Who Framed Roger Rabbit? * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday 

"Listen, there ain't much that a good hole can't fix." That's what she said?

Arguably the most impressive thing about this movie is they got the rights from both Disney and Warner Bros. to have Bugs and Mickey on screen at the same time. Like -- they got both companies to sign off on it. Unreal.

I remember an anecdote form Bob Hoskins that when he was told to act 'with' Jessica he was told to imagine the sexiest woman he could imagine, just raw SEX appeal. Then he saw the movie with Jessica actually drawn in, and his response was 'Man, my imagination sucks'.

Christopher Lloyd’s character terrified me as a kid. Interesting fact: Christopher Lloyd doesn’t blink once in the entire movie. He did that on purpose.

They used no CGI. This is all hand-drawn. There is some truly impressive effects, such as having the toons holding real items, which required a lot of editing. The film went on to win best editing at the Oscars, including 3 other awards, including a special achievement award. No other film before or since has truly married animation and live action as well - and no other film has since had so many rights holders allow their creations to share the screen, with the exception of Rescue Rangers, which funnily enough, features Roger Rabbit.

Betty Boop was voiced by Mae Questel, her original voice actress from the '30s. She first voiced Betty in 1931 and came back for this movie in 1988, at the age of 80.

When people say: "They don't make movies like this anymore", this is what they are talking about.

I have watched, rewatched, and analyzed this movie so many times... and OH MY GOD I never noticed Roger gave his speech about laughter on a LITERAL SOAPBOX.

The patty cake reaction from you was probably my favorite reaction yet. Went from confused to "oh my god I can't believe they just made that joke" in 0.4 seconds. :)

"Are we in a world where they discriminate against the toons?" - Ashleigh picking up on the major theme of the movie faster than 99% of the people I know

Fun fact about the dip: it's a "real" thing. Turpentine, acetone and benzene are all paint thinners, and animators would combine them to remove ink from animation cells.

Veteran and venerated English actor Bob Hoskins plays the detective, Eddie Valiant, here. He had a nice long, successful career in films, tv, and voice over work. Sadly, passed away in 2014. Mr. Hoskins was truly a gem!

Here's my interesting bit: Yes, Jessica and Roger really do love each other after all, but who you think is the lucky one depends on whether you're a human or a Toon. This is hinted at when Eddie sees her for the first time and exclaims, "SHE'S married to Roger Rabbit?" and Betty Boop says, "Yeah, what a lucky girl." See, humans, particularly the men, see Jessica as a bombshell who could have any man she wants... so why on Earth is she with such a geek like Roger? But the toons see Roger as the impressive one: he's a superstar among Toons. He's got a regular gig in pictures doing comedy, and probably pulling down a lot of money as far as Toons get. Jessica is just a singer in a cocktail bar. Sure, she's a good performer, but she's nowhere near Roger's level in terms of fame, so the fact she managed to land Roger as a husband is nothing short of astounding.

The "Harvey" rabbit remark was a nod to a Jimmy Stewart movie about an imaginary rabbit with that name. The making of this movie is very interesting.

There are full documentaries about how they did this. It was groundbreaking.

I love it when Eddie thanks the kids on the streetcar for the cigarettes, it still makes me laugh.

"I did not grow up on Looney Tunes. I was born in '94." Ha! I was born in '95, and my parents had a little something called VHS tapes and later DVD collections. My childhood was classic animation.

"Not at any time...Only when it was FUNNY!" is my favorite line in this movie. And in life.

This movie is a masterclass in storytelling When the camera pans over Eddie's desk, it shows newspaper clippings of their detective escapades, but it also shows a clipping mentioning that the Valiant bros were raised as clowns in a circus

This film was absolutely huge when it came out and it made a very strong standing at the Oscars. The effects definitely were groundbreaking and the work involved with making cartoons and live actors interact was the subject of many programs afterward. The film was also a major factor sparking the animation renaissance that came in the 90s, especially with Disney (Ah, those were the days). Sadly, it was also the last major project that Mel Blanc was involved in before he died. Bob Hoskins as the core protagonist was quite an inspired choice. He captured the accent and temperament of his character perfectly. I can remember how thrown I was when I heard his thick English accent some time afterward. Unfortunately he is also no longer with us.

