WFRR
Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Another film where the bad guys are only in it for, ah, the money. Intimately reconstructed Los Angeles of the 1940s, where people said things like “who needs a car in LA, we’ve got the best public transportation system in the world.” Wild noir stuff, contrasted with goofy kids stuff. “A toon killed his brother. Dropped a pianio on his head.” Wild Donald versus Daffy sequence… with guns. “Can anybody underthtand what thith duck ith th-th-thaying?” Flipping patty-cake photos imitate animation – very cleverly meta-cinematographic. Baby Herman is over the top – “my problem is I got a 50-year-old’s lust and a three-year-old’s dinky.” Toon violence, shave-and-a-haircut two bits. Eddie grabs Delores’ shirt. Freaky deaky ending very screamingly weird, man!
The film comes with great extras: Deleted “Pighead” scene, which includes weird equipment Bob Hoskins had to wear on set. “Tummy Trouble” short with Nurse Jessica and all the syringe insanity, and a killer sadistic Droopy. “Roller Coster Rabbit”, featuring the world’s most psychotic roller coster. Hostage Jessica, Snidely Droopy says “Curses, foiled again.” “What’s the matter, toots, afraid of a little… bang?” “Trail Mixiup” shows Ranger Jessica. Between legs shot: “Only you can prevent forest fires” in sexy voice. Most back office guys who give comments in the special features have facial hear – mustaches at least, or full beards. Why is that? The guy who did the voice of Roger Rabbit wore a Roger Rabbit costume while he did his voice acting. One year of post production, no CG!!!
I love you more than any woman has ever loved a rabbit.
Jessica is somewhere in between a human and a toon. The sneak previews were bad. Zemekis had final cut, he didn’t budge on it. The film was called by many who were on the cast and crew as “difficult to make.”
The challenge of designing the rabbis is that they had to make him distinct from Bugs Bunny. They rushed out the Roger Rabbit design, too many colours, triangle-shaped like a dunce hat, needed a peach impediment (lip ruffle?). Chapinesque tex Avery style of animation. JOel Silver first human actor in the whole show. Bob Hoskins did a perfect American accent. “There’s really no reason to shoot a film in the US.” This was the first time to get all of the cartoons of the various studios into one film. Why is there no question mark after the title. Toon swearing was a problem for Disney. Roger has no shoulders (or nose), Jessica has no waist so that there would be no accusations that a human actor was used and then rotored out. “Why Don’t You Do Right” by Peggy Lee was sung by Amy Irving. An actor who was strangeld by Darth Vader is in Roger Rabbit.