@@Rosedach Articles at the time said that exclusion of Hanna Barbera was deliberate, because the animation quality was so low. Notice they included pretty much every other studio as well, such as Fleisher (Betty Boop). However, Hanna-Barbera studios did not start until 1957, and the movie is set in 1947, so the omission makes sense.
now keep this in mind: NONE of this was CGI. it was all old school hand drawn frame by frame animation! this was the movie that introduced me to Bob Hoskins, and when I found out he's actually British and had a put on accent for this part, I was floored!
More than that! All of the objects the toons pick up and touch in the real world were all really there! They're not CGI either. It's like a crazy magician's trick. No one has even attempted to replicate anything like it on that level. Most other cartoon/animation hybrids avoid having the animated characters interact with the real world (even today they'll just make everything they touch CGI). In this movie, everything that's not a cartoon was achieved in-camera. Just count the number of floating drinks/drink trays in the Ink & Pain Club scene. None of those props were animated. And yes! Bob Hoskins is a legend for doing this role!! Half his scenes he was basically filming all by himself 'cause "Roger" wasn't really there.
And I just learned like a month ago that Angelo (the tough in the bar who eats the egg and does NOT rat out Roger) is also a British actor: Richard Ridings, currently the voice of Peppa Pig's dad!!
Bettie saying "I've still got it, Eddie" is one of my favourite lines in that film. She was voiced by the VA who voiced her in the 1930s: Mae Questel. She was 80 at the time (she died 10 years later).
Also, the animators looked for ways to challenge themselves. The scene in the speakeasy back room is known by animators around the world for what is called "swinging the lamp." They didn't have to have a lamp hanging from the ceiling that gets bumped and starts swinging. But once they included a real world swinging lamp in the scene, they had to coordinate the shadows of the cartoon rabbit to match the shifting real world shadows in the room! It's a marvel to everyone in the industry to this day.
Underrated actor. He’s wonderful in this. There’s reporting that James Cameron wanted to cast him as Wolverine in the late 80s for a film that was never made. He would have been perfect!
@@canceltheapocalypse8190He certainly has a much more appropriate stature and build for it than the tall, slender, and pretty Hugh Jackman, at 6" 3" standing _a full foot taller_ than the actual short, squat, and _extremely hairy_ 5 foot 3 inch Logan from the comic books. Hoskins at 5'4" would have been just about perfect (not saying that Bob's ugly, though.) I understand that an entire generation of people now think of Hugh Jackman as being _the_ image of Wolverine, but he doesn't look _at all_ like Logan from the comics and I've never thought that he was at all right for the role. It would have been _so much more interesting_ to actually cast someone comic-accurately short to play him, rather than the boring, stereotypical, Hollywood handsome leading man. (Logan has been called many, many things, but _"handsome"_ has never been one of them, and his waist is nearly as wide as his shoulders... he's basically built like a squat barrel with massive arms. There's a quote from an early '90s issue of the _Wolverine_ comic book, where a group of jackass teenagers who see Logan walk past without a shirt on yell out: "Hey, dude, you forgot to shave your _back_ this morning!")
However, even though they had deals with the companies, some of the specific studio rights for characters didn’t make it through on a more granular level, such as Popeye via King Features, and Tom & Jerry via Turner/MGM. That highlights even more how much of a feat the legal negotiations were.
This movie is what made Space Jam possible The degree of live action and animation on the same screen wasn't seen before, not since the days of Walt Disney himself An iconic picture for sure
Even Space Jam coasted in comparison to this movie. Space Jam is fun but, next time you watch it, keep track of how often the Looney Tunes interact with real objects. They very rarely do. And when they do, it sometimes "magically" becomes animated once they're holding it. Roger Rabbit on the other hand cut absolutely no corners. Virtually everything the toons interact with is real! Betty Boop's drink tray, Baby Marvin's cigar, the guns the weasels are holding, the water Roger spits out of his mouth when he's in the sink... Which means all those objects were really moving around the set, being carefully manipulated like a magician's trick. Seriously, watch it. It's amazing and incredibly difficult to pull off! That's why Space Jam avoided doing that stuff 'cause normal directors do not have that level of dedication to try to do that. (It really was Walt Disney level of perfectionism).
The only other picture that approaches this level of integration was Mary Poppins, and that used the only Sodium Vapor Chromakey camera ever in existence (which was actually made for the movie, and couldn't be replicated even by the inventor). The unique characteristics of Sodium Vapor lighting (cgesp bright narrow bandwidth yellow light) made it possible to film every color in the rainbow and still pull a perfect key even with translucent objects. But for this film, they filmed all the real objects first, and then carefully painted animation on every single frame, such that the animated characters were moved with the real objects. And that required interactions between real and animated to be done with practical effects on the real side (often employing tricks used by magicians to make ojpbjects move).
Yep but if you go by the time period it would be the book the film was based off of cause the movie didn’t come out until after the year the film is set it
He didn't kill David as he being the Klingon captain was still on the Klingon ship but gave the order to kill one of the hostages. The Klingon went to kill Saavic but David jumped in the way and was killed.
Christopher Lloyd the actor is not the same Christopher Lloyd that wrote books on gardening. That Christopher Lloyd was from the UK and died back in 2006.
This is an amazing film. For the only time in film history, both Warner Brothers and Disney allowed characters from each company to appear in the same film. For the only time in film history, the literal faces of the franchises, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, shared a scene. The only catch was that both companies insisted on equal screen time. Hence, Daffy and Donald are onscreen for the same amount of time, with the same number of lines. MGM allowed their characters to be used without the screen time restriction. Droopy Dog (the elevator operator in Toontown) is from MGM. Tom and Jerry were nearly in the film, but MGM didn't think _Roger Rabbit_ would make much money. I can only imagine what animators would have done with Tom and Jerry. No doubt the *Toon Law* : "A cat will assume the shape of its container," would have been demonstrated. Woody Woodpecker, who appears in the group scene at the end, is from Universal. Paramount allowed their character of Betty Boop to be in the film. She was voiced by Mae Questel, the actress who voiced her for cartoons of the 1930s, fifty years previously. Naturally, all the Warner Brothers characters were voiced by the legendary *Mel Blanc* . He voiced almost all of the Warner Brothers characters from the 1930s until his death in 1989. He was known in Hollywood as "the man of a thousand voices." If you're unaware: in the vast majority of classic Warner Brothers cartoons, when there's a conversation between two characters, it's actually Mel Blanc talking to himself. When Blanc passed away, Warner's commissioned a painting of the Looney Tunes, with their heads bowed towards an empty microphone framed by a spotlight. The name of the painting is, "Speechless." The group scene at the end is a giant mix from all companies. And again, this is the only time in film history when this happened. It's unlikely that it will ever happen again. The very end was a mashup of Warner Brothers' and Disney's well-known endings: Porky Pig (Warner Brothers) saying, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" followed by Tinkerbell (Disney) tapping her magic wand on the screen, to make the film disappear. (Again with equal screen time for both characters.) There are characters from Warner Brothers and Disney throughout the film. For decades, fans have freeze-framed the film to catch each and every one. You can almost choose a random frame in the film and find something. The film was made by an army of animators (hand-drawn animation!) combined with live-action. While it would be easy to make with modern CGI, this was long before CGI was both inexpensive and sophisticated enough to be common in films. This film was made by adding effects by hand in every frame. Everyone involved loved the project, which is why there are so many characters and jokes based on those characters. There are a ton of in-jokes that you won't catch unless you freeze-frame your way through it. One of them only appears in the theatrical release and early VHS videotape and laserdisc releases: When Jessica and Eddie are thrown from Benny the Cab after Judge Doom pours dip onto the road, Jessica flies out of the car in such a way that you almost see up her dress. In the original release, animators _actually showed up her dress_ for a few frames. After fans had freeze-framed their way through the film and found it, Disney and Warner's insisted that those few frames be removed. Consequently, those few frames were edited out of subsequent releases. Naturally, fans have ripped video from the laserdisc release. You can find the uncut version on RUclips. Another joke that few people notice is rather funny: the animators reversed the way Jessica's breasts move. Where a real-life woman's breasts might move upwards and then downwards when waliking, running, etc., Jessica's move down, then up. This has the effect of amplifying her already ample bosom. It's very small, but it shows the detail that animators did throughout the film. Animators never expected anyone to notice, but fans have spent so much time looking at every frame of the film that we've seen them. Most people of my generation (I'm early Gen-X) grew up watching Merrie Melodies and Looney Tuens cartoons in syndication. We watched _The Bugs Bunny Show_ every Saturday morning, followed by _The Wonderful World of Disney_ every Sunday night. We knew Droopy Dog, Woody Woodpecker, and Screwy Squirrel. We even knew Betty Boop by virtue of a few of her cartoons packaged with Popeye for syndication. All these are the Toons we grew up with. From the time we were small children until we were teenagers, these were our daily companions. We eagerly accepted Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman, Benny the Cab, and all the newcomers. While they'd never been our companions, they were so close in tone and execution that we felt warm and fuzzy with them. Seeing them all onscreen, interacting with each other and real humans, was both astonishing and heartwarming for us. I got tears with Porky and Tinkerbell at the end. (I'm almost 60 now, and still do.) I'm personally a huge fan of cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s. I've seen far more classic cartoons than most of my generation. I particularly pride myself in my expertise of classic Warner's cartoons. I can walk you through the births of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. (It didn't just _happen_ . The characters each went through various iterations to become what we know today. Amazingly, they each crystallized at the same time, in the heyday of the Hollywood Studio System and the Golden Age of Hollywood.) For me, this is a film of endless details that are similar to or exactly like cartoons made in that era. It's one of my favorite movies of all time because of it.
