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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1. Background. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1. Los Angeles in 1. Doom\'s plan is to bring freeways to LA, thereby. Pacific & Electric Red Car public transport electric. Framed for the murder. Maroon Cartoon Studios actor Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer). Toon,\' solicits help from reluctant, hard- boiled. Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) to clear his name. Valiant. is still grief- stricken over the death of brother Ted by a falling cartoon. Dolores. (Joanna Cassidy), as he solves the case. A poster capsulized the film\'s plot: It\'s the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle. The film was a milestone in animation history, one of the top- grossing. Academy Awards, one of which was. Special Achievement Award for Animation Direction (Richard Williams). As a result, it was the most expensive film of its decade. It was filmed as a tribute to the entire pantheon of cartoon characters. Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM, and other studios in the 1. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer. A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit\'s only hope to prove. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a video game based on the film of the same name for the DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and Commodore 64. It was released by Buena Vista. Famous. cartoon voices were used (Mel Blanc for Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Bugs Bunny. Sylvester, and Porky Pig and Charles Fleischer for Roger, Greasy, Psycho. Benny the Cab), and the live- action characters were coordinated with. It was also derived by screenwriters. Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman from the title of Gary Wolf\'s 1. Who. Censored Roger Rabbit? In a. less sanitized version, Wolf\'s novel portrayed Hollywood\'s Golden Age. The down- and- out, underpaid fantasy- toon players must. Screencap Gallery for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (1080p Bluray, Disney Live-Action). Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is a technically-marvelous film blending animated, ink-and-paint cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood live actors. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. Back on the road, Roger drives Dolores\' smashed-up car out of the tunnel in reverse with sparks flying from the axle when the car takes a spin and crashes into the. With Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer. A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit\'s only hope to prove his innocence when he is. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an ingenious 1988 live-action/animated film, with Robert Zemeckis directing the live-action and Richard Williams directing the Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price. The sub- human, exploited, underpaid and oppressed creatures were. Although Wolf\'s book had a lot of the same- named characters (with their. Roger Rabbit, a. popular toon comic strip star, was found mysteriously murdered in his Hollywood. Jessica Rabbit was a much cruder character who traded sexual favors. Toons spoke, they made word balloons. Wolf\'s 1. 99. 1 sequel book to the film. Who P- P- Plugged Roger Rabbit?. A Hare- Raising Mystery. In. this book, Roger hired Eddie Valiant to investigate whether his sexy wife. Jessica was having an affair with Clark Gable, one of Roger\'s rivals (another. Baby Herman) for the lead role of Rhett in the musical comedy version. Gone With the Wind. Gable also hired Eddie to find out who had. In this landmark film, the Toons include appearances and cameos by Donald. Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Sylvester, Woody. Woodpecker, the Weasels - from Disney\'s The Wind in the Willows. Mickey Mouse, three hummingbirds from Disney\'s Song of the South. Road Runner and the Coyote, the black Crows and Dumbo from Disney\'s Dumbo. Betty Boop, Droopy Dog, and many more. Unprecedented cooperation from Warner. Brothers and Disney allowed for classic cartoon characters to be seen together. Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny parachuting together. Tinkerbell and Porky Pig end the movie, and, of course, the. Daffy and Donald Duck in a Cotton Club- style nightclub. Ink & Paint Club. Other animated and live- action mixed films would be released soon after. Joe Pytka\'s Space Jam (1. Des Mc. Anuff\'s The Adventures of. Bullwinkle (2. 00. Henry Selick\'s Monkeybone (2. Joe Dante\'s Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2. The Story - . An animated Baby Herman, an innocent looking. Roger Rabbit, a lop- eared. As the mother leaves her child to go to the beauty parlor. He\'s going to take very, very good care of you.. To heroically save him, Roger dashes into the kitchen. Baby Herman has knocked off the counter. More mishaps - a teapot. Roger\'s head, and he lands in the Hotternell stove - Baby Herman\'s. Baby Herman balances. Acme Deadly Mouse Poison while stretching for the. Cookie jar, sending a slippery bar of soap into Roger\'s path. Baby Herman. swings from the stack of boxes on the pendulum, while Roger has his whole. His convulsions create a crack in. Roger\'s head - rendering him unconscious. A bottle of Extra Hot Acme Chili Sauce lands in the spout of one of the. Roger\'s mouth. It heats. Baby Herman catapults. A jar of pickles falls from the