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@Mary Cherry I know several movies for you to check out in regards to this, there's CASPER (1995), SPACE JAM (1996), LOONEY TUNES: BACK iN ACTiON (2003), THE SpongeBob SQuarePaNts MOViE (2004), THE SpongeBob MOViE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (2015), SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY (2021), etc.
For a Toon, being funny is attractive. Roger is so out of Jessica's league so she is very lucky to have married him. Hence why Betty says "what a lucky girl".
A lot of reactors don’t get how the laws of attraction work in this world. 😂 As another film noir would have put it, “ Forget it, Mary. It’s Toontown.”
I've always loved that Jessica is drawn as such an absolute stereotype, and she subverts it so hard. Her actual motivations are wholesome and pure, and not at all in line with her appearance.
That's my favorite thing too. Unfortunately, we recently had feminazis attacking her design and trying to get it changed at one of Disney's venues, which they were successful in doing. Disney put her in a trenchcoat...
Interestingly enough, she doesn't actually subvert it, by all definitions she IS a bona fide femme fatale, using feminine wiles such as beauty, charm, or sexual allure to entice others to do what she wants. Except what she wants is a happy and wholesome relationship with her loving husband.
To me that is what makes her character very tragic. This kind, wholesome woman trapped in a body that's given to her to please the male gaze whilst they look at a cartoon. It's a very sad concept.
All the humans think Roger Rabbit's lucky to have Jessica because they focus on appearance. All the cartoon women think Jessica Rabbits lucky to have Rodger because in their world comedy is the most attractive quality.
Goofy was the benchmark for comedy. Roger admired him, as stated in the theater while they were hiding. When Jessica said Roger was better than Goofy, it was the highest compliment.
When I was a kid, this movie blew my mind; not only for the technical artistry involved, but because it had Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny together in the same movie. For a little kid, that was akin to the first Avengers movie in 2012.
I remember my excitement as a kid when the "Superman vs. Spider-Man" comic came out in 1976. Now, I'm an old guy with my fingers crossed hoping for an MCU/DCEU film crossover event...
Try this. In the bar Roger sings " my buddy Edy V a sourpuss is he, but when im done hell need no gun, cause a joker he will be." Later he kills the weasels with laughter.
I love this movie too and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right
This film is very unique. The licensing alone is one we will never see again. It’s amazing they got the rights to use all the characters they didn’t already own.
Plus, original voice actors who still living did their voices of their characters such as Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny) and I forgotten her name (Betty Boop).
Doom explained his motivation. Greed is a motivator for toons as well as people. And some are just evil...remember the poison apple, the spinning wheel, etc.
Mary Poppins also has a moment where animated characters interact with the live action leads. Then there's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which is another Disney film. For a more adult film, there's also Ralph Bakshi's Cool World.
Disney did later on also Pete's Dragon that has a toon dragon as a real boys best friend (don't watch the cgi animated remake, the Disney magic is mostly gone in that one compared to the original) and regarding Cool World it is noteworthy that Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt play the main roles.
25:00 - Jessica: "I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a Rabbit". Mary: "I can... imagine? I don't think many women have loved rabbits!" Oh, Mary. You sweet, summer child. 😂😂😂
"Rabbit" is a nickname for a lady's vibrator. "Pattycake" is Golden Age Hollywood & TOON euphemism for extramarital affairs, but the actual pancake photos were used to placate the hard PG rating, as well as serve as a literal metaphor & visual gag.
The time limit was one of the fascinating parts of the deal for this movie. If Mickey was on screen for one minute and twenty seconds, Bugs had be on for exactly one minute and twenty seconds.
@@charleslee8313 Hence why those two characters shared a scene together. Easy fix.
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Also take notice that in the same year of 1964 there were in the theaters the likes of Warner Brothers' The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Disney's Mary Poppins, both live action full feature films mixed with cartoons.
In the late 80’s computer animation was still in it’s infancy. They had to hand draw each frame from a still photograph. It took over 300 animators and over 80,000 frames.
Yeah I second this. To fully appreciate the movie you should watch the making of. It has kind of a "Assembled: the Making of WandaVision" vibe now that I think about it since both deal with a lot of mix of animation as well as special and practical effects.
The pattycake photos always get me.. 😂 I'm very happy you watched this, this film meant a lot to me as a child and still does. There's a lot of talent and innovation going on in this film. It represents to me how the human spirit can exceed the technical limits of our time with nothing more than ambition and determination. Because for its time this was a visual and technical marvel.
I remember watching this movie for the first time as a kid and just seeing Donald Duck & Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse & Bugs Bunny together in the same scene ... This masterpiece is the perfect love letter to our childhood!
Animators use the phrase “bump the lamp” to refer to going above and beyond what’s required in order to flex their skills, and that’s a reference to when Roger bumps the lamp, requiring much more complicated lighting in his animation.
He wanted to dance with Mickey Mouse but they couldn't get the rights. Then after a surprisingly long amount of time they realized wait, they had their own cartoon mouse they could use.
What I really love about this film 🎥 is that it's the only movie 🎥 that uses both Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons. It is literally ground breaking.
Fun Fact: This the first AND ONLY movie so far to have Walt Disney and Warner Bros cartoon character crossover. Also who would've thought Doc Brown give so many kids nightmare fuels Lmao
Also the companies mandated that that Bugs and Mickey, and Daffy and Donald had the same amount of screen time pretty much down to the second. Thats why they were on screen at the same time and only the same time
If I remember right, it's briefly shown during Eddie's going back through the photo albums that he and his brother started out as circus clowns - which feeds back to him being able to pull off the routine - that deals with the weasels - so fluidly and well.
The joke about LA having the best public transit in the world is a deep cut: here in LA we're known for having terrible public transit (it's really just average, but not nearly robust enough for the city's size)... But back when the movie takes place, the Pacific Electric Company had really good trolleys across most of the city. But as freeways expanded, the trolleys weren't grade separated, so service slowed and slowed until the company went bankrupt.
But back in the 30'-40's we had the best. They put in the trolly system before the different neighborhoods. Then during the 50-60's we got rid of the trolly system in favor of the freeway system (as sad as that is).
Yeah, that was a genius plot line and really funny for Angelenos. I always wondered how much of it would make sense to other audiences, but out here it played beautifully. "That harebrained freeway scheme could only have been dreamed up by a Toon." As someone who lives near a Metro subway station I have to say that the situation has gotten 100% better since this film was released (although of course we still have a very long way to go).
