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. 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. 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. Find great deals on eBay for who framed roger rabbit who framed roger rabbit dvd. Shop with confidence. Amazon.com: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series): Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern, Richard LeParmentier. 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 film, Hollywood's animated cartoon stars of the 1940s are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike 'Toontown' One of Toontown's leading citizens. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The 25th Anniversary Edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit is now available on Blu-ray. Among the summer blockbusters of the 1980s, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) stands out as a true original - audacious in concept, and bursting with ideas and innovation. Who Framed Roger Rabbit on DVD (January 1, 2003) Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Amblin. Roger Rabbit is the titular deuteragonist of Disney/Touchstone's 1988 hybrid feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the. Roger is a slender, white rabbit. ![]() ![]() 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 (Film). Its success is largely responsible for setting off The Renaissance Age of Animation, having had a huge influence on executives' attitudes toward seeing animation as more than what it had been in the Dork Age — Disney's 9. Pixar films, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Batman: The Animated Series, and the Nicktoons and MTV cartoons would probably never have existed if it weren't for this film. A Co- Production between Touchstone Pictures (i. Disney incognito) and Amblin Entertainment (Steven Spielberg), it is so far the only official crossover with classic Disney, MGM and Warner Bros. Set in an Alternate Universe in the city of Los Angeles in 1. The Golden Age of Animation to be specific, this Hardboiled. Film Noir depicts a world where cartoon charactersare a real ethnic minority living alongside human beings. At the center of the story is Roger Rabbit, a Toon movie star on the run from the police after having been accused of murdering Marvin Acme, a human manufacturer of cartoon props, with whom Roger's wife Jessica happened to be . See Does This Remind You of Anything? His only hope is Eddie Valiant, an alcoholic human private investigator who used to specialize in this kind of case, but has refused to work for Toons ever since one killed his brother by dropping a piano on his head. He winds up getting sucked into the investigation after Roger hides out at his apartment. Together, the two of them uncover something much bigger than either of them expected. The film is (very) loosely based on Gary Wolf's 1. Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, but owes more to Roman Polanski's Chinatown, as it was originally intended as the final installment of a trilogy which tanked due to the second film, The Two Jakes, flopping. The title of the film officially has no question mark at the end; rumor has it this is the result of a marketing survey which said films with question marks in the title make less money. The film is notable for being the biggest crossover of famous Western cartoon characters pre- 5. Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appear in a scene together). It also had three Spin- Offtheatrical shorts that ran from 1. DVD release. The book series itself used the film as canon. It should be noted for historical purposes that the entirety of the animation that appears in the film was done BY HAND — no computers of any kind were used, not even Jessica Rabbit's sparkling dress during her song — except for the necessary blue- screening when Eddie Valiant went to Toon Town, where everything was animated, and to operate the player pianos during Donald and Daffy Duck's piano duel. A sequel was planned shortly after the booming success of the original, but it never came to light. The first obstacle was that the film was intended to be a prequel set during World War II, but Steven Spielberg refused to work on a movie that satirized Nazis after finishing Schindler's List, and he was moving on to start Dream. Works at the time. Then, a skyrocketing (for the time) budget and the advent of computer animation landed the second movie in deeper waters. On October 3. 0, 2. Robert Zemeckis had confirmed that a second Roger Rabbit movie was on the way, with Zemeckis himself returning to direct the film and the original screenwriters, Seaman and Price, returning as well, but with the dismantling of Zemeckis' studio the sequel's fate is now uncertain. In February 2. 01. Wolf himself proposed a Roger/Mickey Mouse vehicle to Disney called The Stooge. Apparently, this will be an all- animated movie which could, in theory, co- exist with the Zemeckis sequel. However, it too has lapsed into Development Hell. Compare and contrast Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, which began as only having similar filmmaking techniques but was watered down into a raunchy version of this. Abhorrent Admirer: Lena Hyena couldn't possibly be any more of one to Eddie in their only Toontown encounter. Achilles' Heel: Dip, for the toons, and consequently Judge Doom. Acrofatic: Okay, Eddie is more chubby than fat, but nobody was expecting such quick reflexes, somersaults, or freaking backflips. Action Survivor: Eddie Valiant — a good and smart one. Adaptation Distillation: The original book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, was about Valiant originally hired by Roger to investigate his bosses' broken promises. When Roger is murdered (or . The movie was basically . The Eddie from the original book, as a parody of a pulp hero, is noted by several characters as being very attractive. Film Eddie, as a parody of a noir hero, is beaten down and schlubby. The Alcoholic: Eddie, after his brother's death. He's almost a booze- seeking warhead, in fact.? Or did you change your name to Jack Daniels? He didn't know, so I asked the fireman, the greengrocer, the butcher, the baker, they didn't know! But the liquor- store guy, he knew! One time, Roger yells at them. The second, his presence is felt way too much to continue.. Alternate Tooniverse. