In Robert Zemeckis’ bizarre film Noir “, who framed Roger Rabbit”, “,” The alcoholic detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) has to travel to a particularly dangerous part of Los Angeles in the course of his investigation. Toontown, which is located by Pasadena, is the locked part of the city in which the Cartoon citizens live, and it was specially built with a toon citizenship. The laws of physics change in toontown and even the buildings are alive and conscious. Eddie, a person with a living person, is in constant mortal danger.
In an outstanding sequence, Eddie crashes from the tip of a toontown high-rise. While he is free, he meets two known faces. Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) and Mickey Mouse (Wayne Allwine), equipped in Skydiving equipment, move up next to Eddie and casually point out that parachuting with a parachute is somehow dangerous. Finally, they offer Eddie a replacement parachute before pulling the ripcords alone. The last gag was the “replacement” that they presented Eddie, a replacement tire. Fortunately, Eddie is caught before he can hit the Toon Bürgersteig below.
When “Roger Rabbit” was published in 1988, the audience was in awe in front of the parachute jumping scene. Everyone observed that Mickey Mouse was the official mascot of the Disney Corporation, while Bugs Bunny was the face of Warner Bros.. Seeing bugs and Mickey on the screen enabled spectators to think about the Byzantine right -sized marole, which is probably necessary to enable the scene.
As it happens, a careful balancing act for the many cartoon crossover scenes was required for the many Cartoon crossover scenes in “Who Roger Rabbit”. After a 2018 article in the Hollywood ReporterWe can thank all Steven Spielberg for the diverse Mishmash with a licensed character. And even then there were provisions about several Warner Bros. characters.
Steven Spielberg had to penetrate to acquire all these cartoons
In “Roger Rabbit” you can see characters from Disney, Warner Bros., King Features, Turner, Fleischer Studios and several others. In many scenes, these characters appear side by side, especially in the last scenes of the film when the residents of Toontown flow together to the real world.
“Roger Rabbit” was distributed by Touchstone Pictures, the arm of the Disney Corporation for more adult prize. At that time, Michael Eisner was head of Disney and he was still friends with the ultra director Steven Spielberg of her mutual paramount days (Spielberg made “Raiders of the Lost Ark” for Paramount when Eisner was still a paramount manure). It seems that Spielberg – the producer of “Roger Rabbit” – had the bare essentials of asking all animation studios mentioned above to give their most famous characters, and all offered them a flat tariff of 5,000 US dollars per character. The above shot alone cost at least 115,000 US dollars for the license.
Warner Bros., who knew that Disney was a rival, had a demand: Bugs Bunny could only share the screen with Mickey Mouse if both characters had given exactly the same screen time. For this reason, mistakes and Mickey appeared together on the screen and stayed together on the screen for the length of their parachute jump. This also applied to the finale of the film, in which bugs and Mickey stood side by side.
WB’s determination also considered other characters. At the beginning of the film, the Daffy Duck from WB and Disney’s Donald Duck played piano in a Toon nightclub, and their screens are exactly the same. The same applies to the last recording of the film, in the WBS pork pork his trademark “This is all people!” Magically from Disney’s Tinkerbell away. We will ignore for the moment that “Roger Rabbit” takes place in 1947 and that Disney’s Tinkerbell was only invented in 1953.
Errors and Mickey could not use the names of the other
Disney Diary’s website Also pointed out that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse had a different rule: the two were not allowed to say the full names of the other. One could find that mistakes never refer to Mickey as “Mickey”, and Mickey only called Bugs Bunny “error”. This may have been a legal requirement, but it was also in character. Mickey would refer to friends under her first names, while Bugs called people “Doc”. If Bugs wanted to be really serious, he might have referred to Mr. Mouse as “Michael”.
One would have to carry out a serious, time -consuming exam in order to drive the many, many “Roger rabbits” kamenos. It is quite possible that Disney’s Dumbo, for example, has as much screen time as Yosemite Sam (Blanc). There may be a Bean counter somewhere in Warner Bros. that counted the animated frames of WB characters compared to Disney characters. As a occasional viewer, who has not taken care of taking on such an exam, I can say that the balance feels at least correctly.
Steven Spielberg tried to make a similar crossover -mashup in 2018 With the publication of “Ready Player One”, Based on the novel by Ernest CLINE. Most of this film took place in a huge, computer -generated simulation in which the players were invited to invent all digital avatars that they liked. Most of them took their character designs from a messianic, pop culture-rated gene xer and dressed as characters like Jason Vorhees, Robocop, “Mortal Kombat” treasurer, Hello Kitty figures, monsters, superheroes and other figures from the 80s and 90s pop media (pop media (90sAlthough Spielberg tried to withdraw references to his own films). However, the result was not as exciting or striking as 30 years ago. Pop culture had become more open, and there was no joy to interact pot figures. “Roger Rabbit” was a look through the door. “Ready Player One” was just a sign that we drown.
