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Gene Kelly danced with Jerry(the mouse) back in the 50s probably. Certainly Mary Poppins and Pete's Dragon had animated characters and sequences. This was the first adult one.
Would love to see your reaction to Rush by Ron Howard about the Hunt-Lauda rivalry in F1. Maybe one of the best and most underrated racing movies in recent history.
The craziest thing about this film is that they somehow managed to get all these different characters from Warner Bros, Disney, etc. into one film. That's unthinkable today. Getting so many different IPs from different rights holders.
Here is a great behind the scenes that's less than 6 minutes. Just watched this after your reaction and you were spot on! th-cam.com/video/NKOum-MftXY/w-d-xo.html
I don't want to see a porn parody, but I want one that includes the lines "Are you telling me that you could get into those cuffs at any time?" "No, not anytime. Only when it was kinky."
The part where Doom murders the shoe was legit disturbing as a kid. Watching it now, I realize the power of the expressive animation - the shoe looks like a puppy that's being beaten and doesn't understand why. It's a terrible moment, but very effective.
As a side note, Zemeckis was passionate to do this immediately after Back to the Future but he didn't trust that Universal wouldn't go ahead and make Part II without him in the interim, so he signed Chris Lloyd as Judge Doom specifically to keep him busy until Zemeckis was ready to go ahead with the sequel.
Zemeckis and Bob Gale (the writer/producer of BACK TO THE FUTURE) were good at low-key playing the long game like that. They knew Universal were interested in a sequel almost immediately, but they set it up so they'd at least be able to do it on their own terms and with most of the original cast in tact.
This movie had the animators coin the phrase “bumping the lamp”. It means going above and beyond what was expected of the animators, watch the video to understand why. "Seemingly superfluous details help sell the effect at a subconscious level". Always take the chance to bump the lamp in your work.
@@Gwynbleidd66 No, one of Pixar's earliest animations was a short of the jumping lamp with the ball, and they liked it so kept the lamp as the logo. Here's the short, if you're interested -- th-cam.com/video/D4NPQ8mfKU0/w-d-xo.html
I've read that one of the reasons they cast Bob Hoskins (besides him being a fantastic actor, who could pull off the tough-guy American accent flawlessly despite being British) was his ability to slightly cross his eyes. When your eyes are focusing on something close up, your eyeballs zero in close to your face; you go a bit cross-eyed. It is actually really difficult to act with thin air, simply for the fact that your eyes have nothing to focus on. Bob's muscle control of his eyeballs- his ability to go just slightly cross-eyed, and focus on a point in space in front of his face with nothing actually there: that is one of the things that really sells Roger's reality in his interactions with Eddy Valiant. (Along with the other tricks of the technical department, and all the actors' absolute commitment to believing what they were acting with, of course. But those subtle things like eye focus make a big difference- even if only subconsciously.)
@@exceedcharge1 Bob. Since he had imagine the characters he was interacting with. He began hallucinating and had to get mental help for it. Honestly, feel bad for him.
@@HobGungan Doom was very much stop motion. The movie used ZERO cgi. So aaaaactually, your wrong. Star Wars used CGI back in 77, so CGI in movies was not new to film, but Roger Rabbit used no CG, especially how strict the animation director, Richard Williams, was against NON-TRADITIONAL animation. Look up The Thief and the Cobbler. I was convinced it was CGI, having no idea when it was made, until I learned production of the film started in the 60s for over 20 years, PRE CGI.
Because Christopher Lloyd was a toon wearing a human costume, he never blinks on screen. You don't notice it, but it definately adds to the overall creepiness of the character.
There's also a lot if little things, like how he wears the large rubber glove when dipping the toon shoe, or how he backs away quickly when Eddie dumps the dip barrel over. Subtle things that don't give the twist away, but that you notice on a second viewing.
@@johnsensebe3153 Another thing that sets him aside is the fact that he doesn’t react to laughter the way other toons do for example the “shave and a haircut” bait for roger, Doom is able to recite it without it affecting him also when he slips on the acme products and the Weasels start laughing, Doom reacts with anger instead of laughter despite being a toon all of which hints to the final line that he was a seriously disturbed toon
@@scottalynch Hahahahah I would expect nothing less. I mean I think we all take for granted how massive of a crossover this was. I mean it literally was the most ambitious crossovers in history. The only equivalent today would be if they made a MCU and DC crossover (actually happened in the comic books in the 90s). Can only imagine the budget on a MCU/DC crossover made today let alone all the insane corporate politics of who gets more screen time and who wins in a fight.
@@darastarscream the full list: Warner Bros., King Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, Fleischer Studios and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions
One of my absolute favorite details in this film: Despite his otherwise all-encompassing hatred of toons in the first act, Eddie seems to have a soft spot for Betty Boop, even smiling at her and reaffirming that "She's still got it." This is subtly explained later: On Eddie's brother's desk, there's a plush of Betty among the news clippings and cobwebs. One of the only bits of Toon merch in the whole office. Even with his vendetta, Betty still holds sentimental value to him.
I love how they had to invent a plot device to kill toons because really, what else can you do if a toon goes psychotic? There's just no stopping them. This is maybe the funniest and brightest pure noir movie ever made, I can't believe they even included the classic noir plot of some corrupt land deal in LA.
@@JamesVSCinema - Makes me wonder what Cool World might have been if they had stuck with the idea of making it an animated horror film. That finished product was nowhere near the league of Roger Rabbit though. On that note, the original book that inspired Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was also far darker than the film and quite different. It's called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? if you're curious about it.
I got to talk with Dean Cundey about working on this and he said it was one of the most difficult shoots he's worked on, mainly because they had nothing to use but cardboard cutouts and no immediate dailies. He also said that the work on this film made Jurassic Park so much easier to shoot! Who Framed Roger Rabbit walked so Jurassic Park could run!
Wow! That's soo cool you got to talk to someone who worked on two films that quite literally changed the face of cinema and more specifically, visual effects. Kinda jealous not gonna lie lol.
Dean Cundey was at HorrorHound and I got to talk with him quite a bit! Truly, that man lensed my childhood! I have a Big Trouble in Little China poster signed by both him and John Carpenter thanks to that event! Cundey is a legend and one of the most unassuming and kind people you'll ever meet!
@@kevinpauley-dadbodstyle2935 Wow thats so cool. Really jealous now lol. Didnt know he worked on Big trouble in little China, that was one of my favourite films growing up. Always surprised no one ever tried to reboot that to my knowledge though probably for the best considering how much of a classic it is. Though I think a modern retelling with an all Asian cast would be pretty cool.
Man, he lensed the following: Halloween (1978), The Fog, Escape from New York, John Carpenter's The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, the Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, and Apollo 13 just to name a few! He is a LEGEND!
Fuck yeah, one of the best "movies" of all time. There's not a single wasted line or shot. It's not high art but it's blockbuster perfection. Like Tremors or Big Trouble In Little China.