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Judge Doom's scheme to buy up the trolley company for the sole purpose of dissolving it. General Motors did the same thing to kill public transit, only on a nationwide scale and about 1. Amusing Injuries: 'Toons are more or less immortal, any physical violence you bestow upon them results in an enormous overreaction, agonised expressions, bleeding, skeleton visible through skin in the case of electrocution, etc. Five minutes later they're perfectly fine. The only way to do any real harm to a 'toon is with The Dip or in the case of the weasels, making them laugh themselves to death. Humans in Toon Town seem to inherit this trait as well to a degree, though if someone wants a human dead in Toon Town badly enough they will die. He can't keep his mind on his job, and you know why? As far as production was concerned, Rule of Cool trumped Anachronism Stew, or as one of the writers claimed, the aim was . The Bugs Bunny model sheet used in his brief scene was out of date; it had been phased out by Warner Bros. He reverts at the end, however — Daffy doesn't. Possibly Bugs just wasn't wearing full makeup for a piano- duel nightclub act, and his older design is Toon- Bugs's au naturale appearance? In the movie theater where Eddie and Roger hide, the cartoon playing on the screen is a Goofy cartoon, Goofy Gymnastics, which, in real time, was released in 1. Freeways already existed by 1. Could be justified in that freeways weren't exactly commonplace until the 1. And that this film evidently takes place in a different universe than ours, what with the sentient toons. Kuzco is also there, dancing on the Maroon lot in the DVD menu. The same menu also features Elliot the Dragon, appearing and disappearing in rapid succession. Justified though since Maroon Cartoons on the special features DVD looks to be in modern times. Animated Actors: Roger, Baby Herman and pretty much almost every Toon in the film. Animation Bump: The opening sequence is very lush for even a modern animated short. The entire film is pretty lavishly animated, as necessitated by matching the drawings to the lighting and frame rate of the live action footage. One of the few exceptions is the Toontown sequence, where everything is (relatively) more lax traditional animation with a blue- screened Eddie. Applied Phlebotinum: The Dip is functionally this, although its ingredients — turpentine, acetone, and benzene — are all solvents, and two of them basically amount to paint thinner. Benzene, used to be a common laboratory solvent for organic compounds (and still occupies that role in industrial processes), which could be an intentional reference to the . Leon Schlesinger (Warner Bros 3. Dip is made up of things that take ink and paint right off the cel. One of those cel- washers was Chuck Jones. Before he made toons, he killed toons. With dip. Artistic License . However, the saxophonist isn't doing anything else besides just swaying his body while playing the saxophone. The thing is, he isn't even moving his fingers while he was playing the saxophone. Aside Glance: Jessica Rabbit makes at least 3 of these. There's a subtle one during her singing number right before she sits on Eddie, then another after knocking out Roger with a frying pan, and a very quick one as she's getting into Benny the Cab in Toontown. Asshole Victim: R. K. Maroon, in a lesser sense. He at least tried to repair the damage he had done after Acme's death, but it didn't exactly go well. Ax- Crazy: The Weasels, especially (and obviously) Psycho. Judge Doom at the climax. Badass Longcoat: Eddie Valiant wears one, as does Judge Doom. Badass Unintentional/Accidental Hero: Eddie Valiant is not very happy to take care of Roger Rabbit's case since he became a Toon- hater. However he manages to prove Roger's innocence and save Toontown. Eddie never actually takes Roger's case. Roger comes to ask him to, but Eddie's motivation for looking into this is anger over the principal players using him as a patsy in their scheme; he wants to know why R. K. Maroon and the others lied to him about the picture job. Of course, the results are the same anyway. Badly Battered Babysitter: Roger's role in the Maroon shorts with Baby Herman. Bait- and- Switch Gunshot: Jessica pulling a gun on Valiant.. At least she gave Valiant a split- second warning. Berserk Button. Beware the Nice Ones: Roger is the kind of sweet guy who responds to his wife cheating by writing her a love letter, but if you mess with someone he cares about, he pulls a gun on you. Roger: ! Why the true meaning of the word probably hits you like a ton of bricks! Suddenly, up zips Benny the Cab. They climb into him and they escape being mowed down by the Weasels in the nick of time. Earlier, Benny told Eddie that if he ever needed a ride, that he should . Later, in the Acme Factory, as Doom tells Eddie and Jessica his plans to wipe out Toontown and replace it with a freeway, Roger blasts into the warehouse through a drainage grate and tries to hold Doom and the Weasels at gunpoint.
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