![]() It’s human-like face is semi-unnerving for him and for us as an audience at first, but I think eventually it’s softer, child-like features eventually set Scrooge and us at ease and lets us realize we don’t need to fear it. It’s the first of the ghosts (beside the Marleys) that visit Scrooge and they terrified him, so he’s a bit on edge as to what to expect from this one. As for my understanding of its design, I personally feel like it’s human-like appearance is done purposefully and quite fittingly. In the book, the ghost is described as a white-robed, androgynous figure of indeterminate age with a blinding light on its head, so it seems a lot of its design is clearly inspired by its description in the book. They do briefly touch on the design of the Ghost of Christmas Past, mainly Brian just explains he wanted her to have flowing hair and how they achieved that by shooting the puppet in a water tank.Īs for why they chose to go with a more human appearance for the puppet is as good as anyone’s guess. That's it.It’s not a full history on the design choices made specifically for that ghost, but this video of Brian Henson and Dave Goelz has some great insight into the making of the movie. Once somebody said, "I found an IP of reel four of A Christmas Carol," I was like "Oh, f-k, that's it. But they found an IP, a first strike inter-positive of that reel. But three or four times a year, I was on them saying, "You have an obligation to find this. They searched for years and years, and it took all this time. Disney had lost the negative, and they were horrified. So on video, the song was back in, but as soon as high-definition video came along, they needed to go back to the negative to make that better version. And he said, "Look, this is a fantastic movie but I think it'll be better for the movie in theaters if the song was cut from the theatrical release." So, the agreement was, as long as the song goes back in after this initial theatrical release and from then on, the movie has the song in it. If I weren't 28, I probably would've not cut it out and just said to Jeffrey, "Are you demanding I do this?" Because Jeffrey was very respectful. And for one very real reason, kids don't like them. It was super important to me because that was the deal. But I remember Disney was like, "Are you sure? Is he still working?" And then he was fantastic. I was thrilled to hear that he was up for it. He really responded to the script because it's a story of redemption. And I just thought, "Well, let's find Paul Williams." And Paul had become sober recently and really wanted to prove that he was still a great songwriter. I was really quite intimidated by trying to do any musical numbers and who to guide as songwriter. I was nervous about because I hadn't done any musicals as a director or even as a performer. But then I found out it's because Paul had become very self-destructive and had gone into a dark period of addiction. I always wondered why my dad hadn't done more with Paul after The Muppet Movie. The other songwriter whose songs really worked for the Muppets was John Denver. Of everything that my dad had done, it seemed very clear that the songs that worked the best were the Paul Williams songs. We're going to just have to do this with water." And I said to my producing partner, "Well, I guess we'll just have to buy more oil." And he's like, "Brian, we can't. They turned on the pump, and it immediately pumped the water into the oil and the molecules of the water spread instantly into the oil. They had a pump to filter the oil, and it still had pool water in the pump and they didn't realize it. And I thought, "Let's do something though that's more magical than just flying." So, we had this mineral oil and it cost a fortune to get a tankful. ![]() I wanted to do her under oil because she's flying around. So, pushing it down into the mineral oil, the light didn't refract or reflect off of the rod. Mineral oil is very nearly exactly the same density as clear plastic rods. ![]() It was meant to be shot in mineral oil, because I had actually done a bunch of research. Shooting it under water was something that really intrigued me. The Ghost of Christmas Past is about innocence - and innocence lost is the message the character is giving. Christmas Present is largely Dickens' description, and then us realizing that in a Muppet-y way, the halfway between human and Muppet, but Muppet facial features.
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