Little Shop of Horrors Original Ending w/ Commentary 3/3

The original (or alternate) ending to Little Shop of Horrors. Audio commentary by director Frank Oz.

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[TehRantare]

The two things he seems to talk about (the only thing he COULD talk about) is how nice the model work is, and, in an increasingly angry tone, how things would have been different and/or better if they had allowed him to use the footage and ending. Although it wouldn't be as memorable, who thinks that we, the fans, should re-do the movie, and put in the true ending?

[IluvLadyandGinger]

Ok. I am not a dark person at all. However this should have stayed in the movie. Just because 1 audience didnt like it, dosnt mean the rest of us wouldnt like it either. All this amazing work has just gone to waste.

[ROFLOLBBQ111]

@fritzc77 What ending did your play do? The play ends with Seymour trying to kill the plant from the inside, and thus being swallowed. That's the official ending.  Did your director decide LET'S USE THE HAPPY ENDING FROM THE MOVIE? There have been isolated incidents of stupid drama directors doing that.

[brenndon1]

@fritzc77

I do like this ending better. it just fits better then the ending they kept.

[brenndon1]

This ending being removed. The very last minute of the ending to the movie The decent being removed from the in the USA cut. I dont know about you but I think they shouldn't take test audience to seriously.

[Rkerekes13]

@fritzc77 I feel that you are not 100% correct. It's rather debatable whether this is the better ending or not.

[fritzc77]

By creating a darker ending even than the original stage play, where Seymour sacrifices himself to kill Audrey II (our local high school performed the stage play several years ago), Frank Oz didn't necessarily create a BETTER ending. Darkness and cynicism do not equal true creativity, although we may have been led to believe otherwise. Oz is not the genius he thinks he is.

[PiscesGal]

I honestly didn't like the ending.

[LextheRobot]

@MrBagginsEsq Jack Sparrow didn't kill the Kraken. It was killed by Davy Jones, under orders from Lord Cutler Beckett.

[MrBagginsEsq]

@IluvLadyandGinger I say a different ending all together. How about the MOST original one. Where he takes a machete goes into the plant gets eaten but still kills it. Like Jack Sparrow and the Krakan. Or maybe on where the "mean green mother" tears down the building and laughs, instead of the "Happy ending" he could have killed it by electrocution. Then his hand would loosen and release the wire as it falls the floor. And the hand falls. Indicating that he is now dead.

[MrBagginsEsq]

I never cared about a "happy" ending as much a good one. IN many movies, the good guy would willingly give up his life in order to stop the monster. While the morality is lacking from the original version, its some what lacking here to. In the broadway production he goes in its mouth to kill it with a machete. At least it is moral. But good seems to loose to these plants. The best version was the 1960s version. He did what was wrong. Trying to make up for it he went inside it and DID kill it.

[Chess289]

Yes Mr. Oz I did like. Why this "audience' did not is beyond me. It doesn't have to be happy to be great. Well THIS is why most entertainment industries do not listen to the fans. Fans mess up almost everything!