Haven't seen it said yet, but the reason why Jessica likes him so much is hinted by Betty Boop saying she's a lucky gal. Toons value a sense of humor more than looks. This movie sort of made the whole "gotta have a good sense of humor to get the girl" mentality in our society infamous.
The thing is, the way cartoons were written back then, the innuendos and everything, was the norm So, in a bizarre way, this was for kids Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry never pulled punches with their material, so the writers approached the movie the same way
The original ‘40s versions of Bugs Bunny and a lot of Loony Tunes, Tom & Jerry, were not meant for kids. They were meant more for adults. Disney was the more family friendly alternative.
Yes, original cartoons were meant for adults, before standards came in. I think it was Chuck Jones that said they had done a cartoon during the 40's with an army character called Pvt Snafu. (SNAFU was an Army acronym at the time) In the cartoon there was a massive explosion that destroyed an island. They got a visit from the Secret Service, quietly asking them what had prompted them to have a massive explosion, large enough to destroy an island - they were trying to ascertain if Jones and Co has some inside information about certain Atomic devices...🤣
When Doom killed Eddies brother he got away with a zillion simoleons, then bought the election and then killed Acme in the same way he killed Eddies brother. I love how all the clues were there. very well written.
@rodger1nin No it wasn't the same way, dumbass. Eddie's brother got a Piano dropped on his head, Acme got a Safe dropped on him! That isn't the same at all!
The scene of Eddie looking at the pictures with the camera panning to old newspapers and his brother's old chair with the dust was the perfect example of 'Show, don't tell". Incredible sequence
This movie has so many collaborations with Warner Bros, Disney and many more. This also is directed by Robert Zemeckis, who directed the Back to the Future Trilogy. This used so many practical animation and live effects. You'll probably never see a film like this again.
@@andreadeamon6419 Yes. He played Terry who is asking for money for the clock tower in 2015 talking with Marty about the World Series. Plus the Antique Shop that Marty gets the almanac at has a Roger Rabbit doll in the window. And a JAWS NES video game. 😃
Yeah, sadly I find it hard to imagine companies sharing their IPs in a movie on this scale today. Just look at the (thankfully finally ended) tug of war over Spider-man.
There is a reason these weren't made more often, just too expensive. Not to mention the fight over IP. I think that alone would kill the movie since they would both ask too much.
That '50 year old lust with a 3 year old dinky' line is funnier when you realize he's physically like 9 or 10 months old so really he's complimenting himself in an underhanded way 😂
One thing you might only catch on a second viewing: in the tavern, when Eddie spills the vat of dip all over the floor, not only do the weasels back up to avoid it, but so does Judge Doom.
And so do all the bar patrons. Are they toons as well? No one wants that stuff on their shoes, toon or not. Also, the glove-on-for-dipping-the-shoe isn't exactly a clue either. You never want to dip your hand into turpentine, acetone and benzene. These 'clues' keep getting mentioned by people, yet Doom is honestly reacting to the dip in the same way anyone would.
Things were different back in the 80s. Movies you wouldn't think would be made for kids were things we watched with little thought of the adult situations. I was 8 when this movie came out and it was one of my favorites movies growing up. Great reaction!
Jay: I don't know who Jessica Rabbit is. The viewers: My dude, you about to find out. An all time classic. An amazing work of cinema for its time that holds up as a great film still today.
@@andreadeamon6419 "Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier?" "Why don't you f#@k off!!" hahahahaha!! I've always remembered how unexpected that line was!
The way the lighting is animated on the toons does an amazing amount of subtle heavy lifting for the believability. It even makes me sometimes forget that’s not the real light on them.
This is exactly what I expected to see when I went to DisneyWorld at 5 years old (maybe a decade or so before the movie ever came out). - instead I met giant 6 foot characters who didn’t talk and whose faces didn’t move. I was confused.
Living in LA and seeing the remnants on the red car lines all over the place it really makes you sad that in the 40s we really did have the best public transportation system in the world but now the automobile industry rules the day. I wish I knew that time but it is what it is
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood! The Judge Doom Scene gave kids nightmares for years! Winner of 3 Oscars: Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing. It even won a Lifetime Achievement Award for Animation by Richard Williams. It was a box office and critical success, making, $351 million dollars against a $50 million dollar budget.
@@Cheepchipsable All these years of loving the film and until I read your comment I never knew the film was based on a novel. Read the basic synopsis of the plot and it definitely sounds much darker thematically than the film lol.
OH MY GOOOODDDD IM SCREAMING AT MY SCREEN THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. The making off IS AMAZINGGGGGG, so much innovating technology. And I absolutely LOVE ROGER, id marry him too because he makes me laugh, he's sweet, he's smart, he's endearing and truly truly loves his partner. Not to mention is Warner brothers and Disney's characters in the same movie, that was an EVENT. Also Tim Curry auditioned for Doom's part but he was too scary so they went for Christopher Lloyd. I loved this movie as a kid. Here in Brazil usually if a movie was animation the networks would automatically assume it was for kid. I do know I didn't grasp the serious tones and themes of the movie, but I still loved it SO MUCH, but the scene of the shoe being melted still terrifies me to this day and I'm 40yo.
Location, Location, Location: The tunnel that leads to Toontown here in Roger Rabbit, would be redressed and reused in Back to the Future Part II (1989), as the tunnel where Marty and Biff are fighting over the Almanac. Also, Christopher Lloyd has played a few bad guys before. He played Butch Cavendish in The Legend of The Lone Ranger (1981), and he played Kruge, a Klingon Commander in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
There's a story that when Bob Hoskin's very young son saw this film, he didn't talk to his dad for two weeks. When Hoskins finally got him to talk about why, he said that he was upset that his dad had worked with all those cartoons and didn't bring him on set to meet them. Also, it's the same director as Back to the Future. And there was a bit of controversy regarding one scene of the animation. In the scene where Jessica Rabbit is thrown from the cab with her dress flipped up, in one single frame the animators decided to have some fun and drew her "anatomically correct." Since it was just in one single frame, it was impossible to notice that in the theaters, so it wasn't a big deal, just a little in-joke. However, when it was later released on VHS home video, people were able to pause it at that point and notice it. Oops!
