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The best thing about Betty Boops cameo is that they got her original VA for this movie, before she passed away
Definitely. And of course, her last film was as Aunt Bethany in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation from 1989, which Mary watched a couple years ago.
The producers had a very hard time getting permission to use the character, apparently there was a ton of litigation over who owns the rights and that was ongoing when this was made. Getting Disney and WB to the table was easy in at least they knew who to contact.
"Yeah, you still got it."
I like how Eddie is only nice to Betty Boop because she was his brothers favourite cartoon.
Actually, Mae was the second VA of Betty Boop. Mae was the best and did the voice the longest. Easy mistake.🤓
So, the joke about LA having the "best public transportation system in the world", and the framing of the movie (building freeways) is actually based on what really happened. In the early 20th century, LA really DID have one of the best transit systems in North America, if not the world, but it was systematically undermined and dismantled in favour of private automobiles and highways. The joke isn't that 'Haha, LA actually has terrible transit', the joke is that 'Haha, LA has terrible transit NOW'. There are lots of urbanist and transit oriented creators on CZcams that go into the history of what happened and where everything went wrong. Actually pretty interesting (and sad/depressing) if you're into such things.
I live in L.A. Your outline of Los Angeles mass transit history is excellent. Just wanted to take a moment to offer a bit of gratitude for a succinct, informative, and well-written contribution.
It also happened in Baltimore
The way I heard it, is it was a consortium of oil companies that lobbied for the building of the Freeway system and dismantling the street cars, but without replacing the routes with more modern buses.
Nowadays buses have routes too limited to be efficient, and the only remaining red street cars are in San Francisco as a tourist attraction.
I've read that General Motors also had a big part in the loss of mass transit systems. They bought up several of systems, let them deteriorate and then started replacing them with busses. The busses had to follow traffic rules while the mass transit usually had right of way so the busses gave poorer service. Then GM started with a 'Why ride a bus when you can have your own car' kind of advertising. GM got taken to court over it and lost the case but didn't really suffer, I seem to remember they paid a small fine.
@@danu_emrys GM played a huge part in the destruction of the Baltimore rail system.
7:08 You're thinking of the Radium Girls, female factory workers painting radium paint on the faces of watches so they'd glow in the dark. The women would run the paintbrushes over their lips to keep the brush point fine for the detailed work they were doing.
terrible tragedy. made for a helluva Dollop episode 😁
Ah yes, that was what I was talking about!
Yeah, radium and calcium are chemically identical, so when the body ingests radium it treats it like calcium and sends it to the bones, starting with the areas most subject to wear (i.e. teeth, jaws and the ends of bones). Once there, the radium steadily irradiates the surrounding bone and tissue.
Some of the women died of truly horrific radiation-related health issues, while many many others suffered no ill health, in spite of doing the same thing with the brushes. Radiation affects everyone differently, and one cannot predict the results of exposure.
I Was about to say this now I don't have to, just glad to know others know that because when I tell people things like this they look at me like I'm weird.
@@Daveyboy100880 Chemically similar, both being in group 2, not identical.
This movie was so far ahead of its time even as a kid. Christopher Lloyd is legend even as a villain
Scary to think Tim Curry might've got the part - it'd have been a very different film, Doom would've been even more nightmare fuel than he is.
Touchstone worked with Disney and Warner Brothers to make the movie got copyrights from both
@@littlesth0b0It also could have been different had Robert Zemeckis been able to track down Bill Murray at the right time. Still, Bob Hoskins did a great job in his part.
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AFAIK, "Gesundheit" is a word that a lot of Americans use regularly.
Especially by German-Americans and those who grew up in areas with a lot of German Americans....
@@paulfeist And those of us who would like to be polite to people who sneeze but don't want to invoke a deity we don't believe in.
@@Chasmodius bless your heart
Bob Hoskins is so great in this. Not only did he play a bitter noir detective very well, but he was able to act at empty air and still make it feel like part of a real conversation
All while doing a great American accent! He is amazing.
Hoskins should have gotten an Oscar.
His American accent was absolutely pitch perfect. I hadn't seen him in anything prior to this, and when I later saw him in "Brazil," I was like, wait, he's English?
Speaking of, Hoskins' portrayal of Spoor in "Brazil" might just be one of the creepiest utility workers ever put to celluloid.
This movie is so good. The way it blends 2D animation and live-action was revolutionary for the time and still is. And Judge Doom is still an amazing villain with one of the best twists ever.
