{"id":1677,"date":"2022-12-29T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:17:35","slug":"michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Unrelated to Advertising: Why Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fozziwigs-factory.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from \u201cThe Muppet Christmas Carol,\u201d showing a Victorian-ish storefront with a large window and a sign, in fancy type: \u201cFozziwig &amp; Mom.\u201d It\u2019s old Fozziwig\u2019s rubber chicken factory, as celebrated by Ebenezer Scrooge himself. Fozziwig himself (Fozzie Bear) and his mother (basically Fozzie in a Victorian dress with ruffled cuffs and a white mobcap) gaze happily out the window as two appropriately-dressed rats dance together on the sill.\" class=\"wp-image-2828\" style=\"width:500px;height:402px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fozziwigs-factory.jpg 745w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fozziwigs-factory-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fozziwigs-factory-298x240.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cIt\u2019s old Fozziwig\u2019s rubber chicken factory!\u201d Go ahead, try to say it without laughing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure, if I put enough work into it, I could wank this post around until I had some quasi-valid connection to advertising such that it would suit the theme of this blog. But it\u2019s still the holiday season, and thus I\u2019m going to give myself the gift of straight-up indulging in one of my favorite holiday-season topics: how awesome Michael Caine was in <em>The Muppet Christmas Carol<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he was. Caine was one of four entire adult humans in the whole movie and delivered a performance worthy of an Academy Award. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, Al Pacino killed it in <em>Scent of a Woman<\/em>, but it\u2019s not like he was playing opposite Gonzo-the-Great-as-Charlie-Simms. Y\u2019all can have your own opinions, of course, but be content with the knowledge that if you disagree with me on this, you\u2019re objectively wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cut my teeth on the George C. Scott version of <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, but as soon as the Muppet version came into my life, it became the definitive version and has remained such ever since. Because let\u2019s be clear: This movie, as a whole, is a work of freaking art. The music, the acting (puppeting?), the costumes (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZstUEFRU08&amp;ab_channel=NicoleRudolph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HISTORICALLY ACCURATE PUPPET COSTUMES<\/a>), the Dickensian prose as delivered by a blue\u2026 furry thing, all of it is awesome. (Peruse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2015\/dec\/21\/how-we-made-the-muppet-christmas-carol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/michael-caine-muppet-christmas-carol-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reading<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/71757\/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-muppet-christmas-carol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list<\/a> at your leisure.) But even amid all that awesomeness, Michael Caine\u2019s performance stands out, thus my celebration of him today (and every year around this time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. His performance.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in general. Michael Caine came at this role with all the seriousness and gravity of a performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company in front of the reincarnation of Charles Dickens himself. The role of the token human in a Muppets movie is generally that of straight man to their muppety antics, but Caine said screw that, I\u2019m no straight man, Ebenezer Scrooge is the central character of the story and I will give such a role all the sincerity it merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Opposite puppets.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no way for him to pretend his scene partners were anything other than a frog, a faintly green dude with glasses but no apparent eyes, and whatever Beaker is. No human stand-ins, nobody in a mocap suit \u2014 his sightline was damn close to the floor for damn near every scene, because that\u2019s where the puppets he was conversing with were. And those puppets included a righteously and deservedly angry pig in a mobcap, controlled by people hidden under the floor, but you know what? To Michael Caine, that pig was Emily MFing Cratchit, and that\u2019s all there is to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Including Statler and Waldorf.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Statler and Waldorf were, of course, portraying Scrooge\u2019s late partners, Jacob and Robert Marley, but they were very much their beloved, heckling, Statlering-and-Waldorfing selves throughout. This is one of the more serious sections of the story, as Scrooge is faced with 1) the existence of ghosts, 2) the eternal suffering being endured by his late partner(s), 3) the inevitability of his own such fate due to his miserly ways, and 4) the enormity of the experience before him that night, and as these two Muppets performed a musical number that was one laugh line after another, Caine was reacting with all the fear and confusion of a man being confronted by actual, non-puppet, doom-portending ghosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. One specific line delivery.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s old Fozziwig\u2019s rubber chicken factory!\u201d I don\u2019t know how much of a theoretical gag reel would be made up of takes of that line as he dissolved into laughter, but I like to think there aren\u2019t any such takes, and he gave it dead-on every time, like the professional he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. These.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/disdainful-scrooge.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from \u201cThe Muppet Christmas Carol,\u201d showing Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, looking over his shoulder with disdain for the people of London and their Christmastime merriment, with the barest hint of bitterness as well and the merest possibility of sadness. All of which is right there on Michael Caine\u2019s face.