High art combines great craftsmanship with strong aesthetics. This, Big Trouble, etc are literally high art. It makes people's hearts sing & inspires some people to make high art themselves.
You think that's subtle... Whether intended or not, there's a sex toy that emerged around the 80s called a rabbit. So yeah. I actually believe Jessica was fully satisfied...by a rabbit.
Richard Williams is the undisputed GOAT of animation. Man does everything by hand and animates on 1s, which is ridiculously painstaking. His other animation films and shorts are similarly super detailed.
He really was! The whole story behind the Thief and the Cobbler still breaks my heart for what it could have been. It still has some of the most breathtaking animation ever.
When Robert Zemeckis was informed that the camera isn't supposed to move when combining live-action w/ hand-drawn animation, he dismissed it as mere laziness. Leading to one of the most tedious & painstaking productions in cinema history. A year later, James Cameron's "The Abyss" would push the boundaries of how difficult a film production can be. I suggest you react to the special edition version that was released in the early 90s.
That was actually Richard Williams that said that. He was the animation director. Zemeckis and Spielberg asked Richard about whether it would be possible to move the camera as they would a live action film but animating over it, and Richard said "it's possible... it's a lot or work but any animator who says they cant do it is just being lazy". That's one the reasons why he beat out Disney for this gig.
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney produced the movie and was responsible for its funding. But it was Richard Williams and his team responsible for all the animation - not Disney Animation. Williams is known for being a perfectionist and a bit of a creative nutcase (in a good way). He is a true master of his craft. And it shows in this movie.
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney did contribute some animation staff to it, and they had helped develop it.. but once Spielberg took it over, he and Zemekis put Williams in charge of design and animation... which still amazes me that at the time.. Disney was not up for the job of animating this on their own.. they had to bring in a small British indie studio (admittedly run by a mad genius) to finish it, along with Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) to do the shadows and film compositing.
I managed a theater when this came out and I watched it by myself the night before it opened after hours and I will never forget how amazed I was at how seamless everything worked.😎
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is, in my opinion, an absolute masterpiece. Not only is it an utter triumph of special effects and animation, but the story, the characters, the acting, the set design, the music - it's one of those very rare films where there's barely a thing in it that could actually be improved. You can watch this film without having the slightest idea of or interest in how it was made, and still get swept up in it. It's a film to be treasured, because in all likelihood, there will never be another one like it.
No CGI in it at all, it's all hand-drawn cell animation. All the hidden puppetry & wire work in there also has a big impact on selling it (ie the bumping the lamp or other object on set, moving the actor's clothes when a toon touches him, etc). I can't say for sure, but I think the first movie that did the live action/animation blend in any big way was Mary Poppins in 1965. Of course 20 years earlier it was done much more simply, but still quite a thing to see for the first time. Also, there used to be a tradition of having a short film (usually animated comedy) before the main feature that is very rarely done anymore (maybe Pixar once in a while). I thought it was really cool here how they effectively did that while incorporating the short directly into the feature.
But if you pay close attention to Mary Poppins, the animation is just kind of inserted and doesn't interact at all with the real actors - it couldn't sell the illusion of immersion. Roger Rabbit made especially sure that animated characters took up space in the real world by interacting with it. The real actors also maintained strong sightlines with the toons' eyes to sell the illusion they were directly interacting with something despite the toon not being present on set.
@@adog4661 Good catch, I did remember that, but was completely wrong about when it was made. I thought it was contemporary to Mary Poppins, but it came out 20 years earlier. Plus people just generally don't mention it anymore for obvious reasons.
Unleashed is a really awesome and dark action tale. And how often do you get Jet Li and Morgan Freeman in a movie together, with Bob Hoskins as a villain, to boot?
I love how he and Dustin Hoffman played their characters in Hook like an old gay couple. It drove Spielberg nuts, but they’re the best part of the movie.
Richard Williams was the animation director on this movie. He wrote the book on animation, literally, “The Animator’s Survival Kit”, the primary handbook used in animation schools.
The head animator on this movie, Richard Williams, was one of the greatest if not the greatest animators of all time. I highly recommend his final short film, Prologue. It's a masterpiece.
Whoaaaa!!! You never seen Roger Rabbit? This is my favorite movie ever!! Bob Hoskins deserved an award for his performance and for having to act alongside air. This movie really helped play a huge role in getting people interested in animation again as it helped started the Disney Renaissance.
I wasn't expecting this, and now I'm so happy this film is genuinely amazing can't believe this happened, would be such a logistical nightmare to do today, Disney and Warner Bros characters crossing over
Yes, when you know how to peek behind the curtains, you can see how the magic is done. But it also lets you understand how much more amazing the accomplishments are than they might look at first glance.
It wasn't until years later that I learned this was essentially a parody of Chinatown, with the freeway plot actually having been intended for the 3rd movie that never came to fruition since The Two Jakes bombed.
There wasn't any "green screen", at least, not in the cotemporary sense. They built all kinds of mechanisms to create the intereactions between the Toons and the physical world, then simply hid those mechanisms behind the animation.
Thank you for realising just how incredible that Mickey Mouse/Bugs Bunny crossover was! A lot of other reaction videos don't seem to react to that scene at all! It's incredible to see those two icons share the screen together!
If you’ve ever heard the term, “bumping the lamp”, it came around because of this movie. Eddie accidentally bumps into the hanging lamp causing it to swing back and forth. Bob Hoskins did this accidentally. The animators went the extra mile and applied the appropriate shadows and highlights to Roger in response. They didn’t have to do this but knew it would lend a more realistic look to the world they were building. Now “bumping the lamp” means going the extra mile despite the audience not realizing the work involved. Also keep in mind that the entire movie was filmed before a single toon made an appearance. Also, unless the toon was interacting with a real world object, there would be nothing in the scene to direct the actors eyeline. This would cause the animators to come up with ways to correct it. The scene at Maroon studios just before Eddie confronts Maroon before he’s killed, Eddie explains things to Roger. Eddie’s eyes are directed too high when looking at Roger so animators drew Roger going up onto his tiptoe’s while leaning against the wall, correcting Bob’s flub.
8:06 a cartoon character holding real photos that include another cartoon character and in his angst flips them so quickly that he makes an actual animation out of them. The meta.
9:09 "liquifing toons? In like a vat of acid?" They are Toons, it's paint thinner. The Dip, Also Known As "Toon Acid", is a greenish, ghastly chemical seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's Judge Doom's preferred method of Toon execution. According to Lieutenant Santino, it's a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzine, which all of them are paint-thinners. Combined in the real world, they make up the solution hand animators used to use to remove ink from animation cells. This could be considered an inside joke, as your average audience member would not know what these ingredients made up. While relatively harmless to humans, any toon that comes in contact with it will melt instantly, and is apparently the only surefire way to kill a toon
Interesting Fact: According to Bob Hoskins, making this movie drove him insane. He's said in interviews that after the filming of this movie wrapped, he continued (hallucinated) hearing and seeing the animated characters
Let's gooo, Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite movies, especially with how they managed to do all of the effects. That ending scared me when I was little ngl.
