bad Can I Be" is what you say in court
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I love the scene in the elevator, it shows his descent into the dark side and when Lorax said "Pride" you see the bottom of the elevator descending showing his "Pride" pulling him down since he doesn't want to admit to De Lorax's words. His "Pride" is making him refuse to admit that his "Pride" is pulling him down. Beautiful. Edit: Spelling
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I feel like dreamworks would have done The Lorax right.
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Hear me out How Bad Can I Be still happens the same, being the Onceler telling Ted what happened It then cuts to the Onceler after Ted leaves, where he recalls what really went down, that being Biggering.
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People, just remember: This song is only a Demo. Imagine what we could have gotten.
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this makes the onceler seem like an actual villain rather than a guy who did an “oopsie” and ruined the environment
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idk how to explain it, but I feel like the onceler looks a lot more intimidating and scary in this storyboard than he does in the actual film
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I am just glad they actually released this to the public cause man I love this song
