okay apparently everyone likes muppets who've survived genocidal ethnic purges, so I'm revisiting The Dark Crystal. This was a huge movie to me as a kid because everything in that was obviously made, which means someone had to make them, which means maybe that could be me. And then *gestures to entire childhood* happened.
This movie is so British they switch from Jen wandering around rural Yorkshire to this big involved Gormenghast plot. I'm also noticing that the Chamberlain is set up to be Jen's foil; they're both reluctant to leave, SkekZil can't wait for the Emperor to die and being stripped of his finery is the worst thing ever, compared to Jen runnin' around naked and really not wanting his old sifu to die.
The last time I watched this it really bothered me that basically all of the adults in Jen's life are lying to him or using him in some form or another. Hello, Jon's issues! Anyway it didn't bother me that much this time around.
@Leucrotta once I went with a friend to a retrospective exhibit on the muppets and Henson's life and saw the lute played during one of these scenes and it was so detailed and beautiful. If I hadn't wound up in Alaska my backup plan was auditioning at the Muppets. Also I wish Henson's adult nightclub idea had panned out.
@eredien I can see you doing that! I still have no idea how you wound up in AK/what you're doing there now. I could find stuff about a more PG rated muppet company under Brian Henson, but not the nightclub, tell me more please (or point me towards links, please?).
What I saw was the original sketch of the outside of the nightclub, which is on this wiki page.
Sometimes--often--I still have no idea what I'm doing here, but I wound up here originally kind of on a whim by doing a favor for a friend for free housing.
I'm really enjoying the movement in this film. The first ten minutes have been technically static (castle, Skeksis ritual, Mystics call for Jen, Jen's gettin' music and naked hangout time) but cuts, camera movement and environment mean it feels fairly active.