FYI the tunnel into Toontown (as well as all those other tunnels in all those other movies) is located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. It's a one-way tunnel on the road up to Griffith Observatory, the centerpiece of Griffith Park, which is also a famous movie location in its own right.
Not only does this movie stand up extremely well today, others have tried the whole animation/live action mixed thing (Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, etc..) and none of them have come remotely close to the level of this movie. It still is the king of practical effect movie magic and will probably always be.
This is one of my all-time favourite movies. I saw it in the theatre when it released and was absolutely blown away. The dedication and craftmanship that went in to this film is mind-boggling. Bob Hoskins apparently began to see and hear Roger everywhere he went such was his level of dedication to the role. A once in a lifetime film that we'll never see the likes of again.
Some favorite trivia of mine: during development, Disney people realized their classic-cartoon-era industry setting just wouldn't seem complete without Warner Brothers characters. They extended an invitation for the Looney Tunes to be a part of it. WB people received the offer and considered. It looked gracious, but they wanted some assurance that their characters wouldn't play second fiddle to Disney stars. They wrote in some specific (and seemingly semi-arbitrary) contract clauses about equal screen time. Fair bet no one wanted to end up in court with stopwatches, though. So Disney's solution was to pair off characters accordingly. Thus anyone can see their screen time matches. Daffy Duck's clause is fulfilled when he performs a stage act with Donald Duck and they get yanked off at the exact same time. Bugs Bunny's clause is fulfilled when camera tilts to him side-by-side with Mickey Mouse, and both stay in frame for the duration of the shots. And I guess it's just everyone in the happy crowd scene at the end?
Okay, this was fantastic!!! Almost every time any channel does "things you missed" videos, they are usually filled with things that absolutely no one missed but we don't mind because it's often stuff we love anyway. This video REALLY had some great items that we really did miss and I thank you for that!!! 🤗
I just found out the other day that Baby Herman's mother's legs in the cartoon at the beginning are just stilts. You can see it in the background after they cut and call for lunch. Watched this movie a million times, I really don't know how I never noticed that before.
And a good dash of foreshadowing with The Judge (besides his name) is that he dips an innocent shoe to prove it while wearing gloves. Humans arent affected by dip!
@@Jill4ChrisRedfeild You wouldn't want to ruin your gloves or your coat with that stuff, so the glove makes sense. It's when he backs away really fast in panic when Eddie kicks the barrel over (after all, everyone is wearing shoes/boots) that really foreshadows it.
Heck we see Br'er Bear earlier in the movie when Eddie goes to see the cartoon film maker... we see various animals from Fantasia walking around. The frogs jumping out of a box and Br'er Bear himself walking down the street before Eddie goes in the front door.
I just rewatched this movie because it's now free on YT. There were A LOT of things I overlooked as a kid,but that adorable shoe being placed in "dip" still is upsetting.
My favourite story is the stork that crashes the bike on the studio backlot. Apparently, it was originally intended to be a "blink and you miss it" ride by, but the practical effects team had trouble with the rig and couldn't get the bike to stay perfectly upright. Instead of scrapping it, they turned it into a visual gag
All the buildings and other items having faces is a reference to many earlier cartoons of the time and even some later ones, most notably Disney's 1952 cartoon "The Little House". Some characters that appear in the movie would seem to be anachronistic, but some would argue that their current (in the movie) status is their "before they were famous/before they were discovered" moment. Case in point: The penguins at the Ink-and-Paint Club, which were the penguins from Disney's 1964 film "Mary Poppins".
The Weasel henchman dressed in black is the doppelganger of the one dressed in white. In the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? All toons have doppelgangers. In the novel it's Roger's doppelganger who hires Eddie.
When Eddie Valiant uses a magnet against Judge Doom, the music que in background is several bars from Close Encounters of the third kind, which was Directed by Steven Spielberg, who produced this film. No really, go look. I'll wait!
Well a movie like this has so many small details that you could probably watch this 30 times a day for 40 years and probably still spot new details you missed previously
Br'er Bear is also a possible reference to Uncle Remus' character of the same name, along with the three birds that Eddie see on arrival to Toon Town. If you are puzzled, look up the movie Song of the South. It is a fantastic movie with characters like Br'er Bear and are accompnied by Br'er Fox, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Frog and many others. The stories were written by one Joel Chandler Harris who told many stories, including Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby.
That scene of Jessica being thrown from Benny, was that fixed for the VHS release or was it it fixed in the DVD releases? I think I still have a VHS copy from the 80s.
Leena Hyeena Heasds up: The Green Music Box is a Tribute to one of the earliest Mickey Mouse Cartoons. And the Gloves are Mickey's too. They are both a Tribute to SILLY SYMPHONIES :) In Fact, the entire ROOM is a Tribute to Disney Shorts and Feature Length Films from the 1930's erea. Did you notice the BED? It's from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. There were 75 short films which made up Silly Symphonies. Yes, Disney had a rabbit too during Silly Symphonies. "Funny Little Bunnies". If you watch it, you will see that framed photo on their wall in the Bunny hole too.