@@Johnny_Socko true. Some if not all the light rails plus the Orange Line busway here in Los Angeles are direct successors of the red car. As for the needed improvements, a number of bus lines including most Rapid lines have been cancelled not to mention the Crenshaw/LAX line and the regional connector have been delayed over and over.
So Roger Rabbit' back story is "loosely" based on a true story, I say "loosely" lol. As mentioned, Los Angeles did once used to have a great public transportation network, but the car companies bought up the street car system only to dismantle it, forcing people to essentially buy cars to get around. Which essentially what Judge Doom was representing in the film, Cloverlief purchansed the "red car"(street car system) and wanted to get rid of ToonTown to turn it into a freeway.
@@themoviedealers in fact "Toontown" is a play on words. The places being destroyed by Freeway Planning were often referred to as "Coontown", a deeply, deeply offensive term for a Black neighborhood. This film works in as a terrific social commentary.
They've put toons in movies before, but never anywhere near this level. The cartoon characters were drawn exactly the same way as they were drawn for the original classic cartoons. This took nearly all the animators in Hollywood to make this film, and there were a lot more people with that talent back in the 1980's than there are now. This film could not be made today.
Animation has been mixed with live action nearly since the motion picture was invented. This film just took it to the next level, both with the physical interactions and with the lighting effects.
A little search answers your question. "In truth, he's a toon himself. Originally a toon actor called Baron Von Rotten, he played cartoon heavies until an on-set accident left him Lost in Character." He was a villain in cartoons until something happened locking him in his role. He went insane. Also a Toon murderer wanting to commit genocide for no reason is the ultimate in cartoonish villainy.
@@Theomite I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember someone in another comment section (I believe it's the one in the clip of Judge Dooms reveal) mentioning similar trivia in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit comic. Or maybe it was one of the books?
Saw this as a kid and it scared the hell out of me, so Space Jam is the live action/animated movie I watched most but Roger Rabbit is far and away a better film. And for 1988 it's hard to not be impressed when you consider they did all of the animation and compositing without the aid of computers. What a performance from Bob Hoskins too
The one insider thing released was they told him to imagine the sexiest hottest woman standing in front of him when he was acting the scenes with Jessica, when he saw the movie he said "My imagination sucks", had the rest of the cast dying.
What this movie pioneered was the interaction between the animated characters and real world objects. It took a lot of work and planning and no other film has come close to replicating the way it immerses the viewer in the universe it creates.
Yes there are. For example Jar Jar Binks is the "Roger Rabbit" of the Star Wars universe. The fact that he's so hated proves that the immersion is real...
I didn't see this film in the theater (home video VHS). But, I was definitely under the age of 10. The adult content flew over my head. Ahhh the 80s, when kids were, well, kids.
Criminally underrated actor. Criminally. He is absolutely fantastic and so very talented. He was doing so much of this acting with literally nothing. Not even green screen. And he sells it every single time 150%.
yeah this movie ages well.. i always liked that it was funny and slapstick at times, but also had a legit neo-noir mystery story. and the 40's LA setting was nicely portrayed
This was my introduction to Christopher Lloyd so while everyone in the world loves him for being Marty's best friend to me he's the terrifying toon that murdered an innocent toon shoe for no reason.
I first knew Christopher Lloyd as Doc in BttF, but I believe he is also in the movie Clue (which is live action), as well as the (animated) Anastasia that iirc Disney now owns even though it was not made by Disney. I recommend those movies to anyone who hasn't seen them as they are both very good. :)
And then there's those of us old farts who have you all beat that our first impression of Christopher Lloyd is of a stoned out hippie New York City taxi driver in the late 70s TV show Taxi lol
One of my favorite things is they brought back Mae Questel to reprise the voice of Betty Boop 57 years after her first time. (And that Boop was in B&W.) It's also interesting that some of [Walt] Disney's earliest films combined live actors and animation: his short Alice in Wonderland films. Something he would return to from time to time.
A lot of practical effects were used to blend the live action with the animation. The boys at the Corridor Crew channel do a great video showing how it was done. *Here are just a few other 'Live Action/Animation" movies that are out there;* Mary Poppins (1964) Cool World (1992) Space Jam (1996) Bednobs And Broomsticks (1971) Pete's Dragon (1977) The Incredible Mr Limpet (1964)...kind of 😁
"I don't understand why a toon would want to destroy ToonTown" Quoth the Detective: "That's what I call one Seriously disturbed Toon." Evil never makes sense.
There have been quite a few live-action/cartoon interaction pieces across time, the ones I recall include both Fantasia movies, but "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is frankly the best quality, both before and after it's release (though the little piece in Fantasia 2000, where Mickey straightens the conductor's bowtie, was pretty good at getting the tie movements). The real secret is being able to get eye-lines right and animatronics that gets the toon interactions right. I recall seeing behind-the-scenes specials about this movie and one of the things I remember is the equipment under Bob Hoskins' coat when Eddie is trying to keep Roger inside it. And yes, when once looks back on this now (I was ten when it came out), the fact that the effects stand up so damn well even now. They worked hard to make the interactions work well on-screen, a lot better than most other versions I ever saw (again, Fantasia 2000's tie-straightening was pretty good).
The "tie-straightening" was in the original Fantasia from 1940 also. It preceded Mickey's _Sorcerer's Apprentice_ short (which was carried over to _Fantasia 2000_ alongside a segment featuring Donald themed around Noah's Ark).
The late great Bob Hoskins played Eddie and when I first saw this at the theater I thought he was from New York, he was actually from the UK. You have to see the original Star Trek movie's because Christopher Lloyd is in Star Trek III - The Search for Spock 🖖. Live long prosper.
Love this movie, the behind the scenes of this movie is something you will appreciate, so much talent and creativity... Hey, I have an idea, you should watch The Crow(1994), not animation related but still a great movie
Fun fact: they originally didn't do Jerry's reflection in the floor, and so they had to go back and composite the whole sequence again, painting in Jerry's reflection on each frame.
This perfect match of technical and artistry only happened twice, here with Roger Rabbit and later with Jurassic Park. Both were written with a known capability in mind and filmed with a new technology just as it developed, because of this both sides gave their all. The established crew giving the best of their experience and the new people showcasing their abilities.