Thank you so so much, Dan! And you are right, absolutely loved this one :)
@@MovieswithMary Jerry from Tom and Jerry was dancing with Gene Kelly back in 1945 and that was decades before Who Framed Roger Rabbit! In 1983 in earlier version of the movie was being made with Paul Reubens as Roger Rabbit but it never reached fruition! 🐰🎞🎥🎬
This movie is completely jam-packed with pop-culture references from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The movie was quarterbacked by Disney, but they managed to negotiate to use the IPs from several other movie studios. The major one was Warner Brothers, and there are two really iconic moments: when Donald Duck and Daffy Duck are playing piano together, and when Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are parachuting down together.
I understand, they only agreed to it under the conditions that the characters from Warner Brothers and the characters from Disney were shown on camera at the same number of seconds. And in fact, you'll notice they don't particularly favor any one studio.
Even when they're shown, Donald and Mickey are on screen SLIGHTLY before Daffy and Bugs.
The negotiations were tough, but Steven Spielberg had enough clout as a producer at that time in the mid-80s that Warner and Disney agreed to make a deal.
Paramunt (Betty Boop), Universal Studios (Woody Woodpecker) and MGM (Droopy) were also onboard.
@@fynnthefox9078 Bugs appears before the parachute scene. He gets a few seconds before the Fantasia brooms (Disney) appear.
The actor who played Marvin Acme is Stubby Kaye. He was one of the last surviving actors of America's vaudeville circuit. I met him once when I was a kid. Somewhere I have a program autographed by him.
"I'm sorry is this a kid's movie? We just witnessed a murder!"
Welcome to the 1980s Mary!
Thanks the producer, Mr. Steven Spielberg, always enforcing his productions indications to the limit. Did you know, the PG-13 indication exists because of him.
Cartoons =/= "kids movie."
@@jb888888888Amen to that.
This was not considered a kids' movie in the 80s. I'm sure many kids saw it, but that was not the intended audience.
@@paulosergioribeiro7200that's a toss up between Gremlins and Red Dawn
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They're talking about the prohibition against alcohol. The various terms are describing illegal bars selling alcohol, hence the secret room, to hide the booze from the authorities.
Mari: "That waistline!"
Guys: "Yeah! Yeah! That's it! The waistline!"
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@@MovieswithMary It helps keep people from noticing that , while she has nostrils, Jessica does not have a nose.
@@88wildcat 23:07 She has a nose.
@@88wildcat 10:52 Is that not a nose?
"I've loved you more than any woman's ever loved a rabbit".. Ah, the innocence of kid's movies.
Oh, and to "play patty-cake" on someone means to fool around on them behind their back. The joke is that, in this case, she actually DID play the kids game! And I love the illustration of how frame-by-frame animation works when Roger flipped quickly through the pictures.
Yes, as adult slang, but the joke was they were really playing patty cake.
@@Cheepchipsable Which is exactly what I said. lol
The huge thing about this movie was that Disney and WB only agreed to have their cartoons in the same movie if they had the exact same amount of screen time.
That's why we get scenes with Mickey and Bugs together, or Donald and Daffy Duck
Basically the big studio equivalent of siblings fighting because one had a molecule of ice cream more than the other.
Animated entertainment was on the wane at the time.
The studios wanted to protect their properties. This was similar to stars negotiating for top billing in screen titles and on advertising posters.
Dip is a combination of benzene, acetone and turpentine, which when combined make paint thinner and ink remover.
Aren't those all byproducts of the oil/fuel industry Benzene coming from fuel production, and acetone and turpentine used in crude oil processing, (I think).
@@Deathbird_Mitch Benzene is. Turpentine is made from trees. Acetone ... I don't know.
The "Harvey" reference when Doom was looking for a rabbit is the 1950 film, "Harvey"
...about a six foot tall invisible rabbit.
It was first a stage play in the 1940's
The "jazzy" crows are from the "Dumbo" movie. The penguins are from the "Mary Poppins " movie.
15:30 - 'Stiff' is English slang for a corpse -- a dead body.
15:50 - That character's name is Yosemite Sam, a frequent enemy of Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' cartoons.
22:15 - The secret room in Dolores' bar is a remnant of the Prohibition Era in the United States. Alcohol became illegal in many of the states during that time, so secret rooms like that were used for smuggling booze.
Angelo is referencing the Play/Movie "Harvey" (technically the play, the movie hasn't been made when the movie happens). The story concerns Elwood P. Dobbs, a hapless, if quite friendly and harmless drunk (played by Jimmy Stewart in both versions), Elwood's best friend and drinking buddy is "Harvey" a six-foot Rabbit, that only he can see (that is actually a "Pooka", an Irish Fae). Angelo's got a tiny bit of culture in him.
15:45 - "Oh! Hehehe, I recognize him, but I don't know the name." - That's Yosemite Sam. Pronounced Yo-sem-mitty for those who don't know.
