Who Framed Roger Rabbit? | Canadians First Time Watching | Movie Reaction |

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  @CheckersMcGavern · 4 years ago (edited)

  The more you watch this movie, the more you realize just how incredible the effects work is. You notice all the little things they do to help fully immerse these cartoons in the 3D world. A dude hands Roger a real glass of alcohol. Jessica Rabbit physically touches Eddie and *moves his coat*. People should be studying this movie in classrooms.

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  @omg-vert · 4 years ago

  "The Dip" was a chemical formula they actually used to clean old animation cels back in the day to be used in new animations. So in a way they "killed" old toons with it. It was named "The Dip" by the animators.

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  @pasaniusventris4113 · 4 years ago

  i love the detail that jessica is the one punching above her weight in the cartoon world. roger is a picture star, and he's hilarious, so even betty calls her lucky. jessica is a two bit lounge singer, but she loves her husband and would do anything for him. i absolutely love them.

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  @dtnetlurker · 4 years ago (edited)

  This film was a true once in a lifetime moment where by some strange twist of fate all the stars aligned and Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and Kings Feature Syndicate all came to an agreement to feature all their major cartoon characters in the exact same feature. <br><br>Director &nbsp;Robert Zemeckis never thought in a million years they would all agree and especially thought Disney and Warner both together was absolutely impossible, but just for the heck of it he asked all the studios anyway and they ALL actually said YES! <br><br>It has never EVER happened in the entire history of Hollywood and probably never will again. &nbsp;This is one film that really should be preserved for all time and shown to future generations. The preservation part is now taken care of. &nbsp;In 2016 it recieved the honor of being selected for preservation by The Library of Congress.

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  @alexkaen1701 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I loved this movie as a kid, but as an adult a realized the most insane detail I&apos;ve ever seen in a movie: Judge Doom has TOON TEETH!<br>Also, the Dip is basically paint remover.

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  @strangeworldsunlimited712 · 4 years ago

  Bob Hoskins (Eddie) had done work as a mime in his EARLIEST days as an actor, so he was able to use those old skills to &quot;act&quot; against cartoons that weren&apos;t actually there. &nbsp;Apart from how effective the effects were to move objects around, what helps sell it is Hoskins&apos; ability to maintain proper eyelines and pretend that the cartoons are actually there, which then convinces the audience once the cartoons are added in.<br><br>Each cartoon was shaded over three layers, to help give the 3D effect. &nbsp;Particularly difficult in the bar with the swinging light and Roger going in and out of shadows.<br><br>Disney owns/owned Touchstone. Due to the language, they put the movie under the Touchstone label, but it was totally a Disney production. &nbsp;The Disney animation team had been moved out of the studio lot after The Black Cauldron bombed and effectively had to earn their way back in. &nbsp;This was the first of several movies that convinced the Executives to give them another chance. &nbsp;They were let back onto the lot after The Little Mermaid was a massive hit a year later. <br><br>Disney worked a MAJOR deal with Warner Bros and other studios in order to get all of the other non-Disney cartoons in this movie. &nbsp;Very likely, you will NEVER see such a collaboration again. (Also the last thing that Mel Blank, the voice of Bugs, Daffy, Sam, etc., did.)

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  @douglascampbell9809 · 4 years ago

  The phrase &quot;Bump the lamp&quot; is used to explain how insane the lengths the animators went to make the cartoons seem like they really were on set.<br>It means going above and beyond what was expected, to create something genuinely great.<br>“Seemingly superfluous details help sell the effect at a subconscious level”<br>When Eddie bumps the lamp in the hidden room it made that sequence 1000 times harder to sell to the audience because of the swinging light.<br>They could have ignored it to make their jobs easier. Nope they had shaded everything so it matched the live action film.

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  @Saphthings · 3 years ago

  &quot;Can cartoons and humans mate?&quot; &nbsp;Well.. How do you think we get 3D animation?

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  @PalmDesertRock · 4 years ago (edited)

  40 years later, you watch this movie and still frequently think <i>&quot;how did they do that?!&quot;</i><br><br>The answer isn&apos;t just &quot;genius Disney animators&quot; - they didn&apos;t animate a real world Bob Hoskins driving a cartoon car, or any of the other real world objects. There are some behind the scenes videos and what the whole production crew pulled off is nothing short of astounding.

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  @RonJomero · 4 years ago (edited)

  Bob Hoskins once said in a behind the scenes documentary that one of the things he did to help sell the illusion was something very subtle, but something he felt very important. &nbsp; He pointed out that when you look at something, your eyes will shift a little bit to focus on it. &nbsp;And they&apos;ll shift a little bit one way or the other depending on how far away the thing is from you. &nbsp; It&apos;s why when you&apos;re focused on something far away, things up close to you are doubled.<br><br>He said most actors when acting against nothing, would just look in the general direction of whatever it was they were interacting with. &nbsp;But generally their eyes would be focused on something distant. &nbsp; He trained his eyes to focus and shift on imaginary objects at their correct distance. &nbsp; So when he was looking at Roger, his eyes weren&apos;t focused on something in the distant within his eyeline, but instead focused as if there was an object really there (unlike today where they use actual objects and just digitally remove them, they didn&apos;t do much of that in this movie).<br><br>Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger (and Benny the cab.... and the old man Back to the Future 2 who wished he could have bet on the Cubs) insisted on being on set while filming every day. &nbsp;Not only that, but he wore a full-size Roger Rabbit costume every day as well. &nbsp;Since he was just a voice actor, he didn&apos;t need to be on set as someone else could have read his lines. &nbsp;And since he was never in frame, he didn&apos;t need to be dressed up. &nbsp;But he did it anyway.<br><br>Also to answer your question about non-kids Live Action + Animated movies. &nbsp;There was another movie released around the same time as WFRR. &nbsp;&quot;Cool World&quot; which featured a fresh-faced Brad Pitt. Definitely NOT for kids. &nbsp;And does answer your question about if real people can &quot;do it&quot; with a cartoon. &nbsp; &nbsp;I..... don&apos;t recommend it. &nbsp;It&apos;s pretty horrible.

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  @Parliament_of_trees · 4 years ago

  This is what I love about the making of this movie: not only it was a really ambitious, long and hard to do project, but at the time was the most expensive movie ever made. Today, you would expect that that kind of movie would play it safe in order to make sure they&apos;d at least make the money back, so it would be a generic action movie with some comedy so both the adults and the kids would wanna go see it. In 1988 tho, they chose to make it a noir film, a genre that, not only the kids are not particularly interested in, but neither are most adults, since the genre&apos;s been all but dead for 40 years.<br><br>And that, my son, were the good old days when Disney had balls.

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  @happyjohn354 · 4 years ago

  $100 in 1947 is worth $1,246.40 today if anyone&apos;s wondering.

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