Not animation per se, but definitely worth checking out the various Jim Henson stuff as well to see humans interact with non humans. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, various Muppet movies, etc etc.
Fun fact: Christopher Lloyd's french voice actor, Pierre Hatet, was also known for voicing the Joker since the 1992 animated series. During Judge Doom's toon reveal, he switches effortlessly between the two voices.
I'm still surprised I didn't have those nightmares. He was so scary to a kid. Even before the psychotic break-out at the end, he was so menacing, and then... **shivers** Anyway, his name is funny 'cause Doom means Judgement. :D
The original Mary Poppins had a scene where live action people go into an animated world as well as BedKnobs and Broomsticks. Both might be worth the watch.
The film won a special Oscar for its animation. There was a film in the 1940s called Anchors Away which starred Gene Kelly as a sailor who goes on shore leave in Los Angeles. His girlfriend works at a movie studio in Hollywood and he goes to visit her. One scene shows him dancing with Tom and Jerry.
There have been many movies in the past that combined animated characters with live action. The oldest and best known is probably Anchors Aweigh from 1945, which has Gene Kelly performing a dance routine with Jerry Mouse (from Tom and Jerry cartoons).
I'm sure somebody has probably already said this, but Who Framed Rodger Rabbit isn't the first film to mix cartoons and real people together. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the first one was actually Song of the South. One of Disney's most controversial films, yet also one of their most impressive for its time.
I saw this when it was still in the movie theatres, when I was 15-16 years old, and it blew my mind seeing the cartoon characters interact with both real humans and inter-company characters. Even more so than when I read the Superman/Spider-Man and Batman/Hulk team-ups in the early 80's. It's one of the movies I've rewatched the most, and it's still one of my all-time favorites.
Really in context he is a movie star (thinking a real world analog at the time would be one of the 3 stooges) and she is a lounge singer. Regardless of her looks she is the one in a lower social position, that's why Betty Boop, for instance, thinks Jessica is the lucky one.
Another fun note: The people working on the effects for this movie went so far beyond what was required just to make it work that "shake the lamp" (referencing the scene where a lamp shakes a little just because a toon character could conceivably have bumped into it a little) became a term in the special effects world for adding those extra details that almost no one will notice but make it all seem more real.
Judge Doom is a toon named Baron Von Rotten. A character actor that played the role of the villain in every cartoon since the silent era. He was famous for being able to fully change his appearance and immerse himself in any role, giving him the moniker "The toon with 1000 faces." He even played the hunter that shot Bambi's mom. After accidentally being caught in an explosion while filming Mother Goose Step, he spent weeks in recovery and emerged with his eyes inexplicably glowing red and became murderously insane.
The techniques employed to accomplish the meshing of toon with real in this film were groundbreaking and stretched the capability of traditional animation at the time as digital / computer graphics were largely not employed.
i was about 3 or 4 when i saw it. i saw it in the theater when it first came out. still one of my very favorite. such an amazing movie full of imagination, and brilliant performance from bob hoskins. the scene of him looking at the pictures of his brother is heartbreaking.
Not the first time, but the best it was ever done. The anamatronics and puppeteering to give the animated characters interaction with the live action is incredible.
You should check out "UP". It's a lot of fun. My kids and grandkids enjoyed it as much as I did. It is all animation and not the hybrid sort that this one is.
I was seven when this movie came out. I remember seeing it in the movie theaters with my grandma. My grandma loved going to the movies and she use to take my cousin and me all the time. Not all of them child-friendly, but I've always liked this movie, and now when It as an adult it connects me back to my grandma. I still remember every movie I've seen with her growing up.
Mixing animation and live-action goes way back. Before Disney created his own company he made many Alice Comedies with a live person in an animated world. Fleischer studios also did many including Out of the Inkwell also in the 1920s and 30s. Later Disney did scenes of mixed live and animation in Fantasia, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. MGM had Jerry Mouse and Gene Kelly in a dance number in Anchors Aweigh and later with The Incredible Mr. Limpet with Don Knotts as a fish. However, Roger Rabbit was definitely the most ambitious use of this mixing of two mediums. (We'll forget about Cool World a horrid deservedly so flop).
In television, I seem to remember the New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn played as part of The Banana Splits' lineup waaaaaay back in the 70s. It also mixed live action and cartoons, although believe it was flipped: real actors in a cartoon world
@@SilentSooYun You are correct _except_ The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally a stand-alone show, it was added to The Banana Splits show when they were syndicated.
@@jb888888888 Cool! I didn't actually know that: I only remember it from The Banana Splits, and I really only remember parts of a few episodes... something about being swallowed by a whale? It rather freaked me out as a child, so yay trauma! :D
The reason the animation and live-action works so well in this is that because they had to hand-draw all the cartoon animation, they could make all the interaction-based stuff with practical effects. Roger smashing plates on the bartop is a mechanical arm breaking plates on a spike, completely hidden by the draw-over.
I think I was 8 and I remembered being scared of the shoe killing and and Lloyd's turning toon at the end, otherwise watched it everytime it was on TV.
This movie was not even close to being the first to mix live action and animation. The first feature film to do this was The Lost World (1925). Best. Leo.
I was 6 when this movie came out. My mom took me to see it and we both loved it, though at the time I didn't get the adult humor in it. It was the summer before I started 1st grade. I remember my mom buying me a back pack with Roger Rabbit on it for school that year. It was teal or some shade of light blue with Roger in full color, and it had words in red "It's tough to be a toon!"
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is far from the first movie to mix animated cartoon with live-action. In fact it has been done since at least 1900. Early examples are Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" (1918-1929) series, in which an animated clown, Koko, interacts with the live world.. Later, famous examples are Mary Poppins (1964), or Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971). No doubt though that "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is groundbreaking in its implementing the mix of cartoon and live-action as an integral aspect throughout the whole of the feature-length movie, plus in its extensive compositing of light and shade to make the cartoon characters appear realistic by creating the illusion of them having depth and being affected by the set lighting.