Try the old Pete's Dragon, that was even older, and though its not as good, they did a real good job of making the cartoon dragon look like it was really there as well. But I don't think anything is as good as Roger Rabbit when it comes to mixing real and cartoon together.
The entire flick is mind-blowing - the Daffy vs. Donald Duck duet intro to the Jessica Rabbit reveal is still one of the most insane sequences ever committed to film.
I was born in 87. This was the first movie my mom ever bought me as a baby. She didn't realize what she had bought and ended up having to rewind the first few minutes over and over (on VHS). Watched it 100s of times with my siblings when we were growing up. I still have the tape and the vhs player to show my daughter.
@@JamesVSCinema You'll love it for sure! The BTS for this movie is completely bonkers... the innovations and ingenuity of the scenes, especially the cabaret one, is on another level.
@@JamesVSCinema the making of this film is incredibly inspiring 👏 Robert Zemeckis and his team forever have my respect for going as above and beyond as they did.
Another movie that has an interesting style is Steve Martin's movie: "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". It's a comedy where half the film is spliced dialogue from old film noire movies, which the actors have back and forth dialogue with.
Oh, that's one of my favorites. Reiner did masterful work, on that one, as did the cast. Nowadays, they'd just digitally recreate the faces on modern actors...that makes me sad.
Steve Oedekirk's parody film Kung Pow Fist does a similar thing with footage from old Kung Fu movies, but relies more on using green screen and some silly 90's CGI to insert the lead actor (Oedekirk) into the footage itself.
This will always be a film I think about when I look back on my childhood, watching Looney Toons Saturday mornings with my bowl of cereal was simple yet one of my favorite memories as a kid, this film still holds up today nothing like it
I am laughing so hard at “oh my god, tweety, you are such a piece of crap.” It is always so much fun watching you watch my favorite movies. You always make me see something new.
You skip over it in this smaller cut, but the scene with Eddie in his office looking over old photos is a FANTASTIC way to show his character and history. This video breaks it down way better than I do: th-cam.com/video/EcFrG3L7YGQ/w-d-xo.html
It's pretty impressive that they managed to get so many different toons, from different studios, in one movie. There were some they tried but didnot manage to get permission for, like Popeye, Casper and Tom&Jerry. The Donald and Daffy Duck duet was awesome and so in character.
One of your best reactions/commentaries. Your joy of, and enthusiasm for, great movies is refreshing. Love your takes on the creative details. Also, I appreciate that you review older films. Keep up the great work. 👍🏼
Fun fact. Warner only agreed to allow their characters be used if their two biggest stars got equal screen time with Disney’s two biggest stars. That’s why Donald and Daffy were in their scenes together and Mickey and Buggs were in their scenes together. Great video, man.😁👍
I saw this in theaters as a kid and it blew my mind, then. I have a vivid memory of picking up a coloring book for it on the way home and spending all weekend on it. I still LOVE this movie, and have it in my top 10. - Everly
I watched the behind the scenes to this movie and what you said is correct. There was no lazy illustrators in this entire products. It was painstakingly slow and expensive. Everything needed to be perfect. Even the story was perfect. It didn't dumb down the audience. It was a really good story. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the only one in existence.
A shot that just blows my mind is the cartoon weasel pressing a real gun into Valient’s face. Pressing into just just putting a gun up to his face but full on physically affecting it.
Yeah I just thought of that seeing that shot again. Its insane how good it looks. Also, just incredible how they not only managed to perfectly position it in the shot but how the animators were able to make it look so convincing that the weasel was holding said gun.
They were able to do a lot of this because they had puppets and stand ins. The plate of all the characters in toon town at the end of the movie ended up being like eight feet tall
One of the most beautifully innovative films of the last 40 years... and a childhood favorite :') Great Reaction as usual, James 👍 It's been great seeing the channel grow so much and I know that that growth is only gonna continue 👍👍
This movie was so groundbreaking in so many ways... When it first came out I was definitely part of the target audience and I loved it, but watching it again as an adult I've realized that there was a ton that went right over my head. Everything about it is an allegory for segregation, and how they wanted to demolish Toontown to make way for a freeway was all about what happened to various racialized neighborhoods in cities across North America (and especially LA), but I completely missed that as a kid.
I think the Ink and Paint Club was a reference to Prohibition-era nightclubs like the Cotton Club, where blacks could be performers, but couldn't enter as patrons. All the people enjoying the show are human, but the staff and talent are toons. There are lots of parallels to real world segregation, with toons as second-class citizens, and Roger even says "You know there's no justice for toons anymore", when he's running from Judge Doom.
The thing that makes the animation so immersive in this film is the eye lines. The human characters look into the toons eyes, as though they are really there. Credit to the animators for their incredible work putting this vision to screen
This movie had everything. Comedy, drama, love, hate, revenge, social and ethnic commentary, all done in an old school cartoon sort of way, where kids could watch it, and not really get the adult jokes, but still find it funny, while adults found everything entertaining.
Fun fact: Terry Gilliam regretted passing up as director for this. Great reaction, it's interesting to hear the perspective of someone involved in filmmaking. I remember going to see this in the theater with friends back in high school, I was mesmerized by the effects and we all laughed our asses off. I've suspected that part of Spielberg's sell to Warner Brothers was how cool it'd be to see Bugs and Mickey together on the screen, for the first (and probably only) time. And even though they couldn't get several cartoons like Tom & Jerry or Bullwinkle, there's still a plethora of animation history scattered throughout. This is one of those films you can rewatch just to examine everything in the background. Live action and animation have been combined since 1900. Many shorts were popular in the 20's and 30's, such as _Koko the Clown_ and the _Alice Comedies,_ but no surprise that Disney often pioneered its use. Not only did _Mary Poppins_ feature nearly 20 minutes of it, the sodium vapor process they used would refine the chroma key technique into the modern green screen we know today. I never really saw this as a Disney film though because there were so many other people involved, and it was distributed through their more successful Touchstone label. Disney itself hadn't been doing so hot anyway, they nearly shut down their animation department after _The Black Cauldron_ did so poorly, but between this and finishing _The Great Mouse Detective,_ they were finally back on their way to future success. CGI was being used back then, just not on this film. 1973's _Westworld_ was the first major feature film to use it, and _Willow_ (released a few weeks before this one) wowed people with the "new" morphing effect. Have you ever considered watching _West Side Story_ or _The Color Purple?_ I've never really seen any reactors do those two, and I think they'd be of interest as masterful works of cinema.
