Big Bird a bad guy? Miss Piggy a murderer? Netflix's 'The Dark Crystal' uses our love of TV muppets to lend its story of Skeksis and Gelflings a sinister flair.
In Netflix’s ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,’ a prequel to the beloved 1982 film, Lisa Henson and Louis Leterrier keep the puppetry alive.A podling and two Gelflings are among those trying to free their people from a race of evil overlords in"The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance," a Netflix prequel to the Jim Henson film.
On “Sesame Street,” Muppets have often been monsters of a friendly disposition: Elmo is a monster, Cookie Monster is a monster for cookies. But the “Dark Crystal” monsters are also muppets. There is a repertoire of techniques and technologies designed by Henson and his collaborators, a choreographic style as recognizable as Martha Graham’s or Twyla Tharp’s, a physical vocabulary of head shakes, mouth gapes, hand flops, bouncy walks.
Obviously, the world is full of young people who have never known life without supercharged computer animation, whose visual sense has been shaped by video games and movies made to look like video games. There are “Star Wars” fans for whom action-packed 21st century Yoda is the ideal Yoda, not the original puppet played by Henson collaborator Frank Oz, a three-dimensional figure acting in real space in real time. I do not think it is merely a sign of age that I find such a preference sad.
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