shelf onto. Roger Rabbit - he. The plunger hurls. Baby Herman to the top of the refrigerator, then lands in an activated toaster. Roger\'s face. In order to get to the cookies, Baby Herman kicks off slices of bread. Roger is desperately trying to remove the suction plunger from his. He frees himself mid- air - grins and looks into the camera - just. Acme Suck- O- Lux vacuum cleaner that is. His body is inflated by the vacuum cleaner and when he finally. He smashes into. the bottom of the refrigerator and struggles to free himself, jarring Baby. Herman from the top of the refrigerator where he has finally attained his. Baby Herman tumbles down along the front of the refrigerator. Roger Rabbit\'s stomach giving Roger strength to lift the. It falls on him again when he tries to pick up. Baby Herman. The refrigerator door opens to reveal Roger\'s head poking up. The Story - The Film On a live sound stage, the Tex Avery- style human director. Raoul Raoul (Joel Silver) yells . It says, \'Rabbit gets. Rabbit sees stars!\' Not birds, STARS!. Baby Herman: Aw, for cryin\' out loud, Roger! How the hell many times do we. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal the equipment and. Toon . Just drop the refrigerator on my head one. The. indestructible cartoon character Roger grabs a frying pan and hits himself. BONG, BONG, BONG - but only exclamation. In the shadows of the set after witnessing the flawed take with the zany. Maroon. (Alan Tilvern), . The Toon can take any kind of punishment. Maroon: .. There\'s no business more expensive. I\'m 2. 5 grand over. Baby Herman cartoon. You saw the Rabbit blowin\' his lines. You know why? Valiant: One too many refrigerators dropped on his head? Maroon: Nah, he\'s a Toon. You can drop anything you want on his head. He\'ll. shake it off. But break his heart, he goes to pieces just like you or me. Maroon presents Valiant with the latest issue of The Toontown Gossip. Valiant reads part of the front- page article outloud. The possible cause. Roger\'s distractedness and forgetfulness is that his sexy. Jessica Rabbit (with the speaking voice of Kathleen. Turner) may be unfaithful, but Roger think\'s she\'s an angel. Maroon offers. to hire him to take compromising photographs of Jessica, hoping to get Roger. Valiant: (reading outloud) \'Seen Cooing Over Calamari with Notsonew. Sugar Daddy was Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon star, Roger.\' What\'s. Maroon: You\'re the private detective. You figure it out. Valiant: Look (handing back the paper), I don\'t have time for this. Maroon: Look, Valiant. His wife\'s poison, but he thinks she\'s Betty Crocker. Get me a couple of nice juicy pictures I can wise. Valiant: (shuddering) Forget it. I don\'t work Toontown. Maroon: What\'s wrong with Toontown? Every Joe loves Toontown. Valiant: Then get Joe to do the job, cause I ain\'t goin\'. Maroon: (pulling Valiant back) Whoa, fella. You don\'t wanna go to Toontown. Toontown. Nobody said you had to go to Toontown. The rabbit\'s wife sings at a joint called The Ink & Paint. Club. OK? For a moment, Valiant considers the offer of becoming a. Peeping Tom for Toons. He walks to the studio window, and then proposes. Suddenly, Valiant jumps back as a gray figure. Maroon explains that he got Dumbo. Disney: . The best part is - they work for peanuts. Maroon\'s office window. Maroon presents. Valiant with a check for fifty bucks, holding back the balance as . The broomsticks from . Many more cartoon. Cattle. Call\' of singing cows, Bugs Bunny (racing the Tortoise) and Bozo the Clown. Across the street, down- and- out Valiant tries to board Los. Angeles\' Pacific Electric . He joins a group of young boys already hitching a free. Red Car. We got the. When a trolley passes by underneath, the entire building shakes. One of the trolley conductors, named Earl, is. Valiant is \'told\' by a deaf- mute. Soldier named Sarge (Lindsay Holiday) that Earl. Some big company called Cloverleaf. Maroon. for fifty bucks, and then asks to borrow Dolores\' camera for a . A dirty laborer named Angelo (Richard. Ridings) chides Valiant about his new contract for Maroon: Angelo: So who\'s your client - Mr. Detective to the Stars? Chilly. Willy or Screwy Squirrel?. So what happened, huh? Somebody kidnap Dinky Doodle?. Hey. wait a minute, wait a minute, I know. You\'re workin\' for Little Bo Peep. She\'s. lost her sheep and you\'re gonna help her find them. Valiant: (after kicking out Angelo\'s stool) Get this straight, greaseball. A speakeasy- style. Toon Gorilla. acting as a hairy bouncer. Valiant offers the proper password to enter. The Ink & Paint Club. Valiant: Walt sent me. The Toon Gorilla is dressed in a tux and gives Valiant the once- over.). Nice monkey suit. Gorilla: Wise ass.. In the segregated, cabaret- style nightclub where Toons entertain humans. A many- armed. Toon octopus (with the goofy face of Dopey from Snow White and the Seven. On stage to provide entertainment in the opening act are two Toon ducks. Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. They are seated back to back at opposite. Franz Liszt\'s Hungarian Rhapsody No. Donald\'s piano is a grand- style piano - Daffy\'s piano. That did it! Daffy Duck: This is the last time I work with someone with a s- s- speech impediment! Donald hurls Daffy inside the grand piano and slams the. After. shaking his dried- up fountain pen, he sprays the ink from it all over Valiant\'s. Eddie to ask: ? Look, the stain\'s gone. It\'s disappearing ink. Daffy plays frenetically on the grand piano. But I. still got it, Eddie. Acme never misses a night when Jessica performs. Eddie is transfixed and entranced by the beautiful. Toon. Acme\'s table and cuddles up behind him, pinching. After removing his. Eddie\'s lap. There, she reaches her fingers inside his trenchcoat. Why don\'t you do right? Like some other men do. In the finale, she quickly struts her stuff back to the stage, where the. After the spell- binding performance, Acme leaves his table. Jessica\'s backstage dressing room (. Valiant follows and keeps a discreet. The gorilla bouncer catches. Eddie trying to peek through the keyhole and taps him on the shoulder. Under Jessica\'s dressing. Valiant pulls over a milk crate to stand on, and aims his camera. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Seaman (screenplay), Gary K. Wolf (novel)Photography: Dean Cundey. Music: Alan Silvestri. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern, Richard Le. Parmentier, Lou Hirsch, Betsy Brantley, Joel Silver, Paul Springer, Richard Ridings, Edwin Craig, Lindsay Holiday, Mike Edmonds. Introduction“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”Few lines sum up a movie better than this confession by Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Not that the film is drawn poorly. The “bad” she speaks of is a delicious naughtiness, a cleverness that emanates from every pore of this wholly original film. Its presentation may be safe for viewers of all ages, but the idea of combining live action with animation for an entire feature length film was just as dangerous as Jessica’s curves. The technique dates all the way back to the 1. Walt Disney’s Alice cartoons. Disney revisited it in Song of the South (1. Mary Poppins (1. 96. Walt’s death, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1. Aside from Disney, you may also remember a real- life boy befriending an animated dragon in the children’s favorite Pete’s Dragon (1. Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry (of Tom and Jerry) in the Oscar- winning Anchors Aweigh (1. Now it’s 1. 94. 7 and Eddie runs the office alone while carrying a deep- seeded grudge against toons. So it’s with great reluctance that he agrees to work for cartoon studio head R. K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern), who hires him to snap lurid photos of Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), manufacturer of all those Acme cartoon props, playing “patty cake” with Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon’s most famous star, Roger Rabbit. The very next day, Acme turns up dead and Roger is blamed for a jealous murder. Roger seeks the help of Eddie, who suspects Maroon of killing Acme in a bid to take over Toontown. It was Acme who held the deed to Toontown, and though the toons say he promised to leave the town to them, his will has since disappeared. Soon Eddie discovers that highway corporation Cloverleaf may be bidding a Toontown takeover, and unless Acme’s will shows up by midnight, Cloverleaf will have the rights. As they unravel the mystery of Cloverleaf, Eddie and Roger must also dodge Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) and his Weasel henchmen, who have been hired to capture Roger. What’s more, Doom has secret plans to wipe Toontown off the map with a special acid, known simply as “The Dip,” which melts all toons on impact. Zemeckis has compared this “dip” to Hitler’s Final Solution, which makes for a very interesting reading of the film as a commentary on minority culture. As the film says, “There’s no justice for toons anymore.” (B)Men Among Toons. Thrust into the middle of this wildly imaginative plot is Bob Hoskins, who appears just two years after his Best Actor nomination for Mona Lisa (1. To hear Hoskins speak in real life will surprise many Roger Rabbit fans, as he carries a strong British accent. You wouldn’t know it here, as his voice reeks of Los Angeles grit. Of course, changing accents is typical actor fare. The real challenge for Hoskins was to act on set all by himself and give the illusion that he was actually interacting with toons. Thus, Hoskins and the other actors underwent mime training, so that they would be able to interact with their non- existent surroundings in a believable way. Hats off to Hoskins, who flexes his arms to look like he’s pulling actual weight. As for the rest of the cast, Zemeckis gives Hoskins some human interaction, including Joanna Cassidy (Six Feet Under), Stubby Kaye (Cat Ballou) and Christopher Lloyd, who returns with Zemeckis in between the first and second Back to the Future films. Original Toons. Still, the real stars are the toons, brought to life by some top notch voice talent. Lou Hirsch is utterly memorable as Baby Herman; Charles Fleischer voices Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab and the weasels Greasy and Psycho; and Kathleen Turner lends her smoky lungs to Jessica Rabbit, the sexiest cartoon character ever created (OK, as Bill Murray said in Tootsie, “I think we’re getting into a weird area here”). Today, the face of Roger Rabbit is as familiar to us as Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse. It’s easy to forget he didn’t even exist, on screen at least, until this movie in 1. In designing Roger, animation supervisor Richard Williams combined Bugs Bunny’s cheeks, Porky Pig’s bow tie, Goofy’s pants, Mickey’s yellow hands from the ’4. American flag. Roger’s most important attributes, however, are his ears, which tell exactly how he’s feeling at any point in