When everyone else was going on about Jessica Rabbit I was geeking out over seeing Betty! No better reason to show off my Betty Boop tattoo :-) Wonderful reactions, kerk
I was 9 years old ,in 1988 , i was in love with that movie. I got cads ,sticker books,comic adaptation from this year. A true masterpiece and a true cinema classic
A lot of the older fans see this movie as an end of era- it was the last big non-CGI animated movie and they knew that before filming began. That's why the artists poured their hearts into it, they knew they had to represent not only themselves but everyone who came before. As a kid I saw this as recognizing the huge shift in Saturday morning cartoons both in terms of art and content/plot without realizing just how much the tech had changed.
Part of what made it work was a compromise. All Disney and WB cameos had to have equal screen time with each other. Especially the prominent ones. That is why Donald/Daffy, and Micky/Buggs are paired up.
the making of/production features for Who Framed Roger Rabbit are well worth the watch. the craftsmanship that went into making animated characters interact with and feel a part of the real physical world is the best. RIP Bob Hoskins.
Practical effects are so much fun. Learning how it’s done doesn’t ruin the scene for me-it makes me appreciate it even more. The more real a movie is, the easier it is to suspend disbelief.
There are movies you get invested into, and there are movies that you get excited about. Great reaction watching you get more and more excited the further it went. Keep up the great work!
Right? Scene tears a bleeding rip in my heart every time I watch it. I'm brought to tears by a drawing of a shoe; if that's not art I don't know what is.
They shot the lighting to match the shadows in the hand drawn frames....the scene with the swinging light casting shadow on the animation is astonishing
Hard not to be optimistic about what filmmaking can be when you see something this creative pulled off with this level of technical skill by all the different people involved.
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Gene Kelly danced with Jerry(the mouse) back in the 50s probably. Certainly Mary Poppins and Pete's Dragon had animated characters and sequences. This was the first adult one.
Perhaps another giant of animation, Akira (1988). The film that really brought anime to the Western world.
Would love to see your reaction to Rush by Ron Howard about the Hunt-Lauda rivalry in F1. Maybe one of the best and most underrated racing movies in recent history.
The craziest thing about this film is that they somehow managed to get all these different characters from Warner Bros, Disney, etc. into one film. That's unthinkable today. Getting so many different IPs from different rights holders.
Here is a great behind the scenes that's less than 6 minutes. Just watched this after your reaction and you were spot on!
th-cam.com/video/NKOum-MftXY/w-d-xo.html
My favorite line is:
"Are you telling me that you could get out of those cuffs at any time"?
Roger:
"No, not anytime, Only when it was funny"
That's my favorite line 😂😂
I don't want to see a porn parody, but I want one that includes the lines
"Are you telling me that you could get into those cuffs at any time?"
"No, not anytime. Only when it was kinky."
Oh that's what he said? For years I couldn't understand what he said in that scene.
I mean in a weird way that is a weirdly good explanation for how toons work/things only working when they'd be funny,
Take off that hand buzzer Marvin.
Best line is from Jessica Rabbit "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way" brilliant
No one disagrees with you on that.
@@terrancebrown87 Same
We heard the gulp when she came out.
And then Haley Rheinhart sings Creep.
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"Tweety, you are such a piece of crap. Tweety is just always on some bullshit, man." Thank you.
Hahaha thank you man. Cause damn
Tweety is the worst! Sylvester deserves to eat that pos
tweety is a true chaotic neutral
Truer words have never been spoken
@@ThePyroSquirrel1 Actually Roadrunner is the worst. At least Tweety respects the rules of physics, most of the time.
The part where Doom murders the shoe was legit disturbing as a kid. Watching it now, I realize the power of the expressive animation - the shoe looks like a puppy that's being beaten and doesn't understand why. It's a terrible moment, but very effective.
It's legit hard to watch. Hell it's harder to watch now than it was the first time I saw it-- I was eight.
for real. to be honest, i still can't watch that scene all the way through.
That was scary, but when his voice goes all high-pitched and his eyes turn into daggers, I almost shit my pants as a kid.
I used to hide my head under a pillow because that scene frightened me so badly as a child
Still haunts me. But that just shows how effective it was, I guess.
As a side note, Zemeckis was passionate to do this immediately after Back to the Future but he didn't trust that Universal wouldn't go ahead and make Part II without him in the interim, so he signed Chris Lloyd as Judge Doom specifically to keep him busy until Zemeckis was ready to go ahead with the sequel.
Aww that’s the perfect level of petty. Plus Chris was fantastic in this role!
Zemeckis and Bob Gale (the writer/producer of BACK TO THE FUTURE) were good at low-key playing the long game like that. They knew Universal were interested in a sequel almost immediately, but they set it up so they'd at least be able to do it on their own terms and with most of the original cast in tact.
That was clever thinking, and Christopher Lloyd is so great as Doom that his casting absolutely works anyway.
I'm glad he did. The back to the future series turned out well, and Roger Rabbit is absolute perfection.
Interim ?
This movie had the animators coin the phrase “bumping the lamp”.
It means going above and beyond what was expected of the animators, watch the video to understand why. "Seemingly superfluous details help sell the effect at a subconscious level". Always take the chance to bump the lamp in your work.
Agreed, that’s really awesome. They did a phenomenal job!
@@JamesVSCinema It refers directly to the scene in the rotgut room and the swaying lighting.
Is that why Pixar's logo is a jumping/bumping lamp? Because they always set for perfecting their animation?
@@Gwynbleidd66 makes sense if so.
@@Gwynbleidd66 No, one of Pixar's earliest animations was a short of the jumping lamp with the ball, and they liked it so kept the lamp as the logo.
Here's the short, if you're interested -- th-cam.com/video/D4NPQ8mfKU0/w-d-xo.html
Agreed. With Space Jam, you knew they were talking to nothing. Here, you'd believe the toons were real.
Happy you agreed with that! 🙏🏽
@@JamesVSCinema I love you 💕😘❤️
Space jam is clearly a lower budget movie. Prolly spent most the money on Micheal Jordan
I've read that one of the reasons they cast Bob Hoskins (besides him being a fantastic actor, who could pull off the tough-guy American accent flawlessly despite being British) was his ability to slightly cross his eyes. When your eyes are focusing on something close up, your eyeballs zero in close to your face; you go a bit cross-eyed. It is actually really difficult to act with thin air, simply for the fact that your eyes have nothing to focus on. Bob's muscle control of his eyeballs- his ability to go just slightly cross-eyed, and focus on a point in space in front of his face with nothing actually there: that is one of the things that really sells Roger's reality in his interactions with Eddy Valiant. (Along with the other tricks of the technical department, and all the actors' absolute commitment to believing what they were acting with, of course. But those subtle things like eye focus make a big difference- even if only subconsciously.)
I feel like the real follow-up to these techniques was Jurassic Park rather than Space Jam.
R.I.P. to the late great Bob Hoskins. Great actor. This movie was surely a career highlight.
