The World of Ralph Bakshi 

Love it dude, keep making amazing content ^^

It's the poor man's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

It's funny cause I'm the deranged cousin in my aunts living room.

The Royal Ocean Film Society unfortunately this was my introduction to Bakshi films... Followed by Lord Of The Rings. It's a wonder I kept going with it.

Pogla The Grate "Cool World" was my introduction to Ralph Bakshi as well, but I seriously don't hate it.

Mclovin486 oh wow that’s really cool

Which college if I may ask?

NMSU

A fellow NMSU animation student! What are the odds?

Oh god what I’d give to meet his old man!!

Nelson Smith And that's the rub. Bakshi gave feature animation a much needed kick in the ass by dealing with mature/adult material when the medium was basically a assembly line ghetto. People probably thought he was a madman who deformed kid fantasies when he put out "Fritz" and "Heavy Trafffic". I think he was honest to the nines.

sad but probably true

Nelson Smith I really like those last few words you said “shuffled off this mortal coil.” I think I should start saying that in place of “kicked the bucket” or “dead” but not all the time. But yeah, I haven’t seen a Ralph bakshi film yet and I really want to.

When that day comes. I am going to morn the passing Ralph's life, more so than Richard William.

@@hadensasser4937 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYZ3Ht1XyVc.html here's one

Indeed. His films are all of this and more. I love Bakshis films. They have a sincerity very few adult/mature animations can muster.

"Disney is the worst" now...

What fucking college did you go to?

@@dirkdiggler. seriously

@@mistersudz102 ya, no college students suck the teet of the mouse. And individuality is championed at campuses

@@dirkdiggler. maybe he discovered bakshi movies when he was in college. I discovered his movies when i was in high school and it certainly was enlightening.

Neil Clingerman a satoshi kon would definitely have changed our cinema, but theres a larger precedent for that sort of immaturity. He never said as much, but all of his films smell of the ennui of JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

Neil Clingerman I think that in creating such crude worlds, his movies ended up being juvenile. Satoshi Kon would have been a fantastic addition at this time but a decent amount of his work works best with present day settings. He would adapt but then we wouldn't have Paranoia Agent or Paprika.

On the other side, i think his style is in perfect balance, has both serious stuff and cartoon comedy, exactly what makes it so unique

Immature? Or reflective of society? People may easily confuse them.

A controversial opinion but I kind of agree

Well ya ... comedians are the most persecuted people in modern times because there certain things you can't joke about because they are offensive

Well there’s robocop

@@michaelrizea3108 'persecuted' lol

@@michaelrizea3108 *Gestures toward Dave Chapelle

Had no idea he did Wizards

Sebastian Tinajero wizards especially

I'd pay to see a Ben Bocquelet/Ralph Bakshi collab. It'd probably be illegal to show in some countries, given Ralph's art and Ben's cynicism.

Late, but ironically, R. Crumb disliked that movie and claimed that Bakshi himself was repressed.

@@SirBlackReeds As much as I love Crumb, he doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to like anybody doing anything with his work, so while I respect his opinion, they seem like completely different works entirely.

Austin Esquillin they have a Tyler the Creator song called garbage that has scenes of this in there. But no sounds of the show

Waiting for MF DOOM to pick this up, unless he already did.

The video has been used in some synced rap video's. Swaggerlikeuz is a good channel to find toons and hiphop synced.

