Film Theory: The Lorax Movie LIED To You!

Disclaimer: Film Theory is not responsible for any psychological trauma inflicted by the Onceler fandom.

We just gonna ignore biggering? The best song in the album that doesn't acctualy appear in the movie because it hit illumination too close to home.

“It’s not evil, it’s just stupid” idk why but I love this line

Fun Fact: In french, “how bad can I be” has a line that says “I know it’s bad, but whatever” this shows The Onceler knew what he was doing, and not as innocent as he seems.

BTW, it is referenced in “How Bad Can I Be” that the Onceler wasn’t being honest about his bad business practices. He was lying to consumers and using business tactics to get them to buy more thneeds, even though he wasn’t replenishing the forests. In addition, the Onceler is depicted as being relatively intelligent, but instead of harnessing that to create a device that could harvest the tufts at a faster rate (which would then grow back in, I’m assuming, the spring), he decides to cut down the trees, which in general is his mother’s fault for pushing him over the edge. The puppeteer behind this “evil” corporate megamind is his mom.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not." my favorite Dr. Seuss quote ever.

Ted only wanted a tree to get his crush so it is sad to know that he did not really want trees. How could have I missed this.

The thing is, they originally didn't plan for the onceler to be this way. If you listen to the song that was supposed to be in place "biggering", he truly is the villain but they where like "that's a little to similar to us, we need to make him not the bad guy..."

Matpat Forgot the fact that the onceler didnt just ruin the air quality by chopping down trees, but by smogging the air. He also ruined other aspects of the environment like the water supply, by dumping toxic waste in the water. The water is toxic in ThneedVille, its referenced in the opening song and also in the Let It Grow Song.

The trees can’t be harmed if the Lorax is armed.

Like the Lorax, Danny Devito is a short guy with godly powers.

He originally said “who cares if SOME THINGS are dying”

This would be 100℅ correct if O'Hare actually created Thneedville. The Onceler is actually the founder of Thneedville (proof of this is thneedville literally being named after the Oncelers invention and the thneedville model in the Oncelers office)

"I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees. Save the Amazon, or I'll break your knees." ~ The Lorax

So, who had ‘Matpat tries to revive the Onceler fandom’ on their 2020 bingo card?

i honestly think that once ler's mum is the real bad guy, once ler had no intention of chopping the trees, she put the idea in his head

“ Are you sure the Once-ler isn’t a bad guy? “ Plays biggering (If your wondering what biggering is, it’s a scrapped song)

Matpat: "No one is suffering from O'hare's corporate greed." Meanwhile: "Our son Wesley kinda glows"

The first time I watched the Lorax, I realized the message. It’s actually much more deeper than we thought.

I blame the Oncelers family more. It's clear that they only started to care for him once he started to get money. And the minute he stops making money, they say he's nothing but a disappointment and abandons him. He couldn't say no to his mother because he wanted her to be proud of him for once and they family no doubt broke down his will to say no to them. It's hard to go against toxic parents when you want them to show you support for once in your life. It also seemed like he was trying convince himself before his song and as it got further in, he was blinded by his success and only realized what he had done when it was too late.