Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The title of the movie takes place a play on words: the verb to frame, along with the value of "fabricated charges", "substitute" is also set to "put a frame».

The film is based on the so-called "tram conspiracy" in which «General Motors», «Standard Oil» and «Firestone Tires» formed «National City Lines», which bought and deliberately destroyed a tram system «Red Car» in Los Angeles 1940-1950-ies. In the film, a real company «NCL» is replaced by a fictional corporation «Cloverleaf Industry», belonging to the exclusive rights of the judge Roku. The film shows the legendary tram PCC (the trams started in the early 1930s and is now used in some cities in the US and Europe). Trams rattle sparks vent, but residents still love them. Even the local beer called «Terminal station Bar» (Bar "Terminus»).





Part of the plot and a few scenes in common with Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." Initially, the role of Eddie Valiant planned to invite Jack Nicholson starred in "Chinatown».



Despite the interrogative form, the title of the film there is no question mark. This is due to a superstition that movies with a question mark in the title gives little box office.

The final credits of the film lasts almost 8 minutes. At the time the film was a record this time.

It is the last work in cinema stars dubbing Golden Era animation Mel Blanca (Daffy Duck) and May Kvestel (Betty Boop)

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Freeway to be built through Multaun called expensive "from here to Pasadena." Perhaps the freeway meant "Pasadena", originating from the center of Los Angeles (completed in 1940 and lost its value), or California Highway number 134, passing close to the Burbank, California.

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" - the first Disney film, which was shown on TV channel «Cartoon Network», belonging «Time Warner».

In 1991, Disney's division «Imagineers» started the construction of the thematic areas for the "Disneyland" in Anaheim, California, is based entirely on Multaune from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Multaun Mickey (Eng. Mickeys's Toontown) to rapturous applause was opened in 1993 - so there was a fabulous City toon Mickey at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista (Eng. Buena Vista), Florida and the City of Toon (without the addition of "Mickey") at Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan. California and Japanese Multaun offer excursions based on the adventures of Roger Rabbit and attraction «Jolly Trolley», and, of course, "House" Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy, who are also represented in the Florida Multaune.

According to a survey conducted by «Cadbury» in 2009 among the British, Jessica Rabbit was voted sexiest cartoon heroine in the history of animation.



The film offered to shoot Terry Gilliam, but the director refused, arguing picture too complicated technically. Gilliam later bitterly regretted his decision.

Bob Hoskins checked on their children - a son and a daughter - the effect of its interaction with cartoon characters. The son was angry that the pope did not bring home any of Toon. And after the shooting of Hoskins had problems with hallucinations.

In the scene where Eddie Valiant travels cartoon taxi Eddie somewhere was drawn and pending Hoskins.



After the "Roger" in Hollywood had plans to remove the prequel "Cartoon platoon." This project was not implemented.

About animation

More than a hundred individual fragments of the film have been combined to combine elements of live action and animation. Sami animated characters were drawn by hand without computer animation (as opposed to the three subsequent short films); to create shadows and lighting toon use optical effects created using tryukmashin to give them a more realistic three dimensional look.

Here the most interesting thing to create this particular section yesterday revised the film to find hidden pictures, but only in one case, I was lucky (author of the post FishkiNet)

Hidden frames

Animators have hidden a few surprises in his film. On the tape with analog VHS video they were not noticeable, but in the image with the best quality that makes technology «Laserdisc», was seen, among other things, the telephone number of the chief administrator of Disney Michael Eisner. Some DVD-version number is cut and replaced with the words «The best is yet to come».



In the scene where Eddie and Jessica take off from a wrecked taxi Benny, there are four frames (two on every two seconds), which gives the impression that Jessica is not underwear. Walt Disney Company has withdrawn laserdisc-release and released another batch of disks, claiming that it was wrong stained frame. They also stated that this shot could be seen not only on the new disk, but also on the VHS-version by asking a provocative question: "If the frame is present in the VHS version, why mention only laserdisc-edition, and if the new drives have been reprinted with the same bad frames, why only them make claims? "In later versions of the animation frame has been redesigned so that lifts up dress opens the viewer edge white panties (DVD 1999 years), or lets you see nothing more (DVD 2002 year).