the movie. The real victory for this movie was its ability to combine its own creations (Roger, Jessica, the Weasels) with the forces of Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount (including Famous Studios and Fleischer Studios) and Universal (including Winkler Pictures and Walter Lantz Productions). The cartoon characters of these various studios had never before appeared together, and thus it took Executive Producer Steven Spielberg a lot of work, and tightly- written contracts, to convince the studios to participate. In the end, Popeye, Felix the Cat, Tom and Jerry and the Terrytoons were the only characters Spielberg was unable to secure, but the list he did get is a dream cast. Coyote and the Road Runner, Speedy Gonzalez, The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, Piglet, Tinkerbell, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian and Woody Woodpecker. No matter how old you are, this collection is a huge novelty. No one had ever seen these characters together, let alone Daffy and Donald playing dueling pianos. Post- Modern Script. The idea came from Gary K. Wolf’s mystery novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, where Eddie Valiant investigates the murder of cartoon Roger Rabbit and interviews Jessica Rabbit and Baby Herman as suspects. Walt Disney Pictures saw the potential and purchased the film rights in 1. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman to adapt the script. By the time Disney brought in Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to help finance the film, Price and Seaman had already written two versions, but the changes they were making were for the better. After Williams’ 3 1/2- minuteopening cartoon, Zemeckis pulls back to reveal it all to be just a movie within a movie. Pulling out of the cartoon and into the real world is much more effective than if we started in the coexistence of humans and toons. As the film continues, it’s fascinating to watch these classic cartoon characters being treated as celebrity actors, leaving the set for their dressing rooms, clashing with directors and admiring their fellow actors’ work: “Boy, did you see that? Nobody takes a wallop like Goofy. What timing! What a genius!”Price and Seamon show they’ve done their cartoon homework, as evidenced by Eddie using the famous Bugs Bunny reversal trick of “You don’t, you do.” But they also introduce their own new cartoon customs, like “portable holes” and the idea that no toon can resist “shave and a haircut.”More impressive than any of this is their ability to slip in adult material for more mature viewers to appreciate — Eddie catching Jessica in the act of “Patty Cake; ” Baby Herman complaining, “I’ve got a 5. Eddie hiding Roger in his coat, only for Delores to say, “Is that a rabbit, Eddie, or are you just happy to see me?” In fact, then- Disney president Michael Eisner complained the film was too risque, (A) but Zemeckis refused to make any changes as he had final cut. In hindsight, Zemeckis seems the perfect fit, having made a career of pioneering effects, from De. Loreans disappearing in Back to the Future (1. Tom Hanks appearing in archival footage in Forrest Gump (1. Hanks morphing in a life- like animation in The Polar Express (2. Ironically, Zemeckis was originally turned away from Roger Rabbit because he was considered a box office liability in the early ’8. Instead, the studio asked Terry Gilliam, who turned it down because the project was too technically challenging. Instantly his duty became the director’s job which moviegoers often misinterpret as the only responsibility and which scholars often overlook in favor of compositional technique — corralling the project as Organizer in Chief.“It was three elaborate movies in one,” Zemeckis said. It was a feature length animated movie. And it was a special effects movie.” (D)To handle such a beast, Zemeckis would direct the live action scenes, and Williams would supervise the animation. The latter’s goal was to capture the nostalgia of all those classic cartoons, meaning CGI characters were out of the question. Toy Story and Finding Nemo are great in their own right, but they don’t exactly scream “Merry Melodies.” So you’ll notice there is not a single shot of computer animation in all of Roger Rabbit, marking one of the last great achievements in non- computer special effects. If an animated character were to hold a real- life object in his hand, a robotic arm would control the object (i. Baby Herman’s cigar), or a puppeteer would dangle the objects on a string and control them from above (i. A typical scene between Hoskins and Roger Rabbit would go like this. Fleischer would get into character as Roger, even wearing a rabbit suit, and walk through the scene with Hoskins on set. Then, he would step off set and call out Roger’s dialogue in a process called “transprojection acting” (most of the time, this dialogue would be re- recorded in post- production). At this point, Hoskins would run through the scene again, this time acting with a rubber dummy as Roger. Finally, the dummies would be removed and it would be up to Hoskins to remember the sight lines of where the dummies had been. Animators would get B& W prints of each frame and draw over top. Each frame was shot four times — as matte, back lights, highlights and shadows — then sent to ILM, who used Optical Printers to composite with the live- action plates. It was ILM’s first animated attempt, processing 1,0. 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