Starring Special Effects: Difference between revisions

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That's right, folks: You don't need to be a human being or even technically ''alive'' to be the star. With a big enough budget, a little imagination and some talent to provide a memorable voice ([[Vocaloid|though this may not be the case for much longer]]), you can take a prop and turn it into a ''character''.

This trope is all about movies that not only employ such special effect characters, but ''put them in the spotlight'': if you can take the [[Muppet~~|Muppets~~]], [[Serkis Folk]] or [[Roger Rabbit Effect|Toons]] out of a movie without affecting the plot line or core cast, then it's not this trope.

This trope is all about movies that not only employ such special effect characters, but ''put them in the spotlight'': if you can take the [[Muppet]]s, [[Serkis Folk]] or [[Roger Rabbit Effect|Toons]] out of a movie without affecting the plot line or core cast, then it's not this trope.

== Film ==

* The vast majority of [[Harryhausen Movie~~|Harryhausen Movies~~]]. Ray Harryhausen treated each monster as a character in and of itself, giving them operatic deaths when he could. Special mention goes to:

* The vast majority of [[Harryhausen Movie]]s. Ray Harryhausen treated each monster as a character in and of itself, giving them operatic deaths when he could. Special mention goes to:

** ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' - Joe is the star of the film, after all.

** ''[[The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms]]''

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** The policy of working with Muppets is that one has to treat them as legitimate people, to the point that many Muppeteers don't break character during the outtakes of the production.

*** Special mention to the 2011 Muppet movie where the Muppets get their own promotion interviews with the media.

** [[Jim Henson]]'s non-Muppet films ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth]]'' also ~~qualify -- the~~ bulk of the characters in the latter are realized with puppets, and the former has an all-puppet cast.

** [[Jim Henson]]'s non-Muppet films ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth]]'' also qualify—the bulk of the characters in the latter are realized with puppets, and the former has an all-puppet cast.

*** ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' is especially notable, as it was the first live action movie done with no human cast. Every character however big or small was a puppet. This lent to the viewer's immersion in Henson and Froud's [[World Building]].

* Jar-Jar Binks from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' is what happens when this goes [[The Scrappy|horribly, horribly wrong]].