WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?
In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit there is a very unique mixture of cartoon
and imaging combined with live action. Animation is a wonderful thing, but yet very hard
to do and very cost worthy. Animation can be very difficult to create let alone going and
mixing it with real live action which was a big test for the makers of Who Framed Roger
Rabbit. The Makers of this Film did a very good job making the mixture of these two
intractable things look so very real and run in sync with each other. Although it was not an
easy task to do, they had to use lots of robots and machinery to make the two look and act
realistic.
The Animation used in Roger Rabbit was in many ways different from just about all
other cartoons animation. Roger Rabbit had cutting edge animation with the best possible
team to make the animation. The animation consisted of much more detail and had to be
visualized by all the actors in order for the to perform. This made the animators jobs a lot
more complicated and difficult, but they were certainly up for the task at hand. They
delivered one of the most perfect and realistic cartoon animation’s ever when they
delivered Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was said that this type of film could never be
The Essay on Cartoons 2
... 1980s, the word "cartoon" was shortened, and the word "toon" came into usage with the live action/animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), followed ... to refer to animation, and the word "cartoon" is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons. While "animation" designates any style ...
done, and how it was impossible to create. The effectiveness of the animation used with
live action is just uncanny. Other films that used this mixture was “Mary Poppins” and
“Bedknobs and Broomsticks” although it was only used for a short period of time in the
each and they were not even close to the exact details that Roger Rabbit consisted of, they
were probably the best mixtures of animation and live action up until Who Framed Roger
Rabbit came along. This film was one of the milestones in the history of animation because
it proved many people wrong and now gave people even higher expectations when it came
to film making.
A huge part of animation has to do with the sound effects and voices of the cartoon
and in Roger Rabbit the voices and sound effects were spectacular. Among the voices that
made the most impression were the voice of Roger Rabbit which was perfectly done by
Charles Fleicher, Roger Rabbit’s wife, Jessica Rabbit’s voice which was done by Kathleen
Taylor, Doloris’s voice was played by Joanna Cassidy, Evil Judge Dooms voice was done
by Christopher Lloyd and Baby Herman’s voice was done by Lou Hirsch. All of these
people made a huge contribution to the success of this film. Other historical cartoon
characters were in parts of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as well. Daffy and Donald Duck
play a piano duet together in a very funny scene, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have a
dialog between each other. Other appearances are made by Dumbo as he flies by Eddie
Valiant’s private eye office and Betty Boop who is a waitress in a bar where Eddie goes
to. I even believe I saw the penguins from Mary Poppins as waiters bussing tables in that
bar.
Overall Who Framed Roger Rabbit was one of the greatest animated films ever and
I would give it a 5 out of 5 without any hesitation. Roger Rabbit will always be one of the
great cartoons to me when I look back on my childhood. The special effects were
brilliantly done by Ken Ralston who performed the painstaking task of combining live-
action footage wonderfully with animation. Roger Rabbit was the top grossing film of
1988 and received two very worthy Academy Awards, one for best visual effects and one
for best film editing. While researching This Film I came across a rumor that a Roger
The Essay on Film Terms Special Effects
I. Editing. Termsi. Scenes are comprised of shots 1. Any movie ii. Editing is the joining of one shot to another 1. Dialogue is the clearest example iii. An establishing shot shows a change in scene 1. American Pie - Showing the outside of Stiffler's house before going into the party scene iv. A shot is a segment of film 1. Any Movie. Historyi. Birth of A Nation was the first film to use extensive ...
Rabbit 2 is very possible and has been heavily discussed. So we may be in for a treat
some time in the future.
