FILMMAKER MOVIE REACTION!! Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) FIRST TIME REACTION!! 

Gene Kelly danced with Jerry(the mouse) back in the 50s probably. Certainly Mary Poppins and Pete's Dragon had animated characters and sequences. This was the first adult one.

Perhaps another giant of animation, Akira (1988). The film that really brought anime to the Western world.

Would love to see your reaction to Rush by Ron Howard about the Hunt-Lauda rivalry in F1. Maybe one of the best and most underrated racing movies in recent history.

The craziest thing about this film is that they somehow managed to get all these different characters from Warner Bros, Disney, etc. into one film. That's unthinkable today. Getting so many different IPs from different rights holders.

Here is a great behind the scenes that's less than 6 minutes. Just watched this after your reaction and you were spot on! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NKOum-MftXY.html

Hahaha thank you man. Cause damn

Tweety is the worst! Sylvester deserves to eat that pos

tweety is a true chaotic neutral

Truer words have never been spoken

@@ThePyroSquirrel1 Actually Roadrunner is the worst. At least Tweety respects the rules of physics, most of the time.

No one disagrees with you on that.

@@terrancebrown87 Same

We heard the gulp when she came out.

And then Haley Rheinhart sings Creep.

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That's my favorite line 😂😂

I don't want to see a porn parody, but I want one that includes the lines "Are you telling me that you could get into those cuffs at any time?" "No, not anytime. Only when it was kinky."

Oh that's what he said? For years I couldn't understand what he said in that scene.

I mean in a weird way that is a weirdly good explanation for how toons work/things only working when they'd be funny,

Take off that hand buzzer Marvin.

It's legit hard to watch. Hell it's harder to watch now than it was the first time I saw it-- I was eight.

for real. to be honest, i still can't watch that scene all the way through.

That was scary, but when his voice goes all high-pitched and his eyes turn into daggers, I almost shit my pants as a kid.

I used to hide my head under a pillow because that scene frightened me so badly as a child

Still haunts me. But that just shows how effective it was, I guess.

Aww that’s the perfect level of petty. Plus Chris was fantastic in this role!

Zemeckis and Bob Gale (the writer/producer of BACK TO THE FUTURE) were good at low-key playing the long game like that. They knew Universal were interested in a sequel almost immediately, but they set it up so they'd at least be able to do it on their own terms and with most of the original cast in tact.

That was clever thinking, and Christopher Lloyd is so great as Doom that his casting absolutely works anyway.

I'm glad he did. The back to the future series turned out well, and Roger Rabbit is absolute perfection.

Interim ?

Happy you agreed with that! 🙏🏽

@@JamesVSCinema I love you 💕😘❤️

Space jam is clearly a lower budget movie. Prolly spent most the money on Micheal Jordan

I've read that one of the reasons they cast Bob Hoskins (besides him being a fantastic actor, who could pull off the tough-guy American accent flawlessly despite being British) was his ability to slightly cross his eyes. When your eyes are focusing on something close up, your eyeballs zero in close to your face; you go a bit cross-eyed. It is actually really difficult to act with thin air, simply for the fact that your eyes have nothing to focus on. Bob's muscle control of his eyeballs- his ability to go just slightly cross-eyed, and focus on a point in space in front of his face with nothing actually there: that is one of the things that really sells Roger's reality in his interactions with Eddy Valiant. (Along with the other tricks of the technical department, and all the actors' absolute commitment to believing what they were acting with, of course. But those subtle things like eye focus make a big difference- even if only subconsciously.)

I feel like the real follow-up to these techniques was Jurassic Park rather than Space Jam.

They'd never get the licensing agreements in alignment.

Hahaha yeah I was like... “damn..a kid show?” 😂

Man, that scene's edited out in almost every TV showing I've seen. In my 40's now and I'm still freaked out by it, that was sinister.

Yeah dude, I saw this in the theater when I was 5 and it friggin' horrified me. Still does.