Such a masterpiece! A Film Noir detective and a silly cartoon seamlessly blend together.

Bob said this film mentally broke him. He spent so long filming talking to things that weren't there yet having to pretend they were and he could see them, that he started actually hallucinating after the film ended

Judge Doom does have a backstory, he was a toon actor who specialized in playing villain roles, and after getting hit too hard in the head he fully adopted a villanous persona and started doing crimes, being the first Toon who ever murdered a human.

15:00 the shifting of the lighting with roger's animation in the room really put in perspective how far ahead this movie was. I'm always in awe with this movie/scene every time that I watch it.

One of my absolute favorite childhood movies! Judge Doom in that final scene haunted me and, TBH, still freaks me TF out.

The animation in this film is all old-school hand drawn animation, it is a true labor of love.

When you're watching this movie in the theater, that scene where he's in the tunnel and suddenly bursts into Toontown is absolutely amazing. Going from that really dark and quiet environment right into the bright insanity of Toontown is like your hit of acid suddenly kicking in.

I laughed aloud when you said to Joanna Cassidy, "You're gonna show everyone your business," because that's EXACTLY what an animator did with Jessica Rabbit. In the scene when the cab crashes and Jessica went flying, a pervy animator slipped in a few frames of Jessica's hoo-hoo! Those frames, sadly, have since been eliminated...

This is basically based on a true story, when automobiles started coming out, car companies were buying out trollings and all public transportation so ppl would have to buy cars. Yes, that's Christopher Lloyd

Fun Fact: This was the last time we heard Mel Blanc doing the voices for Daffy Duck and and Mae Questel doing the voice for Betty Boop.

Ashleigh, this isn't a "Loony Tunes" movie, just uses some of the characters from WB's properties. When Spielberg put this deal together (which took years to finalize), Disney and WB agreed for the use of their popular characters, as long as they got the exact same amount of screen time. Which is why the characters most often appear in pairs (Bugs and Mickey; Daffy and Donald, Porky Pig and Tinkerbell, etc.) Other studio characters that appear solo (Dumbo, Tweety Bird, Droopy Dog, Yosemite Sam) have more or less equal screen time. But to answer your question, most of the other toons (i.e. Baby Herman, the bouncer ape, Chris Lloyd's character, not to mention Rodger himself) in the movie aren't from existing movies or cartoons, but originals for this film.

They made three Roger Rabbit shorts that are likely in the special features of the copy you watched (they're on RU-vid as well): "Tummy Trouble", "Roller Coaster Rabbit", & "Trail Mix-Up".

I remember watching "The Making Of" this movie and after you see how much work it took you can see why there are not many movies like this.

"Puss" = face. As in "sourpuss". Inbetweener: Animation has "key frames" that define a character's movements. Those are done by the people credited as animators and assistant animators. The inbetweeners draw the frames in between those key frames so that the animation is smooth and in-synch with the camera frame rate.

The joke when the guy in the bar seems like he's going to rat out Roger is an allusion to the Jimmy Stewart classic, "Harvey." You absolutely need it on your list! You'll love it!

When they were filming the movie, the actor that did the voice for Roger Rabbit read all of his lines in person on the set. He insisted on wearing red suspenders and bunny ears that are attached to a headband. The costume was so bad, rumors were circulating around the studio lot about this new movie being worked on with the worst special effects.

I had a huge grin on my face while waiting for her to learn what 'Patty Cake' was.

