Launching my #monsterdon thread for the Little Shop of Horrors (1960), a movie where I think a plant eats people?
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A pair of randomly generated lesbians wander into the shop, with $2000 to spend on dollars, because they're building a float for a parade, and they stop to admire the plant. Then it turns out that they're not lesbians, because they glomp newsie after discovering how good his flower skills are.
Then they leave, and the shop owner talks about how rich he will be and how they will move the shop to a better neighborhood and then audrey announces that they will have an orchestra too.
I think I'm enjoying this movie because none of the character interactions are what you would expect. Every conversation is like a stream of shitposts that the characters take very seriously.
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I think I'm enjoying this movie because none of the character interactions are what you would expect. Every conversation is like a stream of shitposts that the characters take very seriously.
Okay, so the next night the pac man plant starts talking and yelling "feed me" to which newsie replies "omg you can talk" and then monologues at him, but apologizes that he ran out of fingers. But the plant wants blood so that doesn't persuade it.
Newsie then goes for a walk to think of how to feed his carnivorous plant.
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Okay, so the next night the pac man plant starts talking and yelling "feed me" to which newsie replies "omg you can talk" and then monologues at him, but apologizes that he ran out of fingers. But the plant wants blood so that doesn't persuade it.
Newsie then goes for a walk to think of how to feed his carnivorous plant.
#monsterdonOn newsie's walk he accidentally murders a guy. I forgot why, but he wasn't trying to, but for some reason he threw a thing at a dude and then the dude was squished by a train.
Naturally he takes the guy's body and then feeds it to his talking plant, which is just screaming "feed me!" and we see him feeding an arm to the plant.
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On newsie's walk he accidentally murders a guy. I forgot why, but he wasn't trying to, but for some reason he threw a thing at a dude and then the dude was squished by a train.
Naturally he takes the guy's body and then feeds it to his talking plant, which is just screaming "feed me!" and we see him feeding an arm to the plant.
Meanwhile, the shop owner is at a restaurant on a date with Audrey who is hotter than him, but he doesn't have enough money to pay, upsetting the waitress. He apologizes that he has receipts in his cash register worth nine dollars but the waiter insists that he gets it.
On his way back to the store, he sees the newsie singing christmas carols while he feeds a dead body into his plant, which gives him a TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. He escapes unobserved.
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Meanwhile, the shop owner is at a restaurant on a date with Audrey who is hotter than him, but he doesn't have enough money to pay, upsetting the waitress. He apologizes that he has receipts in his cash register worth nine dollars but the waiter insists that he gets it.
On his way back to the store, he sees the newsie singing christmas carols while he feeds a dead body into his plant, which gives him a TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. He escapes unobserved.
On the return to the restaurant, Shop Owner orders all the alcohol and tells Audrey that he saw a shop murder. He pledges to go tell the police tomorrow. But the Beat Cop Voiceover tells us that he did not, in fact, go to the police, because that would have resolved the problem.
It turns out that the shop has a lot of business the next day because the carnivorous plant has made lots of flowers or something and now they are rich.
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On the return to the restaurant, Shop Owner orders all the alcohol and tells Audrey that he saw a shop murder. He pledges to go tell the police tomorrow. But the Beat Cop Voiceover tells us that he did not, in fact, go to the police, because that would have resolved the problem.
It turns out that the shop has a lot of business the next day because the carnivorous plant has made lots of flowers or something and now they are rich.
Shop Owner accosts Newsie, who he knows is a murderer, but who also has a toothache. He asks what type of plant it is, and Newsie says its a Venus Fly Trap but doesn't think it needs to eat again. This gives shopowner an unspoken excuse to not turn in Newsie for murder, as he can now pretend that the plant won't eat anyone else.
Newsie, whose real name is Seymour I guess, has to go to the dentist, at which he sees another patient run screaming out of the office.
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Shop Owner accosts Newsie, who he knows is a murderer, but who also has a toothache. He asks what type of plant it is, and Newsie says its a Venus Fly Trap but doesn't think it needs to eat again. This gives shopowner an unspoken excuse to not turn in Newsie for murder, as he can now pretend that the plant won't eat anyone else.