I always fast forward at that part. Can't watch it.

Mine was always the ". . . I TALKED. JUST. LIKE. THIS!" scene that fucked me up.

Yes! Donald and Daffy together…the dueling ducks! Also, Mickey and Bugs…which almost moved me to tears (I know, I’m a sap).

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And Richard Williams the animator.

and it almost drove him insane because he recalled times where he would see cartoon characters everywhere.

@@Razgriz85 Bob hoskins or richard williams?

@@exceedcharge1 Bob. Since he had imagine the characters he was interacting with. He began hallucinating and had to get mental help for it. Honestly, feel bad for him.

Part of the negotiations was if one studio’s character was on screen first in a screen, the other studio’s character got to speak first in that scene

@@scottalynch Hahahahah I would expect nothing less. I mean I think we all take for granted how massive of a crossover this was. I mean it literally was the most ambitious crossovers in history. The only equivalent today would be if they made a MCU and DC crossover (actually happened in the comic books in the 90s). Can only imagine the budget on a MCU/DC crossover made today let alone all the insane corporate politics of who gets more screen time and who wins in a fight.

@@ryanhalawani2637 Spielberg is to credit for getting both Warner and Disney onboard (even though Touchstone is a Disney company)

And MGM-- if memory serves Droopy Dog is an MGM property.

@@darastarscream the full list: Warner Bros., King Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, Fleischer Studios and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions

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@@danielallen3454 If you look carefully, there's always a gust of wind around Doom, even when he's indoors.

There's also a lot if little things, like how he wears the large rubber glove when dipping the toon shoe, or how he backs away quickly when Eddie dumps the dip barrel over. Subtle things that don't give the twist away, but that you notice on a second viewing.

@@johnsensebe3153 Another thing that sets him aside is the fact that he doesn’t react to laughter the way other toons do for example the “shave and a haircut” bait for roger, Doom is able to recite it without it affecting him also when he slips on the acme products and the Weasels start laughing, Doom reacts with anger instead of laughter despite being a toon all of which hints to the final line that he was a seriously disturbed toon

@@mckenzie.latham91 Also, pay attention to the two times the word "simoleons" is used.

Aaaaaaaaaaaactually a few shots of flattened Doom walking around was CG.

@@HobGungan I heard that was stop-motion

@@HobGungan Doom was very much stop motion. The movie used ZERO cgi. So aaaaactually, your wrong. Star Wars used CGI back in 77, so CGI in movies was not new to film, but Roger Rabbit used no CG, especially how strict the animation director, Richard Williams, was against NON-TRADITIONAL animation. Look up The Thief and the Cobbler. I was convinced it was CGI, having no idea when it was made, until I learned production of the film started in the 60s for over 20 years, PRE CGI.

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Check out “Mona Lisa” and “The Long Good Friday” he has incredible roles in them too!

Unleashed is a really awesome and dark action tale. And how often do you get Jet Li and Morgan Freeman in a movie together, with Bob Hoskins as a villain, to boot?

I love how he and Dustin Hoffman played their characters in Hook like an old gay couple. It drove Spielberg nuts, but they’re the best part of the movie.

Also Pink's manager in Pink Floyd The Wall.

Agreed, that’s really awesome. They did a phenomenal job!

@@JamesVSCinema It refers directly to the scene in the rotgut room and the swaying lighting.

Is that why Pixar's logo is a jumping/bumping lamp? Because they always set for perfecting their animation?

@@Gwynbleidd66 makes sense if so.

@@Gwynbleidd66 No, one of Pixar's earliest animations was a short of the jumping lamp with the ball, and they liked it so kept the lamp as the logo. Here's the short, if you're interested -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D4NPQ8mfKU0.html

Damn that's awesome

Plus they got the actual voice actress to play her in the film and she was 70 at the time! Makes it all that much more special.

