Talk:The Little Shop of Horrors

Title/disambiguation

The problem is that most people won't be aware of the difference between two films, one of which is titled "Little Shop of Horrors" and the other titled "The Little Shop of Horrors". So it's worth putting the year in as well, to prevent confusion. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 09:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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Krelboyne???

Krelborn, Krelboin or Krelboyne? The name is mentioned 4 times in 3 different forms. 84.0.117.148 (talk) 18:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Made them all Krelborn as per IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091419/) so it's at least consistent now. Also changed all Audry (some had been done by the prevuious edit) to Audrey as per the same reference. AWoodland (talk) 07:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Opps, wrong version (went by Rick Moranis version). Now all changed to Krelboin. Interesting it appears to have changed between film versions, or perhaps no one ever knew? AWoodland (talk) 07:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

It's Krelboyne. IMDb is user-edited, and the edits for this are wrong. Listen to the pronunciation and read the closed captions.

You're all wrong, it's "Krelboined." It first appears on the fourth page of the screenplay: "SEYMOUR KRELBOINED, a scrawny runt, with a nose like a door-stopper and the gait of an ostrich, enters from the back." For whatever reasons, Howard Ashman changed it to "Krelborn" for the 1980s stage musical, and that name has stuck in all subsequent incarnations, including the Corman-produced animated series. I remember this being the subject of lengthy debate on the now-defunct IMDb message boards, and people have been persistently switching it around on that site for decades. It's pretty much been forgotten today, but in the 1950s, people who heard their names uttered on TV were filing lawsuits left and right, which led to the ubiquitous "any similarities to persons living or dead" disclaimers. Although this film carries an early version of that disclaimer, all of the character names are odd, and I'm assuming it was Griffith's and Corman's way of ensuring they could evade pricey character defamation lawsuits. VinnieRattolle (talk) 08:21, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

It's Krelborn. Mel Welles as Mushnick talks with a strong Yiddish (or Hollywood version of one) accent and hence his character can't pronounce Krelborn. In the musical versions it's clear. But in the Corman original, just before the end, some ladies show up to give Seymour an award and one of them (in black, including her hat) says "Krelborn" in "proper English". This is at 1:05:30 or so in the YouTube video. Given Corman's sci-fi background, that name might pay homage to the Krell in the 1956 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isdnip (talk • contribs) 04:50, 2 October 2024 (UTC)