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And Richard Williams the animator.
and it almost drove him insane because he recalled times where he would see cartoon characters everywhere.
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Bob hoskins or richard williams?
@@exceedcharge1 Bob. Since he had imagine the characters he was interacting with. He began hallucinating and had to get mental help for it. Honestly, feel bad for him.
The fact that there were *zero* computers involved with this still amazes me. It's one of the last of the CGI free blockbusters.
Aaaaaaaaaaaactually a few shots of flattened Doom walking around was CG.
@@HobGungan I heard that was stop-motion
@@HobGungan Doom was very much stop motion. The movie used ZERO cgi. So aaaaactually, your wrong. Star Wars used CGI back in 77, so CGI in movies was not new to film, but Roger Rabbit used no CG, especially how strict the animation director, Richard Williams, was against NON-TRADITIONAL animation. Look up The Thief and the Cobbler. I was convinced it was CGI, having no idea when it was made, until I learned production of the film started in the 60s for over 20 years, PRE CGI.
Saw this in the theater when I was 8. The Donald / Daffy scene blew my tiny mind. Even then, I knew I was seeing a crazy level of studio cooperation.
Yes! Donald and Daffy together…the dueling ducks!
Also, Mickey and Bugs…which almost moved me to tears (I know, I’m a sap).
Because Christopher Lloyd was a toon wearing a human costume, he never blinks on screen. You don't notice it, but it definately adds to the overall creepiness of the character.
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@@danielallen3454 If you look carefully, there's always a gust of wind around Doom, even when he's indoors.
There's also a lot if little things, like how he wears the large rubber glove when dipping the toon shoe, or how he backs away quickly when Eddie dumps the dip barrel over. Subtle things that don't give the twist away, but that you notice on a second viewing.
@@johnsensebe3153 Another thing that sets him aside is the fact that he doesn’t react to laughter the way other toons do
for example the “shave and a haircut” bait for roger, Doom is able to recite it without it affecting him
also when he slips on the acme products and the Weasels start laughing, Doom reacts with anger instead of laughter despite being a toon
all of which hints to the final line that he was a seriously disturbed toon
@@mckenzie.latham91 Also, pay attention to the two times the word "simoleons" is used.
Fantastic movie, the scene with the shoe being melted down was traumatizing as a kid!
Hahaha yeah I was like... “damn..a kid show?” 😂
Man, that scene's edited out in almost every TV showing I've seen. In my 40's now and I'm still freaked out by it, that was sinister.
Yeah dude, I saw this in the theater when I was 5 and it friggin' horrified me. Still does.
I always fast forward at that part. Can't watch it.
Mine was always the ". . . I TALKED. JUST. LIKE. THIS!" scene that fucked me up.
Robert Zemeckis had to follow the rules for equal screentime between both Disney and Warner Bros
Part of the negotiations was if one studio’s character was on screen first in a screen, the other studio’s character got to speak first in that scene
@@scottalynch Hahahahah I would expect nothing less. I mean I think we all take for granted how massive of a crossover this was. I mean it literally was the most ambitious crossovers in history. The only equivalent today would be if they made a MCU and DC crossover (actually happened in the comic books in the 90s). Can only imagine the budget on a MCU/DC crossover made today let alone all the insane corporate politics of who gets more screen time and who wins in a fight.
@@ryanhalawani2637 Spielberg is to credit for getting both Warner and Disney onboard (even though Touchstone is a Disney company)
And MGM-- if memory serves Droopy Dog is an MGM property.
@@darastarscream the full list: Warner Bros., King Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, Fleischer Studios and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions
One of my absolute favorite details in this film: Despite his otherwise all-encompassing hatred of toons in the first act, Eddie seems to have a soft spot for Betty Boop, even smiling at her and reaffirming that "She's still got it." This is subtly explained later: On Eddie's brother's desk, there's a plush of Betty among the news clippings and cobwebs. One of the only bits of Toon merch in the whole office. Even with his vendetta, Betty still holds sentimental value to him.
Plus they got the actual voice actress to play her in the film and she was 70 at the time! Makes it all that much more special.
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." An amazing technical achievement as well as a hell of a ride! Great movie!
So good!
im pretty sure she is responsible for alot of ppl likeing "hentai"
I love how they had to invent a plot device to kill toons because really, what else can you do if a toon goes psychotic? There's just no stopping them. This is maybe the funniest and brightest pure noir movie ever made, I can't believe they even included the classic noir plot of some corrupt land deal in LA.
There should be a horror movie with looney tunes raising hell on earth lmfao
@@JamesVSCinema I'd watch it in a heartbeat! Someone out there needs to make that happen... James? 😏
@@JamesVSCinema - Makes me wonder what Cool World might have been if they had stuck with the idea of making it an animated horror film. That finished product was nowhere near the league of Roger Rabbit though. On that note, the original book that inspired Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was also far darker than the film and quite different. It's called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? if you're curious about it.
Even better: the ingredients in Dip are all paint thinners, which would absolutely erase a toon.
Funny thing is, is that this is loosely based on real events.
I like how the pictures on Eddie's desk give so much backstory about him and his brother. Also explains why hes able to do the circus tricks
I got to talk with Dean Cundey about working on this and he said it was one of the most difficult shoots he's worked on, mainly because they had nothing to use but cardboard cutouts and no immediate dailies. He also said that the work on this film made Jurassic Park so much easier to shoot! Who Framed Roger Rabbit walked so Jurassic Park could run!
Oh for sure! This probably was hell to shoot haha
Wow! That's soo cool you got to talk to someone who worked on two films that quite literally changed the face of cinema and more specifically, visual effects. Kinda jealous not gonna lie lol.
Dean Cundey was at HorrorHound and I got to talk with him quite a bit! Truly, that man lensed my childhood! I have a Big Trouble in Little China poster signed by both him and John Carpenter thanks to that event! Cundey is a legend and one of the most unassuming and kind people you'll ever meet!
@@kevinpauley-dadbodstyle2935 Wow thats so cool. Really jealous now lol. Didnt know he worked on Big trouble in little China, that was one of my favourite films growing up. Always surprised no one ever tried to reboot that to my knowledge though probably for the best considering how much of a classic it is. Though I think a modern retelling with an all Asian cast would be pretty cool.
Man, he lensed the following: Halloween (1978), The Fog, Escape from New York, John Carpenter's The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, the Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, and Apollo 13 just to name a few! He is a LEGEND!
Fuck yeah, one of the best "movies" of all time. There's not a single wasted line or shot. It's not high art but it's blockbuster perfection. Like Tremors or Big Trouble In Little China.
High art combines great craftsmanship with strong aesthetics. This, Big Trouble, etc are literally high art. It makes people's hearts sing & inspires some people to make high art themselves.
All movies I love deeply
Why did you put 'movies' in quotation marks?