17:26 - "Simoleons I only know from the sims." - It was a slang term for money long before The Sims existed.
22:12 - "I still don't know what it is from all those descriptions." - Prohibition was a period in the United States in the 1920s, where alcohol was illegal. Sometimes clubs would have a secret back room where alcohol was still served, and people could go there to drink.
27:31 - "Feel like I recognize the judge." - It's Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
35:51 - "Interesting where your shadow is German." - Not necessarily. Some Americans will say gesundheit after a person sneezes. They probably don't know the exact translation of it, it's just something some people say after a sneeze. I think it caught on after being used in movies, but I'm not sure.
"Gesundheit" means "health" in German and it came over with the German immigrants to the US.
"I would have been here right after you called, but I had to shake the weasels."
I'll bet you did, Dolores.
This is a Disney movie (Touchtone), Warner Brothers agreed to let them use their characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck) if they had equal time to their Disney counterparts (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck). That is why they appeared in the same scenes together.
Many tricks were used to sell the illusions of toons manipulating real world objects. The weasel's weapon was on strings. When Roger drank from the shot glass it was a remote controlled robot arm. In the Ink & Paint Club the stage was raised so puppeteers could hold serving trays from below for the penguins to carry.
One of the best things that helped sell the shots was Bob Hoskin's learning to focus his eyes on empty air in front of him. He really looks like he was looking at a toon a foot away from him, and not the far end of the set.
Jessica's chest physics were intentionally backwards. They bounced up when they should have bounced down. She was voiced by Kathleen Turner (uncredited).
The secret room was from the Prohibition era.. When alcohol was against the law. Bars would have secret rooms where customers could hide in and enjoy drinks.
The toon car was real go-cart. The real operator was in the back, and he was drawn over with the spare tire. In some shots Benny was 100% toon and Eddie was drawn in by the animators.
34:38 Notice the silhouettes of Wiley E. Coyote and the Road Runner as the elevator rises. They are in the train at the end as well.
35:33 Yup... She was born a boy.
The containing vest is called a Straight Jacket.
There are three Roger Rabbit shorts made to play before other movies. Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up. You may be able to find them on CZcams?
A sequel was attempted using 3D animation that looks like hand-drawn art but it never happened. Director Bob Zemeckis said recently that Disney no longer has the guts to make a sequel, drawing a shapely character like Jessica Rabbit.
38:00 "Jurist" in english means someone with an expert knowledge of the law, mostly associated with a judge. When someone finishes law school, we usually refer to them as "lawyers" (aka someone who practices law). Similar to jurist, we have "juror," the term for people serving on a jury.
In English, a jurist isn't just anyone with legal expertise. "Lawyers" are lawyers. A "jurist" is a judge, specifically.
@@barn_ninny That was the definition given to me by the dictionary, so feel free to argue with that.
@@nemothesurvivor The dictionary says what the general meaning of the word is. Generally speaking, the word itself _could_ be used in reference to any legal expert. In _practice_ , however, it is not used that way. It is used in reference to judges. You will almost never hear it applied to anyone else. I spent 3 years studying the law and legal history in grad school, so I'm not completely talking out of my a$$ here.
@barn_ninny Yes, a jurist is a judge, but the term "jurist" connotes a judge who is particularly insightful or influential. We are talking about people like Blackstone, or Sir Edward Coke, or John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, or Learned Hand, or more recently, someone like Richard Posner or Antonin Scalia - not somebody like Wm. Howard Taft or whatever judge presides over trials in your jurisdiction (the only reason Taft comes to mind is because he was President of the U.S. before becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
2:07 I gotta admit, i think it's super cute how into babies you are now, you seem like you're really enjoying being a mother, it's endearing.
I never thought I'd be like this, but I absolutely 100% am obsessed with babies now haha
the french dubbed version of this movie is an absolute delight. the same two people who translated Doc and Marty in back to the future dubbed Judge Doom and Roger. And Charles Fleisher, who voiced Roger in the original english version also played the guy that repaired Biff's car in Back to the Future 2, and the old man who's raising money for the clock tower in 2015
5:46 You know what that is, right there? That's the sound of a person's heart melting from adorable.
Also, this movie was and still is a technical masterpiece. To have so many hand-drawn cartoons (thanks to the legendary Richard Williams) interact with physical objects well before CGI could put it off required impressive animatronics and special effects, and then to have the actors interact with them while filming meant very convincing miming, especially from Bob Hoskins. And its homage to Golden Era animation of the 1940s-1950s being so popular amongst audiences helped to encourage Disney to put more effort into their upcoming animated productions, paving the way for the upcoming Disney Renaissance of the 90s.
