Too Easy Being Green: New 'Muppets' Villain an Oil Tycoon
Muppet fans around the world were excited to see their childhood friends reunite; only to find out it was to save their studio from a rich oil executive. Liberal Hollywood loves an evil oil company - better yet, make it a successful business man that runs an oil company. The movie industry has repeatedly bashed businessmen and gone after gas and oil.
Tex Richman, a wealthy man that plans to demolish the Muppet studio after the National Geological Survey finds oil directly beneath it, has his plans foiled by three Muppet fans. They "discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds," as described by "The Muppets" website.
Throughout the movie, Richman cackles maniacally and shows just how heartless he really is by denying Kermit's personal plea to give back the studio. He even tells the Muppets its "time to give up your dream," which is one of the worst things anyone can say to a Muppet (or a Hollywood liberal).
Yes, it's a Muppet movie - farcical and silly. But how sadly predictable that the villain is the perennial bogeyman of liberal environmentalists, and how sadly telling that the writers politicized a children's movie. Again.
Whether writing for kids or adults, Hollywood portrays oil and successful businessmen as evil. "Cars 2" was the worst case of an oil villain in a children's' movie. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, director John Lasseter even went on a rant about why "the uber bad guy" was the oil industry, "I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel. That's when we kind of crafted the bad guy's story."
A series of other movies have gone after oil and energy businesses. "Syriana,"is a perfect example of the left-wing assault on oil. Other movies that vilify oil include "An Inconvenient Truth," "The Day After Tomorrow," "There Will be Blood," and the liberal favorite "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
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Oh, crap!
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:15am.
And I was actually looking forward to seeing it when it hits On Demand.
Thus ends my love affair with The Muppets!! :(
They rejected my script
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:16am.
In my plot, the Federally-subsidized green company Solyndra persuades the city council to seize Muppet Theater from the Muppets under the priniciple of eminent domain, and then give the property to Solyndra.
Shortly after Solyndra takes possession, it files for bankruptcy. The happy ending is that Solyndra's 1100 laid-off workers get retrained as muppets (under a Federally-funded program, of course), while the Muppets set up a shanty town called Occupy Hollywood.
Now that's a plotline I could
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:18am.
Now that's a plotline I could go with!!
Or how about a plot where the
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:56am.
Or how about a plot where the city wants to use eminent domain to transfer the theater to a politically-connected developer so that it can tear it down to build luxury condos? A little commentary on Kelo v. New London.
That's what I had in mind
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 1:55pm.
It would be refreshing to see Hollywood actually dramatize Kelo v. New London. Have they ever used it as a plot on any of their numerous law programs? I don't watch them, so I don't know.
They could beat up on Trump (and deservedly so) by dramatizing the Vera Coking story. She is an American hero.
HA
Submitted by dmacleo on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:58am.
that is awesome :)
maybe Animal can get elected to fill Barney Franks seat?
Filling Barney Franks seat?
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 4:04pm.
An interesting turn of phrase.
I started to change it...
Submitted by dmacleo on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:45pm.
but I had to let it ride :)
Who knows?
Submitted by jasontromm on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 11:43am.
Barney Frank's seat is wide open.
Great Plot
Submitted by jasontromm on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 11:45am.
But may be it would be better to use use Scooby Doo and his crew. Then at the end of the movie they can unmask the villian and it turns out it's ... Barack Obama!
There's an more insidious item along these movie lines
Submitted by dmacleo on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:56am.
We call it the obama administration.
Tex Richman
Submitted by BigFletch on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:18am.
Hahaha, I do like the Oil man's name. Tex Richman.
This Muppets won't be as good as Muppets from Space.
Saw it with my 8 yr old and...
Submitted by Santino Corleone on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:42am.
it's awful. At least the old muppet movies were mildly amusing--- no Jim Henson (nor Frank Oz). Kermit sounds like he doubled up on his xanax for this one.
Hey it's all about indoctrination. Many so killed kid's movies carry the underlying themes and "values" of liberalism. It's the only way liberalism can survive---it can't stand on a history of success or facts (it fails every time it's tried). Check out what your kids are being taught in school. My kids know more about Rosa Parks than George Washington. Indoctrination.
Look at the occupy crowd--uninformed, useful idiots. That's what's being bred by our education system from K thru 12 then ratcheted up on most campuses.
The reference to Cars 2
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:52am.
I decided to go ahead and watch Cars 2 a couple of weeks ago(since Iris references it above in this area), and if you look at the details, it's interesting that there was oil involved, but the bad guy in this movie was using a biofuel(Allinol) much like the government/environmentalist wackos are promoting ethanol, which is also a "biofuel."
In the movie, the Allinol was actually bad for the cars and they stopped using it, just like we need to stop using ethanol. They never really said anything about not using oil in that movie, only that McQueen had the bad gas replaced with that organic fuel that was used in the first movie. My take on that was that the organic fuel was just some localized thing that won't see much of anything happening just like a lot of local things that some random citizens are doing with their vehicles as experiments, such as the one that uses used grease oil from restaurants.
That's one little detail that's been overlooked.
Is there something similar in this Muppet movie?
-Jon
Chris Cooper
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:30pm.
Geez, as soon as I saw Chris Cooper is playing the evil oil businessman, I knew that this movie is a hatchet job. We all (well, I) remember Chris Cooper's embarrassing acceptance speech at the 2003 Academy Awards. What a dumbass.
too bad
Submitted by wizardjr on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:36pm.
I really loved the Muppet movies and the Muppet Show.
Apparently there is no lower limit to disgusting libtardism and eco-insanity.