Killing your Creation

Yesterday Kaddi and me visited a show by René Marik who've got some fame with his puppet cartons over at YouTube. His lead character is a mole with a speaking disability. The short sketches where the mole meets fairy tale characters like Snowwhite or Rapunzel are simply hilarious¹⁾.

Kaddi has been a huge fan of the mole videos and was happy as a lark when I gave her the cards for the show on Valentines Day.

Well, the evening could have been just great. We had a delicious²⁾ dinner at the location. When show started we where laughing all the time. It was quite a nice mix of different styles. Marik not only showed his famous puppets but also did some stand-up comedy and sang quite well.

Unfortunately one of his last mole puppet sketches was so sad it broke Kaddi's heart. The mole sees the Barbie doll which played Snowwhite and Rapunzel before, making out with Ken. Obviously love sick he decides to commit suicide on a highway. As if this isn't cruel enough already, Marik lets the mole survive the hit by the first car and makes him change his mind. Being in fear the mole tries panicky to dig away from the coming car, but fails because of the highway asphalt. The adorable little mole is finally driven over by several cars and Marik ends the show leaving the puppet lying at the stage.

You see that's quite a story to tell just with a puppet and some mouth made sounds. But that's what intensifies the horror even more. A lot simply just happens in your mind. I found this really sad already, but Kaddi who grew fond of the cute mole during the last months was crushed. She was fighting with tears for the remaining encores and was crying the whole way home.

I'm disappointed of course. I wanted to spent a great evening with my girlfriend but instead she was hurt. I can't really damn Marik. An artist has the right to kill his creation and many did so before³⁾. But still it really spoiled our evening. And it might even have spoiled the fun of watching the mole videos.

Did something like this ever happen to you? How did you took it when some of your favorite fictional characters died?

Tags:: maulwurf,; rene marik,; show,; berlin,; death,; sad

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¹⁾ You probably need to speak German though

²⁾ Even if expensive

³⁾ Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes comes to mind

Posted on Tuesday, February the 19th 2008 (2 years ago).

You always find the right words to say. It´s true, I am very sad but it didn´t spoil our evening at all. I had very much fun and laughed a lot - till 15 minutes before the end.

I can´t explain why the death of maulwurfn makes me so exceptionally sad. Bud nevertheless I hat a wonderful evening with an adorable man, a great cabaret artist and a delicious meal - and you don´t have to be disappointed! Really, really ;-)

PS: sorry for my crappy English. I will write a blogpost about this at draussenwelt later this evening.

2008-02-19 10:57:56

Kaddi

Sad to read. Actually I watched the last two episodes of "Cowboy Bebop" yesterday in which Spike, the main character of the series, dies (after killing his biggest enemy) right after he has found his beloved one he's looking for all the time and which, after a gun fight, died right in his arms.

It was a while since I felt really sad after watching a movie/series.

2008-02-19 11:01:30

Michael Klier

I was close to tears when the dog in I Am Legend died, still can't watch Dumbo to this day (the first time I watched it with my parents when I was four ended with me broken down in tears, and it still hasn't become that much better), and had trouble within the fifty first pages of the Ostenard books by Tad Williams as a small puppy was killed horribly not to throw away the book immediately. Not to mention of course the minute Spike and Anya were killed off during the series finale of BtVS. Or the ending of Saikano.

It happens way too often that fictional characters I really like are killed off or hurt badly (either in body or feelings), I tend to get too close to them I guess as it really gets to me.

2008-02-19 11:05:46

foosel

Hmm ... I cannot really understand this ... Although I cry very easily, no matter if it is a book, a TV show or whatever. A dying character *never destroyed* anything for me ... E.g. Dumbledore dying was (as cruel as it may sound) a *wonderful* thing to me ... Do not get me wrong: It was definitely very sad and heartbreaking. But ... hmm ... I cannot explain it ... I simply *love* crying over a "good death" of a fictional character!

2008-02-20 03:29:18

Anika

Thanks for your feedback everybody. Anika, I think the problem here was that it wasn't a "good death". It was pretty cruel and senseless. When Dumbledore died it was in a fight to protect Hogwarts, it carried on the story and finally there was at least a Happy End. In case of the mole it was a very cute and lovely character who you knew to make you laugh that was "killed" by his creator in the meanest way I could imagine. I can't understand the artists motives behind that.

2008-02-20 08:56:58

Andi