The most impressive part of this movie is that it was made before computers. All animation was done traditionally w separate cells created over the film of each scene. Toon interactions with objects/actors were drawn over scenes. SO well done!
Um, a lot of films used CGI before this, mainly for spaceships and object. The Last Starfighter came out in '84. Earlier films uses computer techniques, usually for animations.
@@prestige515 Computers had been used in SFX since the 70s. Computer generated *images* wouldn't start showing up in movies for another few years after this was made-- all the cartoons were hand-drawn.
Christopher Lloyd is the greatest character actor ever. He's played Uncle Fester in The Addams Family movies, the professor on Back to the Future, the Headless Horseman in a TV adaption of Alice in Wonderland, a Klingon warrior on Star Trek III, and, of course, Ignatowski on Taxi. This scene when he was trying to kill Eddie was scary but at the same time fascinating with his animated crazy eyes. Whenever Lloyd smiles in that scenario, it's great. He never disappoints.
Pretty crazy Charles Fleschier, the voice of Roger Rabbit, is also the voice of Benny the cab (he also appeared in the classic NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET as a doctor)
Bob Hoskins (Detective Eddie Valiant) put on a fantastic hard-boiled American accent for this film, but is actually British! I was amazed when I learned that! And I JUST recently- like, last week- learned that the guy playing Angelo (the guy who gets the egg in his mouth at 7:37) is ALSO a British actor: Richard Ridings, currently the voice of Peppa Pig's dad!!
This film is so well done. The animation blends pretty seamlessly with the live action. It truly is a brilliant piece of filmmaking that really stretched the genre at the time. It's still a beautiful movie
The way the actors did everything and they had to draw the toons in later was incredible. Here is one example and my favorite scene. The penguins are carrying real trays. They built the set you saw with the tables and left a 6ft gap or so under it with slits in the main floor so people under the set could walk around with trays attached to sticks in patterns. Then they just drew in the toons later so it was seamless. The gun that the weasels were holding when Roger was underwater was just suspended and controlled from above with strings and everything was added later. It's really incredible. Same with the two ducks on the piano benches. They made the benches bounce around from above like a marionette and added the toons to match it perfectly.
Zemeckis’ genius on display again! A noir mystery thriller with toons. There were a few movies where humans danced with toons and shared the screen, but creating a world where the two coexist day-to-day was a first.
The night club was a nod to the Cotton Club in Harlem where all the performers were black, and all of the patrons were white. The famous Cab Calloway was the band leader at the Cotton Club for a while. That is a movie for you guys to watch in the future. It featured Richard Gere, Nicholas Cage, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, and many others. I thoroughly enjoyed The Cotton Club.
Fun fact, the scene when the Gorilla bouncer caught Eddie...the bouncer was supposed to be Fred Flintstone in the initial script, but a deal with Hanna-Barbera couldn't be reached to use their characters.
One of the amazing things about this movie is you had famous toons from different companies on screen at the same time. You had Mickey Mouse next to Bugs Bunny. Nobody thought that would ever happen. But when Steven Spielberg comes knocking and asking for Mickey and Bugs, you listen! 😁
What they had to do to negotiate the rights on this film might be as impressive as the technical achievements. Everyone focuses on Disney and Warner Brothers for obvious reasons, but there are characters from multiple other companies amongst the toons as well: Droopy Dog (“Your floor, sir…”) was from MGM, the same studio as Tom & Jerry; Woody Woodpecker (seen in the crowd of toons at the end) was from Walter Lantz and Universal; Betty Boop was from Fleischer Studios and Paramount. This is like Super Smash Brothers levels of rights to secure… 😮
@@m.hunterstevie2081 Of course. I just used the big two as an example. But like I said it took someone like Steven Spielberg to get it done. I don't think Zemeckis would've been able to do it on his own.
You should find the Making Of Roger Rabbit documentary. It's amazing how much detail they did to make it a great movie. The lighting changes and the interaction between the toons and the actors is unreal.
"the weasels seem like more of a gang" rightly or wrongly, it's a recurring theme in the entertainment industry that the lapd is just another street gang.
BTW, there are lots of throwbacks to really old cartoons. The song they sing in the movie is "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" from 1931. It was in a very early Merrie Melodies cartoon (Warner Bros. precursor to Looney Tunes) starring one of their first characters, Foxy. I remember watching that cartoon on HBO Max when I was trying to watch all the Looney Tunes cartoons they had and being shocked since I knew the song from this movie.
I loved this movie as a kid, and still love it as an adult. Watching the behind the scenes of this movie is amazing to see how much work that was put into making it. Also, this movie is the ONLY movie that Disney and Warner Bros worked together on, if I'm not mistaken.
They originally intended to reveal that Judge Doom was an existing cartoon, but they dropped the idea for some reason: he was going to be the hunter who killed Bambi's mother. There's a fan theory that there's actually a really sneaky reference to his "true" identity as a Toon actor in the movie, but there's so much behind the scenes info and none of it has ever even hinted at this so I think it's just coincidence: there's a publicity poster in R.K. Maroon's office for one of his stars (made up for the movie, like Roger) called Pistol Packin' Possum, who's dressed like Al Capone (ie. just like the weasel gang's boss should be dressed). The poster's eyes look a little bit like Doom's crazy eyes at the end, and the gun he's holding looks a LOT like the one that comes out from behind the curtain to shoot Maroon... But, it's probably just the animators using similar styles to draw gangster-inspired characters.
This movie was a mixture of live action, practical effects as well as straight up animation, all hand drawn. It took about 2 years to make this movie. It was a ton of work put into this movie but all worth it. They used props to stand in for the animated characters when they were filming the actors, plus Bob Hoskins had to learn to do mime work as well as talking to invisible characters while filming on camera, then the animators drew the cartoon characters over every picture frame. No CGI whatsoever. Also Disney which owns Touchstone had to get the rights to all the other non Disney cartoon characters such as Warner Bros. for Looney Tunes, Tex Avery Cartoons for Droopy the Dog, etc. Growing up in the 80's, movies like these were common for Friday movie days in elementary school 😂. Classic movie! Love it. Keep doing a great job you two! Looking forward to seeing more reactions 😉.
This film is a staggering achievement that has never been duplicated. Yes, there's Cool World and Space Jam, but neither of those films are as good as this film. (Of course I like Michael Jordan's Space Jam. That's a childhood classic.) Great reaction! 👍🏿
Fun fact. This is the only movie that Eddie Murphy turned down. He was supposed to play Eddie valiant but he couldn't get past the whole concept of the movie. Now when he watches it. He feels like a fool that he turned it down
Love Eddie Murphy, but I now cannot imagine anyone but Bob Hoskins doing the role. Harrison Ford, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone were among the other actors also considered for the part.
Don't think this would have been the same movie with Eddie Murphy, he's just too lively, too zany. Bob Hoskins plays it much more deadpan and doesn't need to make himself the centre of attention, that I think Murphy would have, to make an impact. Love many of Eddie Murphy's movies but if he'd been cast in the role I don't think the movie would have been as good.
This movie was a groundbreaker back in 1988. It really changed how animation can be used in real-world filming. You two should start reacting to more animated movies, particularly from Pixar, Dreamworks, and Blue Sky.
34:43 There’s a fan theory that the film does show (but not tell) who Judge Doom Was. R.K. Maroon was a businessman who exploited his toon stars heavily for money. In his office there is a framed picture of one of his past toon stars (who is never shown in the film) That toon is called “Pistol Packin Possum.” In the picture the Possum is holding a distinct long barrelled pistol. When R K Maroon is shot its with the same kind of pistol. Eddy sees the pistol reflected in the picture and the two pistols actually overlap briefly. The idea is that R K Maroon may have fired Possum in the past. Which is why he has a grudge against Maroon and Rodger, who is the star who became popular after he was fired. After being fired he turned to crime, robbing a bank in toon town. Eddies brother investigated that crime and was killed. Doom then used the money to set up Cloverleaf Industries.
