32 Facts About Your Favorite Non-Human Movie Characters
Damn these clumps of material for getting us so emotional
How did these crafty filmmakers do it? They built some puppet or animatronic thingamabob and had us caring about it as if it were a living, breathing being. Castaway had us crying over a volleyball for chrissakes!
Part of us feels bad that we’re drawing attention to the fact that Kermit is just some green felt with a hand up his butt who gets put in a crate like a limp prop when the shoot day wraps. The other part of us loves how movies are made, so let’s get past all that emo junk and get to the facts!
Here are a bunch of facts about your favorite non-human scene partners…
Roger Rabbit from ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
Howard from ‘Howard the Duck’
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Groot from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Maine Coons from ‘Pet Semetary’
Dobby from ‘Harry Potter’
HAL 9000 from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Orangey the Cat from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
Hooch from ‘Turner & Hooch’
Willy from ‘Free Willy’
Crystal from ‘American Pie’
Toto from ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Pizza the Hutt from ‘Spaceballs’
Gollum from ‘Lord of the Rings’
E.T. from ‘E.T.’
Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars’
Wilson from ‘Castaway’
The Horses from ‘The Lord of the Rings’
The Muppets from ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’
R2-D2 from ‘The Force Awakens’
C-3PO and R2-D2 from ‘Star Wars’
Yoda from ‘Star Wars’
The Gremlins from ‘Gremlins’
Gremlins
E.T. Species in ‘Star Wars’
Carnivorous Aliens from the Proposed ‘E.T.’ Sequel
Spa’am in ‘Muppet Treasure Island’
The Dracula Musical Puppets in ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’
Audrey II in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
The Pale Man in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’
The T. Rex in ‘Jurassic Park’
Source: The Atlantic