"There's no business like show business" was a song from "Annie get your gun" from the 1946 musical

The level of effort in this film coined the phrase "bump the lamp". When Eddie is trying to cut off the handcuffs, they hit the overhead light and it starts swinging around and the shadows stretch and move. So the animators had to put the shadows on Roger to match. It was such unnecessary extra work, but they did it to make it the most amazing movie they could. Another example is Roger spitting out the water from the sink. It *could * have been animated water, but Roger was in a sink with real water and so they made a machine to spit the real water out and drew Roger over it. So much extra work, but they felt they needed to set the bar high. And they did.

Theres a phrase that came out of this movie: "Bumping the Lamp". It refers to when Roger and Eddie are hiding in the bar, but the light above them gets bumped, changing the lighting throughout the scene, making the animation of Roger that much more difficult but much more impressive. Disney coined the term "Bumping the Lamp" to show both new and existing employees how and why you should always put forth extra effort, go the extra mile and do a little bit more than people expect.

This movie is why Back To The Future 2 took 4 years to release. Zemekis did BTTF, Jewel of The Nile, Roger Rabbit and BTTF 2 & 3 in a giant shoot! Talk about a busy half-decade!

As a 66 year old fan I can understand Ashleigh's concern about newer generations not getting many of the references in what were popular movies at the time. This is because I enjoy watching even older movies, the kind my parents and grandparents generations enjoyed. I'm sure I don't always get the subtleties of 1920's-50's drama or humor, but it's history. I'm fascinated by the culture of the past and how it has evolved over time. Older movies are a window into the past, and I'm gratified that I'm not the only one who appreciates this. Ashleigh is exploring a golden age of film, but I'd like to point out that the golden age of film did not begin in 1980. Still, her reactions and insights are delightful. She makes me think about the first time I watched those movies when they came out. She would have been the perfect movie date if she was alive back then. She is so genuine and so much fun to watch. Bravo, Ashleigh. On another note I'd personally like her to watch Irma La Douce (1963) with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. It's pretty funny, and in my opinion the perfect grown-up date movie from way back then.

Fun fact: The underlying story of this movie is actually true. LA used to have an excellent Tram system that was basically bought and dismantled by the Car companies to force people to buy and use cars.

I caught this one in the theatre upon its release and still enjoy it. My father met Mel Blanc, my father and I met June Foray, a buddy of mine appeared in the film as a pedestrian when Benny the Cap and his passengers head down the alleyway, and my wife and I visited the Mt Hollywood Tunnel in Griffith Park (the entrance to Toontown) and the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge ("What do you call the middle of a song?").

I remember seeing this with my family in the theatre when I was kid and my brother was about four. He loved Roger afterwards. Over the years I have grown to love this movie more and more.

No CGI, they filmed the movie then had artists hand draw the animation IN EVERY SINGLE FRAME. Was a massive amount of work. Also it's to bad you left out the part where Jessica says "A rabbit is a girls best friend." or something like that, it was a vibrator joke lol.

"You mean you could have taken your hand outta that cuff at any time?!" "Not anytime, Eddie... Only when it was funny." Is by far, my favorite line in this entire movie. Absolutely wonderful writing.

Fun Fact: I grew up with this movie, and I remember the Patty Cake scene completely going over my head, so watching it as an adult still gives me a kick remembering being clueless, lol. Also, 13:01 when you got startled and said you thought he was about to pull two filing cabinets on his head, I actually laughed out loud, lol.

11:42 "That's not Christopher Lloyd" 😂🤣 You couldn't be more wrong

As someone with a bachelor of fine arts degree, I loved this move from the first time that I saw it--not just because it is actually a very good movie, but because I was (and still am) in love with how well they combined live action and animation-cell animation. What a skill, and you are correct, it stands the test of time and always will, even if people don't really know who the characters are at some point. Thanks for doing this one!

A great detective dramady that just happens to have a ton of animated characters in it. It says a lot about toon sensibilities that _Jessica_ is considered the lucky one for bagging Roger.

Bob Hoskins should have gotten a "Best Actor" award, since he acted the majority of the time in front of a green screen, with no one to react off of - a very difficult job.

