Parker and Stone were first motivated to write a puppet musical by a British TV show from the ’60s called Thunderbirds, a campy sci-fi program about a family of rescue pilots set in the future.
The show was shot using a technique invented by program creator Gerry Anderson called “Supermarionation,” where pre-recorded vocal lines triggered sensors in the heads of carefully crafted marionettes and moved the puppets’ lips in sync with the dialogue.
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Anderson’s work on Thunderbirds inspired Parker and Stone to shoot Team America with a similar level of detail—they vowed to capture all the action on film and leave none of the “stunts” to post-production.
Filming began with a crew of more than 200 people, as it took a team of four to operate a single puppet–and there were 270 custom-made characters. A three-second shot could take an entire day to complete, and with a limited budget and looming deadlines, Parker and Stone worked grueling 20-hour days leading right up to the film’s release.
Trey Parker would later say about the experience, “You could threaten to kill my family and I would not make another puppet movie. If my mother would die if I would not make another puppet movie, she’d be dead. I’m totally serious.”
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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