Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: "Little Shop of Horrors", versione integrale col finale originale

A qualcuno interessa? Ne ho trovate altre due copie nel negozio 
segnalato da Davide,,,, ma costano 55$ ciascuna. Sto cercando di 
tornare, quindi se vi interessa fatemi un fischio subito, meglio ancora 
se su ICQ.
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 ancora se su ICQ.
Più che altro mi interesserebbe sapere com'è questo finale.
Qualcuno mi spoilera?
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Carthoris

 Qualcuno mi spoilera?
Ti riposto quello che avevo scritto qualche mese fa (ripescato da
google).
Questo non lo credo: si tratta in gran parte di modellini, che per
quanto costosi dubito possano rivaleggiare con la spesa affrontata dalla
produzione per ricostruire tutta Skid Row a Pinewood, nel gigantesco
teatro 007. Pero' certo che dei bei soldi devono averli cacciati. E il
finale e' bellissimo, nerissimo e spesso terrificante. Butto qui due
righe che ho scritto in proposito per Cinema-L:
OK, that friend of mine came back to Italy from NY and got me my copy of
the original DVD of "Little Shop of Horrors" -the 1987 musical.
Briefly, I have to say that video-wise it's not the best DVD I ever had.
I am not a techno-buff, so I have no idea why this happens, but as you
watch the film the widest movements appear to jerk a little bit. I have
a feeling this is due to some defect in the DVD encoding. So far, I'd
only seen another film with a similar problem ("Jason and the
Argonauts", where in fact the problem is much more prominent).
However, the main reason why I wanted this DVD so badly was because of
the legendary alternate ending that Frank Oz had shot and then cut and
changed before release after preview viewers hated it. The sequence
lasts about 20 minutes, but it incorporates a whole musical number ("I'm
a Mean Green Mother From Outer Space") which made it to the version of
the film that was released in theaters. Big difference is, the scene
takes place after Ellen Green's Audrey has died after being chewed on by
Audrey II -a very moving death scene where she reprises her song of
"Somewhere That's Green" asking Seymour to feed her to the plant after
she's dead, so she can return to him as blossoms and perfume.
The scene where Seymour gives her body to the plant is pure horror. And
even more horrifying is Seymour's death scene when he himself (after
trying to commit suicide!) is grabbed and eaten by the plant. After both
the human protagonists have been digested, the movie ends with about 5
minutes of elaborate mayhem, with Audrey II's breed taking over the
planet and tearing apart huge building in Godzilla-like fashion. It's
hugely spectacular and way, way darker than I ever expected. I'd say
that very sequence makes the DVD a must-have if you liked the movie.
The whole sequence is only shown in Black & White: as director Frank Oz
explains in his offscreen commentary, apparently they were not able to
reconstruct it in color. What's interesting, however, is how much more
powerful this makes the sequence: Robert Paynter's photography holds
beautifully even with the colors off and really makes the whole thing a
creepy throwback to classic horror movies.
It's sad to think what this movie could have been had the producers
stuck with the original concept. But again, there are so many movies
that have been sweetened up to please audiences... Anyone remembers how
successful was this movie in the first run? The 20-something minutes
documentary included in the extra features boasts a big success of the
picture, but I seem to remember it was far from being a blockbuster.
Alberto