To this day, I cannot go without yelling "TWOOOOO BITTTTTTS!" whenever anyone does the set up.
"Let's go home Roger, I'll bake you a carrot cake."
My god that shit is so subtle, it took me 30 years to finally get it lol
lmfao yeah man they freaky
You think that's subtle... Whether intended or not, there's a sex toy that emerged around the 80s called a rabbit. So yeah. I actually believe Jessica was fully satisfied...by a rabbit.
Maybe it was literal, like patty cake :D
@@arisucheddar3097 When I was 4 years old yes it did manage to get passed me a bit lol
I still dont get it. Help?
This movie is a cinematic masterpiece that will never be recreated.
They'd never get the licensing agreements in alignment.
I was terrified for years as a kid when that evil guy transforms at the end - that voice and scream 😮😮
A truly timeless movie. I can't imagine a time when this isn't mindblowing.
Richard Williams is the undisputed GOAT of animation. Man does everything by hand and animates on 1s, which is ridiculously painstaking. His other animation films and shorts are similarly super detailed.
He really was! The whole story behind the Thief and the Cobbler still breaks my heart for what it could have been. It still has some of the most breathtaking animation ever.
When Robert Zemeckis was informed that the camera isn't supposed to move when combining live-action w/ hand-drawn animation, he dismissed it as mere laziness. Leading to one of the most tedious & painstaking productions in cinema history. A year later, James Cameron's "The Abyss" would push the boundaries of how difficult a film production can be. I suggest you react to the special edition version that was released in the early 90s.
That was actually Richard Williams that said that. He was the animation director. Zemeckis and Spielberg asked Richard about whether it would be possible to move the camera as they would a live action film but animating over it, and Richard said "it's possible... it's a lot or work but any animator who says they cant do it is just being lazy". That's one the reasons why he beat out Disney for this gig.
@@DanJackson1977 It is a Disney production though, right?
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney produced the movie and was responsible for its funding. But it was Richard Williams and his team responsible for all the animation - not Disney Animation. Williams is known for being a perfectionist and a bit of a creative nutcase (in a good way). He is a true master of his craft. And it shows in this movie.
@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney did contribute some animation staff to it, and they had helped develop it.. but once Spielberg took it over, he and Zemekis put Williams in charge of design and animation... which still amazes me that at the time.. Disney was not up for the job of animating this on their own.. they had to bring in a small British indie studio (admittedly run by a mad genius) to finish it, along with Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) to do the shadows and film compositing.
I managed a theater when this came out and I watched it by myself the night before it opened after hours and I will never forget how amazed I was at how seamless everything worked.😎
'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is, in my opinion, an absolute masterpiece. Not only is it an utter triumph of special effects and animation, but the story, the characters, the acting, the set design, the music - it's one of those very rare films where there's barely a thing in it that could actually be improved. You can watch this film without having the slightest idea of or interest in how it was made, and still get swept up in it. It's a film to be treasured, because in all likelihood, there will never be another one like it.
No CGI in it at all, it's all hand-drawn cell animation. All the hidden puppetry & wire work in there also has a big impact on selling it (ie the bumping the lamp or other object on set, moving the actor's clothes when a toon touches him, etc).
I can't say for sure, but I think the first movie that did the live action/animation blend in any big way was Mary Poppins in 1965. Of course 20 years earlier it was done much more simply, but still quite a thing to see for the first time.
Also, there used to be a tradition of having a short film (usually animated comedy) before the main feature that is very rarely done anymore (maybe Pixar once in a while). I thought it was really cool here how they effectively did that while incorporating the short directly into the feature.
Not the first. In 1945 Gene Kelly danced with Jerry (the mouse) in Anchors Aweigh.
@@brettcoster4781 Good one, I remember that! Probably haven't seen it since I was < 10 years old.
But if you pay close attention to Mary Poppins, the animation is just kind of inserted and doesn't interact at all with the real actors - it couldn't sell the illusion of immersion. Roger Rabbit made especially sure that animated characters took up space in the real world by interacting with it. The real actors also maintained strong sightlines with the toons' eyes to sell the illusion they were directly interacting with something despite the toon not being present on set.
Song of the South?
@@adog4661 Good catch, I did remember that, but was completely wrong about when it was made. I thought it was contemporary to Mary Poppins, but it came out 20 years earlier. Plus people just generally don't mention it anymore for obvious reasons.
Mr. Hoskins died a few years ago after a life that included many memorable and varied roles, including Smee in Hook and a crook in Unleashed.
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Check out “Mona Lisa” and “The Long Good Friday” he has incredible roles in them too!
Unleashed is a really awesome and dark action tale. And how often do you get Jet Li and Morgan Freeman in a movie together, with Bob Hoskins as a villain, to boot?
I love how he and Dustin Hoffman played their characters in Hook like an old gay couple. It drove Spielberg nuts, but they’re the best part of the movie.
Also Pink's manager in Pink Floyd The Wall.
Richard Williams was the animation director on this movie. He wrote the book on animation, literally, “The Animator’s Survival Kit”, the primary handbook used in animation schools.
The head animator on this movie, Richard Williams, was one of the greatest if not the greatest animators of all time. I highly recommend his final short film, Prologue. It's a masterpiece.
Man literally wrote the bible on animation.
I think it's underappreciated how Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the best neo-noir movies ever. In all seriousness.
Whoaaaa!!! You never seen Roger Rabbit? This is my favorite movie ever!! Bob Hoskins deserved an award for his performance and for having to act alongside air.
This movie really helped play a huge role in getting people interested in animation again as it helped started the Disney Renaissance.
I wasn't expecting this, and now I'm so happy this film is genuinely amazing can't believe this happened, would be such a logistical nightmare to do today, Disney and Warner Bros characters crossing over
Copyright all over the place hahaha
Yes, when you know how to peek behind the curtains, you can see how the magic is done.
But it also lets you understand how much more amazing the accomplishments are than they might look at first glance.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
It wasn't until years later that I learned this was essentially a parody of Chinatown, with the freeway plot actually having been intended for the 3rd movie that never came to fruition since The Two Jakes bombed.
ironically, THE TWO JAKES didn't bomb until 2 years later.
There wasn't any "green screen", at least, not in the cotemporary sense. They built all kinds of mechanisms to create the intereactions between the Toons and the physical world, then simply hid those mechanisms behind the animation.
This ^
There was only green screen in the toontown parts
@@themalcahtwinz4743Wasn't it technically blue screen at the time?
@@IAmInfinitus208 Yes it was 👍
Thank you for realising just how incredible that Mickey Mouse/Bugs Bunny crossover was! A lot of other reaction videos don't seem to react to that scene at all! It's incredible to see those two icons share the screen together!
