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zingy
College Boy Z
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger RabbitQuote: Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings. Who Framed Roger Rabbit stars Bob Hoskins as a private detective who investigates a murder involving the famous cartoon character, Roger Rabbit. Charles Fleischer co-stars as the titular character's voice, Christopher Lloyd as the villain, Kathleen Turner as the voice of Roger's cartoon wife, and Joanna Cassidy as the detective's girlfriend.
Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights to the story in 1981. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to help finance the film. Zemeckis was hired to direct the live-action scenes with Richard Williams overseeing animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. However, the film was released to financial success and critical acclaim. Who Framed Roger Rabbit brought a re-emerging interest in the golden age of American animation and became the forefront for the modern era, especially the Disney Renaissance. It also left behind an impact that included a media franchise and the unproduced prequel, Who Discovered Roger Rabbit.
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11009 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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A suprisingly good feature especially for its genre, this is rare, but
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publicenemy#1
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:25 am Posts: 18878 Location: San Diego
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Heh. One of my favorites growing up. A-
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48626 Location: Arlington, VA
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. A
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matatonio
Teh Mexican
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 pm Posts: 26066 Location: In good ol' Mexico
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YES!!! One of my All time Favorite movies!
Beautifully made!
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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Oh this is fun, so so so much fun. The animation and the live action perfectly blend in. The humor works, the characters are great, the ending "twist" is unexpected and it works and this movie just oozes imagination like almost no-other. Instant classic. Robert Zemeckis is truly a great director with this, Cast Away, Death Becomes Her and the Back to the Future series.
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Neostorm
All Star Poster
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:48 pm Posts: 4684 Location: Toronto
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Only because this was the first movie i ever saw in a theatre and it gave me a re-occuring nightmare that lasted 6 YEARS!! Stupid foxes kept dunking me in acid.
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dolcevita
Extraordinary
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:24 pm Posts: 16061 Location: The Damage Control Table
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Awwwwe. I can just see you being afraid to get out of bed every night. Peeking out over the covers.
I loved this movie. A real one of a kind mix with some of the wisest sources of film including the noir genre and Chinatown. Mized with the uber-violent Warner Bros cartoons (They were always more interesting to me than the Disney counterparts), and a nice sense of wit about the impossibility of building the freeway.
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:42 pm Posts: 11808 Location: Kansas City, Kansas
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This is one of the greatest movies of all time. Its atmosphere of an old 1930?'s Hollywood is great. The characters are well though out and you care for them. It can be as fast-paced as a Saturday-morning cartoon, but the movie also has some great dramatic scenes. Its camera work is amazing as well as the score.
Grade: A+ (#6 of All-Time)
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Maximus
Hot Fuss
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:46 am Posts: 8427 Location: floridaaa
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One of my favorites.
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DIB2
All Star Poster
Joined: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:57 am Posts: 4669 Location: Anchorage, AK
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Awsome film, one of favorites growing up
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Squee
Squee
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:01 pm Posts: 13270 Location: Yuppieville
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A great movie. I was so sad when that poor cartoon shoe died.
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wonderfully creative and imaginative. Animation and live action has never been blended more seamlessly, both from a technical and a narrative standpoint. Combine with that a brilliant homage to film-noir, and this is one of the most entertaining and innovative films ever made. The combination of Disney and Looney Toons is as enjoyable as can be expected, but it's the animated characters created especially for this film that are the most fun. And that opening bit with the slapstick cartoon segueing into live action is pure genius. A childhood classic.
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 38006
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Re: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I was a little disappointed. I blame the title a bit for making me think this would be a whodunnit with Hoskins drilling the animated rogue gallery as suspects
Nonetheless as an action/chase/etc. film it's still pretty solid, but I found the plot and particularly climax a little standard at times. Roger Rabbit himself is the best part. Classic character. Loved Hoskins as well. The cameos of the Donald/Daffy duck, Droopy, Tweety, etc. were great, but still, they're just short cameos.
Good film. Not an amazing film IMO.
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