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24th Apr '13 11:28:08 PM boomslangvenom

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** Because the point isn't in the fact that it's giant plant. Audrey II is a type of flytrap, and somehow has a way of rendering itself extremely attractive to humans, appropriate in that it's a metaphor for temptation. Consider that thousands of people are buying these things, but in the climax, there's really only a handful of them destroying New York (not that there needs to be very many). Each of the Audrey II's needs to find someone who not only will figure out that they need blood to grow before it dies of starvation as a sapling, but be willing to kill to feed it once it becomes able to talk and make Faustian promises. What that means is you have a fad plant that only ''very particular'' sorts of jerks are going to be able to grow to the amazing heights, and so anyone who's able to do it, is probably going to at least have something of an increased social status among other Audrey II growers.
** They don't even have to be jerks.  Picture an extremely lonely person buying a fancy new plant to brighten their apartment.  To this person's delight, the plant is visibly responsive to their voice!  They start talking to it, really bonding with the plant.  Then it starts wilting, and the lonely person will go the extra mile to save their precious plant.  Once the plant gains the ability to speak and to reach out and touch them, they feel even closer to it.  It tells them it loves them.  Before long the human is willing to do ''anything'' in order to help their friend.

17th Apr '13 4:27:21 AM PurpleAlert

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3rd Feb '13 2:15:37 PM saffronpanther

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5th Nov '12 2:42:03 PM EarlOfSandvich

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25th Oct '12 11:24:54 PM SevenDeadPineTrees

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* In the end, we see the plants taking over the world, and the chorus warns us "don't feed the plants," saying that people all over the country were taken in by their plants' promises. Except- what could the new plants promise their owners? Audrey II was able to promise Seymour fame and fortune because he had a one-of-a-kind plant that people all over would pay to see. However, the new plants can't make that promise if everyone in the country had one. So why would all these other people be willing to kill other humans just to have yet another giant plant?
** Because the point isn't in the fact that it's giant plant. Audrey II is a type of flytrap, and somehow has a way of rendering itself extremely attractive to humans, appropriate in that it's a metaphor for temptation. Consider that thousands of people are buying these things, but in the climax, there's really only a handful of them destroying New York (not that there needs to be very many).  Each of the Audrey II's needs to find someone who not only will figure out that they need blood to grow before it dies of starvation as a sapling, but be willing to kill to feed it once it becomes able to talk and make Faustian promises.  What that means is you have a fad plant that only ''very particular'' sorts of jerks are going to be able to grow to the amazing heights, and so anyone who's able to do it, is probably going to at least have something of an increased social status among other Audrey II growers.

21st Oct '12 8:48:35 AM Jurgan

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24th Nov '11 9:12:42 AM LancelotG

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20th Nov '11 11:15:12 AM LancelotG

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20th Nov '11 11:13:19 AM LancelotG

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