{"id":1903,"date":"2024-05-31T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/jim-henson-idea-man-is-a-personal-take-on-the-muppets-creator\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:58:32","slug":"jim-henson-idea-man-is-a-personal-take-on-the-muppets-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/jim-henson-idea-man-is-a-personal-take-on-the-muppets-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jim Henson Idea Man\u2019 is a personal take on the Muppets\u2019 creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Until they met with Ron Howard a couple of years ago, Jim Henson\u2019s four surviving children \u2014 Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, and Heather \u2014 had been reluctant to participate in a documentary about their father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In the decades after his sudden death in 1990, they\u2019d watched a flurry of documentaries portray his career in standard chronological formats, without reflecting the originality and creativity of his work or the depth of their family life. As more Henson acolytes and lesser-known directors petitioned them for access to the family\u2019s trove of archival footage and unseen material, they remained determined to hold out for a more inventive, definitive and prestigious tribute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cWe felt like there was probably only one major documentary to be made,\u201d says Lisa, the current CEO of the Jim Henson Company, on a Zoom call with her three siblings. \u201cOur dream was that a filmmaker of real stature would come along and be a perfect match for Jim Henson.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">They got their wish at the start of 2022, when Howard, representing the documentary arm of Imagination Entertainment (his and Brian Grazer\u2019s production company), visited the Henson family\u2019s studio in Los Angeles. The Oscar-winning director knew Henson only slightly, having met him backstage at a variety show in the late 1970s. But after speaking extensively with the siblings about their upbringing, and screening two hours of their dad\u2019s early commercials, experimental films and home videos, Howard was convinced that he had a clear vision of Henson as an artist, husband and father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cYou could see a kind of aesthetic thread throughout, a wit and satirical undercurrent, and his tremendous imagination,\u201d Howard says of Henson\u2019s work. \u201cAlmost immediately I wanted to channel Jim&#8217;s sensibility and aesthetic through the stuff that we would create.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Available to stream May 31 on Disney Plus, \u201cJim Henson Idea Man\u201d makes good on Howard\u2019s editorial instincts and the Henson family\u2019s patience. The movie, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, comprehensively chronicles the Muppets creator\u2019s life and work, investigating his relentless creativity and ambition with a mix of archival material, animated and musical flourishes, and interviews with close colleagues and all four children. It also makes room for plenty of puppetry, including behind-the-scenes looks at Kermit the Frog, \u201cSesame Street\u201d cast members, and the innovative marionettes of the movies \u201cThe Dark Crystal\u201d and \u201cLabyrinth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">To understand his subject\u2019s genius, Howard leans heavily on Frank Oz, Henson\u2019s longtime friend and collaborator, who provides insight into their diverse work and revolutionary approach to television. But the newest and most illuminating insights into Henson pivot on his romantic and creative partnership with his wife, Jane, who helped found their company, and their family life, which became strained in the years leading up to the couple\u2019s separation in 1986. \u201cI saw tremendous value in the Jim and Jane story, because I had no idea how significant Jane had been in really building the foundation of Muppets Inc. and everything that came from it,\u201d Howard says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The pair met in 1954 in a University of Maryland puppetry class, the beginning of a close working relationship that eventually spawned \u201cSam and Friends,\u201d a live, late-night puppet sketch show that was broadcast on WRC-TV, their local Washington, D.C., station. Its musical elements and style of puppetry (the puppeteers would watch themselves on a live simulcast using a TV monitor so they could see how the puppet looked in frame above them) laid the foundation for Kermit, their Muppets company and Jim\u2019s grander endeavors. \u201cIt was just Mom and Dad creating this five-minute piece every single night,\u201d says Cheryl, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hensonfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Jim Henson Foundation<\/a>. \u201cIt was college-style humor. They were entertaining themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jim and Jane\u2019s marriage several years later felt like the natural evolution of their artistic collaboration, less the result of a deep romance than a fondness for being together, something that Jane, who died in 2013, describes in the documentary. \u201cI personally think it was more romantic than some of my mom\u2019s statements make it seem,\u201d says Lisa, who, along with her siblings, refrained from taking producer credits or steering Howard\u2019s editorial decisions. As he illustrates in the documentary, the puppets operated almost like alter egos, allowing the couple to \u201cbe both playful and insightful and kind of be a little loose and crazy,\u201d Howard says, \u201cwhich neither of them were in person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Jane gave birth to Lisa, pausing her professional creative work to begin a family, Jim kept up his breakneck pace, building a small team of puppeteers, which included Oz, to make Muppets-based commercials inside a Manhattan workshop. Over the next decade, Jim\u2019s production increased, with the puppeteer developing a repertoire of characters and making experimental films and television specials \u2014 \u201cearly works that are super revealing of my dad as an artist,\u201d Brian says. