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| “ | I am the Lorax. And I speak for the trees! | „ |
| ~ The Lorax's catchphrase. |
The Lorax is the titular overarching protagonist of the Dr. Seuss book, the 1972 TV special, and the 2012 Illumination film adaptation of the same name. He is the caretaker of the Truffula Forest and intends to protect it from the once greedy Once-Ler.
In the 1972 TV special, he was voiced by the late Bob Holt. In the 2012 film adaptation, he was voiced by Danny DeVito, who also played The Grundle King in My Little Pony, Philoctetes in Disney's Hercules, Buddy Hall in Deck the Halls, Max Medici in the 2019 live-action remake of Dumbo, Eddie Gilpin in Jumanji: The Next Level, Bruce Davis in Haunted Mansion, and Uncle Dan in Migration.
Biography[]
The Lorax makes his speech in the beginning of the film describing Thneedville as a city that is all plastic and fake, without any living tree.
After the Once-Ler chops down a Truffula tree to knit the first Thneed, the Lorax appears out of the stump of that tree. Almost immediately, he expresses his concern for the Once-Ler's actions. Then, he tells him he is crazy with greed. But, the Once-Ler takes no notice of him, and soon starts expanding his factory. After a week, the Lorax shows up again, informing him that thanks to his chopping, the Brown Barbaloots are starving and are leaving the area to find food. When the Once-Ler is fixing some pipes sometime later, he reappears to tell him that thanks to his factory smog, the Swomee-Swans can't sing, and are leaving to escape the smog. He also lectures the Once-Ler on Gluppity Glup and Schloppity Schlopp, which is being dumped into the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed, so they are leaving to find water that isn't so smeary. The Once-Ler finally loses his temper with him, and informs him he intends on still biggering his factory and production, right as the last Truffula Tree is chopped down. After the factory closes, the Lorax takes his leave of the Once-Ler by heisting himself by the seat of his pants through a hole in the smog, without leaving a trace. He leaves nothing behind, except for a small pile of rocks marked with the word: “Unless.”
The Once-Ler learns the lesson of the word, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothings going to get better, it's not." He attempts to make amends by giving a boy named Ted Wiggins the last Truffula seed, with the advice to "Plant a new Truffula, treat it with care, give it clean water, and feed it fresh air. Grow a forest, protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and his friends may come back."
Personality[]
The Lorax is a perfect example as a "Voice of reason" type of character, displaying genuine care for the Forest and it's inhabitants by existing to protect it from anyone who would tarnish the homes of the forrest critters. The Lorax embodies the empathy and natural environment of the trees when stating to "Speak for the Trees", He also shows a degree of being affable towards the Once-Ler who offers to stay to camp through the forrest just as long as he doesn't destroy more trees. From the film series, the Lorax while willing to protect it's inhabitants including his nature friends, He is willing to use them to his advantage of attempted to get rid of The Once-Ler to the point of endangering him by placing the bed that he lied on into a ravine, giving out a cackling laugh while trying to fulfil the plan, the plan nearly killed the Once-ler when The Lorax started to intervene after noticing Pipsqueak accidentally stumbling upon the bed, as the story progresses, The Lorax makes active attempts at trying to stop the Once-Ler's greed by calmly persuading the latter despite being shunned and ignored, being willing to hand out life lessons to never follow by the wickedness of natural sins. Despite nearly every truffle Tree was successfully deprived from the forrest, The Lorax expresses doubt and dismay by choosing to silently letting The Once-Ler to reflect on his own actions before disappearing, leaving only behind a word of wisdom onto a stone to ponder it's true value.
Quotes[]
| “ | I didn't mean you any harm, I just wanted to calmly float you away... Look everyone here needs the trees, and you're chopping them down. so we've got a big Problem. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax remarking The Once-ler why he tried to get rid of him by endangering his life in the waterfall |
| “ | I know, but you looked so cozy, and it was cold outside, and we just just fell asleep, no harm done. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax to the Once-Ler when the forrest inhabitants slept inside the latter's territory |
| “ | Happy yet? you feel that hole deep down inside you, or you still need more? | „ |
| ~ The Lorax to The Once-ler during the extinction of the Truffula Trees |
| “ | Why? Do I make you comfortable, remind you the promises you made, the man you used to be? | „ |
| ~ The Lorax questioning The Once-ler's arrogance of booting him off his claimed premise. |
| “ | That's it, the very last one, that may stop you. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax to the Once-Ler after the last Truffula Tree was taken down |
| “ | And you won't get any, thanks to you and your hacking and smogging and Glupping, they can't live here anymore. So I'm sending them off, Hopefully they'll be able to find a better place out there somewhere. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax revealing to The Once-Ler to have already evicting the previous residents of the Forrest to seek a new inhabitant to live in |
| “ | Unless... | „ |
| ~ The Lorax's subliminal message left for the Onceler to reflect on his actions before figuring out the meaning behind it |
| “ | You done good Beanpole, you done good. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax reuniting with the Once-Ler many years later after the latter successfully persuaded Ted Wiggins to plant the last Truffula seed as more trees slowly started to grow |
| “ | Hey listen up meathead! I'm gonna say this one and I'm not gonna repeat it, Greed you see is like a little pet alright? and the more and more and more that you gonna feed it, the more hungry it will get. What? ya know you can't really blame greed, no that's stupid... You see it's got a worm inside aw that's right, that what it always needs to feed and it is never satisfied, you get it? but the more you try to find it, the more it likes to hide. Now listen, that is a nasty little worm that I like to call it -Pride Now that's why you're biggering, listen here idiot I'm figuring and biggering, but that biggering just triggering MORE BIGGERING, Got that? alright. | „ |
| ~ The Lorax's verses on the unused song "Biggering" trying to reason with the Once-ler's evolving greed |
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