Betty "Yeah what a lucky girl" Mary "That doesn't make any sense, in real life..." LOL this cracks me up. let go of reality is the only way to enjoy this movie
Fun fact: The restaurant Dolores works at is based on Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet, which is in the basement of the old P.E. Terminal Building in downtown L.A. - and is LA's oldest continuously operating restaurant (and claims to be the place that invented the pastrami French Dip sandwich). This movie basically licenced every cartoon from before 1950. Did you notice that Eddy, upon entering Toontown, drove over a pie with a cow's face - a literally cow-pie. The Pasadena freeway was actually built in 1940. Actually the *first* film to mix animation with live action was the *first* animated film - "Gertie the Dinosaur." And it was actually *live* live action - Winsor McCay, the animator, had a whole bit where he interacted with the cartoon Gertie in front of a live audience. I was 29 when I saw it in the theater. The movie was based on the book of the same name...which was a great deal darker with zero jokes (also set in the 70s). But both it and the movie were an allegory about racism - in the scene in the toon "speakeasy" with all the humans "slumming it" to watch toon entertainers this is particularly obvious.
29:49 Film makers have been mixing animation and live action since 1900. The first I recall was ''Mary Poppins'' (1964). One of the penguin waiters took Eddie's drink order (ice, not rocks).
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who framed Rodger rabbit is based on a book called who censored Rodger rabbit, also the setting of the movie is in 1940s L.A.
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@Mary Cherry I know several movies for you to check out in regards to this, there's CASPER (1995), SPACE JAM (1996), LOONEY TUNES: BACK iN ACTiON (2003), THE SpongeBob SQuarePaNts MOViE (2004), THE SpongeBob MOViE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (2015), SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY (2021), etc.
Mary you should watch a movie called mission impossible 1996
One that may interest you is Cool World 1992 starring Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger.
For a Toon, being funny is attractive. Roger is so out of Jessica's league so she is very lucky to have married him. Hence why Betty says "what a lucky girl".
Or, more accurately, “What a lucky goil!”
@@johnmayhew9769 Goyil. XD
i mean... There's also the fact that rabbits are know for having... How can I put it? A *very very very very very VERY* active sexual life xD
A lot of reactors don’t get how the laws of attraction work in this world. 😂
As another film noir would have put it, “ Forget it, Mary. It’s Toontown.”
meh. whatev.
I've always loved that Jessica is drawn as such an absolute stereotype, and she subverts it so hard. Her actual motivations are wholesome and pure, and not at all in line with her appearance.
That's my favorite thing too. Unfortunately, we recently had feminazis attacking her design and trying to get it changed at one of Disney's venues, which they were successful in doing. Disney put her in a trenchcoat...
Interestingly enough, she doesn't actually subvert it, by all definitions she IS a bona fide femme fatale, using feminine wiles such as beauty, charm, or sexual allure to entice others to do what she wants. Except what she wants is a happy and wholesome relationship with her loving husband.
To me that is what makes her character very tragic. This kind, wholesome woman trapped in a body that's given to her to please the male gaze whilst they look at a cartoon. It's a very sad concept.
@@IronDino I believe her relationship with her husband is what people meant by Jessica's subvertion.
All the humans think Roger Rabbit's lucky to have Jessica because they focus on appearance. All the cartoon women think Jessica Rabbits lucky to have Rodger because in their world comedy is the most attractive quality.
Goofy was the benchmark for comedy. Roger admired him, as stated in the theater while they were hiding. When Jessica said Roger was better than Goofy, it was the highest compliment.
AND Rabbits DO IT until they faint!
EDIT: ♂-rabbits..that is! The ♀s can do more..i guess?
OI?! Rabbits=humans :-O
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@@mikejankowski6321 How exactly did Jessica said Roger was better than Goofy?
@@emmanuelharris6445 At the very end of the movie, after the dip machine was destroyed. Regarding his confrontation with Judge Doom.
When I was a kid, this movie blew my mind; not only for the technical artistry involved, but because it had Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny together in the same movie. For a little kid, that was akin to the first Avengers movie in 2012.
I remember my excitement as a kid when the "Superman vs. Spider-Man" comic came out in 1976. Now, I'm an old guy with my fingers crossed hoping for an MCU/DCEU film crossover event...
Try this. In the bar Roger sings " my buddy Edy V a sourpuss is he, but when im done hell need no gun, cause a joker he will be." Later he kills the weasels with laughter.
When I was a kid, Judge Doom scared the hell out of me 😂 I loved the movie but I had nightmares for actual years afterwards because of that character.
I love this movie too and I seen it when I was little and it's my favorite movie from my childhood and it's a good movie but not funny about this movie and it's still a good movie but not funny about this movie and do you agree with me about what I say right
This film is very unique. The licensing alone is one we will never see again. It’s amazing they got the rights to use all the characters they didn’t already own.
The closest today would probably be Ready Player One.
@@joshuawells835 Imo, all the references in RPO reminded me I could be spending my time on much better media than RPO.
@@joshuawells835 nope Cool World with Brad Pitt
@@Nemesisth I meant the number of copyrighted characters, not live action meets animated characters.
Plus, original voice actors who still living did their voices of their characters such as Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny) and I forgotten her name (Betty Boop).
Doom explained his motivation. Greed is a motivator for toons as well as people. And some are just evil...remember the poison apple, the spinning wheel, etc.
Mary Poppins also has a moment where animated characters interact with the live action leads. Then there's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, which is another Disney film. For a more adult film, there's also Ralph Bakshi's Cool World.
Song of the South! Tron!
Gene Kelly danced with Jerry Mouse in “Anchors Aweigh “
Disney did later on also Pete's Dragon that has a toon dragon as a real boys best friend (don't watch the cgi animated remake, the Disney magic is mostly gone in that one compared to the original) and regarding Cool World it is noteworthy that Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger and Brad Pitt play the main roles.
@@datoxgaming the remake of Pete’s Dragon was a great film though. It might not have “Disney magic” but it has great filmmaking magic.
Another movie where cartoons live in the real world is Looney Tunes back in Action
25:00 - Jessica: "I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a Rabbit".
Mary: "I can... imagine? I don't think many women have loved rabbits!"
Oh, Mary. You sweet, summer child. 😂😂😂
"Rabbit" is a nickname for a lady's vibrator. "Pattycake" is Golden Age Hollywood & TOON euphemism for extramarital affairs, but the actual pancake photos were used to placate the hard PG rating, as well as serve as a literal metaphor & visual gag.
Disney and WB characters together is something you'll literally never see again so enjoy.
It also has Fleisher (Betty Boop) and Lantz (Woody Woodpecker) cartoon characters.
The time limit was one of the fascinating parts of the deal for this movie. If Mickey was on screen for one minute and twenty seconds, Bugs had be on for exactly one minute and twenty seconds.