In the 1920's U.S. it was illegal to sell alcohol, a prohibition. But many usually broke that law, some did home made moonshines, gangsters smuggled alcohol & a speak easy was a "secret" hangout place where they served alcohol & had entertainment.
The Prohibition was over in somewhere in the beginning of the 1930's.
The ones you recognized are Betty Boop & Yosemite Sam.
It wasn't only Disney toons & Looney Tunes (owned by Warner Bros.) in this movie but also Fleischer toons, Tex Avery toons & the company that owns Woody Woodpecker & his roster.
Was Woody Woodpecker in this movie? Maybe in a minor part? I didn’t see him.
@@THOMMGB When all the toon characters are there at the end looking at melted Judge Doom, he has a fast cameo there & he even does his signature laugh.
This film is fantastic.
No other film has ever pulled off such a good balance between live-action and animation.
A close second is #CoolWorld~1992 with Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger
@@hippiechic6772 I mean... yes, but... for the love of god, don't watch that film.
@@TomH2681 Why not? I remember watching it when I was young and remember it being quite good.
Cool World is definitely a Mari must watch.
The acting is so good for a movie like this. Kind of a miracle it all worked as well as it did.
Good reaction thus far, Mary. I just paused at the 5:30 minute mark to write this comment in response to a question you asked. Although the movie was released in 1988, it is based on an alternate history in the year 1947. So, the $100 that Eddie was paid by the head of the studio in 1947 would be the dollar equivalent of being paid $1400 in 2024.
"Shave and a haircut" the response is "two bits" It is a seven-note musical call-and-response couplet used at the end of a musical performance for comedic effect. It is used melodically, as in a door knocker. Knock on a door to "shave and a hair-cut". The response is to knock two times for "two bits" Roger couldn't resist responding.
Patty-cake is indeed a small child’s game of rhythm to clap with someone else… and also an old-Timey expression for someone having an affair, though in this case it was literal. 😂
Glad you enjoyed this even without full understanding of the MANY references made in this movie.
To answer one question: Loonie Tunes is owned by Warner Bros., a competitor of Disney, so having Daffy Duck (LT) and Donald Duck (Disney) in a scene together is an amazing feat… getting both companies to agree to that is basically impossible.
Great reaction as always! 🎉
You can watch: The Making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Everything is explained there.
To be able to have Warner Brothers and Disney charecters, they needed to have the same amount of screen time for both Disney and WB . As you can see Donald Duck ( Disney ) and Daffy Duck ( WB ) and Mickey Mouse ( Disney ) and Bugs Bunny ( WB ) were appearing in the same scenes together.
And yes, its Looney Tunes And not Looney Toons, the reason is that they have a lot of music, singing and dancing ( music tunes ).
Christopher Lloyed that plays Doom you might remember as Doc in the Back To The Future trilogy.
Hearing you talk about how much you're looking forward to movie nights with your little boy made me think of all the happy movie nights I had with my own parents. Got me all teary thinking about it, in fact. I hope it becomes as happy a memory for him as it has for me 💜
Another fun 80s movie: Adventures in Babysitting.
Popcorn in Bed did a fun reaction to that one if you haven't seen it.
3:24 The animation of the objects falling off the shelf was a challenge because the change in perspective as the objects came closer to the viewer. All the animation was hand drawn without the benefit of computers.
The bottle was done very well but had to be re-drawn. The animator misspelled the word 'Chili' on the bottle.
A Speakeasy is a secret bar. During Prohibition in the united states, it was illegal to sell alcohol. So people built secret rooms in buildings that would serve as a bar. The only way to get in was with a code word.
A parallel to that being the code word to get into the Ink and Paint Club. And it being "Walt (Disney) sent me".
Our hyper-religious tendencies got the better of us.
@@WiseWolfofDeck6 Don't they always? We used to have something in this country called blue laws. Which basically meant extremely religious politicians could make up a set of laws based on the Bible that everyone had to follow. Such as no alcohol or businesses can be open on Sunday.
That set looked almost exactly like one used for Harvey.
The story goes that when they were filming for the Ink and Paint club scene, Bob was told to act as though the sexiest woman he could imagine was singing the song. At the premier of the film, after telling this story, Bob added. "Apparently, my imagination is rubbish."
Her voice sounds really familiar.
@@ct6852 Jessica Rabbit's speaking voice was an uncredited Kathleen Turner. Really.
@@nicholascross3557 Oh that's right! Forgot she was kind of a sex pot when she was younger. Haven't seen her in anything in a while.