So good!

im pretty sure she is responsible for alot of ppl likeing "hentai"

There should be a horror movie with looney tunes raising hell on earth lmfao

@@JamesVSCinema I'd watch it in a heartbeat! Someone out there needs to make that happen... James? 😏

@@JamesVSCinema - Makes me wonder what Cool World might have been if they had stuck with the idea of making it an animated horror film. That finished product was nowhere near the league of Roger Rabbit though. On that note, the original book that inspired Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was also far darker than the film and quite different. It's called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? if you're curious about it.

Even better: the ingredients in Dip are all paint thinners, which would absolutely erase a toon.

Funny thing is, is that this is loosely based on real events.

Oh for sure! This probably was hell to shoot haha

Wow! That's soo cool you got to talk to someone who worked on two films that quite literally changed the face of cinema and more specifically, visual effects. Kinda jealous not gonna lie lol.

Dean Cundey was at HorrorHound and I got to talk with him quite a bit! Truly, that man lensed my childhood! I have a Big Trouble in Little China poster signed by both him and John Carpenter thanks to that event! Cundey is a legend and one of the most unassuming and kind people you'll ever meet!

@@kevinpauley-dadbodstyle2935 Wow thats so cool. Really jealous now lol. Didnt know he worked on Big trouble in little China, that was one of my favourite films growing up. Always surprised no one ever tried to reboot that to my knowledge though probably for the best considering how much of a classic it is. Though I think a modern retelling with an all Asian cast would be pretty cool.

Man, he lensed the following: Halloween (1978), The Fog, Escape from New York, John Carpenter's The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, the Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, and Apollo 13 just to name a few! He is a LEGEND!

High art combines great craftsmanship with strong aesthetics. This, Big Trouble, etc are literally high art. It makes people's hearts sing & inspires some people to make high art themselves.

All movies I love deeply

Why did you put 'movies' in quotation marks?

That was actually Richard Williams that said that. He was the animation director. Zemeckis and Spielberg asked Richard about whether it would be possible to move the camera as they would a live action film but animating over it, and Richard said "it's possible... it's a lot or work but any animator who says they cant do it is just being lazy". That's one the reasons why he beat out Disney for this gig.

@@DanJackson1977 It is a Disney production though, right?

@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney produced the movie and was responsible for its funding. But it was Richard Williams and his team responsible for all the animation - not Disney Animation. Williams is known for being a perfectionist and a bit of a creative nutcase (in a good way). He is a true master of his craft. And it shows in this movie.

@@shiranuiaensland1442 Disney did contribute some animation staff to it, and they had helped develop it.. but once Spielberg took it over, he and Zemekis put Williams in charge of design and animation... which still amazes me that at the time.. Disney was not up for the job of animating this on their own.. they had to bring in a small British indie studio (admittedly run by a mad genius) to finish it, along with Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) to do the shadows and film compositing.

Copyright all over the place hahaha

lmfao yeah man they freaky

You think that's subtle... Whether intended or not, there's a sex toy that emerged around the 80s called a rabbit. So yeah. I actually believe Jessica was fully satisfied...by a rabbit.

Maybe it was literal, like patty cake :D

@@arisucheddar3097 When I was 4 years old yes it did manage to get passed me a bit lol

I still dont get it. Help?

Much love Theo!!

He really was! The whole story behind the Thief and the Cobbler still breaks my heart for what it could have been. It still has some of the most breathtaking animation ever.

Not the first. In 1945 Gene Kelly danced with Jerry (the mouse) in Anchors Aweigh.

@@brettcoster4781 Good one, I remember that! Probably haven't seen it since I was < 10 years old.

But if you pay close attention to Mary Poppins, the animation is just kind of inserted and doesn't interact at all with the real actors - it couldn't sell the illusion of immersion. Roger Rabbit made especially sure that animated characters took up space in the real world by interacting with it. The real actors also maintained strong sightlines with the toons' eyes to sell the illusion they were directly interacting with something despite the toon not being present on set.