@@charleslee8313 Hence why those two characters shared a scene together. Easy fix.
Also take notice that in the same year of 1964 there were in the theaters the likes of Warner Brothers' The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Disney's Mary Poppins, both live action full feature films mixed with cartoons.
"Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue." I mean yeah it's awful but it does have WB and Disney characters together.
Zoomers: "The Avengers Endgame is the biggest crossover event of all time!"
Boomers: "Psh! Someone has never seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit!"
Judge Doom with the infinity gauntlet would scare me more then Thanos ever could.
Boomers? Nah they had Mary Poppins.
Generation X and millennials had Roger Rabbit.
I came here to say this! This is 100% a GenX movie!
You know what’s even funnier? Both Roger Rabbit and Endgame were both scored by Alan Silvestri🤣🤣
You mean Gen X
In the late 80’s computer animation was still in it’s infancy. They had to hand draw each frame from a still photograph. It took over 300 animators and over 80,000 frames.
They did great work.
There was no computer animation. Everything is practical or rotoscoped.
800 000 man hours of drawing 😁
@@IamMiaga Not quite none; computers operated the player pianos for THAT scene.
@@christopherwall2121 No, they didn't. It was a player piano. It played itself once you put a coin inside it.
Mary: “Some of these older films have been quite good”
Me: “Older??? Oh God....”
Movies from the 80s and 90s are older than many people on TH-cam watching them for the first time. Yeah, we are OLD.
@@TheYakusoku I just turned 40 and I never considered that an old age. But now I'm starting to...
Well any thing older then you are is older for me early 80s and mid 80s is older.
@@Shritistrang so you were born in 81?
@@loganshaw9198 That's correct.
The 'making of' is an absolute must see. The creativity and craftmanship behind every scene is incredible !
Yeah I second this. To fully appreciate the movie you should watch the making of. It has kind of a "Assembled: the Making of WandaVision" vibe now that I think about it since both deal with a lot of mix of animation as well as special and practical effects.
That scene when Roger drinks and spits out REAL WATER... is so perfect.
Once you see someone talk about them "bumping the lamp" you'll never think about the effort put into this the same way.
Where we fine making of at?
The pattycake photos always get me.. 😂 I'm very happy you watched this, this film meant a lot to me as a child and still does. There's a lot of talent and innovation going on in this film. It represents to me how the human spirit can exceed the technical limits of our time with nothing more than ambition and determination. Because for its time this was a visual and technical marvel.
I remember watching this movie for the first time as a kid and just seeing Donald Duck & Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse & Bugs Bunny together in the same scene ... This masterpiece is the perfect love letter to our childhood!
And Porky Pig & Tinkerbelle.
Animators use the phrase “bump the lamp” to refer to going above and beyond what’s required in order to flex their skills, and that’s a reference to when Roger bumps the lamp, requiring much more complicated lighting in his animation.
"Anchors Aweigh" - 1945, has real actors interacting with cartoons as well. Gene Kelly has a whole dance number with Jerry Mouse, from Tom and Jerry.
A terrific movie. Gene Kelly's dance with Jerry one of the all time great dance scenes.
He wanted to dance with Mickey Mouse but they couldn't get the rights. Then after a surprisingly long amount of time they realized wait, they had their own cartoon mouse they could use.
What I really love about this film 🎥 is that it's the only movie 🎥 that uses both Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons. It is literally ground breaking.
Fun Fact: This the first AND ONLY movie so far to have Walt Disney and Warner Bros cartoon character crossover.
Also who would've thought Doc Brown give so many kids nightmare fuels Lmao
Also the companies mandated that that Bugs and Mickey, and Daffy and Donald had the same amount of screen time pretty much down to the second. Thats why they were on screen at the same time and only the same time
@@NightmareOO9 Also why they mixed the two title mascots at the end of the film - "That's All Folks" along with the Tinkerbell magic
What's fun about that?
@@Jutrzen what isnt fun about it? It's interesting information that most people didnt know, and learning is fun.
@@NightmareOO9 A joke can be fun. This isn't.
The judge executing the shoe in dip really freaked me out as a kid.
It freaked me out as an adult! That's intense.
If anything, now that I'm grown, that scene's even harder to watch now than it was when I was a kid.
Pretty chilling when realize you just watched a judge commit first degree murder in front of a room full of cops and nobody does a damn thing about it
That scene has been a source of emotional damage for many kids!
If I remember right, it's briefly shown during Eddie's going back through the photo albums that he and his brother started out as circus clowns - which feeds back to him being able to pull off the routine - that deals with the weasels - so fluidly and well.
Joanna Cassidy -The actress who played Eddie's girlfriend Dolores- is one of the replicants in the original Bladerunner (the snake dancer)
Wow! I never put that one together. Good catch!
@@jkhristian9603 man me either, now it's obvious lol
While there have been many live-action/hand-drawn animation mash-ups before and since, *none* have done it as seamlessly and flawlessly as this one.
The joke about LA having the best public transit in the world is a deep cut: here in LA we're known for having terrible public transit (it's really just average, but not nearly robust enough for the city's size)... But back when the movie takes place, the Pacific Electric Company had really good trolleys across most of the city. But as freeways expanded, the trolleys weren't grade separated, so service slowed and slowed until the company went bankrupt.
But back in the 30'-40's we had the best. They put in the trolly system before the different neighborhoods. Then during the 50-60's we got rid of the trolly system in favor of the freeway system (as sad as that is).
Yeah, that was a genius plot line and really funny for Angelenos. I always wondered how much of it would make sense to other audiences, but out here it played beautifully. "That harebrained freeway scheme could only have been dreamed up by a Toon."
As someone who lives near a Metro subway station I have to say that the situation has gotten 100% better since this film was released (although of course we still have a very long way to go).
@@Johnny_Socko true. Some if not all the light rails plus the Orange Line busway here in Los Angeles are direct successors of the red car.
As for the needed improvements, a number of bus lines including most Rapid lines have been cancelled not to mention the Crenshaw/LAX line and the regional connector have been delayed over and over.
And don't forget the extent to which the trolley system was deliberately dismantled by auto, oil, and tire companies through shell companies
In any case, in L.A. it got a big laugh at the time.
