Frank Oz, the most famous living Muppets performer — known best as Miss Piggy — spoke more harshly in a recent interview with the British paper Metro. “I wasn’t happy with the script,” he said bluntly. “I don’t think they respected the characters. But I don’t want to go on about it like a sourpuss and hurt the movie.”
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The concern among Muppets insiders is that Segel and director James Bobin (a writer on Da Ali G Show and Flight of the Conchords) didn’t have a complete understanding of the Muppets characters or were willing to sacrifice the characters’ integrity to land a joke. “They’re looking at the script on a joke-by-joke basis, rather than as a construction of character and story,” says one.
A small example is in one of the many trailers Disney has released, when Fozzie makes a fart joke. “We wouldn’t do that; it’s too cheap,” says another Muppets veteran. “It may not seem like much in this world of [Judd] Apatow humor, but the characters don’t go to that place.”
(Via the Hollywood Reporter)
via Filmdrunk, Please End this Muppet on Muppet Violence
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BAMF of the Day: Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, creator of the Alien-Predator Motorcyle (this is the same artist who built the Megatron Tank, in case you forgot)
Across the world, grown men have retreated into fantasy versions of their adolescences, taking the disposable income from postponing child-rearing and using it to surround themselves with expensive toys and nostalgia-fuelled pop culture.”
— ‘Your Highness’ makes Benny Hill look tasteful. What’s happened to Hollywood’s creative elite?
Rick Slusher’s stunning and elegant winning entry for Co.Design’s Inception Infographic Contest.
via the original post, here’s Rick explaining his process:
I started brainstorming my entry in the airport, appropriately enough. The only tools I had available were the proverbial napkin and a pen, and I started sketching while waiting for my flight.
My infographic is fundamentally a timeline of Inception’s dream architecture, with each character’s trajectory represented. Characters are shown dropping in and out of one another’s consciousness as they progress through the dream layers. I wanted to emphasize the movie’s timeframe premise — that the perception of the passage of time increases with each deeper dream layer. My initial thought was that concentric circles would be a good diagrammatic approach, as the nested circumferences would be able to expand and converge as necessary to reflect the scaling timeframes.
There are also a couple of subliminal aspects to the design, as a nod to some of the popular alternative plot theories about Inception. Limbo is represented as the black void of the background, and the characters enter and exit the diagram from that same black void, suggesting that “reality” itself may only exist within a dream after all. And the shape of the diagram resembles a kicking foot, alluding to the idea that the movie’s events may actually be Mal’s efforts to “kick” her sleeping husband back to reality.
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Illustrated List of the Day: From Caldwell Tanner’s Seven Easy Jack-O-Lantern Ideas.
CH adds: “The best idea, however, is to throw them at people you don’t like.”
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Illustrated List of the Day: From Caldwell Tanner’s Seven Easy Jack-O-Lantern Ideas.
CH adds: “The best idea, however, is to throw them at people you don’t like.”
[collegehumor / blogwell.]
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![Guess Who?: the MOVIES edition!
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Upgraded Childhood of the Day: Homemade Movie Edition of Ora and Theo Coster beloved guessing game, “Guess Who?”
Hey, Hasbro: Make it happen.
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Guess Who?: the MOVIES edition!
Upgraded Childhood of the Day: Homemade Movie Edition of Ora and Theo Coster beloved guessing game, “Guess Who?”
Hey, Hasbro: Make it happen.
[reddit.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