Not sure if you remember the Doctor at the Sleep Clinic in (A Nightmare On Elm St) that Nancy's mom was sitting with and talking to (About what are dreams).. anyways.. that is Charles Fleischer .. the voice of Roger Rabbit :)
For weeks after production, Bob Hoskin's son refused to talk to him. When he finally asked what was wrong, his son said it was because he didn't bring any of his cartoon friends home with him. Also, Bob Hoskins got so good at using his imagination, he started hallucinating weasels doing very un-PG things.
In order for the Looney Tunes to be used, they had to have the same screen time as the Disney characters so they just put them in the same scene. That’s why Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are together and Donald Duck and Daffy Duck are together.
The way Eddie killed the weasels was a callback to early in the movie when you the see pictures inside his office (he was part of a circus as a clown with his father and brother)
I tend to say not a single child ever created an animated film/television series. Technically, there isn't truly such a thing as a "kids" movie/show until they start making them lol.
The director at the beginning, Raoul J. Raoul, is portrayed by Joel Silver (founder of Silver Pictures, known for Predator / Lethal Weapon / Die Hard / The Adventures of Ford Fairlane / The Last Boy Scout / Ricochet / Demolition Man / Richie Rich / The Matrix / Romeo Must Die, and the like)!
It was a HUGE deal that Disney and Warner Brothers worked together on this, being competing studios for decades before.
I don't remember seeing any Hanna-Barbera characters, like Yogi Bear, Tom or Jerry, Fred or Wilma Flintstone, Scooby-Doo, etc..
@@Rosedacha lot of that didn’t get really popular until the 60s
@@Rosedach Yep. Would have been even cooler if they were in on it too.
yhey argued to make sure each studios char had exact same screen time, down to the second.
@@Rosedach Articles at the time said that exclusion of Hanna Barbera was deliberate, because the animation quality was so low. Notice they included pretty much every other studio as well, such as Fleisher (Betty Boop). However, Hanna-Barbera studios did not start until 1957, and the movie is set in 1947, so the omission makes sense.
now keep this in mind: NONE of this was CGI. it was all old school hand drawn frame by frame animation!
this was the movie that introduced me to Bob Hoskins, and when I found out he's actually British and had a put on accent for this part, I was floored!
More than that! All of the objects the toons pick up and touch in the real world were all really there! They're not CGI either. It's like a crazy magician's trick. No one has even attempted to replicate anything like it on that level. Most other cartoon/animation hybrids avoid having the animated characters interact with the real world (even today they'll just make everything they touch CGI). In this movie, everything that's not a cartoon was achieved in-camera. Just count the number of floating drinks/drink trays in the Ink & Pain Club scene. None of those props were animated.
And yes! Bob Hoskins is a legend for doing this role!! Half his scenes he was basically filming all by himself 'cause "Roger" wasn't really there.
@@SwiftFoxProductions The built robotic arms to pick up the objects.
Sure this wouldn't be possible in CG for about another 15 years.
And I just learned like a month ago that Angelo (the tough in the bar who eats the egg and does NOT rat out Roger) is also a British actor: Richard Ridings, currently the voice of Peppa Pig's dad!!
@@SwiftFoxProductionsThe actor who voiced Roger dressed up in costume and said the lines offstage so Bob Hoskins had something to play off of.
RIP Bob Hoskins, he doesn't get enough praise, he was amazing in this and the whole reason it worked
My two favourite movies of his are Mona Lisa and Unleashed. One good guy and one as a brilliant bad guy.
He was also amazing in so many cult classics like super Mario bros, mermaids. Brazil…
@@goeienacht A great actor. Hook is another one of his more fun films.
Bob was excellent in the 1984 film 'The Cotton Club' 👌🧐
@@derekodriscoll7178 I forgot about that one. A good film.
Bettie saying "I've still got it, Eddie" is one of my favourite lines in that film. She was voiced by the VA who voiced her in the 1930s: Mae Questel. She was 80 at the time (she died 10 years later).
Wow, I did not know that. That is cool.
She also played Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!! THE CUTEST 🥹😍 “and the rocket’s red glare…!”
@@shannong014 Never knew that, thank you for that. Love that movie, now I have another reason to love it even more.
@@justanotherpatriot7873 she was the cutest!
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." One of my fav lines ever.
I love how neither one of them were all that affected when the shoe got dipped. Pretty much everybody thinks that that scene is traumatizing
Mine too. I have used it several times. 😉😊
@@nsasupporter7557 I cried in the theater
@@karenftx1 🥺 I’m sorry. How old were you?
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Eddie WAS Effected, and Jessica wasn't there, dumbass.
Judge Doom's dip was made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene, all of which dissolves the inks used to draw cartoons.
Yep. Just plain old paint thinner!
and the cel (acetone)
Also, the animators looked for ways to challenge themselves. The scene in the speakeasy back room is known by animators around the world for what is called "swinging the lamp." They didn't have to have a lamp hanging from the ceiling that gets bumped and starts swinging. But once they included a real world swinging lamp in the scene, they had to coordinate the shadows of the cartoon rabbit to match the shifting real world shadows in the room! It's a marvel to everyone in the industry to this day.
*HE, not they. That was all Richard Williamson
@@GaryTongue-zn5di but without the extra “-on”
In 1998 I had the distinct pleasure of bodyguarding Bob Hoskins. A great actor and a genuinely nice man
I hope you had your dukes up, eyes peeled, ears to the ground, and nobody got the drop on you. 😉
Underrated actor. He’s wonderful in this. There’s reporting that James Cameron wanted to cast him as Wolverine in the late 80s for a film that was never made. He would have been perfect!
@@canceltheapocalypse8190He certainly has a much more appropriate stature and build for it than the tall, slender, and pretty Hugh Jackman, at 6" 3" standing _a full foot taller_ than the actual short, squat, and _extremely hairy_ 5 foot 3 inch Logan from the comic books. Hoskins at 5'4" would have been just about perfect (not saying that Bob's ugly, though.) I understand that an entire generation of people now think of Hugh Jackman as being _the_ image of Wolverine, but he doesn't look _at all_ like Logan from the comics and I've never thought that he was at all right for the role.
It would have been _so much more interesting_ to actually cast someone comic-accurately short to play him, rather than the boring, stereotypical, Hollywood handsome leading man.
(Logan has been called many, many things, but _"handsome"_ has never been one of them, and his waist is nearly as wide as his shoulders... he's basically built like a squat barrel with massive arms. There's a quote from an early '90s issue of the _Wolverine_ comic book, where a group of jackass teenagers who see Logan walk past without a shirt on yell out: "Hey, dude, you forgot to shave your _back_ this morning!")
He deserves more credit as an actor, he was great in so many movies like Mona Lisa and Mermaids.
cool
I'm happy all the studios agreed that one movie needed to be made with all the characters. A celebration of American cartooning.
For every Disney character they had to show a looney tune character. That's the way the contract was set up
Disney and Warner Brothers had to have equal screen time - easiest way to do it was to have them in same scenes.
Thank Steven spielberg for that. He's the one who got the studios to "lend" their characters to Disney
However, even though they had deals with the companies, some of the specific studio rights for characters didn’t make it through on a more granular level, such as Popeye via King Features, and Tom & Jerry via Turner/MGM. That highlights even more how much of a feat the legal negotiations were.
Yep except Popeye, Tom and Jerry, and Casper
Seeing Donald and Daffy and Mickey and Bugs together for the first time still gives me chills.
And notice that the screen time for Donald and Daffy were equal and Mickey and Bugs were equal.
And Porky and Tinkerbell. But Dumbo and Yosemite Sam each appeared solo.
@THOMMGB
No they weren't equal, dumbass! Mickey appears a little before Bugs, which was intentional from Disney!
That was the Avengers Endgame of the 80s.
This movie is what made Space Jam possible
The degree of live action and animation on the same screen wasn't seen before, not since the days of Walt Disney himself
An iconic picture for sure
Also the only movie that had Disney cartoon characters together with Looney Tunes characters.
