marionette

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“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

Standing next to the prime minister of Israel, who nodded along like a demented marionette, Trump said that the U.S. would take over the Gaza strip and assume a "long-term ownership position."

From Salon