Harvey is a movie about a 6’ white rabbit who was invisible. Jimmy Stewart starred as Harvey’s best friend. You would love the movie.
This movie does contain an element of truth. In the 1940s-50s, General Motors began buying up all the trolley/street car transportation companies and shutting them down, and working with municipal planners to make cities and suburbs car-friendly.
It was actually GM, Standard Oil, and Goodyear. They set up separate holding companies in cities all over the country (aka Cloverleaf) to put them out of business - because street cars were all privately owned in America. Not a false conspiracy - they were convicted of doing this in the 1950's, and fined $2,000, too little and too late.
The largest electrified railway at the time was Pacific Electric, in southern CA, operators of the "red cars."
This movie has generated a lot of discussion on CZcams, both pros and cons. Just type "Roger Rabbit" and "trolleys" into the search.
@@johnnehrich9601 There is a Wikipedia article on National City Lines, the name of the holding company that outlines the conspiracy and the bad actors pretty well. The Standard Oil was specifically Standard Oil of California, which later became our old pal, Chevron. Standard Oil had been broken up by the g'vt as a monopoly in 1911 into I think thirty some companies. My dad had a Standard Station, but that was Standard Oil of Indiana, which got to keep the old logo and name, which later became Amoco, now BP. Standard Oil of New Jersey became Esso (S.O., get it?), then Exxon. Anyway, Phillips 66 and Firestone were also part of the conspiracy, along with Standard of CA and GM. But yep, they were caught but too little, too late. Progress, eh?
@@benmayer5932 Thanks. Yes, I had heard or remembered it was "Standard Oil" but didn't know which of the post-1911 versions it was. Yes, it was 34 separate companies, defined by the area they could operate, using some version of the Standard Oil name. By taking over other companies or renaming themselves, they could and did become nationwide companies.
One of my favorite books is James Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere, where he laments how this "trolleys bad, freeways good" mentality really hurt America - where every place tends to look like everywhere else. He starts off by pointing out that this movie is "based on real events."
Robert Zemeckis, who was involved in this movie, touched on the same themes (demise of downtowns and switch to malls and suburban developments but minus the trolleys) another movie he worked on, Back to the Future.
There are some notable attempts to undo this, such as some cities purposely removing inner city highways, and the great changes that resulted as a consequence.
@@johnnehrich9601 My small home town in Iowa (Oskaloosa) had a streetcar service which radiated out to a couple of "suburbs" and it ran everything from small Birney cars up to big interurban cars on damn near 20 miles of track. Just before WWII agents of the conspirators came to town and convinced the city council to abandon the trolley lines without even buying them, calling them "old-fashioned and outdated", and further convincing the the city to allow them to run "modern diesel busses" instead. Well, that lasted until the rails were removed and/or paved over, just two years, and then they pulled out saying it was unprofitable now. My great-grandmother was nearly killed by a streetcar hitting her carriage. It was pushing a freight hopper car that was spreading cinders from the power plant onto the unpaved street, and was moving blind and hit the carriage from behind. It nearly got her and her daughter, did kill her sister and niece. The newspaper article was very badly written and sensationalized, with many over-the-top descriptions, including "Ground under the wheels!" in the headline...1907.
Yeah LA really did have some of the best public transportation in the nation there for a while. It was played off as a gag by 1988.
An animated film I like from the 1980's is The Secret of NIMH. Whenever my son sees a mouse trying to dodge traffic, he makes encouraging statements addressed to Mrs Brisby.
22:10 This movie was set in the late 1940's and from 1918 until 1934 it was illegal for the production, transportation, sale, and especially consumption of alcohol in the United States. If you wanted to drink booze you gotta go to an underground bar to buy and drink them. They went by many names but they were best known Speakeasies because if you wanted to know where one was at you had Speak Easy about it.
The DVD (or Blu-Ray) has some excellent documentaries on how the movie was made -- but yes, it was a very labor-intensive process back in the 80s! All of the interactions between the "toons" and real-world objects had to be done with puppetry, wires, and concealed mechanisms that were painted over when the animation was added. Roger's voice actor, Charlie Fleischer, actually came to the set each day dressed in Roger's overalls and a pair of ears, and performed his lines live on set so that Bob Hoskins and the others could play off of his performance. (Though not actually in front of the camera, of course; he would stand somewhere off to the side so that Hoskins could hear him, but not necessarily see him. The "Roger Rabbit" outfit, he said, was just a prop to help him get into character.)
A lot of movies both before and after this tried to do the Live-And-Toon Combo idea, but none have ever done it with such exacting detail, like the fingerprints in the dust that you noticed.