Even Space Jam coasted in comparison to this movie. Space Jam is fun but, next time you watch it, keep track of how often the Looney Tunes interact with real objects. They very rarely do. And when they do, it sometimes "magically" becomes animated once they're holding it. Roger Rabbit on the other hand cut absolutely no corners. Virtually everything the toons interact with is real! Betty Boop's drink tray, Baby Marvin's cigar, the guns the weasels are holding, the water Roger spits out of his mouth when he's in the sink... Which means all those objects were really moving around the set, being carefully manipulated like a magician's trick. Seriously, watch it. It's amazing and incredibly difficult to pull off! That's why Space Jam avoided doing that stuff 'cause normal directors do not have that level of dedication to try to do that. (It really was Walt Disney level of perfectionism).
The only other picture that approaches this level of integration was Mary Poppins, and that used the only Sodium Vapor Chromakey camera ever in existence (which was actually made for the movie, and couldn't be replicated even by the inventor).
The unique characteristics of Sodium Vapor lighting (cgesp bright narrow bandwidth yellow light) made it possible to film every color in the rainbow and still pull a perfect key even with translucent objects.
But for this film, they filmed all the real objects first, and then carefully painted animation on every single frame, such that the animated characters were moved with the real objects.
And that required interactions between real and animated to be done with practical effects on the real side (often employing tricks used by magicians to make ojpbjects move).
And Disney pioneered that in the 1920s with The Alice Comedies!
@@aaronbredon2948 Another film from the Mary Poppins era that mixed animation and real life characters was Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
That sword was supposed to be a young Frank Sinatra singing one of his hits, lol..
He really had a "sharp" voice
Yeah - I was surprised that they didn't catch that - as big as Jay is a fan of his.
I always thought it was Bing Crosby
@@grabtharshammer They are all kind of interchangeable, Bing, Frank, Dean.
But David Bowie...
@@grabtharshammerIt looked and sounded like Bing Crosby to me also.
The little dog in the elevator, is named Droopy.
"Hello, all you happy people!"
There’s a movie called “Harvey” about a man who has an unseen rabbit as his best friend. That’s the reference made in the bar
It was more a reference to the stage play the film was originally based off
Yes! Harvey is one of my absolute favorites of all time!
Yep but if you go by the time period it would be the book the film was based off of cause the movie didn’t come out until after the year the film is set it
"Say hello Harvey" was a great line
@@deathmetal271Angelo likely saw a performance of the play recently.
Judge Dooms true form reveal ranks among the most horrifying kids movie moments in history!
It was never advertised as a kids movie. Oh by the way, most if not all of the cartoons of the 30's and 40's were never made for kids.
@@cameltanker1286 Maybe not, but I did watch it as a kid, and it did scare the crap out of me and still creeps me out to this day
'Cause he talks like THIS!
Him and Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure 😬
I mean most kids movies use to have some element of Scariness back in the 80s-90s Goonies,Gremlins, Labyrinth
The best line in the movie for me is "Not prostate you idiot! PROBATE!"
My favorite SEQUENCE is the dueling pianos between Donald and Daffy Duck
I thought I was the only one who LOVED that line. 😆
"He had to take these big pills and drink lots of water!" 😂
"What're you think your doing here chump?"
"Who are you calling a chump chimp?"
And in that conversation we find out Roger Rabbit is Thumper, from Bambi, nephew ❤
“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way” is a pretty top tier line too…
Christopher Lloyd is a very versatile actor. He also played a Klingon that killed Kirk's son. He has also written books on gardening.
And Uncle Fester int eh Addams Family movies. Have they watched those yet?
He didn't kill David as he being the Klingon captain was still on the Klingon ship but gave the order to kill one of the hostages. The Klingon went to kill Saavic but David jumped in the way and was killed.
And also in the movie Clue!
Christopher Lloyd the actor is not the same Christopher Lloyd that wrote books on gardening. That Christopher Lloyd was from the UK and died back in 2006.
This is an amazing film.
For the only time in film history, both Warner Brothers and Disney allowed characters from each company to appear in the same film.
For the only time in film history, the literal faces of the franchises, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, shared a scene.
The only catch was that both companies insisted on equal screen time. Hence, Daffy and Donald are onscreen for the same amount of time, with the same number of lines.
MGM allowed their characters to be used without the screen time restriction. Droopy Dog (the elevator operator in Toontown) is from MGM. Tom and Jerry were nearly in the film, but MGM didn't think _Roger Rabbit_ would make much money.
I can only imagine what animators would have done with Tom and Jerry. No doubt the *Toon Law* : "A cat will assume the shape of its container," would have been demonstrated.
Woody Woodpecker, who appears in the group scene at the end, is from Universal.
Paramount allowed their character of Betty Boop to be in the film. She was voiced by Mae Questel, the actress who voiced her for cartoons of the 1930s, fifty years previously.
Naturally, all the Warner Brothers characters were voiced by the legendary *Mel Blanc* . He voiced almost all of the Warner Brothers characters from the 1930s until his death in 1989. He was known in Hollywood as "the man of a thousand voices."
If you're unaware: in the vast majority of classic Warner Brothers cartoons, when there's a conversation between two characters, it's actually Mel Blanc talking to himself.
When Blanc passed away, Warner's commissioned a painting of the Looney Tunes, with their heads bowed towards an empty microphone framed by a spotlight. The name of the painting is, "Speechless."
The group scene at the end is a giant mix from all companies. And again, this is the only time in film history when this happened. It's unlikely that it will ever happen again.
The very end was a mashup of Warner Brothers' and Disney's well-known endings: Porky Pig (Warner Brothers) saying, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" followed by Tinkerbell (Disney) tapping her magic wand on the screen, to make the film disappear.
(Again with equal screen time for both characters.)
There are characters from Warner Brothers and Disney throughout the film. For decades, fans have freeze-framed the film to catch each and every one. You can almost choose a random frame in the film and find something.
The film was made by an army of animators (hand-drawn animation!) combined with live-action. While it would be easy to make with modern CGI, this was long before CGI was both inexpensive and sophisticated enough to be common in films. This film was made by adding effects by hand in every frame.
Everyone involved loved the project, which is why there are so many characters and jokes based on those characters.
There are a ton of in-jokes that you won't catch unless you freeze-frame your way through it. One of them only appears in the theatrical release and early VHS videotape and laserdisc releases:
When Jessica and Eddie are thrown from Benny the Cab after Judge Doom pours dip onto the road, Jessica flies out of the car in such a way that you almost see up her dress. In the original release, animators _actually showed up her dress_ for a few frames. After fans had freeze-framed their way through the film and found it, Disney and Warner's insisted that those few frames be removed. Consequently, those few frames were edited out of subsequent releases.
Naturally, fans have ripped video from the laserdisc release. You can find the uncut version on RUclips.
Another joke that few people notice is rather funny: the animators reversed the way Jessica's breasts move. Where a real-life woman's breasts might move upwards and then downwards when waliking, running, etc., Jessica's move down, then up. This has the effect of amplifying her already ample bosom. It's very small, but it shows the detail that animators did throughout the film.
Animators never expected anyone to notice, but fans have spent so much time looking at every frame of the film that we've seen them.
Most people of my generation (I'm early Gen-X) grew up watching Merrie Melodies and Looney Tuens cartoons in syndication. We watched _The Bugs Bunny Show_ every Saturday morning, followed by _The Wonderful World of Disney_ every Sunday night. We knew Droopy Dog, Woody Woodpecker, and Screwy Squirrel. We even knew Betty Boop by virtue of a few of her cartoons packaged with Popeye for syndication.
All these are the Toons we grew up with. From the time we were small children until we were teenagers, these were our daily companions.
We eagerly accepted Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman, Benny the Cab, and all the newcomers. While they'd never been our companions, they were so close in tone and execution that we felt warm and fuzzy with them.