So Roger Rabbit' back story is "loosely" based on a true story, I say "loosely" lol. As mentioned, Los Angeles did once used to have a great public transportation network, but the car companies bought up the street car system only to dismantle it, forcing people to essentially buy cars to get around. Which essentially what Judge Doom was representing in the film, Cloverlief purchansed the "red car"(street car system) and wanted to get rid of ToonTown to turn it into a freeway.
Minority neighborhoods being demolished and replaced with freeways is a tragedy that took place all over the US, not just in LA.
And today, there's a "new" subway system in Los Angeles. Many of the routes are literally the old Red Car routes. Imagine that.
@@themoviedealers in fact "Toontown" is a play on words. The places being destroyed by Freeway Planning were often referred to as "Coontown", a deeply, deeply offensive term for a Black neighborhood. This film works in as a terrific social commentary.
"even the humans are falling in love."
I confirm.
They've put toons in movies before, but never anywhere near this level. The cartoon characters were drawn exactly the same way as they were drawn for the original classic cartoons. This took nearly all the animators in Hollywood to make this film, and there were a lot more people with that talent back in the 1980's than there are now. This film could not be made today.
Sure it could. It just wouldn't look anywhere near as good.
Animation has been mixed with live action nearly since the motion picture was invented. This film just took it to the next level, both with the physical interactions and with the lighting effects.
Check out the original demo short Bosco The Talk-Ink Kid. It's on TH-cam somewhere.
Also the original Pete's Dragon was a mix of live action and animation that was produced maybe 10 years prior to WFRR.
A little search answers your question. "In truth, he's a toon himself. Originally a toon actor called Baron Von Rotten, he played cartoon heavies until an on-set accident left him Lost in Character." He was a villain in cartoons until something happened locking him in his role. He went insane. Also a Toon murderer wanting to commit genocide for no reason is the ultimate in cartoonish villainy.
I believe you, but where's the source of this?
@@Theomite I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember someone in another comment section (I believe it's the one in the clip of Judge Dooms reveal) mentioning similar trivia in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit comic. Or maybe it was one of the books?
@@thisdraco4794 It was a Roger Rabbit comic book but I personally don't consider it canon.
@@shaolinidiots It is canon. If they were done by the source novel's author Gary Wolfe, it is canon.
@@Theomite Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Who Censored Roger Rabbit. Both great books
It's great that they were able to include characters from Fleischer Studios, Warner Brothers, and Disney.
Saw this as a kid and it scared the hell out of me, so Space Jam is the live action/animated movie I watched most but Roger Rabbit is far and away a better film. And for 1988 it's hard to not be impressed when you consider they did all of the animation and compositing without the aid of computers. What a performance from Bob Hoskins too
The one insider thing released was they told him to imagine the sexiest hottest woman standing in front of him when he was acting the scenes with Jessica, when he saw the movie he said "My imagination sucks", had the rest of the cast dying.
What this movie pioneered was the interaction between the animated characters and real world objects. It took a lot of work and planning and no other film has come close to replicating the way it immerses the viewer in the universe it creates.
Yes there are. For example Jar Jar Binks is the "Roger Rabbit" of the Star Wars universe. The fact that he's so hated proves that the immersion is real...
I didn't see this film in the theater (home video VHS). But, I was definitely under the age of 10. The adult content flew over my head. Ahhh the 80s, when kids were, well, kids.
Doing Eddie is Bob Hoskins who would later do Smee in the movie, "Hook," which is another iconic movie, which you would probably love.
Bob Hoskins is one of my favorite actors. He's excellent in Enemy at the gates, Unleashed, Hook just to name a few
Criminally underrated actor. Criminally. He is absolutely fantastic and so very talented. He was doing so much of this acting with literally nothing. Not even green screen. And he sells it every single time 150%.
@@mycroft16 he was. He passed away some years ago
Grogu/"Baby Yoda" wasn't Disney's first 50-year-old baby...
yeah this movie ages well.. i always liked that it was funny and slapstick at times, but also had a legit neo-noir mystery story. and the 40's LA setting was nicely portrayed
No this movie is definitely not funny and this movie is serious movie
Jessica: “I’ve loved you more than any woman has ever loved a rabbit”
Ann Summers: “Hold my …. Um …. Beer”
This was my introduction to Christopher Lloyd so while everyone in the world loves him for being Marty's best friend to me he's the terrifying toon that murdered an innocent toon shoe for no reason.
Same here. 😬
Completely understandable; yet at the same time, as one of the 'everyone' who love Doc Brown, this also makes me sad.
I first knew Christopher Lloyd as Doc in BttF, but I believe he is also in the movie Clue (which is live action), as well as the (animated) Anastasia that iirc Disney now owns even though it was not made by Disney. I recommend those movies to anyone who hasn't seen them as they are both very good. :)
And then there's those of us old farts who have you all beat that our first impression of Christopher Lloyd is of a stoned out hippie New York City taxi driver in the late 70s TV show Taxi lol
To me he was a Rev. In Taxi.
I remember the first time I saw actress, Nikki Cox, on a show called Unhappily Ever After, I thought Jessica Rabbit had come to life.
Real-life Jessica Rabbit would be Christina Hendricks.
One of my favorite things is they brought back Mae Questel to reprise the voice of Betty Boop 57 years after her first time. (And that Boop was in B&W.)
It's also interesting that some of [Walt] Disney's earliest films combined live actors and animation: his short Alice in Wonderland films. Something he would return to from time to time.
Mixing animation with Iive action goes back at least to the '20s with Walt Disney's own "Alice" comedy shorts.
Another movie that combined cartoons and live action was the 1992 movie Cool World.
A lot of practical effects were used to blend the live action with the animation. The boys at the Corridor Crew channel do a great video showing how it was done.
*Here are just a few other 'Live Action/Animation" movies that are out there;*
Mary Poppins (1964)
Cool World (1992)
Space Jam (1996)
Bednobs And Broomsticks (1971)
Pete's Dragon (1977)
The Incredible Mr Limpet (1964)...kind of 😁
Also in the 1945 musical called Anchors Away, Gene Kelly does a dance number with a cartoon mouse. Tom of Tom and Jerry fame!!
@@carlaharrington5120 Damn!
I can't believe I forgot that one.
This is one of my absolute favorite movies of all time
"I don't understand why a toon would want to destroy ToonTown"
Quoth the Detective: "That's what I call one Seriously disturbed Toon."
Evil never makes sense.
