Subject: Re: PUPT: Frank Oz
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:05:04 +0000


>
>It puts it all in the same bag as "Shrek"....which I did enjoy by the way, 
>but if as the song goes"video killed the radio star", then is CGI killing 
>puppetry??
>
Hardly. Perhaps in the movie and TV industries, but we're even seeing a 
comeback with puppetry on those screens with Crank Yankers, and, the now 
cancelled, Greg the Bunny. For the kid market, there's Book of Pooh, and 
Bear in the Big Blue House that are all puppet casts. Pooh even combines 
puppetry with CGI sets.
There will always be the need for puppetry in live theatre because puppetry 
offers an organic experience that computers can hold a candle to. Though, 
John Lassater and his folks at Pixar are doing much to argue that point...I 
SO enjoyed "Monsters, Inc."  on many levels, one of those being the creation 
and evolution of characters that were well rounded and that I could identify 
with. And they tell a good story. That's the basis for it all. If there is a 
good story and the telling is good, no matter what media is employed to tell 
it, you've got something lasting.

David Stephens
www.allhandsproductions.com

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