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing the raw creativity before it started becoming more refined and more complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As a result of his numerous ventures, \u201cIdea Man\u201d notes that Henson\u2019s workload \u2014 especially as he latched onto \u201cSesame Street\u201d and began producing \u201cThe Muppets\u201d television series in England throughout the 1970s and early 1980s \u2014 naturally made it harder to connect with Jane and his five kids at home. \u201cThat kind of thing happens all the time in relationships, and I think they handled it particularly well,\u201d Howard says. \u201cBut it\u2019s interesting that the very thing that pulled them together was ultimately the factor in the romantic side of the relationship fading.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Throughout our conversation, the Henson children (all of whom have various roles in their father\u2019s company and foundation) reflected warmly on their parents\u2019 early relationship, their shared sense of humor, and what Cheryl calls their \u201crobust family life\u201d and \u201cfantastically creative childhood\u201d in Armonk, N.Y. That included participating in homemade art projects, such as claymation and woodworking, crafts they would eventually refine as they got older and began assisting their father in professional settings. \u201cI definitely didn\u2019t feel that my father was as absent from the family as is portrayed in the film,\u201d Cheryl says. \u201cBut that\u2019s partially because we were always invited to be with him on location, in the workshops, as well as travel with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The latter half of \u201cIdea Man\u201d traces Henson\u2019s relentless pursuit of new technologies, such as the more-advanced marionettes and special and visual effects he configured in his feature films \u201cThe Dark Crystal\u201d and \u201cLabyrinth.\u201d Inspired by his subject\u2019s experimentation, Howard channeled some of Henson\u2019s oeuvre into the documentary\u2019s aesthetic, implementing stop-motion techniques and conducting interviews on a stage surrounded by television screens meant to resemble Henson\u2019s 1969 documentary \u201cThe Cube.\u201d \u201cI loved recognizing the value of throwing yourself into a medium, and just learning it on the job,\u201d Howard says. \u201cWhat Jim and Jane did reminds me so much of what TikTok and Instagram content creators did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Henson\u2019s restless energy and workaholic personality (\u201cHe was sketching or writing all the time,\u201d Brian says) seemed to stem, at least partially, from his brother\u2019s untimely death in a 1956 car accident. As the documentary theorizes, that event imbued his work with a sense of urgency that his children also felt when Henson died suddenly at 53 \u2014 and again when their brother, John, died in 2014. \u201cI never gave one moment\u2019s thought to my own mortality until my father died,\u201d Lisa says. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt that a sudden, unexpected death is going to shift your brain a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When the family inherited the company, Jane established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimhensonlegacy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Jim Henson Legacy<\/a>, dedicated to preserving and perpetuating his contributions to the puppetry world, and hired Karen Falk as a full-time archivist. \u201cIdea Man,\u201d which Lisa hopes will inspire viewers to \u201clet their creativity fly,\u201d functions, in some ways, as the culmination of all of their preservation work. They also feel it captured their dad\u2019s spirit \u2014 and made the long wait worth it. \u201cWe were scared we wouldn\u2019t be able to do this,\u201d Brian says. \u201cThis feels like the right way to celebrate Jim Henson.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cIt\u2019s so great to have this documentary,\u201d Heather adds, while also acknowledging its inherent limitations. \u201cComing to an understanding of our relationship with our dad is always an ongoing process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/tv\/2024\/05\/31\/jim-henson-documentary-muppets-ron-howard\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until they met with Ron Howard a couple of years ago, Jim Henson\u2019s four surviving children \u2014 Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, and Heather \u2014 had been reluctant to participate in a documentary about their father. 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