From what I've heard, Frogs of War was financed separately from the rest of the movie. That's why the segment has its own name in the first place, to trick investors or whoever into thinking that it was an unrelated short film.
Actually 'Meet the Feebles' was originally meant to be a TV series pilot, but the Japanese investors insisted that they do a movie which would be lower risk. So the Vietnam scenes were shot after the fact to pad out the run time.
That's a common rumour, but it doesn't seem to have any basis in fact. Feebles was always an entire film concept. I think the fact that the Vietnam stuff was shot separately (due to budgetary reasons) helped create that rumour.
I thought of the reference in Mayham a little differently. If the Muppets in the real world are actors, it would be the same for them and this is what is up with them recently.
There are rat and cockroach characters in the Muppets. Like, recurring characters with names. Rizzo and Jacques. I'm pretty sure both existed before Meet the Feebles, as well.
I remember this as my first experience of a Peter Jackson film. My mother rented a copy of this when at the old Video Library. She thought it would be a simple harmless puppet movie, much akin to the Muppets. Oh how wrong she was!
8:16 Fun Fact: One way they actually tried to fix that problem was releasing the movie cropped into widescreen (1.85:1) for cinema releases, rather than present it in it's original open matte full-screen (1.33 or 4:3) release as seen on home video. That's actually why some shots in the final film have a black bar on the top frame, as they intended to crop it them for a widescreen release.
Pro tip: You can fix the PAL version by running it through any editing software at 96% speed with "Preserve Pitch" turned off , or if the file is 25fps, put it in a 24fps timeline, and the speed/pitch should change automatically.
Not necessarily a "crazy part" of "Meet the Feebles". But I do love the song "Garden of Love" as I find it genuinely beautiful to listen. (Also I first watched "Meet the Feebles" back 2018 here on RU-vid, but that's beside the point.)
They referenced Meet the Feebles on one of this year's new Simpsons episodes too. Peter Jackson shows up to meet Mr. Burns for an interview and you can see a picture of the Feebles walking down the street parodying Abbey Road in the background. Would that be called Meet the Beatles, then? 😂
I saw this movie randomly on youtube. This movie is both insane and incredible. Watching this movie while not understanding what it was i was watching (a real movie) and seeing things my brain was not equipped to fully handle was one of the best movie experiences of my life.
13:07 Imo he should have just said "Yeah, it was a bad night" and skipped the second sentence entirely. For real, I really wanna watch this movie when I can, as it seems like quite the interesting interpretation of what a more cruel and shady version of the Muppet crew would be like
For someone only making his 2nd film, the maturity and skill in the camerawork and editing is utterly amazing. There are several shots in this film that foreshadow scenes from LOTR, including a crane shot that is explicitly duplicated in The Two Towers.
@mediamementosofficial Where can I learn more about your stage adaptation? you don’t need a massive budget to put on a stage musical, just concepts alone can bring a vision to life. Simply drawing the set or putting a collage of clothes and makeup for the costumes can be enough to give a good idea on how the stage version might work in your vision. There are lot of community who are more than willing to hear out your idea for a Meet The Feebles stage musical. Also since the owner of the rights barely care about copyright they might just give you the stage rights for free if you email them a pitch.
Now you got me interested into checking this wacky Film out, despite its Wild and Wacky History. And I thought FoodFight the Movie (which I'm not sure you'll talk about it soon or not) had a very Wild and Wacky History.
I remember watching a french video on the movie a while back (and I think it used a low quality version, probbly one of the only verison available at the time). Seeing The Feebles in so high quality, feels quite surreal. I also remember the video also saying that "Meet the Feebles" bassicly ment something about diarrhea, but I don't find traces of this online (Google/Microsoft Bing doesn't help, like at all)... Could some New Zealand natives confirm or bust this for me, please. Nice job as usual!
12:43, So, I guess that means Meet The Feebles is technically canon within the Muppet Universe thanks to this clip, which I suppose that would make so much sense and would blow everyone's mind. 13:05, 😅😅😅😅I guess he had a different memory of what happened on that crazy night, since it has been so many Decades since he made the Film. That is the best guess I can think of right now.
as an Irish person I'm glad it was banned in Ireland, because that's how I found it, when I was looking through the wiki on banned Irish media. this is one of my favourite movies it deserves to get way more recognition! i would love to hear what peter thinks of this film looking back at it now
I kinda wonder what would it happen if Percy Jackson were to ever remake the movie with the budget he gets for films now. I know it's unlikely but I just wonder what the film would be like with a bigger budget.
well, because the movie had a low budget and in the end they ran out of all the money so they couldn't fix all the broken puppets, so where are all the puppets now? whether they still keep them, collect them, auction them off, or even throw them away (especially for some of the puppet characters that die in the massacre at the end of the film).
I got to see it in a small independent movie theater in 1994 and the audience and I loved it. It's so raw and uncaring about any hint of political correctness that it's genius. It's not crass for crass' sake, though. There's really intelligent and insightful writing there.
I know he talked about the fact that the movie is available on youtube, but unless i was really distracted and i didn't hear a part of the vid there's a specifically partial fan restoriation by a user named Liam, i want to know if that's the definitive experience or something.
13:09 Okay so i have a theory regarding why Peter Jackson's dialogue regarding the Meet the Feebles ending is not the same as what we saw When we see Sebastian the text explain that he was *negotiating the rights for a film based on his book* so in other words the movie we see and its ending may be THE movie the was rights went to! And what Peter says its the true history Its like one of those """based off real events""" type of movies But again its just a Theory,if you have something more 'coherent' i will listen
The words “canon” and “muppets” don’t fit in any sentence. There is no canon and everything is hyper self aware. That said, I would wager that the Feebles reference was referring to the puppets that “acted” in the movie, not the movie characters themselves. Also, how dare you ignore my man Rizzo
In the future, you should talk about the complete history of the Love Bug. Also I'd you haven't heard of it, it's on disney Plus and it's a really amazing movie to watch. In fact, it was the highest grossing film of 1969 from Disney.
Since he said he wouldn’t produce it on stage or anything, I think the best we can do is the script. He hasn’t released it yet I don’t think. I hope he does.
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