Newsie, whose real name is Seymour I guess, has to go to the dentist, at which he sees another patient run screaming out of the office.
Characters in this #monsterdon
Newsie aka Seymour (main human character, murders people on accident)
Flesh Eating Plant (main monster character)
Slavic Shop Owner (tragic flaw: greed)
Audrey aka Love Interest for every character (virtue: orchestral improv)
Random Guys (various)
Sadistic Dentist
Babushka
Girls Needing Float Flowers
Uncomfortable Undertaker
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Characters in this #monsterdon
Newsie aka Seymour (main human character, murders people on accident)
Flesh Eating Plant (main monster character)
Slavic Shop Owner (tragic flaw: greed)
Audrey aka Love Interest for every character (virtue: orchestral improv)
Random Guys (various)
Sadistic Dentist
Babushka
Girls Needing Float Flowers
Uncomfortable Undertaker
Beat Cop VoiceoverOkay, so Newsie doesn't want to go to the dentist, so naturally he gets in a dental equipment fight and murders his dentist by accident. Then an Awkward Undertaker with Toothpain appears and Newsie pretends to be the dentist so the Undertaker will stop sitting in the lobby reading a magazine about pain, then he drills random teeth until the pain stops.
Then Newsie takes the dentists' body and feeds it to the murder plant apologetically.
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Okay, so Newsie doesn't want to go to the dentist, so naturally he gets in a dental equipment fight and murders his dentist by accident. Then an Awkward Undertaker with Toothpain appears and Newsie pretends to be the dentist so the Undertaker will stop sitting in the lobby reading a magazine about pain, then he drills random teeth until the pain stops.
Then Newsie takes the dentists' body and feeds it to the murder plant apologetically.
Newsie returns to the plant shop and the plant is bigger now. Shop Owner is concerned, because this implies murder happened. Love Interest thinks that Newsie is hot (I guess because his... plant... is very big) and he asks her out, so they agree to go on a date.
Then a lady appears because her son burned himself to death with matches and she needs to buy flowers I guess. This distracts newsie.
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Newsie returns to the plant shop and the plant is bigger now. Shop Owner is concerned, because this implies murder happened. Love Interest thinks that Newsie is hot (I guess because his... plant... is very big) and he asks her out, so they agree to go on a date.
Then a lady appears because her son burned himself to death with matches and she needs to buy flowers I guess. This distracts newsie.
Some cops appear, looking for a missing dentist and a missing guy squished by a train. Shop Owner pretends to cooperate but acts Extremely Suspicious, but the cops are stupid and decide that he knows nothing so they leave. He asks Newsie to make sure that the plant doesn't grow more; Newsie said it at 3000 japanese beetles.
Then a fancy lady appears and expresses horticultural interest in the giant plant, asking if there will be more. Her names is "Fishtwangler", which is cool.
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Some cops appear, looking for a missing dentist and a missing guy squished by a train. Shop Owner pretends to cooperate but acts Extremely Suspicious, but the cops are stupid and decide that he knows nothing so they leave. He asks Newsie to make sure that the plant doesn't grow more; Newsie said it at 3000 japanese beetles.
Then a fancy lady appears and expresses horticultural interest in the giant plant, asking if there will be more. Her names is "Fishtwangler", which is cool.
Anyway, Miss Fishtwangler is giving Newsie an award for being good at growing giant plants and will return tomorrow with a trophy.
Every random character in the shop applauds newsie for this, emphasizing his tragic flaw (being tempted by the high status of praise, which I guess leads him to accidental murder).
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Anyway, Miss Fishtwangler is giving Newsie an award for being good at growing giant plants and will return tomorrow with a trophy.
Every random character in the shop applauds newsie for this, emphasizing his tragic flaw (being tempted by the high status of praise, which I guess leads him to accidental murder).
Audrey comes to visit Seymour, introducing her to his mom and the two of them hang out at his mom's house. Because nothing in this movie is normal, the mom offers her cure to Audrey, which she says tastes like cough syrup. She corrects that it is Doctor (So-and-So's) cough syrup. The two dine on liver oil, which the mother has to cure her liver or something.
