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marionette

[mar-ee-uh-net] / ˌmær i əˈnɛt /


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My timings, my instincts, the way that I thought, the way I saw it in my head could be expressed through these really high-tech marionettes on a computer.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Initially, when I pitched the show I wanted to do an Almodóvar film with marionettes and Adult Swim very wisely said, ‘This is going to create more complications for you,’” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times

The duo was accompanied by vintage marionettes and their handlers, who played backup dancers in the shapes of jellyfish, cats and aliens.

From Los Angeles Times

Fincher said the hard part was giving the marionettes a feeling of suspension.

From Los Angeles Times

Without such platforms, politics itself risks becoming a crude form of theater in which voters effectively become actors or even marionettes, enacting scripts they do not fully understand and whose consequences they have scarcely considered.

From Salon