The reason Roger's so clumsy is that they wanted him to interact with real-world objects as much as possible, to really sell that he's in the same world as the live action actors; the scene at 22:05 is legendary for filmmakers, as that swinging lamp meant the animators had to put in a ton of extra work making sure Roger's shadows matched the light.
They also keep super consistent with what props are or aren't animated--At 21:21, It would have been way easier to animate Roger spitting out some water, but he was in a "real" sink so they rigged a device to make sure "real" water shot out, and the weasels are holding "real" guns to be a more serious threat; they had tons of specially rigged machinery to manipulate various props which would then get covered up by the animated characters. Meanwhile, modern movies and shows tend to just CGI any backgrounds or props that need to be interacted with by animated characters. It just ain't the same.
The judge is Doc Brown, back to the Future, and same director! It was almost impossible to make this movie because of 3 major cartoons studios, didn't want to share characters. Disney, Warner Brothers and Tex Avery, but they worked it out! The baby character was a mob Boss, named Fenster, in Warner Brothers! The Wayans brothers did a movie based on a adult baby!
Patty-cakes is a child's game, of touching alternate hands, but it was also slang for having sex
I think the connection is the slapping sounds.
There is a documentary here on CZcams about the making of this movie. The human/toon interactions were done with practical effects and the animation of the interactions was done by hand frame by frame. Very labor intensive, but that is why it is by far the best. My favorite interactions are when Baby Herman walks under the woman's skirt, when Jessica handles the gawking guy's tie, and when the weasel splashes the sink water. Perfection! The later digital work done in movies like in Space Jam is just not believable and shoddy.
When Jessica says she lives Roger more than any women has loved a rabbit.... Rabbit is also slang for vibrator
You made a comment about Jessica's hair. it was inspired by the 1940's-1950's actress Veronica Lake (a blonde not a redhead). The style was called "the Peek-a-boo Hairdo". And was quite popular in it's day.
From the late 80's you have Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988. Michael Caine and Steve Martin star in it. It's a very clever/twisty comedy, set mostly in the South of France. It's one of my all time favourite films.
Yeah but Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of a movie with Marlon Brando (I think)
cool, I didn't know that
As I mentioned before D.R.S. is a remake of a Marlon Brando movie called Bedtime Story with David Niven playing the Michael Cain role and Marlon Brando playing the Steve Martin character
I truly don't think any movie to date has executed the 2D + live action blend as well as this. All the subtle touches with lighting and real props moving around. A huge achievement. And Bob Hoskins is amazing in it. The silly and noir tone is executed so well too. I just love this movie!
Theres videos on CZcams explaining how the movie was done. It took ALOT of work, they mostly used robotic skeletons that could interact with people, hold objects and etc etc. It was so cool and inventive. The effects hold up to this day.
I have plans to eventually tattoo that little shoe. Ever since I was a kid that scene brings me so much sadness. 😔 So I want to tattoo the show with it's pair so they can be happy.
Charles Fleischer, who was the voice for Roger, actually wore a rabbit outfit on set, so that he would be in character when reading his lines.
To see the real actor, watch Back To The Future II. I'm not sure if you'd seen it already, or I would point out who he played.
He was also the only good thing about _Carry On Columbus_ . (As far as I can remember.)
The whole buying the trolley car to destroy it is a real thing. In LA car and tire companies did that.
It's actually really interesting how they made this film, it wasn't high tech or anything obviously, CGI was incredibly crude at this point. It was actually fairly simple, they filmed it using props, that way those props could interact with physical objects, like a mechanical arm carrying a tray with drinks on it, or an arm with a gun, then they would use these clear animation cells to draw overtop of those props. Which is actually based on an old animation technique called rotoscoping, except that was done to get a more realistic animation, this was done so that toons could interact with real objects, then they also went through the trouble of animating shadows the toons were casting on real objects and people as well.
This film is considered to be an animation masterpiece. Everything is done so well, anyone i've ever met who's interested in animation absolutely loves this movie.
The shadows really made a huge difference toward the overall look. It felt super high tech for the time....but you're right it was mostly just mastery of old techniques.
Thank god for the talents of Richard Williams, may he rest in peace.
hi Mary ❤ what you speculate to be Bugs Bunny's asshole actually has a meta term: 'hammerspace'. it's the non-physics-abiding space where, for example, a tiny cartoon mouse might pull a giant hammer from, often behind their hip or back, or from a bag or under a hat. it also doesn't need to be a toon. on Always Sunny, Frank seems to pull his guns from hammerspace.
This was animated in the uk and disney was harassing them constantly about why it was taking so long, in a response in the scene where eddie and jessica crash they drew jessica without underwear, so the original version had her go commando, disney had to re release it with panties on.