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Audrey comes to visit Seymour, introducing her to his mom and the two of them hang out at his mom's house. Because nothing in this movie is normal, the mom offers her cure to Audrey, which she says tastes like cough syrup. She corrects that it is Doctor (So-and-So's) cough syrup. The two dine on liver oil, which the mother has to cure her liver or something.
Back at the cursed flower shop, Shop Owner is taking a nap, then the plant wakes him up by shouting "Feed Me!". Shop Owner, being unwilling to (directly) murder anyone yells back at the plant, who says it wants to eat him because he looks chonky. Then shop owner goes back to sleep.
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Back at the cursed flower shop, Shop Owner is taking a nap, then the plant wakes him up by shouting "Feed Me!". Shop Owner, being unwilling to (directly) murder anyone yells back at the plant, who says it wants to eat him because he looks chonky. Then shop owner goes back to sleep.
Newsie and his mom have a weird conversation where Newsie says he wants to marry Audrey, but his Mom says he's too young to marry and should play around more first and also he needs to get her an iron lung before he can get married, even though she can breathe fine.
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Newsie and his mom have a weird conversation where Newsie says he wants to marry Audrey, but his Mom says he's too young to marry and should play around more first and also he needs to get her an iron lung before he can get married, even though she can breathe fine.
An armed robber appears to get all the money that the shop is making now and threatens to shoot the shop owner. The shop owner decides to trick the robber into looking into the plants mouth, where the plant eats him.
Now they are both murderers, but the next day the owner tells newsie to get rid of the plant, because he feels worse about all the murders.
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An armed robber appears to get all the money that the shop is making now and threatens to shoot the shop owner. The shop owner decides to trick the robber into looking into the plants mouth, where the plant eats him.
Now they are both murderers, but the next day the owner tells newsie to get rid of the plant, because he feels worse about all the murders.
Yo #monsterdon which character has the most fucked up dialog in this movie?
I would list more options but I ran out of options.
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Yo #monsterdon which character has the most fucked up dialog in this movie?
I would list more options but I ran out of options.
Okay, so the shop owner tells Seymour to stay in the shop tonight. He does that but brings Audrey too so they can make out. But while they're making out the plant keeps screaming "Feed me!" and because Audrey is easily confused she thinks Seymour is talking about how hungry he is instead of kissing her, so she leaves angrily.
Seymour then berates the plant for being a total cockblock.
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Okay, so the shop owner tells Seymour to stay in the shop tonight. He does that but brings Audrey too so they can make out. But while they're making out the plant keeps screaming "Feed me!" and because Audrey is easily confused she thinks Seymour is talking about how hungry he is instead of kissing her, so she leaves angrily.
Seymour then berates the plant for being a total cockblock.
We learn that the plant has eaten enough people that it has the power of hypnosis, and it thus hypnotizes and commands Seymour to go find it more food.
He wanders trance-like through the city, past several prostitutes who are mad that he isn't interested in them. One of them trips him with a banana peel then tries to proposition him using old timey language that doesn't make sense. He replies "Master is Hungry" then wanders off.
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We learn that the plant has eaten enough people that it has the power of hypnosis, and it thus hypnotizes and commands Seymour to go find it more food.
He wanders trance-like through the city, past several prostitutes who are mad that he isn't interested in them. One of them trips him with a banana peel then tries to proposition him using old timey language that doesn't make sense. He replies "Master is Hungry" then wanders off.
Anyway, the ladies of the night are persistent, so they all proposition Seymour, who complains that they are too skinny and his master wants more meat. One of them "volunteers", thinking that she is signing up for a sex thing instead of a murder thing. Anyway, the mind controlled Seymour hits her with a rock then drags her back to the shop to feed the monster.
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Anyway, the ladies of the night are persistent, so they all proposition Seymour, who complains that they are too skinny and his master wants more meat. One of them "volunteers", thinking that she is signing up for a sex thing instead of a murder thing. Anyway, the mind controlled Seymour hits her with a rock then drags her back to the shop to feed the monster.
In the morning, a horde of botanical fangirls have gathered outside of the shop to give seymour an award and shower him with glory. The mom is there because her son is getting an award, and the cops are here because they think there are murders (they are right but probably also wrong).