Annas, portraying Kermit is in fact mostly getting the voice and the inflection correct. There are quite a few subtleties in manipulation to mimic also. Steve never had the more subtle Kermit physical movements.
IMHO he tried really hard in the beginning and came close but always fell a little short. Now with time and age I see Kermit as a more sloppy version of the original character.
If Steve were able to copy Jim down to the very minute detail of the character manipulation and voice technique, he would become Kermit not Jim. Your analogies are for the birds!
Why go to a Muppet fan page and make a comment like that? That's like running running into a church and saying that God doesn't exist.
husk_charmer, I was not refuted there you jerk
Updated On: 9/4/09 at 06:29 PM
Miss Piggy has succumbed & is now part of a BLT .
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I heard that Fozzie Bear ODed on heroine. Also, Animal is serving 3 consecutive life sentences for the rape & murder of 7 people.
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Yes you were, not as openly as here, but still refuted.
And, btw, dick would have been a more appropriate term, given my gender.
Anna,
God doesn't like it when you curse.
Every time you do, another fetus dies.
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Diva! You can't kill something that's not alive!
ETA: Just because you don't think it's profanity doesn't mean it isn't.
Just because I believe there is no god does that make 100% true?
Updated On: 9/4/09 at 07:53 PM
Anna,
You must be from out of the country. Here in the US, that word is right up there with the 'C' word.
I have typed some foul words on this board, but have never typed THAT.
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^ is it that offensive a word? I had no idea.
Can someone please translate this:
"But if someone was doing Kermit's voice 100% correct. Just like Jim, and Kermit was portrayed as something 100% uncharater like, Is it still Kermit?"
I have no idea what is being communicated there.
Taz I think it would be like if someone got Kermit's voice just right but then made Kermit go out and decapitate newborn infants, it just really wouldn't be Kermit. Or at least the one we know and love.
ETA: Unless of course Kermit did his trademark arm flailing "Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" after each axe murder.
Oh, I see it now, thanks SNAFU.
Btw, this thread is weird.
Funny, but weird.
It just would not be a proper axe murder without flailing. If Rob Zombie makes another Halloween film I think he should include the flailing
And abortion.
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I guess no one knows, but Jason Segel is in the plans of writing a new Muppets movie. So..yay!
What's it called? How I Met Your Muppet?
From Wikipedia:
On March 31, 2008, First Showing revealed details about the new Muppet film.[14] Coming Soon reported similar news.[15] After an interview with Jason Segel, First announced, "it's going to be incredibly old-fashioned, with the familiar Muppet characters putting on a show to save an old theater. The danger? An evil character wants to tear the place down to get at the oil underneath."[14] Segel stated that he was the most enthusiastic about the project, also stating, "I just remember being 10 years old and for me Kermit was Tom Hanks. Kermit is like the original Everyman and I remember watching the old Muppets with my parents and seeing Peter Sellers and people like that on. I've always had Muppet pictures and figurines all through my house. Now that I'm getting to write it, I feel like all of my dreams are coming true."[15] The movie will mainly star many of the original Muppets. The movie's title has been tentatively revealed as "The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time"
That sounds cool but I would totally watch "How I Met Your Muppet"
You title a movie that and you are just inviting a disaster!
eta: I am referring to "The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever"
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