\" class=\"wp-image-2829\" style=\"width:570px;height:320px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/disdainful-scrooge.jpg 800w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/disdainful-scrooge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/disdainful-scrooge-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/disdainful-scrooge-384x216.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-in-graveyard.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from \u201cThe Muppet Christmas Carol,\u201d showing Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge in a snowy graveyard as he pleads with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come for mercy, and that a life can be changed and his miserable fate can be avoided. All of which is right there on Michael Caine\u2019s face.\" class=\"wp-image-2830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-in-graveyard.jpg 570w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-in-graveyard-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-in-graveyard-384x222.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-with-scarf.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from \u201cThe Muppet Christmas Carol,\u201d showing Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge accepting the gift of a red scarf from Beaker, whom he berated for trying to collect donations for the poor just the day before. Scrooge feels unworthy of such a gift, after the way he\u2019s treated people throughout his life, but also deeply grateful, and touched, and a bit bewildered, and full of hope for the life he has before him. All of which is right there on Michael Caine\u2019s face.\" class=\"wp-image-2831\" style=\"width:570px;height:360px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-with-scarf.jpg 800w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-with-scarf-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-with-scarf-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-with-scarf-379x240.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And definitely this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-and-belle.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from \u201cThe Muppet Christmas Carol,\u201d showing Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge standing behind a woman with poofy hair under a Victorian bonnet as she gazes off into the distance. It\u2019s Belle, Scrooge\u2019s former love, and she\u2019s singing about love being gone, and Scrooge is openly weeping, as he should be, as he\u2019s overcome with sadness and loneliness and regret. All of which is right there on Michael Caine\u2019s face.\" class=\"wp-image-2832\" style=\"width:570px;height:320px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-and-belle.jpg 800w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-and-belle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-and-belle-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scrooge-and-belle-384x216.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and damn everyone behind the decision to cut \u201cWhen Love Is Gone\u201d from numerous releases because good God, that song and the performance thereof are staggeringly beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Give the man his Oscar.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And add the movie to your annual holiday movie rotation, if it isn\u2019t there already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I wanted to try and drag some advice-for-the-new-year message into this or something, I\u2019d advise us all to attack 2023 with all the earnest dedication of Michael Caine accepting the gift of a red scarf from Beaker at the end of the movie, but I\u2019m not gonna do that, because I don\u2019t do resolutions or whatever, because I\u2019m already cool and if I became any cooler, the world wouldn\u2019t be able to handle it. I\u2019m just going to say God bless us, every one, but especially Michael Caine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And God bless y\u2019all for continuing to stop by my little corner of the internet and listen to me blather. See you in the New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure, if I put enough work into it, I could wank this post around until I had some quasi-valid connection to advertising such that it would suit the theme &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,35,38,51,75],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oversharing","tag-egomania","tag-fun-stuff","tag-holiday-celebrate","tag-movies","tag-unrelated-to-advertising"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Totally Unrelated to Advertising: Why Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol - Caperton Gillett | The Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totally Unrelated to Advertising: Why Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol - Caperton Gillett | The Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019m sure, if I put enough work into it, I could wank this post around until I had some quasi-valid connection to advertising such that it would suit the theme &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Caperton Gillett | The Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capertongcreative\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/capertongcreative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-29T21:07:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-20T17:17:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fozziwigs-factory.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"745\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Caper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CapeGCreative\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Caper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Caper\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a8b294ce5e33f2905e82f8435c3650c4\"},\"headline\":\"Totally Unrelated to Advertising: Why Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-29T21:07:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-20T17:17:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":838,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/michael-caine-and-the-muppet-christmas-carol\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/capertongillett.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/11\\\/fozziwigs-factory.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Egomania\",\"Fun stuff\",\"Holiday! 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