They dissolve or pop after a few moments, leaving white dust on many ’toons’ shoulders that ignorant humans mistake for dandruff. The balloons hover in the air above them, flowery when talking of love, tiny when whispering, blurred when moving too fast. One of the nice touches that using comic strip characters allows is that the ’toon characters spout word balloons when they talk. The comics syndicates truly were like Hollywood studios and their employees stars, so historically, it feels natural for the players in the novel to be involved in the comic strip business, despite some distracting anachronisms-Spider-man is mentioned, but his first appearance wasn’t until 1962, reference is made to Little Orphan Annie hitting it big on Broadway, which didn’t happen until 1977, and television, of course. In the first half of the 20th century, in particular in the 1930s and ’40s, comic strip characters were major celebrities, and their creators made fortunes. Jessica Rabbit is shown shooting a television commercial, but otherwise the ’toons are doing newspaper work and comic books. In Who Censored Roger Rabbit? the ’toons are comic strip characters, not animated cartoons. Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary WolfRoger Rabbit started out as a 1981 novel by Gary Wolf entitled Who Censored Roger Rabbit? In the book, many of the familiar characters from the movie are there-Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman-but aside from the stars and the general premise that cartoon characters coexist with humans, not one other aspect of the book made it into the film. A noir mystery and living, breathing cartoons, what’s not to love? Marvin Acme owned Toon Town, a ’toon-only world, and the true motive for his murder hinges on who will inherit the property if his missing will resurfaces. Marvin Acme turns up dead, Roger’s the number one suspect, and he drags Eddie back into the case to clear his name. Valiant finds Jessica playing patty-cake with Marvin Acme (actual patty-cake, no euphemisms here), and when Roger sees the photos, he’s devastated. That’s right, as a cartoon star, because in this Hollywood, Roger, Jessica, not to mention Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and both Daffy and Donald Duck and company are all real, living beings. Eddie Valiant is hired by Maroon Cartoons to get incriminating photographs of nightclub vamp Jessica Rabbit in order to get her husband, cartoon star Roger Rabbit, to focus on his work as a cartoon star. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a 1940s-style, film noir private detective mystery. Yes, at eight, I dug up the source material.įirst, a refresher on the movie. Not the Golden Books novelization of the movie, but the original novel. Because how many kids knew that Roger Rabbit was based on a book? Not only did I know, I actually read it. But in one way, maybe I took my obsession a little further. The merchandise, toys, comics, board games, posters, buttons, not to mention a whole section of Disneyland. My excitement was a focused ball in my chest dimming out the world around me, making me lightheaded, imprinting the experience forever in my brain.Īnd I don’t think I was the only one who felt this way. To say that I was ecstatic that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was one of the options is an understatement. We were given the choice of several movies and split into groups accordingly. Then later in the summer, there was a rain day at camp, and once a summer on a rain day, the campers were piled onto buses and taken to the movies. It’s-still-one-of-my-favorite-movies-twenty-five-years-later loved it. My parents had taken me to the movie, and I had loved it. Seeing a movie twice in the theater was unprecedented. Watch out!I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit? twice in the theater.
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