No one seems to catch the "Harvey" easter egg. When Eddie catches Roger singing in the bar when he's supposed to be hiding, Eddie warns Roger, that Angelo would turn him in. Later, when Roger and Eddie are hiding in the rot gut room, Judge Doom offers a reward for Roger. Angelo speaks up, and tells Doom that he's seen a rabbit. When Doom asks Angelo, where, Angelo puts his arm around an imaginary figure, and says something like, "right here. Say hello, Harvey." This a reference to the Jimmy Stewart film, Harvey (or the stage play it was based on, or both). Harvey was about a an somewhat well off, affable man that was considered a town drunk, who had an invisible six foot rabbit, named Harvey, as a friend.
Best Disney Film Of The 1980's If You Have Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck pitted with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck along with other cartoon cameos you're doing something right
Dude, Br'er bear was a character in Disney's "song of the south"...kudos on the creators for putting in a reference to a banned movie. Knowing this really separates the true fans from the posers.
I'm pretty sure he's a character in John Duluth coon skin animated movie I think that's the guy's name LOL if not for sure a character from Song of the South
This kinda stuff is interesting but there's no need to be throwing words like "poser" around, that's basically gatekeeping. Fling the gates open, people can learn this stuff and join the club, there's no need for Us vs Them. Signed, a 49 year old whose head is jam packed with movie trivia but never thinks he's above anyone else because of it.
I love Roger rabbit this is the fourth time Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg have worked together as Steven Spielberg produced the back to the future trilogy.
'Murder on Orient Express - all tributes to various Cartoons, especially from "Looney Tunes" The Vulture holding up a glass is toasting a Tortoise is from The Looney Tunes short "The Vulture Wins by a Hare".
How do you not mention the frame where the animators decided to let the audience peek up Jessica Rabbit's dress? Its right after she thrown from the cab when it drives through the dip. Maybe they removed it from later releases, but I had it on VHS as a kid and it was not a rumor.
That's probably one of the most well-known facts about this movie. He said at the beginning of the video that he would be talking about more obscure things that even a movie buff wouldn't likely know.
Not that there's nothing to love about the results, but the Chinatown connection is unfortunate. The original Roger Rabbit novel is brilliantly speculative, painting a complete picture of how cartoon characters can have always coexisted with us. Developing the film was just all "great novel! Let's toss 95% of it to the wind and just rip off Chinatown!" (Yes, I'm aware that even the novelist likes the Roger Rabbit movie better than his own work.)
It's pretty well known that the script they used for Who Framed Roger Rabbit was originally written as a sequel to Chinatown. It couldn't get made, however, and was reworked into what we know today as WFRR. So, it's less that the script has references to Chinatown in it, and more that it's Chinatown's original sequel with toons slapped on it.
This was the first Bob Hoskins movie I ever saw, recorded from a tv airing, on a blank vhs tape. Handwritten label and all. Lol. I did not know he was british until much, much later. I think that Jet Li movie where he made Li wear a dog collar was my first inclination of his origins.
One scene has bothered me for years. That is the scene where there is the silhouettes of what looks like little demons or Vikings with helmets and with spears and a pitchfork in the foreground seemingly antagonizing Eddie Valiant just for a few seconds. Who are those silhouettes and from what cartoon? I did the Google search, but no luck on my part.
That's a myth. Robert Towne said the prospective 3rd Chinatown film was supposed to be called Gittes vs. Gittes and concern the introduction on no fault divorce.
I heard Bob Hopkins literally went insane from this movie because he got so used to talking to himself and having to pretending a cartoon rabbit was talking to him, I don't know how true that is but it's really easy to see how that could happen.
I believe in an interview Mr. Hopkins mentioned he had to induce temporary hallucinations to play his part properly with a cartoon rabbit that didn't exist on the sets until he was cartooned in via post. If I recall correctly he mentioned having hallucinations for awhile afterwards until they finally stopped on their own. His effort paid off as you can see in the film that Eddie's interactions with Roger are so realistic, and he can easily do things like look at Roger's eyes, look away for a few moments and look back to the same sight line again like the rabbit was real... he played a huge role in selling the 'toons are real' aspect of the film. Another big part was 'bumping the lamp' (fun bit of trivia for you to look up!)
i don't want to say you are wrong about the Br'er Bear fact...you might be trying to avoid the topic of the "scandelous" Disney Vaulted movie "The Song of the South" where we are introduced to 3 characters of the name Br'er Bear, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Rabbit. although the picture they use on the poster for Bear is clearly not the same character...or it doesn't look like it to me...
Donald calls Daffy the N-word in the piano scene. I think it was removed but I still got the VHS with it when my friends doubt me. Not just the N-word but a "Stupid N-word"
@@GamingGardevoir Ya no one who views my VHS copy has ever said that. Like I said it got changed. Though Mabey you are right and we all just hear what we wanted.
