"The Muppet Movie": A Harmonic Melody of Fun and Hope
Unlike my previous blog entries, I have seen producer Jim Henson and director James Frawley's The Muppet Movie (1979) before. However, it's been long enough since I last saw it that I had forgotten a lot about it. Since I'm doing my Film Music analysis assignment on the movie, I thought it would be smart to revisit the movie and analyze the film's music right here. Composed by Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams, The Muppet Movie is a fourth-wall breaking film-within-a-film, road trip, musical comedy, in which the Muppets are watching a private Hollywood screening of a movie they made together (very) loosely based on how they all met. In this interpretation, Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) is singing and strumming his banjo in his swamp when Hollywood talent agent Bernie (Dom DeLuise) encourages Kermit to go chase the dream of "making millions of people happy." Kermit journeys to Los Angeles, meeting well-known Muppets, Fozzy Bear (Frank Oz), Miss Piggy...