One of the best cartoon and real movies ever made. Rodger Rabbit was a classic movie. Nobody will ever come close to this masterpiece

The sudden random periodic aggression against E.T. is one of my favorite through-lines of the Ashleighverse.

You got to understand that when watching this at a young age, the story went over our heads but it was absolutely mind blowing to see the Disney and Looney Tune characters on screen together and interacting

Ashleigh, you're so funny! I love being able to see movies like this that I've loved since I was a little kid, viewed fresh through your eyes, and your commentary makes me laugh so much!

I live in Birmingham in the UK. Born in 1979 and 9 when this was released. My mom worked all her career for BT ( the phone company ) in various roles. Occasionally she had to go to London for meetings a couple days a year. Well at the time there was a quite a good social club type thing and organised things throughout the year, flower shows, days out for the family, and occasionally weekends away, they didn’t pay for it was organised by staff members. Well like I said I was 9, my sister was 6 and we went down on such a weekend trip in ‘88. It just so happened that, that week my mom had been in London in such a meeting not far from Leicester Square and had got tickets for us at the famous Odeon opening weekend, up in the nose bleed section on the Saturday evening!! I like everyone else have been bought up Disney et al, but even now in my mid forties, think this film in the greatest animation of all time simply because of those memories from decades ago and seeing Mickey and Bugs talking to each other!!

"There's no business like show business" comes from the song of the same name, which Irving Berlin wrote for the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" about the life of Annie Oakley. I'd love to see Ashleigh react to a bunch of Warner Brothers cartoons. It would probably create too many copyright problems, though. There must be a reason there aren't many of those cartoons on RU-vid.

This is a true 80’s classic considering that Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future Trilogy, Romancing The Stone, and Forrest Gump) directed this movie and managed to win some awards, four to be exact. Who Framed Roger Rabbit won the Oscars for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, and for Special Achievement In Animation Direction. It just sucks that this is the only time that we’ll ever see the perfect animated blend of Warner Bros and Walt Disney characters ever. God bless this 34 year old movie! As much as i love Christopher Lloyd, Bob Hoskins really shined and gave us the best performance of his career in my opinion. That’s All Folks! #WhoFramedRogerRabbit 🎥🎬🏆

One of the funnier "in" jokes in this film, that all the reactors miss, is the Harvey reference when Angelo tells Judge Doom there's a rabbit in the bar. Most famously, Harvey was a film from the 1940s starring Jimmy Stewart as an endearing, yet alcoholic man who's best friend was an invisible 6 foot rabbit, named Harvey that only he could see. It was originally a stage play of the same name that is still a favorite of Community Theatres all over the US.

So ... A few things: 4:26: Eddie's line "Only that there's no business like it, no business I know", is most likely a reference to the song "There's no Business like Show Business", which was written for the 1946 stage musical "Annie Get your Gun" (The film is set in 1947). 6:54: Bit of both, really. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is a film adaptation of Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit". The characters of Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, Jessica and Baby Herman are taken from the book, but their circumstances are entirely different, as most of the book's plot points where recontextualized for the movie. There are a handful of original characters created for the film including Bongo the Gorilla (The nightclub bouncer), The club's octopus bartender, Benny the Cab and Doom's weasel henchman: Smart Ass, Wheezy, Greasy, Psycho and Stupid. Everyone else is a preexisting character. 8:22: According to the animators, the physical appearance for the film version of Jessica Rabbit was inspired by the title character for "Red Hot Riding Hood", a Tex Avery cartoon from 1943. She also has a hairstyle modeled on one popularized by 40's film actress Lana Turner. If Dolly Parton or Elvira were in the mix, no one's said anything. But Richard Williams (the film's director of animation) has admitted that Jessica's anatomic proportions aren't feasible, and justified it by saying that every bit of animation should have "an element of impossibility" as the goal is to do everything that can't be done with a live-action camera. 27:29: No one involved with the making of the film has come out and confirmed this, but a theory floating around the internet (one I ascribe too) is that the cartoon character masquerading as Judge Doom is the Pistol Packin' Possum, the title character of the one cartoon short produced by Maroon Studios that didn't feature Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. The poster for "Pistol Packin' Possum" seen in R.K. Maroon's office features a character dressed in clothing similar to the outfit worn by Judge Doom, wields a gun similar to the one that Doom used to kill Maroon, and like Doom has red eyes. It's also telling that Valiant is able to avoid being killed by Doom because he saw Doom's pistol reflected in the glass of that particular poster. More over, the term "Playing Possum" is used for someone who plays dead to advert suspicion, something Doom seemingly does when he is flattened by the Acme steam roller.