Here's what happened to shoot on my version (like Jessica in shorts)



This version has turned out that to get on the Internet on September 4, 2014

A short scene where the kid cartoon Herman makes sexual gesture woman (real, not drawn) present in the original set of animation, was cut from the first release of the film on DVD, although this controversial issue can be found in the releases on VHS, laserdisc and «Vista series »DVD.

Gary Wolfe, author of the original novel «Who Censored Roger Rabbit?», Deals with a lot of fans of the film by conventional mail and the Internet, making a detailed list of the many hidden "surprises" in the film, and later in the series "Roger Rabbit." He distributes copies of this list to anyone who asks. Wolfe also sued Disney in 2001 for unpaid remuneration associated with the film.

In my version of the film that could not be found.



About characters

Cartoons RK Maroon, starring Roger Rabbit, called "Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit" (or just cartoons baby Herman). While Roger is undoubtedly the focus of each of the films, it is not considered a star. Many animated series of the 1930s and 1940s, starring comic characters played along with the lovable main character, as a result of a secondary character was always the shadow of the main (eg Mickey Mouse in the role of the main character and his dog Pluto).



In the intro cartoon "Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit," a play on the popular at the time title sequence Warner Bros. Even her background music - it is a direct parody of the Warner Bros - opening glissando on a stringed instrument, the party brass, flutes on the high register and loud carcasses at the end. In addition, the appearance of the face of the protagonist against the background of shining stars also borrowed from the cartoon of the first half of the XX century, part of Disney.

Between Disney and Warner Bros. the contract was signed, under which each character, Bugs and Mickey will receive the same amount of screen time. That's why the script Bugs, Mickey and Eddie together are involved in the scene falling from a skyscraper, as well as in the final scene at the Acme factory; mouse and rabbit, according to the terms of the agreement, say exactly the same words in the dialogues.

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Initially, according to the first version of the script, the judge has to be Rock Hunter, who shot and killed Bambi's mother. Thus increasingly revealed his sadistic, cruel and chёrstvaya nature towards his fellow Toon. However, it is assumed that the Walt Disney Company has rejected this idea, believing that the idea of ​​the mass murder of more preferably, not wanting to frighten young viewers that character more than is required for the purposes of the emotional movie. This idea was later used in the Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast," which presumably Gaston (the villain) was the one who killed Bambi's mother. Accurate information about who is actually a judge Rock, no, a large number of movie fans speculated.

Most fans of the film hung on Jessica Rabbit label "Frankenstein films of the goddesses": voice says Lauren Bekolish (at his own request Kathleen Turner does not appear in the credits), Betty Grable has legs, torso and buttocks Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield chest hair of Veronica Lake, Merlin's eyes Dietrich and Judy Garland singing voice (implemented Amy Irving).

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Anachronisms

The film is set in Hollywood in 1947. However, for many of the characters, especially the stars «Warner Bros.», used earlier reference images (for Bugs Bunny used two samples, one of which was withdrawn from use on «Warner Bros.» and «Lion Schlesinger Pictures» More In 1943, Betty Boop is represented in the image, unused since 1934). In addition, there are some characters who appeared later in 1947, but were included in the film at the request of the crew; for example, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (favorite cartoon characters Robert Zemeckis created by Chuck Jones in 1948). The emergence toon under 1947 can be explained by the fact that in the world of the film cartoon - intelligent beings that exist independently of the people, and that some cartoons were living at the time, but have not yet started to make movies.

In the scene where the judge comes in Rock Cafe in search of Roger, Angelo said, "Yes, I saw a rabbit," and then says, as if speaking to an invisible interlocutor: "Say hello to the judge, Harvey." Many believe that this is an allusion to the film by James Stewart "Harvey" and is seen as a mistake, because the film was released in 1950, and the film takes place in 1947. However, the play "Harvey" took place in 1944, and Angelo could well allude to it. On the other hand, Angelo and his buddies (who understand and appreciate the joke) is not similar to the theater, especially to go on Broadway to watch the performance.

When Eddie and Roger are hiding in the theater, there is a cartoon show «Goofy Gymnastics» with Goofy. A cartoon was removed in 1949.

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In the story, the end of the film Porky Pig piglet first comes to mind its famous phrase "That's all, folks!" (Eng. «That's all folks!»); However, almost all cartoons series Looney Tunes, ending this remark were created before 1945.

Screenwriter Peter Seaman explained these mistakes so that the purpose of the film was "fun, but not the history of animation».

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