Song of the South?

@@adog4661 Good catch, I did remember that, but was completely wrong about when it was made. I thought it was contemporary to Mary Poppins, but it came out 20 years earlier. Plus people just generally don't mention it anymore for obvious reasons.

See also the Detroit riots.

I think the Ink and Paint Club was a reference to Prohibition-era nightclubs like the Cotton Club, where blacks could be performers, but couldn't enter as patrons. All the people enjoying the show are human, but the staff and talent are toons. There are lots of parallels to real world segregation, with toons as second-class citizens, and Roger even says "You know there's no justice for toons anymore", when he's running from Judge Doom.

It’s so legendary!

I love that movie.

ironically, THE TWO JAKES didn't bomb until 2 years later.

Man literally wrote the bible on animation.

Practical effects are so much fun. Learning how it’s done doesn’t ruin the scene for me-it makes me appreciate it even more. The more real a movie is, the easier it is to suspend disbelief.

Ooooo I gotta check that out!

@@JamesVSCinema You'll love it for sure! The BTS for this movie is completely bonkers... the innovations and ingenuity of the scenes, especially the cabaret one, is on another level.

@@JamesVSCinema the making of this film is incredibly inspiring 👏 Robert Zemeckis and his team forever have my respect for going as above and beyond as they did.

It's this one for anyone interested. Roger Rabbit is the last bit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4b2Jm2WWUl4.html

This ^

There was only green screen in the toontown parts

​@@themalcahtwinz4743Wasn't it technically blue screen at the time?

@@IAmInfinitus208 Yes it was 👍

9:09 "liquifing toons? In like a vat of acid?" They are Toons, it's paint thinner. The Dip, Also Known As "Toon Acid", is a greenish, ghastly chemical seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's Judge Doom's preferred method of Toon execution. According to Lieutenant Santino, it's a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzine, which all of them are paint-thinners. Combined in the real world, they make up the solution hand animators used to use to remove ink from animation cells. This could be considered an inside joke, as your average audience member would not know what these ingredients made up. While relatively harmless to humans, any toon that comes in contact with it will melt instantly, and is apparently the only surefire way to kill a toon

@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone Damn learning all kinds of awesome in these comments

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Hahaha cheers Mike!

Oh, that's one of my favorites. Reiner did masterful work, on that one, as did the cast. Nowadays, they'd just digitally recreate the faces on modern actors...that makes me sad.

Criminally underrated movie. Not just technically, but the humour is so well incorporated also.

@@SPAMDAGGER22 greed...I have several 'always make me laugh' moments from that one...One in particular that I can't mention, for spoilers.

Steve Oedekirk's parody film Kung Pow Fist does a similar thing with footage from old Kung Fu movies, but relies more on using green screen and some silly 90's CGI to insert the lead actor (Oedekirk) into the footage itself.

Such an awesome combo of a film!

YOOO

No way what?!

That’s like watching the show Monk and realizing the kindly police chief is Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.

😂😂😂 she’s so petty!

Paul Giamatti is a darn riot in that movie. He's so angry.

Right? Scene tears a bleeding rip in my heart every time I watch it. I'm brought to tears by a drawing of a shoe; if that's not art I don't know what is.

Agreed

Explains Roger's reaction to alcohol? ;)

@@zvimur Same

Part of what made it work was a compromise. All Disney and WB cameos had to have equal screen time with each other. Especially the prominent ones. That is why Donald/Daffy, and Micky/Buggs are paired up.

@@dirus3142 Ahh, I remember hearing about that. Makes sense

It’s often said that Steven Spielberg was the only producer at the time powerful enough to make that deal happen. And it would never occur today.

@@thestomp1647 I could believe that

Just wait for Disney to inevitably buyout WB... Then they'll make a live-action remake with CGI because they're dumb as fuck.

Cool World?

Down to the frame. It's insane.