Seeing them all onscreen, interacting with each other and real humans, was both astonishing and heartwarming for us. I got tears with Porky and Tinkerbell at the end.
(I'm almost 60 now, and still do.)
I'm personally a huge fan of cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s. I've seen far more classic cartoons than most of my generation. I particularly pride myself in my expertise of classic Warner's cartoons. I can walk you through the births of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
(It didn't just _happen_ . The characters each went through various iterations to become what we know today. Amazingly, they each crystallized at the same time, in the heyday of the Hollywood Studio System and the Golden Age of Hollywood.)
For me, this is a film of endless details that are similar to or exactly like cartoons made in that era. It's one of my favorite movies of all time because of it.
Concise, thank you.
Haven't seen it said yet, but the reason why Jessica likes him so much is hinted by Betty Boop saying she's a lucky gal. Toons value a sense of humor more than looks. This movie sort of made the whole "gotta have a good sense of humor to get the girl" mentality in our society infamous.
Jessica is not bad. She's just drawn that way.
😂😂😂
The thing is, the way cartoons were written back then, the innuendos and everything, was the norm
So, in a bizarre way, this was for kids
Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry never pulled punches with their material, so the writers approached the movie the same way
The original ‘40s versions of Bugs Bunny and a lot of Loony Tunes, Tom & Jerry, were not meant for kids. They were meant more for adults. Disney was the more family friendly alternative.
@@evilproducer01 Yep, they were frequently shorts that were played before full movies.
Yes, original cartoons were meant for adults, before standards came in.
I think it was Chuck Jones that said they had done a cartoon during the 40's with an army character called Pvt Snafu. (SNAFU was an Army acronym at the time)
In the cartoon there was a massive explosion that destroyed an island.
They got a visit from the Secret Service, quietly asking them what had prompted them to have a massive explosion, large enough to destroy an island - they were trying to ascertain if Jones and Co has some inside information about certain Atomic devices...🤣
There were school trips to see this movie when it came out! Lol
Those were called “Murphy” beds (those pull-down beds) don’t know why though.
@@tiffany5575 I always just assumed the one who created them was named Murphy, lol!
When Doom killed Eddies brother he got away with a zillion simoleons, then bought the election and then killed Acme in the same way he killed Eddies brother. I love how all the clues were there. very well written.
@rodger1nin
No it wasn't the same way, dumbass. Eddie's brother got a Piano dropped on his head, Acme got a Safe dropped on him! That isn't the same at all!
Fun Fact: The singing voice of Jessica Rabbit is Amy Irving. You reacted recently to a movie she was in, “Carrie” where she played Sue.
She was also married to Spielberg at the time
Sounds like Kathleen Turner to me because it is her.
@@markwilliams6394Kathleen Turner does the speaking voice for Jessica Rabbit. Amy Irving did the singing part. You're both right. 😉
@bettysmith4666 You're right, I misread the comment. I'm sorry to the person who wrote the original comment.
Wow that was her? Man, they did her character dirty in The Rage: Carrie 2
The sword does NOT look like David Bowie. It's Frank Sinatra.
The scene of Eddie looking at the pictures with the camera panning to old newspapers and his brother's old chair with the dust was the perfect example of 'Show, don't tell". Incredible sequence
13:15 - Yes, that is Yosemite Sam who flies over the wall, complaining about how his "biscuits are burnin'!"
And later, just before entering Toontown, Eddie pulls out a toon gun *_boxed with an inscription_* from Yosemite Sam!
The voice actress for Betty Boop played Great Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
57 years after she first played the role.
Mae Questal
Grace? She passed away 30 years ago.
@@mhill781
And _Roger Rabbit_ was 36 years ago. The dates check out.
@@paulkennedy8701 whoosh
This movie has so many collaborations with Warner Bros, Disney and many more. This also is directed by Robert Zemeckis, who directed the Back to the Future Trilogy. This used so many practical animation and live effects. You'll probably never see a film like this again.
The voice of Roger had a cameo in bttf. I want say part 2 - he's the guy talking about the sports almanac - so yeah - its part 2.
@@andreadeamon6419 Yes. He played Terry who is asking for money for the clock tower in 2015 talking with Marty about the World Series. Plus the Antique Shop that Marty gets the almanac at has a Roger Rabbit doll in the window. And a JAWS NES video game. 😃
I bet they could watch it again if they wanted
Yeah, sadly I find it hard to imagine companies sharing their IPs in a movie on this scale today. Just look at the (thankfully finally ended) tug of war over Spider-man.
There is a reason these weren't made more often, just too expensive. Not to mention the fight over IP. I think that alone would kill the movie since they would both ask too much.
That '50 year old lust with a 3 year old dinky' line is funnier when you realize he's physically like 9 or 10 months old so really he's complimenting himself in an underhanded way 😂
No, he isn't dumbass. He is supposed to be 3, that's why he said it, idiot.
I read an interview with Kathleen Turner once and she said she believed that Jessica really did love the rabbit
I'm sure we all do.
edit: I meant I'm sure we all believe that, but I suppose we do love the rabbit too.
Doesn't change the fact she cheated!
One thing you might only catch on a second viewing: in the tavern, when Eddie spills the vat of dip all over the floor, not only do the weasels back up to avoid it, but so does Judge Doom.
And so do all the bar patrons. Are they toons as well? No one wants that stuff on their shoes, toon or not.
Also, the glove-on-for-dipping-the-shoe isn't exactly a clue either. You never want to dip your hand into turpentine, acetone and benzene.
These 'clues' keep getting mentioned by people, yet Doom is honestly reacting to the dip in the same way anyone would.
Up until the 1960s, Los Angeles had a great street trolley system, and then it was dismantled.
How long will it take them to recognize who's playing, Judge Doom?
The practical special effects are UNDEFEATED in this movie!
Didn't take too long
Recognized him at 14:46.
Everyone always sees him and automatically thinks Doc for me it's uncle Fester never been back to future fan
@@TheShadow8771
I understand how it's Fester to you if you first saw him there, but to deny the epicness of the BTTF trilogy is heartbreaking :(
@@TheShadow8771 For me, it's Jim Ignatowski
Things were different back in the 80s. Movies you wouldn't think would be made for kids were things we watched with little thought of the adult situations. I was 8 when this movie came out and it was one of my favorites movies growing up. Great reaction!
Speak for yourself, dumbass. I knew exactly what was and wasn't made for kids!
Jay: I don't know who Jessica Rabbit is.
The viewers: My dude, you about to find out.
An all time classic. An amazing work of cinema for its time that holds up as a great film still today.
Jessica was "played by" Kathleen Turner... A Star of Films in the 1980s-1990s with a "throaty voice" that could be... inviting...
Jessica Rabbit was voiced by Kathleen Turner who you saw in Romancing the Stone.
She isn't credited!!! She did it as a favor for Robert Zemeckis
Love Kathleen. She cracked me up in Peggy Sue got married. That's one they should watch. Oh my goodness the cast is incredible
Amy Irving was her singing voice
Steven Spielberg's ex-wife (aka Sue Snell in Carrie / Izzy Grossman in Crossing Delancey - out the same year as Who Framed Roger Rabbit)!
@@andreadeamon6419 "Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier?"
"Why don't you f#@k off!!" hahahahaha!! I've always remembered how unexpected that line was!
The interactions between the toons and real life objects is so well done, you forget that the toons aren’t real.
There is a BTS video showing how they did the interactions and chiaroscuro
The way the lighting is animated on the toons does an amazing amount of subtle heavy lifting for the believability. It even makes me sometimes forget that’s not the real light on them.
@@0okamino the shadows across Roger as the light is swinging in the “Hooch Parlor” especially.
This is exactly what I expected to see when I went to DisneyWorld at 5 years old (maybe a decade or so before the movie ever came out).
- instead I met giant 6 foot characters who didn’t talk and whose faces didn’t move. I was confused.
Seeing this in the theater back when it first came out....When Jessica first showed up, half the guys in the audience all let out an "UHHHH"
Patty Cake was slang back in the day for fooling around!
