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I'm about to start the Rick Moranis #LittleShop movie. (Movie night LiveTweet) By Dennis G. Jerz, on September 3rd, 2010
- I’m about to start the Rick Moranis movie. My 8yo has never seen it, but she’s gotten interested in musicals. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Wife is unwrapping the DVD now. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- First, put away the DVD. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Daughter is worried will be too scary. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Steve Martin is credited for a “special appearance” about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Great set… Chorus girls dancing in the rain. I’d forgotten just how catchy the music is. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “That’s the Solinsky Dad!” says daughter, recognizing Moranis from the Honey movies. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “Oh, dear!” says daughter upon seeing the establishing shot of Audrey (One) about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Random chorus woman with powerful voice starts the Downtown song… should I recognize her? about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Some zombie-thriller echoes in the Downtown number. Urban alienation.
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- Daughter wonders if Seymor is ungrateful for what he has… about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Where are the flowers? There are no flowers on the set of his supposed flower shop. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Love the POV shot of Audrey II. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “Can you break a hundred? (sad faces) Then I’ll just have to take twice as many!” about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “My children”… Mushnik’s concern for Audrey makes him sympathetic… His fate is more shocking as a result. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- What do you want from me, blood? (I forgot it was a rose thorn that drew the blood… Don’t write a paper on the symbolism!) about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “It’s hungry, do something!” says my daughter as the plant begs for blood… about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Daughter compliments Rick Moranis’s singing voice. Cheers when the plant grows at end of “grow for me” about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- I totally forgot the John Candy WSKID radio host cameo… about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “Don’t tell me… You got tied up.” “No, just handcuffed a little.” Setup for Audrey’s big solo. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- I know Seymour’s the greatest / But I’m dating a semi-sadist s="tweet-url hashtag" rel="nofollow">#LittleShop about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- I just realized that I sing “Somewhere That’s Green” to myself whenever I mow the lawn. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- The kids laughed when we see Audrey’s vision of her future kids with Seymour. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Mariachi “Some Fun Now” Audrey is professional and competent as a flower arranger… She tells him he has low self image… about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Patients cowering as Orin Scrivello struts thru waiting room. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Love the shot from within the patient’s mouth… Daughter frowns. “I’d rather be doing math! That is one evil dentist.” about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Daughter: “I’d never take a root canal from that guy.” about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Feed me! about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Animatronics look fantastic… I understand these scenes were filmed at 1/4 speed about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Sophomore year in college at UVa I was the set designer and plant-builder for a First Year Players production of about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Made the plant out of hula hoops, chicken wire, and duct tape. Big enough inside for the puppeteer and victims. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- The guy sure looks like plant food to me! about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Bill Murray’s cameo. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Murray’s patient character has his own bib in his pocket. about 3 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Daddy’s home! …. Thank you!!! Candy bar!!! (The kids have no idea what is happening in this scene…) about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Murray’s scene is funny, but it does detract from Scrivello’s insanity… We see he has limits, making him a bit more human… about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- …making Seymour’s intended murder a little less sympathetic. The kids noticed the moral dilemma. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- “Even though he is a villain, you should still love that guy, if there’s any way to.” My 8yo on the mad dentist. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Oops, big popcorn spill. Movie paused with Seymour’s axe raised over his head. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Mushnik thinks he sees Seymour killing Scrivello — of course, that will motivate Seymour to kill Mushnik to keep him quiet. about 2 hours ago via mobile web
- “I’d put on cheap and tasteless outfits… Not nice ones, like this.” Audrey, describing her work in The Gutter. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- Suddenly Seymour.. Great use of fragments of walls in a vacant lot set. They’re really belting those notes. about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
- You really want these two to get together… And the kiss!! (“There has to be more movie,” says daughter.) about 2 hours ago via Twitter for iPad
Mushnik in the shadows… Offended that Seymour would stoop to murder… I think in the play version Mushnik was greedy.
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Aha… Here Mushnik is scheming to keep the plant form himself… He wants Seymour’s “secret gardening tips”
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Fisheye lens in The Meek Shall Inherit…
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The kids are debating just what Seymour has done wrong. “He IS sorry.” “But he IS guilty.”
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“After tomorrow, we can leave here, together!” Don’t wait just one more day, and split up at a time like this, young lovers.
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“I can’t live with the guilt.” Daughter: “How can it even see?… (Dialing the phone) What a smart plant.” Audrey, not so much.
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Audrey One came out of the plant in pretty good shape… The stage musical has a much darker turn at this point.
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Suddenly Seymour reprise, when the musical here had a Somewhere That’s Green reprise.
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Jim Belushi’s cameo now. Nothing special, just a plot point.
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“This is between me and the vegetable.”
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Mean Green Mother from Outer Space. Backup voices coming from pods. (Son has noticed the plot diversion now.)
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Some salty language… As a dutiful father I must scold the plant each time it uses a rude word.
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The plant does a Samson, pulling out the pillars of the building.
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“You’re killing the hand that fed you!” — daughter scolding Audrey II. Ran out of room crying.
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Daughter spilled popcorn while running out of room crying… Had to drag her back to the TV.
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During tacked-on happy ending, daughter: “Does she even know Seymour killed someone? Or butchered someone’s body, I mean?”
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Camera pans down to the final garden surprise– daughter: “Oh, no… Oh, no!”
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Son is annoyed at the changed ending, daughter still crying that Seymour never told Audrey the truth.
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A dramatic conclusion to our night. Maybe we’ll put Sweeney Todd away until a little later. Goodnight.
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I just put the soundtrack into my iTunes :) This is a great show – I love John Candy as the radio host.
Coda: This morning, my daughter asked to watch #LittleShop again.