An Empty Hearth Down By The Sea

(30+) My queue is longer than my memory

[foone]

[lanaflowerz]

[galinda-uplands]

Liberal Arts (2012) dir. Josh Radnor

[tpwrtrmnky]

The problem with wanting to have your views challenged so you can learn and refine them is that after a while of getting more correct on a given issue, most of the people who want to challenge you are advocating for a position you already discarded because you found out why it was wrong. Huge diminishing returns.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Oh yay, someone wants to argue with me, I can test how well my understanding of the world holds up to scrutiny!" rapidly turning into "No. Block." as you increasingly find that the people disagreeing with you are advocating for takes like "Everything you've learned in the past decade, corroborated by a vast number of independent sources, is wrong, because I don't like it. My gut feeling is what's actually correct."

[malspinningyarns]

The Muppet Christmas Carol is now considered a holiday classic and probably one of the best of the Muppets’ filmography, but when you look at it, it is such a departure from all the previous Muppet media. It’s much darker- both in terms of tone and color palette. There’s no celebrity cameos. A human is the central character instead of one of the Muppets. There are many new Muppets instead of relying on regular Muppets for some of the roles and some the Muppets are in roles you wouldn’t expect.

A lot of this makes much more sense with the context that this is the first Muppet project after Jim Henson’s sudden death and Muppeteer Richard Hunt was incredibly sick due to complications from AIDS that he was unable to participate (he would die during production). It’s a film created by a lot of people actively in the grieving process. You can feel that grief in scenes like the ones in the Cratchit home. It also explains why certain Muppets appear and some don’t. They really only use Jim and Richard’s characters when they have to. You can’t have a Muppet movie without Kermit, so Kermit is in. Statler and Waldorf are both perfect for Jacob Marley, so they both had to be recast because they were performed by Richard and Jim (which makes the fact they are ghosts kind of sad). Beaker is one of Richard’s characters and because you can’t have Bunsen without Beaker, Beaker was recast. Of Jim’s other major characters, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are present but silent and the Swedish Chef has a more active cameo. Of Richard’s regular characters, only Janice is present. Scooter and Sweetums are not in the film. Frank Oz was busy with other jobs, so he really only does his main four of Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam the Eagle. Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, and Jerry Nelson did a lot of the main characters, except the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future. Jerry Nelson did the face puppeteering and voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present. I think it speaks to Jerry Juhl’s skill as a writer that he was able to not only adapt to these casting considerations, but also write one of the most faithful adaptations of A Christmas Carol.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

The movie also launched the absolutely spectacular duo act of Gonzo and Rizzo.

But it is definitely weird that they created new puppets/characters for the Ghosts, rather than casting existing Muppets in the role. But it’s also a move that garnered them a lot of praise. More understandable with the casting necessities though. I could certainly have very easily seen Sweetums as Present, for example.

[rockmusicplays]

Rewatching this movie as an adult knowing all of this, and knowing how hard it was for Steve Whitmire to step into the roll after Jim Henson’s death adds a whole other level of heartbreak to “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it. We shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting there was among us.”

[honoriaw]

oh

[bisforbutch]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THEM!

[deejwalker]

4 years of theythemporium…

[kisukeronin-deactivated20260124]

※ Permission to upload this work was granted by the artist.

By 荏末壱

[cccrystalclear]

I’m having alot of fun slowly putting this picture together + seeing all the favs together gives me such a serotonin boost

[marciaillust]

curious. anyway,

[branden-aka-cowboyduke]

Never forget how far you’ve come, despite how far you still have to go

[pissvortex]

I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

[elfbymoonlight]

actually so based

[morepopcornplease]

fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦‍♀️

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

[onstoryladders]

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

[official-lucifers-child]

[hrrria]

Songbird

[depsidase]

[calliemari3886]

Yuna - FFX

[tpwrtrmnky]

book discussion: the prose midway through was a bit sloppy, and I didn't like it

weird response: if you rewrite that part yourself it's actually a flawless book!

movie discussion: one of the actors was blatantly half-assing his entire role.

weird response: if you film yourself doing all his parts and then edit it all into the movie, the performance is exactly as you want it to be!

video game discussion: the gameplay is completely unbalanced and I've had multiple crashes to desktop

normal response: there's mod packs for that but they really should've done a better job, yeah

weird response: if you mod it yourself, you can fix these issues. learn how the game works at a fundamental level just to have a functional game.

ttrpg discussion: the game's rules are sloppily written and there are severe issues with characters' abilities rendering some options completely unuseable.

a completely normalized response for some reason: the game is actually fine if you just make up new rules as you go along and ignore half the rulebook.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i bring a "technically i could do this tomorrow" energy to things that tomorrow me really resents

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source

[wheelie-sick]

[ID: art of a person with light skin and long brown hair wearing a white mask. text above the portrait says "never too late to start wearing a mask"]