If you’ve ever heard the term, “bumping the lamp”, it came around because of this movie. Eddie accidentally bumps into the hanging lamp causing it to swing back and forth. Bob Hoskins did this accidentally. The animators went the extra mile and applied the appropriate shadows and highlights to Roger in response. They didn’t have to do this but knew it would lend a more realistic look to the world they were building. Now “bumping the lamp” means going the extra mile despite the audience not realizing the work involved.
Also keep in mind that the entire movie was filmed before a single toon made an appearance. Also, unless the toon was interacting with a real world object, there would be nothing in the scene to direct the actors eyeline. This would cause the animators to come up with ways to correct it. The scene at Maroon studios just before Eddie confronts Maroon before he’s killed, Eddie explains things to Roger. Eddie’s eyes are directed too high when looking at Roger so animators drew Roger going up onto his tiptoe’s while leaning against the wall, correcting Bob’s flub.
8:06 a cartoon character holding real photos that include another cartoon character and in his angst flips them so quickly that he makes an actual animation out of them.
The meta.
9:09 "liquifing toons? In like a vat of acid?" They are Toons, it's paint thinner.
The Dip, Also Known As "Toon Acid", is a greenish, ghastly chemical seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's Judge Doom's preferred method of Toon execution. According to Lieutenant Santino, it's a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzine, which all of them are paint-thinners. Combined in the real world, they make up the solution hand animators used to use to remove ink from animation cells. This could be considered an inside joke, as your average audience member would not know what these ingredients made up. While relatively harmless to humans, any toon that comes in contact with it will melt instantly, and is apparently the only surefire way to kill a toon
@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone Damn learning all kinds of awesome in these comments
Interesting Fact: According to Bob Hoskins, making this movie drove him insane. He's said in interviews that after the filming of this movie wrapped, he continued (hallucinated) hearing and seeing the animated characters
Let's gooo, Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite movies, especially with how they managed to do all of the effects. That ending scared me when I was little ngl.
Try the old Pete's Dragon, that was even older, and though its not as good, they did a real good job of making the cartoon dragon look like it was really there as well. But I don't think anything is as good as Roger Rabbit when it comes to mixing real and cartoon together.
I love that movie.
The entire flick is mind-blowing - the Daffy vs. Donald Duck duet intro to the Jessica Rabbit reveal is still one of the most insane sequences ever committed to film.
To me the scene with the weasels carrying guns around is the most mind blowing
The sinister "dude" is Christopher Lloyd, the scientist from Back To The Future.
I was born in 87. This was the first movie my mom ever bought me as a baby. She didn't realize what she had bought and ended up having to rewind the first few minutes over and over (on VHS). Watched it 100s of times with my siblings when we were growing up. I still have the tape and the vhs player to show my daughter.
Watching Digital Corridor's talk about how this movie was made is crazy.
Ooooo I gotta check that out!
@@JamesVSCinema You'll love it for sure! The BTS for this movie is completely bonkers... the innovations and ingenuity of the scenes, especially the cabaret one, is on another level.
@@JamesVSCinema the making of this film is incredibly inspiring 👏
Robert Zemeckis and his team forever have my respect for going as above and beyond as they did.
It's this one for anyone interested. Roger Rabbit is the last bit.
th-cam.com/video/4b2Jm2WWUl4/w-d-xo.html
This will NEVER happen again. It's an unmatched masterpiece.
Another movie that has an interesting style is Steve Martin's movie: "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". It's a comedy where half the film is spliced dialogue from old film noire movies, which the actors have back and forth dialogue with.
Oh, that's one of my favorites. Reiner did masterful work, on that one, as did the cast. Nowadays, they'd just digitally recreate the faces on modern actors...that makes me sad.
Criminally underrated movie. Not just technically, but the humour is so well incorporated also.
@@SPAMDAGGER22 greed...I have several 'always make me laugh' moments from that one...One in particular that I can't mention, for spoilers.
Steve Oedekirk's parody film Kung Pow Fist does a similar thing with footage from old Kung Fu movies, but relies more on using green screen and some silly 90's CGI to insert the lead actor (Oedekirk) into the footage itself.
This will always be a film I think about when I look back on my childhood, watching Looney Toons Saturday mornings with my bowl of cereal was simple yet one of my favorite memories as a kid, this film still holds up today nothing like it
I am laughing so hard at “oh my god, tweety, you are such a piece of crap.”
It is always so much fun watching you watch my favorite movies. You always make me see something new.
😂😂😂 she’s so petty!
Same tunnel from “Back To The Future”, “Wargames” and “Throw Mama From The Train”
You skip over it in this smaller cut, but the scene with Eddie in his office looking over old photos is a FANTASTIC way to show his character and history.
This video breaks it down way better than I do: th-cam.com/video/EcFrG3L7YGQ/w-d-xo.html
It's pretty impressive that they managed to get so many different toons, from different studios, in one movie. There were some they tried but didnot manage to get permission for, like Popeye, Casper and Tom&Jerry. The Donald and Daffy Duck duet was awesome and so in character.
If you look closely at Judge Doom intro, only his clothing is blowing in the wind, and how the light reflects off his glasses
Damn that's awesome
One of your best reactions/commentaries. Your joy of, and enthusiasm for, great movies is refreshing. Love your takes on the creative details. Also, I appreciate that you review older films. Keep up the great work. 👍🏼
So happy to hear Joann!
Fun fact. Warner only agreed to allow their characters be used if their two biggest stars got equal screen time with Disney’s two biggest stars. That’s why Donald and Daffy were in their scenes together and Mickey and Buggs were in their scenes together. Great video, man.😁👍
When you realise the creepy man in the Basment scene in Zodiac is the voice of Roger Rabbit.
YOOO
No way what?!
That’s like watching the show Monk and realizing the kindly police chief is Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.
This movie was amazing. The tunnel in the film when Eddie was driving into toon town, was the same tunnel from Back To The Future movies.
I love this movie a ton, man. Once again your passion for the medium made this video peak entertainment. Keep it real, James.
Much love Theo!!
I saw this in theaters as a kid and it blew my mind, then. I have a vivid memory of picking up a coloring book for it on the way home and spending all weekend on it. I still LOVE this movie, and have it in my top 10. - Everly
I watched the behind the scenes to this movie and what you said is correct. There was no lazy illustrators in this entire products. It was painstakingly slow and expensive. Everything needed to be perfect. Even the story was perfect. It didn't dumb down the audience. It was a really good story. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the only one in existence.
A shot that just blows my mind is the cartoon weasel pressing a real gun into Valient’s face. Pressing into just just putting a gun up to his face but full on physically affecting it.
Yeah I just thought of that seeing that shot again. Its insane how good it looks. Also, just incredible how they not only managed to perfectly position it in the shot but how the animators were able to make it look so convincing that the weasel was holding said gun.
You can see how his skin gets pressed by the gun barrel! I mean, Jesus--!
I loved how much the artists flex with the swaying light as the characters attempt to saw off the cuffs.