The ostrich and the hippo in the ballet tutu at the beginning are from the Disney movie "Fantasia"
If I remember right, Valiant's expression of "May they all get lead poisoning. Eh?" means hoping they get shot, as bullets are most commonly made of lead and dying by a gunshot wound could be considered dead by "lead poisoning."
"Patty cake" is a kids game where two children clap their hands together. In the mid 1900's "playing patty cake" became a euphemism for "fooling around" (ie sex).
Patty cake is a children's hand clapping game in the U.S.
Most American listeners would assume by the context however that it was being used as a euphemism for sex. But then surprise, the pictures are shown and it is literally pattycake. Its a hilarious moment for a lot of viewers.
Even with the photos, it was still meant as a euphemism for🍆and 😺
I loved every aspect of that bit, especially how the nature of the game supported making an animation within the animation. Simply brilliant all around!
The three chemicals that create the Dip are all paint thinners used to remove animation from cels, which is why it is fatal to toons.
The Dip would also be fatal to humans if ingested, given its ingredients.
This movie was pure magic. Was so so so obsessed with this one as a kid. The animation, the old LA noir setting, the references, the toons, Disney and WB sharing the same space, Hopkins, Evil Doc Brown, the real world, fantasy world interactions....just everything firing on all cylinders. Such a perfect movie for any child or adult with even an ounce of creativity in them. And the darkness to the story actually gave all the ridiculousness some weight. Love this movie so much. A landmark film for sure. 🍿💖
gesundheit is commonly used in american english in response to a sneeze. And "jurist" in common law countries is a judge, particularly an appellate level judge, who writes on legal theory and who's writing is meant to influence .
A speakeasy is a secret bar. Speakeasys first became popular when the sale, distribution, importation, and transportation of alcohol was outlawed in the U.S. from 1920-1933.
The dipped shoe and Doom's real appearance messed me up as a kid! The movie is amazing and still holds up to this day.
The dipped shoe even messes me up as an adult! :D
Same here. That is one moment I am happy to skip.
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It was even sadder when I realised that the shoe left behind a partner. (16:23)
The judge happens to be the actor who played Doc Brown in Back to the Future
If you didn't know "gesundheit" is very commonly used in America.
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 CZcams.
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.
Boomer here, ditto on growing up with these companions. I love this film!
10:27 "He had a high-point moment...." He reached the pinnacle, the apex, the ACME of the evening. 😆😆😆
I'd recommend Pinnochio (1940), still often regarded as the most technically accomplished 2-d feature-length film ever made.
The water animation in that movie is still insanely detailed. That film was some of the best animators of the Golden Age at their peak.
This is one of the most amazing films in the history of film. Getting "everyone" together - a masterpiece. Once in a lifetime.
Spielberg was probably one of the only people that could could get Disney and WB characters together in a movie. I think he was one of the producers.
We turned Friday Family Movie Nights into a years'-long program of introducing our kids to the classics, before exploring new stories together.
Now that they're adults, we're watching Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Man in the High Castle together.
About public transport in LA: it used to be best in the world, but it became virtually non-existent. LA is extremely car-dependent nowadays.
The 1988 movie Coming To America has an Easter egg that you wouldn't have gotten without this channel.
Mary: "I don't get this hair style"
Me: "Well DAMN!"
"They don't make them like that anymore"
I nearly fell off my chair laughing :D
This is such a great movie, there is nothing like this today and it makes me sad there isn’t. People don’t know what they’re missing.
The hairstyle is the peek-a boo hairdo from Veronica Lake.
Interesting fact the Dip is basically paint thinner made from chemicals used back in the Golden Age of hand drawn animation to erase animation errors.
The way the actors did everything without the toons with physical props and they animated the toons in later. Here is one example and my favorite scene. The penguins 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 added the toons later so it was seamless and seemed like the penguins were carrying them. The piano stools dancing were controlled by people form above using wires and they just animated later.
It was Richard Williams who created the animation so seamless with actual real life sets. Him and his animators basically overlayed every single frame to create the illusion of the toons actually living in this world, the shadows of the toons are perfectly done. He was a genius. He also made the thief and the cobbler which unfortunately was unfinished, Disney stole rights for it and based it on Aladin, but people, including his nephew have worked to put together a true version. If you like animation I highly recommend it. Theif and the cobbler mark 4. It's on CZcams
It must've taken a TON of work to make it happen. Beautiful movie, but exhausted thinking of how many hours would've gone into it.
When my daughter was little, she would watch Banbi over and over and over again.
The joke about public transportation in LA is that the city used to have a trolly system called the Red Car. When manufactureres started to produce cars cheaply enough for normal people, the city ripped out the Red Car as a relic of the past. Now the city is paying billions to build a new light rail system.