Mateo David Gutierrez Gonzalez very mf doom, that audio texture

Done

You went from a Rich Life with good neighbors to Drinking & Smoking & visiting Target, to the Poor Life? Did you even redeem yourself even a little? I take it, when half the money was gone, it wasn't enough to convince you to think? Somethings wrong here? Anyways, good luck in the future, glad ya figured things out... =D Btw, the world is not dirt... There are good people out there, you just need to find them... They are pretty much the rare kind that are found in the least of most places you'd think to look... Good Neighborhoods with good friendships may have a decent person in them or so, but if you live in a large city, your not likely to find probably anyone who is this special... You might find a worker who is willing to help get you cleaned up, but I mean, it's pretty rare to find people like this... But you are right, there are pretty crummy people out in the world, some are worst then others, o_@ The Animations by Bakshi, is pretty good, & they do show real life problems, & they are not like anything today... I do like their work, however some of it is over done to the extreme, like where they are out of control, but it's not about the theme or what happens that he's good at, it's his Art Style, his Stories... That are good... Like his Lord Of The Rings (1978), & Rock & Rule (1983), ^_-

It's dirty, it's grimy, it's all slimy.

August Break aren’t his movies about bad urban life in the 70’s

*BOOOOOM*

Late, but it's actually his most middling film and shows that he has a greater understanding of history over music history.

Ralph bakshi, I never really understood this guy was he just did he just enjoy showing pain and anger and disturbing stuff and his cartoons was he trying to make a point that this is just the way life is because some of the stuff he puts in his cartoons seems pro-communist and anti-American, according to his cartoons of what I've watched, he seemed to be pro-communist he didn't seem to like America very much it's fine to show the problems in everyday America but if that's all you do all the time you're not doing you yourself or anybody else any favors he didn't really offer any solutions he just basically showed how evil and how dark and how strange and how to pray the world is but he never did anything really positive not to the extent that he had a movie like that it was always about drugs and racism and why does he always make the cops and the pigs that's anti-American yes some cops are pigs and they don't care about the law but that doesn't mean all cops and to say that it does mean that makes you an anti-American and makes you throw Marxism which is not only that but a lot of the problems that we have in our country today are because of people who either were pro-communist or let the government be taken over by globalism and socialism (and yes some capitalism is bad if it's crony capitalism this guy was the wrong kind of cynical I don't know why he never made anything butt rough social commentary) he must really have been confused and Ralph must not have understood that a lot of the problems they had in the 60s and 70s and even today are because of the Communists the socialists the marxists and the crony capitalists (not regular capitalism I like the founding fathers intended) in the founding fathers actually had laws and rules to protect businesses and to protect the people who would have been overrun with not only capitalism but big corporations who have no interest in mind except money even if people die for them to get it.

Everyone who believes that communism or Marxism is good should read the book color communism and common Sense written about a defector in the black community who was a high-ranking Communists who woke up one day and realized that it wasn't helping him and it was making his country worse, whose name was Manning Johnson he died in 1959 but after he left the party in 1945 he spent the next 14 years (until his death in 1959, from a car wreck) he spent the rest of his life exposing the Communist party all they had taught him and their tactics and all of the things that he had been through the Communist party where a lot of people like him who had darker skin were sent to meet people at the Kremlin in Moscow Russia, were the Russians had decided years before that they were going to use soft words and pretend to help black Americans gain their freedom against Jim Crow segregation in the rampant racism that the government was pushing back then. Mr Johnson was blackmailed for thinking differently and he was a government Target because much of the government had been infiltrated by the same people he had parted ways with in 1945 and he realized when he left in that year that he was being used as a sort of Cannon father as well as others that look like him to take down America and divided people even more.

He made the first x rated animated film, for starters

actually... well yeah, in america at least. before that there was cleopatra (1970) and a thousand and one nights (1969) in japan.

Thomas Antal he's interesting in that he was someone who felt that animation could be made for adults as well. Seems like nothing now but in the 60s and 70s, cartoons were still viewed as children's entertainment. In a weird way he sowed the seeds of adult animation today. He was a bit of a loose cannon though. We forget though when the Simpsons first debuted people were like "you can't make s cartoon for adults!!" Now animation geared at adults is everywhere. Archer, South Park, Rick and Morty. Yes Anime fans, we see you there.

Katie, that's incorrect. Cartoons have been geared for an adult audience since as early as the 30s with Betty boop. Looney toons in the 40s and Flintstones in the 50s. Who do you think Fred was promoting pal-mal ciggaretes to?