I have always felt like belonging to the last "classic" generation, having grown up with the old Disney cartoons, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry or Tex Avery (before censorship)... in the 80s and 90s you could still see and enjoy the same stuff your parents or even grandparents liked.. there are good cartoons today but nothing like the old school classics

The quantity and quality of practical effects (not CGI) in this film are amazing. These days it wouldn't be that impressive. Back then, it was mind blowing

This film features many, many cameos, but also a slew of original animated characters. I'm pretty sure every character Ashleigh wasn't able to place is an original. Also, what I really love about this film is how as Eddie starts to get his P.I. mojo back, he starts to behave like a toon.

Roger Rabbit (originally a book) was not the first movie to combine live-action and animation (prior to Roger Rabbit, we had Fantasia, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete's Dragon, and more). But it was the first to do it on a new technical level.

"Chubby Robert DeNiro" is the late great British actor, Bob Hoskins. If you ever watch Hook, he's in that too. The bad guy is just Judge Doom. No other identity. Lots of these toons were just made up for the movie and weren't actually from any specific cartoon company.

some of the detail that went into this film are almost invisible, but make every difference. During planning the writing team set out and created a set of "Toon Rules" finding things that toons did that they could not help but do or not do. The toons had to obey them in their quirky fashions, and to an extent, the humans were subject to them as well. The handcuff gag was a good example.

I Can't even watch us after you didn't even leave the part in. "Remember me Eddie, when I killed your brother? I talked just like this!" what the fahq Ashley, don't leave out these important parts! Still love your reaction to the Sandlot kiss! I'll never let that go! ❤🤍💙💛

What’s amazing is all the little bits of foreshadowing, placements of Chekhov’s guns, and nuanced bits. Like the hiding spot at the bar, watch it closely. Specifically Roger. His shadows matched the lighting. When he started preaching about laughter being his only weapon, he was preaching literally from a soapbox. That pan across Teddy’s desk? It showed Eddy and Teddy were sons of a circus clown, hence how he’s good at vaudeville acting at the end with the pogo, juggling, etc. The mallet with the boxing glove, the portable hole? Chekhov gun items. Shown in prominence in act one but seemed one time gags, were used for real in the climax.

My Mother had a nervous breakdown the day after I turned 10 in 1988. I found a loaded shotgun under our couch and was playing with it. She had been having an affair with a drug dealer while my Dad was stationed in another part of the country. She put me in the car and abandoned my 16 year old brother, who refused to go with her, at our home in Southern Oklahoma. We spent the next two weeks driving all over the southwest until she came to her senses and we ended up at my Uncle's house in Denver. My Uncle was a great guy. He was 26 and cool. I didn't know why him and his "friend" Jim shared a bedroom in such a big house full of bedrooms, but he cooked great burgers and told awesome jokes. He ended up bringing me to see Who Framed Roger Rabbit and we laughed our asses off. Afterward he took me to a burrito place. We ended up leaving after a couple of weeks and ended up at my Grandmother's in Massachusetts. My Brother reunited with us after my Mom and Dad finally got divorced. In December of 1989 I watched as the nurses and doctors turned off my Uncle's ventilator because he was brain dead and not going to wake up from his coma. He had Kaposy Sarcoma all over his body and was a skeletal 100 pounds. In those days AIDS was a death sentence. My Grandmother made us all promise we would tell people he died of cancer if people asked. She was more concerned about the scandal amongst her neighbors than she was about her baby boy dying. These are the things I remember when I think about Roger Rabbit.