Also, the thing you remembered about painting and disease is about women who were tasked with painting watch dials with radium ink during WW II. Since the work was so detailed, what they'd do is wet the tip of the brush with their lips to get the tip shaped just right. A few years later they all got cancer.
Some of my favorite 80's films Jo Jo Dancer Your Life is Calling and A Soldier Story. Jo Jo is the biography of Richard Pryor starring Richard Pryor and A Soldier Story is a murder mystery on an American army base during WWII.
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Back in the 1920’s the sale of alcohol was illegal in the US. We call that period *PROHIBITION*. Many restaurants and other establishments continued to sell alcohol illegally in underground bars that required a password to enter. Those were called speakeasies.
I’m an animator and one thing always bugs me: when people assume animation is just for kids. “ this is a kids’ movie?!” I hear a lot of reviewers say about this film. NO. It was not ever intended to be a kids movie. It was put out by the Disney movie branch called Touchstone Pictures which Michael Eisner made specifically to make grown up movies for Disney fans. Even the earliest didn’t, warners and MGM shorts were made by grownups for grownups. That’s why they are so violent and showed smoking and drinking and sexual themes. Is South Park meant for kids? It family guy? The Simpsons was not intended for kids either .
Rant over.
That was the radium paint used to put numbers of glowing watch faces. The original industrial tragedy were the matchstick girls who used to get tragic exposure to the phosphorus used to make matches. They got a disease called fossy jaw as a result.
10:38 That is the peek-a-boo hairstyle made famous by Veronica Lake in her frequent femme fatale roles in films noir of the period. It came about by accident when her hair came loose (during a photoshoot, iir), and it added an element of mystery and intrigue to her character, which worked well for playing such roles.
It became *so* popular among women during the 1940s that the US government needed to issue a public informational and request to have women remember to tie back their hair during work hours while at the factory because of the increased rate of errors and accidents from their hair getting caught in machinery.
15:05 Eddie's brother's name is Theodore, the diminutive of which is Teddy. So Valiant and Valiant were Eddie and Teddy. (And I only just now read the newspaper headline here: "Valiant and Valiant Crack Nephew Kidnapping. Donald's Huey, Louie and Dewey Returned".)
I used to watch this on repeat on v.H s when I was a little kid .
Mary, this movie is a masterpiece.
Since you asked, I have a four-way tie for my "All-Time Favorite" movie.
Halloween (1978), The Thing (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), and Zootopia (2016).
Hi Mary. American here, and it's very interesting seeing a non-American react to something with hardly any frame of reference for most of the characters. I grew up in the 80s watching all of these cartoon characters in shorts as compilations daily before/after school, and also wanting to be an animator and voice actor myself, when Roger Rabbit came out, it was amazing to see all of the characters in one movie. The only other movies I think come close to this combining IPs is Toy Story, and Wreck it Ralph. There are lots of behind the scenes that show how they made the movie.
One of my favorite 80's movies is Howard the Duck. It's one of Marvels first attempts to move their characters from the comic books to the big screen - and the character is cannnon in the MCU with appearances in all of the Gardians movies, and he even fought at End Game.
Apparently, the negotiations for the various intellectual properties for this movie was more than just challenging, it was a number of marathon sessions of negotiations - down to how many seconds of screen time each character got, and which ones could appear on screen with which others, etc.
I love this movie... I saw it as an 18 year old, and my feelings about Jessica Rabbit were.... complicated. That's all I'm gonna say about that. Complicated.
Lol. It was released shortly before I hit puberty 😳
Agreed. Very complicated 🤯
Space Jam has the same style with the blend of animation with live action.
“Gesundheit” is used by English-speakers, too.
Confirmed.... Especially by people from the upper-midwest where a LOT of German-speakers settled...
Great reaction, Mary!
Btw, a "jurist" in English generally refers to a "judge" (legal decision maker), not a law school graduate. And this movie is also a riff on film noir detective movies, many set in LA. The first in the genre is likely "The Maltese Falcon".
The joke on the LA public transit system in the 1940s is that in more recent decades LA has had huge traffic jams on the freeways and relatively poor public transit.
If you watch lots of older Disney animations, including "Fantasia", and lots of Warner Loony Toons, you will recognise most of the cartoon characters with cameos in this movie.
Patty Cake is a childrens game where you clap hands together in rhythm to a song/poem and do it as fast as you can.
It was also slang for having an affair. The joke was they actually were playing the childrens game.
Please continue with the Star Trek franchise.
$100 in 1947 would be about $1,426.73 today.