![]() ![]() When the young Once-ler topples his first tree, he brings forth The Lorax (voice of Danny DeVito), a guardian spirit of the forest who warns the Once-ler that his desecration of the tree will have grave consequences. ![]() Ted tracks down the Once-ler (voice of Ed Helms) - a grungy shut-in with a few screws loose - and manages to get him to tell the tale of his younger years as a would-be entrepreneur, who came to the valley to harvest Truffula Tree tufts (the furry top of the tree) for an all-purpose invention called a "Thneed" (which looks hilariously like a smaller version the Snuggie). On advice from his Grandma Norma (voice of Betty White), Ted does the unthinkable: he ventures out of the mechanical bubble that is Thneed-Ville into the wastelands to seek out "The Once-ler," a mysterious figure who Grandma Norma claims is the only man who knows what happened to the trees. But he sets out when she tells him that she will fall in love with whoever made that wish come true. He does this when the girl he has a crush on, Audrey, tells him that her dream is that she will be able to see a real tree in person. Ted likes a girl named Audrey (voice of Taylor Swift) and Audrey wants nothing more than to see a real, live Truffula Tree, and Ted wants nothing more than to be the man who brings it to her. lorax The first step of the Hero’s Journey, is when Ted sets out to find a real tree. ![]() Seuss' tale we meet Ted (voice of Zac Efron), a resident of "Thneed-Ville," an encapsulated city of complete artifice, where even the "trees" are mechanical, and fresh air is a commodity sold by diminutive tycoon, Mr. ![]()
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