This was a childhood favorite. And still looks great decades later.
Living in LA and seeing the remnants on the red car lines all over the place it really makes you sad that in the 40s we really did have the best public transportation system in the world but now the automobile industry rules the day. I wish I knew that time but it is what it is
You mean even now there's still remnants around the city? Wow, I've visited LA before but never noticed...
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood!
The Judge Doom Scene gave kids nightmares for years!
Winner of 3 Oscars:
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Editing
Best Film Editing.
It even won a Lifetime Achievement Award for Animation by Richard Williams.
It was a box office and critical success, making, $351 million dollars against a $50 million dollar budget.
The hype around this film when it came out was something else
Such a ground breaking movie. I loved that the actor that voiced Roger dressed up as a rabbit while on the movie lot.
This movie was so incredibly innovative - even after all these years, the concept of it still blows my mind.
This was not a new concept, just not done on this scale with popular characters.
Came from a novel.
@@Cheepchipsable All these years of loving the film and until I read your comment I never knew the film was based on a novel. Read the basic synopsis of the plot and it definitely sounds much darker thematically than the film lol.
9:43 "I wonder how many boys watched this in the 80's and had a crush on her."
Every damn one of us.
Yes.
Can confirm.
Until Cool World came out.
80s? This crush is every generation.
@@mhill781 Maaannn, listen. Holly Wood if she could and goddamn it she did lol.
After so many takes of the movie, Bob Hoskins actually started hallucinating toons and had to go to a hospital.
Proof that Goofy is a dog.
The last scene…Bugs says “not a rabbit”, Mickey says “not a mouse”, and Goofy says “not a dog”.
That's how I figured it out all those years back too lol
His Original name was Literally Dippy Dawg! Anyone who thinks he is not is stupid!
OH MY GOOOODDDD IM SCREAMING AT MY SCREEN THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. The making off IS AMAZINGGGGGG, so much innovating technology. And I absolutely LOVE ROGER, id marry him too because he makes me laugh, he's sweet, he's smart, he's endearing and truly truly loves his partner.
Not to mention is Warner brothers and Disney's characters in the same movie, that was an EVENT. Also Tim Curry auditioned for Doom's part but he was too scary so they went for Christopher Lloyd.
I loved this movie as a kid. Here in Brazil usually if a movie was animation the networks would automatically assume it was for kid. I do know I didn't grasp the serious tones and themes of the movie, but I still loved it SO MUCH, but the scene of the shoe being melted still terrifies me to this day and I'm 40yo.
I met the guy who voiced Roger Rabbit himself Charles Fletcher. He’s a nice guy. Seemed a bit shy but nice
I liked him in that "Genius" DCOM movie, but it wasn't until years later when I saw the making of Roger Rabbit when I realized what he had been in.
Location, Location, Location: The tunnel that leads to Toontown here in Roger Rabbit, would be redressed and reused in Back to the Future Part II (1989), as the tunnel where Marty and Biff are fighting over the Almanac.
Also, Christopher Lloyd has played a few bad guys before. He played Butch Cavendish in The Legend of The Lone Ranger (1981), and he played Kruge, a Klingon Commander in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
There's a story that when Bob Hoskin's very young son saw this film, he didn't talk to his dad for two weeks. When Hoskins finally got him to talk about why, he said that he was upset that his dad had worked with all those cartoons and didn't bring him on set to meet them.
Also, it's the same director as Back to the Future.
And there was a bit of controversy regarding one scene of the animation. In the scene where Jessica Rabbit is thrown from the cab with her dress flipped up, in one single frame the animators decided to have some fun and drew her "anatomically correct." Since it was just in one single frame, it was impossible to notice that in the theaters, so it wasn't a big deal, just a little in-joke. However, when it was later released on VHS home video, people were able to pause it at that point and notice it. Oops!
The most impressive part of this movie is that it was made before computers. All animation was done traditionally w separate cells created over the film of each scene. Toon interactions with objects/actors were drawn over scenes. SO well done!
Thats false, cumputer animation has been done since the late 70's for movies.
@@prestige515 yes but it wasn’t advanced enough to use for this film.
Um, a lot of films used CGI before this, mainly for spaceships and object. The Last Starfighter came out in '84. Earlier films uses computer techniques, usually for animations.
@@prestige515 Computers had been used in SFX since the 70s. Computer generated *images* wouldn't start showing up in movies for another few years after this was made-- all the cartoons were hand-drawn.
@lt6134
Wrong, dumbass. Computers and CGI were around for years before this movie, idiot!
Christopher Lloyd is the greatest character actor ever. He's played Uncle Fester in The Addams Family movies, the professor on Back to the Future, the Headless Horseman in a TV adaption of Alice in Wonderland, a Klingon warrior on Star Trek III, and, of course, Ignatowski on Taxi. This scene when he was trying to kill Eddie was scary but at the same time fascinating with his animated crazy eyes. Whenever Lloyd smiles in that scenario, it's great. He never disappoints.
Pretty crazy Charles Fleschier, the voice of Roger Rabbit, is also the voice of Benny the cab (he also appeared in the classic NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET as a doctor)
Have you guys seen Fantasia?
All the animated brooms, hippos, etc are from Fantasia
It's amazing
Fantasia is a great introduction to classical music.
I wish more people knew about the dinosaurs in that film
Bob Hoskins (Detective Eddie Valiant) put on a fantastic hard-boiled American accent for this film, but is actually British! I was amazed when I learned that!
And I JUST recently- like, last week- learned that the guy playing Angelo (the guy who gets the egg in his mouth at 7:37) is ALSO a British actor: Richard Ridings, currently the voice of Peppa Pig's dad!!
It's a travesty that Bob Hoskins was never nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 1988. He was acting in front of nothing half the time!
This film is so well done. The animation blends pretty seamlessly with the live action. It truly is a brilliant piece of filmmaking that really stretched the genre at the time. It's still a beautiful movie
It won 4 of the 7 Oscars it was nominated for.
The way the actors did everything and they had to draw the toons in later was incredible. Here is one example and my favorite scene. The penguins are carrying real trays. They built the set you saw with the tables and left a 6ft gap or so under it with slits in the main floor so people under the set could walk around with trays attached to sticks in patterns. Then they just drew in the toons later so it was seamless. The gun that the weasels were holding when Roger was underwater was just suspended and controlled from above with strings and everything was added later. It's really incredible. Same with the two ducks on the piano benches. They made the benches bounce around from above like a marionette and added the toons to match it perfectly.
Zemeckis’ genius on display again! A noir mystery thriller with toons. There were a few movies where humans danced with toons and shared the screen, but creating a world where the two coexist day-to-day was a first.
The night club was a nod to the Cotton Club in Harlem where all the performers were black, and all of the patrons were white. The famous Cab Calloway was the band leader at the Cotton Club for a while. That is a movie for you guys to watch in the future. It featured Richard Gere, Nicholas Cage, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, and many others. I thoroughly enjoyed The Cotton Club.
Fun Fact! Amy Irving. The actress who played Sue in Carrie is the singing voice for Jessica Rabbit.
Playing Patty Cake was a euphemism for segs back in the day.
*Sex
"Sister Mary Frances! What the hell happened in here?!"
Fun fact, the scene when the Gorilla bouncer caught Eddie...the bouncer was supposed to be Fred Flintstone in the initial script, but a deal with Hanna-Barbera couldn't be reached to use their characters.
Dang fr thats awsome
One of the amazing things about this movie is you had famous toons from different companies on screen at the same time. You had Mickey Mouse next to Bugs Bunny. Nobody thought that would ever happen. But when Steven Spielberg comes knocking and asking for Mickey and Bugs, you listen! 😁
What they had to do to negotiate the rights on this film might be as impressive as the technical achievements. Everyone focuses on Disney and Warner Brothers for obvious reasons, but there are characters from multiple other companies amongst the toons as well: Droopy Dog (“Your floor, sir…”) was from MGM, the same studio as Tom & Jerry; Woody Woodpecker (seen in the crowd of toons at the end) was from Walter Lantz and Universal; Betty Boop was from Fleischer Studios and Paramount. This is like Super Smash Brothers levels of rights to secure… 😮
@@m.hunterstevie2081 Of course. I just used the big two as an example. But like I said it took someone like Steven Spielberg to get it done. I don't think Zemeckis would've been able to do it on his own.