Check out *ROCK & RULE* mate

kinda like the real world

After I read that comment, I saw this: 2:36

you could argue that both Don Bluth and Bakshi did what animation needed, Bluth made movies that showed children movies to be dark and gritty, yet still find hope for a better tomorrow. Bakshi however showed that animation doesn't have to be for kids, or that you don't even need the biggest budget to be successful

It wasn't until many years later that I realized most of the sequels to his animated classics tried to imitate disney musicals. The dark, atmospheric artwork even change to being more bright and colorful. Just look at the Land Before Time and then take a look at... like, ANY of its sequels.

Corporate meddling at its worst.

Most times when I think of Don Bluth, I tend to think of the video game trilogy he'd created alongside Rick Dyer.

The Top 10 Don Bluth movies 10.Rock A Doodle 9.A Troll In Central Park 8.Thumbelina 7.Titan A.E. 6.Anastasia 5.Dragon's Lair 4. An American Tail 3.The Land Before Time 2.The Secret Of NIMH 1.All Dogs Go To Heaven Any comments?

Mauricio Campos Noemi as is most of not all of Bakshis films. Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Heavy Traffic, LotR...

What about Fire and Ice?

The One Man Army I think he only did that for Heavy Traffic, because that film called for many scenes that divert from the main story to take a look at the people of the world the main character resides in, as well as using real people for the backgrounds to help paint a clearer picture of that world. Oh. Actually I think he did a little of that in Fritz the Cat.

@@dildonius He also did that before in Fritz the Cat. Dialogues in bars and workers dialogue in the intro scene were recorded with random people.

I've been praying for a Bakshi Criterion set for years. The Criterion Channel hosted Coonskin a while ago so he's on their radar...one can only dream...

Stop getting mad about Youth of Today in Current Year you fuckin snob.

I agree, but there are always other intelligent words you can use.

It's not about the kids of "today" it's about college kids in general, who think they have the world figured out and are smarter then everyone else, but in reality have no clue how the real world works, because they have been so sheltered and pampered.

It's been happening since even before the term was actually introduced to the English speaking world.

Not just today. Baskhi made that commentary back in the sixties.

Mel cinefix did a top ten i think where they briefly looked as great usages of flashbacks, though it was brief, it was highly informative

would recommend Folding Ideas second video on man of steel, where he talks about how flashbacks are structured in regards to the rest of the film

Hugh Walker every era of humanity is a violent time. Today is no different

Late, but it's actually closer to the world of Fahrenheit 451.

Late, but it really wasn't. After Wizards, it all goes downhill. The Lord of The Rings is bloated and he was simply not the right director for the job. He is counterculture(?) and J.R.R. Tolkien was a fundamentalist Catholic. American Pop is a very middling feature that shows he has a better understanding of history over music history. Hey Good Lookin' lacks the bite and satire of Coonskin/Street Fight. His heart wasn't fully in Fire & Ice, and Cool World was infamously tampered with, so it became a shadow of its former self. Ironically, The Cool and The Crazy, a live-action film, had been his best feature in years.

He's still alive...

Why bother with that? Just go read Lost Girls by Alan Moore...

Late, but why in addition to what Axel said, you could also just play through the American McGee Alice games.

I think it's meant to be like that

Nurpus I like it, the color pallets evokes the bright lights and dark corners of big city life, and in a mystical setting it works almost as well

Nurpus i think that's what beautiful about art it evokes different feelings in every different person, for me his color pallet gives me almost a nostalgic feeling without the nostalgia , a weird appealing feeling about the real world instead of the bright always happy clean looks that most animation back then focused mainly on, the crooks and crannies the dirt no one looks into. Kinda like the difference in feeling and atmosphere a dive bar gives as oppose to a fancy club

Being depressed isn't supposed to feel good.

Same for me. I know it's intentional, but his visual aesthetic is aggressively ugly.