They were able to do a lot of this because they had puppets and stand ins. The plate of all the characters in toon town at the end of the movie ended up being like eight feet tall
So wild hahaha
Every frame with the toons was hand-drawn and seeing the end result really makes one think about the passion that the animators had for their work.
This is the only time in animation history that characters from those 2 studios will ever be on screen together.
One of the most beautifully innovative films of the last 40 years... and a childhood favorite :') Great Reaction as usual, James 👍 It's been great seeing the channel grow so much and I know that that growth is only gonna continue 👍👍
This movie was so groundbreaking in so many ways... When it first came out I was definitely part of the target audience and I loved it, but watching it again as an adult I've realized that there was a ton that went right over my head. Everything about it is an allegory for segregation, and how they wanted to demolish Toontown to make way for a freeway was all about what happened to various racialized neighborhoods in cities across North America (and especially LA), but I completely missed that as a kid.
See also the Detroit riots.
I think the Ink and Paint Club was a reference to Prohibition-era nightclubs like the Cotton Club, where blacks could be performers, but couldn't enter as patrons. All the people enjoying the show are human, but the staff and talent are toons. There are lots of parallels to real world segregation, with toons as second-class citizens, and Roger even says "You know there's no justice for toons anymore", when he's running from Judge Doom.
The thing that makes the animation so immersive in this film is the eye lines. The human characters look into the toons eyes, as though they are really there. Credit to the animators for their incredible work putting this vision to screen
Give credit to Legendary animator,
Richard Williams. (May he Rest In Peace) 🥀
I appreciate that you do films that not everyone else is reviewing!
Anytime Candace!
"If a toon had killed my brother, I would hate me too!"
This movie had everything. Comedy, drama, love, hate, revenge, social and ethnic commentary, all done in an old school cartoon sort of way, where kids could watch it, and not really get the adult jokes, but still find it funny, while adults found everything entertaining.
Should do "Shoot Em Up" it may as well be an hour and half live action Bugs vs Elmer cartoon
Paul Giamatti is a darn riot in that movie. He's so angry.
Fun fact: Terry Gilliam regretted passing up as director for this.
Great reaction, it's interesting to hear the perspective of someone involved in filmmaking. I remember going to see this in the theater with friends back in high school, I was mesmerized by the effects and we all laughed our asses off. I've suspected that part of Spielberg's sell to Warner Brothers was how cool it'd be to see Bugs and Mickey together on the screen, for the first (and probably only) time. And even though they couldn't get several cartoons like Tom & Jerry or Bullwinkle, there's still a plethora of animation history scattered throughout. This is one of those films you can rewatch just to examine everything in the background.
Live action and animation have been combined since 1900. Many shorts were popular in the 20's and 30's, such as _Koko the Clown_ and the _Alice Comedies,_ but no surprise that Disney often pioneered its use. Not only did _Mary Poppins_ feature nearly 20 minutes of it, the sodium vapor process they used would refine the chroma key technique into the modern green screen we know today. I never really saw this as a Disney film though because there were so many other people involved, and it was distributed through their more successful Touchstone label. Disney itself hadn't been doing so hot anyway, they nearly shut down their animation department after _The Black Cauldron_ did so poorly, but between this and finishing _The Great Mouse Detective,_ they were finally back on their way to future success.
CGI was being used back then, just not on this film. 1973's _Westworld_ was the first major feature film to use it, and _Willow_ (released a few weeks before this one) wowed people with the "new" morphing effect.
Have you ever considered watching _West Side Story_ or _The Color Purple?_ I've never really seen any reactors do those two, and I think they'd be of interest as masterful works of cinema.
When everyone else was going on about Jessica Rabbit I was geeking out over seeing Betty! No better reason to show off my Betty Boop tattoo :-) Wonderful reactions, kerk
I love watching younger audiences being blown away by the sheer CRAFT displayed in this movie.
Notice that Judge Doom never blinks
Wild hahaha
I was 9 years old ,in 1988 , i was in love with that movie. I got cads ,sticker books,comic adaptation from this year. A true masterpiece and a true cinema classic
"The Dip" is actually paint thinner
Explains Roger's reaction to alcohol? ;)
@@zvimur Same
The most heartwarming thing about your reaction to Roger Rabbit is that it STILL has you wondering, after all these years, “How did they DO that?!?”
Smile, darn ya smile...!
An underrated classic. Zemeckis was changing the game before people even knew what hit them.
Hahahaha
A lot of the older fans see this movie as an end of era- it was the last big non-CGI animated movie and they knew that before filming began. That's why the artists poured their hearts into it, they knew they had to represent not only themselves but everyone who came before. As a kid I saw this as recognizing the huge shift in Saturday morning cartoons both in terms of art and content/plot without realizing just how much the tech had changed.
I think this is the only time you'll see Looney Toons and Disney characters together, I don't know HOW they negotiated the rights for this haha
Part of what made it work was a compromise. All Disney and WB cameos had to have equal screen time with each other. Especially the prominent ones. That is why Donald/Daffy, and Micky/Buggs are paired up.
@@dirus3142 Ahh, I remember hearing about that. Makes sense
It’s often said that Steven Spielberg was the only producer at the time powerful enough to make that deal happen. And it would never occur today.
@@thestomp1647 I could believe that
Just wait for Disney to inevitably buyout WB... Then they'll make a live-action remake with CGI because they're dumb as fuck.
I'm so happy to see you enjoy one of the best movies around. Blows my mind everytime!
I kinda wanna watch you react to a "making of" feature for this now.
the making of/production features for Who Framed Roger Rabbit are well worth the watch. the craftsmanship that went into making animated characters interact with and feel a part of the real physical world is the best. RIP Bob Hoskins.
Such an awesome combo of a film!
What a classic!!!
For sure!
This was one of my favorite movies growing up, but even after going to school for practical effects, this movie still blows my mind.
Practical effects are so much fun. Learning how it’s done doesn’t ruin the scene for me-it makes me appreciate it even more. The more real a movie is, the easier it is to suspend disbelief.
Actor Bob Hoskins had to study miming to learn how to react to nothing
There are movies you get invested into, and there are movies that you get excited about. Great reaction watching you get more and more excited the further it went. Keep up the great work!
Want some more magic? A Scanner Darkly.
I loved how all the studios pulled out their best shots and paired their superstars. Daffy and Donald quacked me up.
It's years later, I still skip the shoe bit.
Right? Scene tears a bleeding rip in my heart every time I watch it. I'm brought to tears by a drawing of a shoe; if that's not art I don't know what is.
Agreed
They shot the lighting to match the shadows in the hand drawn frames....the scene with the swinging light casting shadow on the animation is astonishing
The only way WB and Disney agreed to have both Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse on screen together was if they had the same amount of screen time.
Down to the frame. It's insane.
Hard not to be optimistic about what filmmaking can be when you see something this creative pulled off with this level of technical skill by all the different people involved.