There have been quite a few live-action/cartoon interaction pieces across time, the ones I recall include both Fantasia movies, but "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is frankly the best quality, both before and after it's release (though the little piece in Fantasia 2000, where Mickey straightens the conductor's bowtie, was pretty good at getting the tie movements). The real secret is being able to get eye-lines right and animatronics that gets the toon interactions right. I recall seeing behind-the-scenes specials about this movie and one of the things I remember is the equipment under Bob Hoskins' coat when Eddie is trying to keep Roger inside it.
And yes, when once looks back on this now (I was ten when it came out), the fact that the effects stand up so damn well even now. They worked hard to make the interactions work well on-screen, a lot better than most other versions I ever saw (again, Fantasia 2000's tie-straightening was pretty good).
I'm a big fan of Bedknobs and broomsticks
Yup, Does anyone remember "Cool World"?
The "tie-straightening" was in the original Fantasia from 1940 also. It preceded Mickey's _Sorcerer's Apprentice_ short (which was carried over to _Fantasia 2000_ alongside a segment featuring Donald themed around Noah's Ark).
Amy Irving was Jessica's singing voice. Kathleen Turner is the voice. Fun facts!
I hear the physical inspiration for Jessica Rabbit was Jayne Mansfield. With her color changed, of course.
Roger Rabbit is a miracle of collaboration. Disney, Warners and others dropped their selfishness for a hot minute in the nineties for this film.
You can thank Steven Spielberg and his influence with the studios for that.
There's a classic called Harvey and The Incredible Mr. Limpet both have a mixture and Pete's Dragon as well.
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Also Mary Poppins
I watched this 2 times a day when I was young, it's an all time fav.
One Of Robert Zemeckis Masterpieces Ever Made
A classic that is still amazing after all these years, and Jessica Rabbit is iconic!
The late great Bob Hoskins played Eddie and when I first saw this at the theater I thought he was from New York, he was actually from the UK.
You have to see the original Star Trek movie's because Christopher Lloyd is in Star Trek III - The Search for Spock 🖖. Live long prosper.
Love this movie, the behind the scenes of this movie is something you will appreciate, so much talent and creativity... Hey, I have an idea, you should watch The Crow(1994), not animation related but still a great movie
Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh do an integrated live action/animation dance routine. (Anchors Aweigh 1945)
Fun fact: they originally didn't do Jerry's reflection in the floor, and so they had to go back and composite the whole sequence again, painting in Jerry's reflection on each frame.
This perfect match of technical and artistry only happened twice, here with Roger Rabbit and later with Jurassic Park. Both were written with a known capability in mind and filmed with a new technology just as it developed, because of this both sides gave their all. The established crew giving the best of their experience and the new people showcasing their abilities.
Cool World, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Those are the ones I know at the top of my head. Plus, The Adventures Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Not animation per se, but definitely worth checking out the various Jim Henson stuff as well to see humans interact with non humans. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, various Muppet movies, etc etc.
I can count on one hand all the movies I will never get tired of, and this is one of 'em.
Christopher Lloyd is awesome as villain he once stated hes favorite part he ever played was the Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek 3
Fun fact: Christopher Lloyd's french voice actor, Pierre Hatet, was also known for voicing the Joker since the 1992 animated series.
During Judge Doom's toon reveal, he switches effortlessly between the two voices.
"I don't think many women have loved rabbits", gives Mary the side eye... 😏🤭
I see what you did there. 😆
I had nightmares about Judge Doom for YEARS after seeing this movie as a kid. Genuinely horrified me beyond belief.
I'm still surprised I didn't have those nightmares. He was so scary to a kid. Even before the psychotic break-out at the end, he was so menacing, and then... **shivers** Anyway, his name is funny 'cause Doom means Judgement. :D
Just for You, not for Your Channel: Please watch the three "Roger Rabbit" short films (only 7 minutes each)!
Thanks. I didn't know that they existed.
The original Mary Poppins had a scene where live action people go into an animated world as well as BedKnobs and Broomsticks. Both might be worth the watch.
The film won a special Oscar for its animation. There was a film in the 1940s called Anchors Away which starred Gene Kelly as a sailor who goes on shore leave in Los Angeles. His girlfriend works at a movie studio in Hollywood and he goes to visit her. One scene shows him dancing with Tom and Jerry.
There have been many movies in the past that combined animated characters with live action. The oldest and best known is probably Anchors Aweigh from 1945, which has Gene Kelly performing a dance routine with Jerry Mouse (from Tom and Jerry cartoons).
Oh man I loved this! I was screaming with laughter at your reactions - Jessica, Patty Cake, everything!
The original cartoon with real life concept is Mary Poppins.
Oh it goes back way earlier than Mary Poppins. Disney was doing it in the early 20s out of a shed when he was barely 22.
Gertie the Dinosaur beats them all.
There’s another similar to this. It’s called Cool World. More adult oriented, and in my opinion, not as well done, but very interesting anyway.
That's putting it lightly. 'Cool World' was an incoherent fever dream at best.
@@bakedAK85 I can only watch the first half. After that it becomes insufferable.
Space Jam, from the 90s .But his kind of movies are very expensive to make.
I'm sure somebody has probably already said this, but Who Framed Rodger Rabbit isn't the first film to mix cartoons and real people together. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the first one was actually Song of the South. One of Disney's most controversial films, yet also one of their most impressive for its time.
I saw this when it was still in the movie theatres, when I was 15-16 years old, and it blew my mind seeing the cartoon characters interact with both real humans and inter-company characters. Even more so than when I read the Superman/Spider-Man and Batman/Hulk team-ups in the early 80's. It's one of the movies I've rewatched the most, and it's still one of my all-time favorites.
"He needs to go for someone in his league."
Yeah, because looks matter when two people are happy with each other...
Really in context he is a movie star (thinking a real world analog at the time would be one of the 3 stooges) and she is a lounge singer. Regardless of her looks she is the one in a lower social position, that's why Betty Boop, for instance, thinks Jessica is the lucky one.
Another fun note: The people working on the effects for this movie went so far beyond what was required just to make it work that "shake the lamp" (referencing the scene where a lamp shakes a little just because a toon character could conceivably have bumped into it a little) became a term in the special effects world for adding those extra details that almost no one will notice but make it all seem more real.
Please watch "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987)! One of my favourite childhood movies!
Martin! It's you
Christopher Lloyd was also the villain in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
I saw it as a kid when it first came out. A lot of the adult humor I didn't understand back then, so it was fine watching it as a kid.