The little dog in the elevator is Droopy
Thanks, I couldn't remember his name.
Voiced by the movie's animation director Richard Williams.
This is the only time in film that Donald & Daffy both appear together!
The same with Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny also right
You should find the Making Of Roger Rabbit documentary. It's amazing how much detail they did to make it a great movie. The lighting changes and the interaction between the toons and the actors is unreal.
I am commenting before even watching your reaction. This came out when I was 14 or 15. It was groundbreaking for its time.
The scene with the shoe hit me hard in the movie theater. I was waiting for justice after that. 😂
Died alone, in fear. And left behind a life partner, who is going to have to live on without him.
I think it's more devastating every time I see it.
I won't even watch that scene. It's not real, it's just a drawing in a movie, but my gods it hits you hard.
The technical aspects required to make this film are absolutely amazing. Highly recommend looking at a making-of documentary.
26:36 I didn't notice Felix the cat there at the entrance of Toon Town, after all, he's older than Mickey and Bugs Bunny
inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy is the evil Judge Doom here
I think he was recognized
"the weasels seem like more of a gang"
rightly or wrongly, it's a recurring theme in the entertainment industry that the lapd is just another street gang.
BTW, there are lots of throwbacks to really old cartoons. The song they sing in the movie is "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" from 1931. It was in a very early Merrie Melodies cartoon (Warner Bros. precursor to Looney Tunes) starring one of their first characters, Foxy. I remember watching that cartoon on HBO Max when I was trying to watch all the Looney Tunes cartoons they had and being shocked since I knew the song from this movie.
Ending with Porky Pig and Tinkerbell at the end was just the cherry on top of this incredible film! 💜💜
I loved this movie as a kid, and still love it as an adult. Watching the behind the scenes of this movie is amazing to see how much work that was put into making it. Also, this movie is the ONLY movie that Disney and Warner Bros worked together on, if I'm not mistaken.
Part of my collection for sure. My sister's gentleman friend had a life size cut out of Jessica Rabbit as a decoration in his house.
Fun fact the jerk in the bar at the beginning is the voice of Daddy pig in pepper pig 😂
33:47 Judge Doom was made specifically for this movie, no existance in any way before this.
They originally intended to reveal that Judge Doom was an existing cartoon, but they dropped the idea for some reason: he was going to be the hunter who killed Bambi's mother. There's a fan theory that there's actually a really sneaky reference to his "true" identity as a Toon actor in the movie, but there's so much behind the scenes info and none of it has ever even hinted at this so I think it's just coincidence: there's a publicity poster in R.K. Maroon's office for one of his stars (made up for the movie, like Roger) called Pistol Packin' Possum, who's dressed like Al Capone (ie. just like the weasel gang's boss should be dressed). The poster's eyes look a little bit like Doom's crazy eyes at the end, and the gun he's holding looks a LOT like the one that comes out from behind the curtain to shoot Maroon... But, it's probably just the animators using similar styles to draw gangster-inspired characters.
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This movie was a mixture of live action, practical effects as well as straight up animation, all hand drawn. It took about 2 years to make this movie. It was a ton of work put into this movie but all worth it. They used props to stand in for the animated characters when they were filming the actors, plus Bob Hoskins had to learn to do mime work as well as talking to invisible characters while filming on camera, then the animators drew the cartoon characters over every picture frame. No CGI whatsoever. Also Disney which owns Touchstone had to get the rights to all the other non Disney cartoon characters such as Warner Bros. for Looney Tunes, Tex Avery Cartoons for Droopy the Dog, etc. Growing up in the 80's, movies like these were common for Friday movie days in elementary school 😂. Classic movie! Love it. Keep doing a great job you two! Looking forward to seeing more reactions 😉.
The rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild wild west! Yosemite Same does not get the respect he deserves. lol.
This film is a staggering achievement that has never been duplicated. Yes, there's Cool World and Space Jam, but neither of those films are as good as this film. (Of course I like Michael Jordan's Space Jam. That's a childhood classic.) Great reaction! 👍🏿
Fun fact. This is the only movie that Eddie Murphy turned down. He was supposed to play Eddie valiant but he couldn't get past the whole concept of the movie. Now when he watches it. He feels like a fool that he turned it down
Love Eddie Murphy, but I now cannot imagine anyone but Bob Hoskins doing the role.
Harrison Ford, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone were among the other actors also considered for the part.
Don't think this would have been the same movie with Eddie Murphy, he's just too lively, too zany. Bob Hoskins plays it much more deadpan and doesn't need to make himself the centre of attention, that I think Murphy would have, to make an impact. Love many of Eddie Murphy's movies but if he'd been cast in the role I don't think the movie would have been as good.
This movie was a groundbreaker back in 1988. It really changed how animation can be used in real-world filming. You two should start reacting to more animated movies, particularly from Pixar, Dreamworks, and Blue Sky.
"how many boys in the 80s had a crush on her?" how about I have a tattoo of Jessica on my leg... so yea!
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There’s a fan theory that the film does show (but not tell) who Judge Doom Was.
R.K. Maroon was a businessman who exploited his toon stars heavily for money. In his office there is a framed picture of one of his past toon stars (who is never shown in the film) That toon is called “Pistol Packin Possum.” In the picture the Possum is holding a distinct long barrelled pistol.
When R K Maroon is shot its with the same kind of pistol. Eddy sees the pistol reflected in the picture and the two pistols actually overlap briefly.
The idea is that R K Maroon may have fired Possum in the past. Which is why he has a grudge against Maroon and Rodger, who is the star who became popular after he was fired.
After being fired he turned to crime, robbing a bank in toon town. Eddies brother investigated that crime and was killed. Doom then used the money to set up Cloverleaf Industries.
So loving you are reacting to this ..as soon as my notification came up I had to watch 😊
I saw this day 1 when it came out in the cinema 1987 I think
Not sure if you remember the Doctor at the Sleep Clinic in (A Nightmare On Elm St) that Nancy's mom was sitting with and talking to (About what are dreams).. anyways.. that is Charles Fleischer .. the voice of Roger Rabbit :)
The “Harvey” reference is to a Jimmy Stewart movie about a man you talks to an invisible rabbit.
For weeks after production, Bob Hoskin's son refused to talk to him. When he finally asked what was wrong, his son said it was because he didn't bring any of his cartoon friends home with him. Also, Bob Hoskins got so good at using his imagination, he started hallucinating weasels doing very un-PG things.
Got super excited when I saw what y'all we're reacting to! Fellow Okie, all safe from the storms. glad you guys are as well.
BTW, the same actor (Charles Fleischer) who does the voice of Roger Rabbit, did the voice of Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho.
In order for the Looney Tunes to be used, they had to have the same screen time as the Disney characters so they just put them in the same scene. That’s why Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are together and Donald Duck and Daffy Duck are together.
The way Eddie killed the weasels was a callback to early in the movie when you the see pictures inside his office (he was part of a circus as a clown with his father and brother)
Jessica rabbit is a very adult character for a "kids" movie
I tend to say not a single child ever created an animated film/television series. Technically, there isn't truly such a thing as a "kids" movie/show until they start making them lol.
The director at the beginning, Raoul J. Raoul, is portrayed by Joel Silver (founder of Silver Pictures, known for Predator / Lethal Weapon / Die Hard / The Adventures of Ford Fairlane / The Last Boy Scout / Ricochet / Demolition Man / Richie Rich / The Matrix / Romeo Must Die, and the like)!
Roger's wife was a spin on Veronica Lake With the hair over one eye