"This is a direction that I'm experimenting with, but it's not at all exclusively where I plan on being," Henson says. Brian Henson says his father created The Muppet Show as a way of escaping the kids' show pigeonhole.Īs for Brian, he looks forward to seeing what he can get away with in the future. A lot of it is rooted in the late 1960s and '70s with the huge success of Sesame Street.īut Jim Henson always considered himself as an adult entertainer. Thinking of puppets as something for kids is a recent phenomenon. "Puppets have always been able to get away with things that live actors can't," Blumenthal says. It was a good way, in the 17th century, to poke fun at the crown and the church without getting your head chopped off. The classic Punch and Judy puppet shows were topical, political and very racy. In the Middle Ages, one specialty of puppets became sex and violence. Discovered using Shazam, the music discovery app. "In fact, a lot of it was pretty shocking. Listen to Turd In Car by Crank Yankers & Gladys Murphy, 678 Shazams. "Puppetry around most of the world, until the 19th century, wasn't for children," says Eileen Blumenthal, theater professor at Rutgers University and author of the book Puppetry: A World History. Historically, raunch has been the rule, not the exception. Of course, puppets behaving badly is not exactly new.
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The creators of South Park produced a movie with an all-marionette cast called Team America, about an elite group of commandos that vanquish both terrorists and good taste. In the early 2000s, Comedy Central had a hit cable show called Crank Yankers, which featured puppets lip-syncing to recordings of lewd and crude crank phone calls. The Happytime Murders is the latest recent example of adult puppetry that leans heavily on the scatological. "But I also think he would have enjoyed it." "My dad would probably have said, 'Oh my God, that's outrageous, Brian,'" he says.
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So in a lot of ways that also became a license to go even further than our instincts were to go."īrian Henson is the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson. I wanted to make sure it was very, very clear that this is for adults only.
But I didn't want to accidentally invite a family audience into this movie. "I thought: Well, maybe I should do something that's sort of PG-13. "This is really the raunchiest I've ever gone with puppets," says director Brian Henson. Crank Yankers is an American television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison that featured actual crank calls made by show. Suffice it to say the producers are warning parents against taking their children to see the film, which has an R rating. It's hard to demonstrate just how raunchy The Happytime Murders is - the prime bits are inappropriate for both children and public radio. And yes, many of its characters are puppets. The new movie stars Melissa McCarthy as a human detective trying to solve a string of puppet killings. There's also a scene with an octopus that is - well, you need to see it for yourself. The Happytime Murders is packed with violence, foul language and graphic felt-on-felt sex. Melissa McCarthy stars as a detective investigating a string of puppet killings in The Happytime Murders.
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