I saw this when it came out and the “Making of” is almost more interesting than the movie itself. Definitely check that out. Brilliant acting by Bob Hoskins, who was British. I’m old and know all the cartoons, so I loved this.

One of the saddest things about the film is that the villains plot was successful in real life, with Los Angeles in the following decades dismantling much of its public transit in favor of the labyrinth of highways/freeways it's now famous for.

"Why is he calling her Patty Cake?" OMG I LOL'ed so hard.

FUN FACT: They originally approched Eddie Murphy to be the main character. Given the time period of the film, the original stoy also included the plot point that the Valiant Brothers liked to work in Toon Town because the Toons never cared that they were black, unlike the real world.

I saw this in the theater as a kid and I can’t emphasize enough how traumatizing it was to see that cartoon shoe get executed.

"Shave and a haircut". Mom used to sing it (she was tin-eared) when my parents took me to the town barber shop during the mid 1950s. What she sang was "Shave and a haircut, two bits. Who is the barber? Ho-mer." (Our barber.) Later, dad bought clippers and cut both his and my hair. Mom's song changed to, "Shave and a haircut, it's free. Who is the barber? Dad-dy."

Glad to see you're feeling more upbeat again! Studio looks amazing! Love you to bits!

The shoe scene traumatized me a kid, still makes me tear up as an adult! 😭 And the part where the bad guy screeched in the high voice freaked me out as a kid!

You hear a lot of people, my older brother included, say that they were traumatized and terrified beyond belief by Judge Doom when they first saw this movie as a kid. Me, I first saw this movie when I was thirteen, and I thought Judge Doom was completely awesome. As an adult, I recognize that he’s completely terrifying, and yet, still, I really love the character, and I still say he’s completely awesome.

When this first came out in the theater, the whole audience and myself stood up and applauded at the end. Make American Movies Great Again!

I remember being dragged by sister to see this when I was 8 and I really didn't want to go but I loved it! It's one of the best films ever made! Funnily enough 10 years later I felt exactly the same way with There's Something About Mary! I haven't seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit for probably 10-15 years but it ages really well and Bob Hoskins is always worth watching! Dire Straits Private Investigations keeps playing in my mind when I see him!

Great reaction Ashleigh! Glad you enjoyed this classic movie. The rooster was Foghorn Leghorn, and the dog running the elevator was Droopy. Looking forward to Spiderman 2 on Friday. Keep up the great work.

I so loved this film as a kid. Me and my brother would do a small running gag of pointing our finger like a gun at one another's back and say "Valiant!" and the other would turn around and say "I always knew I'd get it in ToonTown." Ha ha, I loved me Roger Rabbit Tank Top my mum got me as well. Wish I still had it.

It took so long to make "Roger Rabbit" that Zemeckis had to do the "Back to the Future" sequels back-to-back after it to get them done

Fun fact. They got the OG voice actor for Betty Boop for this and "i still got it" was her last words before passing.

This was the ONLY time Disney and Warner Bros characters shared the screen together. They really went all out with the cameos, and it was awesome. Watching it back in 1988 it blew my mind seeing Mickey and the gang interacting with the Looney Tunes. BTW, Eddie's cartoon gun was given to him by Yosemite Sam.

OMG, @Ashleigh_Burton , your reaction to the Patty Cake photos ... ROFL, I was snickering for a solid moment there. Brightened up my Mon.

