Parker C.

Ms. Hamiltons 8th Grade English Class

Period 6
Del Mar Middle School
105 Avenida Miraflores
Tiburon, CA 94920
January 6, 2015
Chris Renaud
Universal Pictures
100 Universal City Plaza
Bldg. 2160/8H
Universal City, CA 91608

Dear Chris Renaud:

Today I am writing to you in regards to your movie The Lorax. As a child I read that
book many times at school or at home. The story of the Lorax is about a random boy who
comes upon the mysterious Once-ler, who tells him the story of The Lorax and how he
tried to save truffla trees. But then the Once-ler himself had cut them all down for money.
In your movie there were many differences that made the story more about love and a bad
guy, than concerning the danger corporate greed poses to nature.
One difference is the love story you have put into the movie. In the book the boy has no
background, he just comes to the once-ler for a story. But with adding the love story it
takes away from the main purpose of The Lorax. For it being a kids movie, its point is to
have a moral, not a love story. The moral of book was to be kind to your environment and
to be conches of your actions and to think of others as well as your self. Love stories are
for adults, not as much kids.
Another difference is the bad guy, Mr. OHare. In the book the bad guy, you might say, is
the Once-ler. But here in your movie you made it so the bad guy was trying to stop Ted
from leaving the town. If we dig a little deeper here, you could say Mr. OHare is
mankind itself, trying to protect the young from seeing how bad the current world is.
Mankind is destroying our childrens view on current issues. The only news story I think
most kids know about is Ebola because it is so popular, considering they made a
Halloween costume off of it.
The last difference I am going to speak of, though there are may more, is the fact that the
kid, Ted, had a background. In the book I believe that the kid was supposed to represent
you (the reader) not an actual character. As well there was no town in the book. The
world that surrounded the Once-lers home was left up to the readers imagination. Yes I
know that the movie would be a lot shorter then a normal movie but it is a kids movie

that was a childrens book. Thats why kids books are so short; it is because they have
short attention spans. So it is ok if it is a short movie.
In conclusion I believe that since you turned The Lorax, such a well-known and famous
book, into movie it should pretty much be a carbon copy of the original thing. I hope you
take my comments into consideration when you turn a book into a movie next time.
Thanks,

Parker C.