Same here.
Judge Doom is a toon named Baron Von Rotten. A character actor that played the role of the villain in every cartoon since the silent era. He was famous for being able to fully change his appearance and immerse himself in any role, giving him the moniker "The toon with 1000 faces." He even played the hunter that shot Bambi's mom. After accidentally being caught in an explosion while filming Mother Goose Step, he spent weeks in recovery and emerged with his eyes inexplicably glowing red and became murderously insane.
When I saw this in '88 at a Hollywood theater, the "best transportation system in the world" line got a huge laugh. ( Its improved since ).
The techniques employed to accomplish the meshing of toon with real in this film were groundbreaking and stretched the capability of traditional animation at the time as digital / computer graphics were largely not employed.
i was about 3 or 4 when i saw it. i saw it in the theater when it first came out. still one of my very favorite. such an amazing movie full of imagination, and brilliant performance from bob hoskins. the scene of him looking at the pictures of his brother is heartbreaking.
Not the first time, but the best it was ever done. The anamatronics and puppeteering to give the animated characters interaction with the live action is incredible.
You should check out "UP". It's a lot of fun. My kids and grandkids enjoyed it as much as I did. It is all animation and not the hybrid sort that this one is.
Such a good suggestion Randall, what a movie!
@@TeddyBerry Ed Asner appreciation...
I was seven when this movie came out. I remember seeing it in the movie theaters with my grandma. My grandma loved going to the movies and she use to take my cousin and me all the time. Not all of them child-friendly, but I've always liked this movie, and now when It as an adult it connects me back to my grandma. I still remember every movie I've seen with her growing up.
Mixing animation and live-action goes way back. Before Disney created his own company he made many Alice Comedies with a live person in an animated world. Fleischer studios also did many including Out of the Inkwell also in the 1920s and 30s. Later Disney did scenes of mixed live and animation in Fantasia, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. MGM had Jerry Mouse and Gene Kelly in a dance number in Anchors Aweigh and later with The Incredible Mr. Limpet with Don Knotts as a fish. However, Roger Rabbit was definitely the most ambitious use of this mixing of two mediums. (We'll forget about Cool World a horrid deservedly so flop).
In television, I seem to remember the New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn played as part of The Banana Splits' lineup waaaaaay back in the 70s. It also mixed live action and cartoons, although believe it was flipped: real actors in a cartoon world
"Cool World" is another good example of live-action/animated film. A little bit underrated, in my opinion.
If she could find a copy of "song of the south" that's a good one too
@@SilentSooYun You are correct _except_ The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally a stand-alone show, it was added to The Banana Splits show when they were syndicated.
@@jb888888888 Cool! I didn't actually know that: I only remember it from The Banana Splits, and I really only remember parts of a few episodes... something about being swallowed by a whale? It rather freaked me out as a child, so yay trauma! :D
The reason the animation and live-action works so well in this is that because they had to hand-draw all the cartoon animation, they could make all the interaction-based stuff with practical effects.
Roger smashing plates on the bartop is a mechanical arm breaking plates on a spike, completely hidden by the draw-over.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is another movie that blends animation and live action.
Very underrated in my opinion
"Space Jam" (1996) is another movie that mixes live action and animation
I think I was 8 and I remembered being scared of the shoe killing and and Lloyd's turning toon at the end, otherwise watched it everytime it was on TV.
This movie was not even close to being the first to mix live action and animation. The first feature film to do this was The Lost World (1925). Best. Leo.
Jerry Mouse and Gene Kelly Dance - "Anchors Aweigh" (1945) - on TH-cam
@@TheNeonRabbit Absolutely. Keep going. I believe that Walt Disney was playing around with that a lot in the thirties. Best. Leo.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is another older Disney movie that mixes animation with live action, and definitely one of my favorites.
The "REMEMBER ME EDDIE?" line is one that got engraved on mi mind for years after watching this movie when I was a child.
I was 6 when this movie came out. My mom took me to see it and we both loved it, though at the time I didn't get the adult humor in it. It was the summer before I started 1st grade. I remember my mom buying me a back pack with Roger Rabbit on it for school that year. It was teal or some shade of light blue with Roger in full color, and it had words in red "It's tough to be a toon!"
Eddie's acrobatics and slapstick is foreshadowed during the famous "Desk Montage." He and his brother grew up in the circus!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is far from the first movie to mix animated cartoon with live-action. In fact it has been done since at least 1900. Early examples are Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" (1918-1929) series, in which an animated clown, Koko, interacts with the live world.. Later, famous examples are Mary Poppins (1964), or Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971). No doubt though that "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is groundbreaking in its implementing the mix of cartoon and live-action as an integral aspect throughout the whole of the feature-length movie, plus in its extensive compositing of light and shade to make the cartoon characters appear realistic by creating the illusion of them having depth and being affected by the set lighting.
Betty "Yeah what a lucky girl"
Mary "That doesn't make any sense, in real life..."
LOL this cracks me up. let go of reality is the only way to enjoy this movie
actually it makes perfect sense ...if you know the reasoning behind.
In Toon terms, Roger's a major movie star; Jessica's a sleazy lounge singer.
I'm so glad you chose my favorite scene to show as the preview scene. lol...
Fun fact: The restaurant Dolores works at is based on Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet, which is in the basement of the old P.E. Terminal Building in downtown L.A. - and is LA's oldest continuously operating restaurant (and claims to be the place that invented the pastrami French Dip sandwich).
This movie basically licenced every cartoon from before 1950.
Did you notice that Eddy, upon entering Toontown, drove over a pie with a cow's face - a literally cow-pie.
The Pasadena freeway was actually built in 1940.
Actually the *first* film to mix animation with live action was the *first* animated film - "Gertie the Dinosaur." And it was actually *live* live action - Winsor McCay, the animator, had a whole bit where he interacted with the cartoon Gertie in front of a live audience.
I was 29 when I saw it in the theater.
The movie was based on the book of the same name...which was a great deal darker with zero jokes (also set in the 70s). But both it and the movie were an allegory about racism - in the scene in the toon "speakeasy" with all the humans "slumming it" to watch toon entertainers this is particularly obvious.
29:49 Film makers have been mixing animation and live action since 1900. The first I recall was ''Mary Poppins'' (1964). One of the penguin waiters took Eddie's drink order (ice, not rocks).