The only time 2 rival studios got together and let most of their roster of characters to be together. I'm an old fart so I saw this movie when it came out and I was floored. It was such an amazing feat because the rivalry was HUGE between Disney and the other studios. And growing up you were either Team Disney or Team Looney, before "Team" anything was even remotely a thing.

i was born in 92 and when i was a kid, the woman who babysat us had tons of VHS tapes of old cartoons, i grew up watching tons of old 40s and 50s cartoons

Jessica's speaking voice was Kathleen Turner, whom you met in _Romancing the Stone,_ and her singing voice was Amy Irving, Mrs. Spielberg at the time. Another excellent Kathleen Turner film is the romance/crime _Prizzi's Honor_ (1985), in which she co-stars with Jack Nicholson. A delightful Amy Irving film is the romantic comedy _Crossing Delancey_ (1988), which co-stars Peter Riegert, whom you'll likely recognize from his many film and TV roles.

17:47 "Somebody has died of laughter?" There was a guy in England in the 70s who laughed his ass off for around 30 minutes straight, watching an episode of The Goodies. Had a heart attack and slumped on the couch stone dead. His daughter was later diagnosed with Long QT syndrome, which is hereditary and so was likely a contributing factor to her father's death. But still, not many comedy shows can verifiably claim that someone died of laughter watching them :D There have also been reports of a Danish man dying of laughter in 1989 when he was watching the film (an excellent comedy, btw) A Fish Called Wanda.

"But the liquor store guy ... he knew." Glad to see one of the funniest lines recognised. :)

If you look up "Roger Rabbit BTS", there's a comparison of Eddie's Arrival in Toontown, and his elevator ride, and fall to the ground. The ENTIRE MOVIE is PRACTICAL. (Shot in 1986, 3 years to animate over!)

5:13 Glad you asked, it's actually quite simple in theory. The way animation was made was they would draw characters onto a clear animation cel and than physically lay that on top of a drawing of a background, then they would take a single picture with their video camera then rinse and repeat until they have an animation. So the way they did this is instead of layering those animation cels over a drawing of a background, they layered it over a still image from the live action footage. So in principle it's actually super simple, but in reality, it's very difficult to get the animation to look like its sitting in that real world 3d space. This film is actually the absolute best example that I'm aware of using this technique. (it's a kind of rotoscoping) The way they achieved such a convincing marriage of live-action and animation is by using many different painstaking techniques. One of which is that a lot of this is animated on 1s. Normally animation is done on 2s which means that the individual drawings in the animation only change every 2 frames. Animating on 1s is more than twice the work and cost so it's rarely done because of the budget, but adding those extra frames makes the animation look much much smoother, and more real. Matching the framerate of the live actors also helps sell the illusion. The other thing they did was to pay close attention to lighting, the toons actually cast shadows on live actors. They did this two ways, the first was to rotoscope shadows onto the actors, and the second was that they would have physical objects like mechanical arms holding live props that they would later animate overtop of and it would give the illusion that the toon is interacting with a real object and cast real shadows. The scene when he's washing dishes with the weasels searching the place for Roger is a great example. The weasel is holding a real gun and he even splashes the water which sells the illusion perfectly, and it was just a few prop arms that they drew over later. There are a lot of other things that I didn't bring up but this is getting pretty wordy. So like I said, simple in theory but they did such an incredible job because of all the lengths they went through. Love this movie.

Bob Hoskins was an INCREDIBLE actor. I'd highly recommend The Long Good Friday as one of his finest performances, along with this and The Super Mario movie

i cannot tell you how excited I was when I saw you watched this!! This is one of my favorites! 💜💜💜💜💜

You need to watch the making of this movie. The amount of work that went into this without greenscreening is unbelievable. How they drew the characters in to even shading them according to lighting conditions is absolutely unreal. If this were to be made today the same way it would cost an absolute fortune just in manpower/man hours.

SO glad to see how much you enjoyed this film. It was my whole childhood. Thanks to this and Back to the Future, my dog's middle name was Zemeckis.

You make me smile. Looking forward to you getting deeper into the MCU! Thanx for all the laughs!

This reminds me of a lovely poem. Mary had a little dress, with slits right up up sides, and every time that Mary walked, the boys could see her thighs. Mary had another dress, 'twas slit right up the front. She didn't wear that one often.