Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. It is loosely based on the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy, and the voices of Charles Fleischer and an uncredited Kathleen Turner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve actually never watched this all the way through. Only bits and pieces back in the cable days where you’d start halfway through. Maybe I’ll give it a go.

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    6 months ago

    I literally just watched this YouTube video yesterday, comparing the film to the original novel it’s based on (titled, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?). The original story is way different! Disney basically rewrote almost everything for the film, save a few characters’ names.

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      6 months ago

      Ohhh, interesting! Never read the book, but t yeah, very different. Makes me think it’s time for a retelling remake made by Villaneuve.

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    6 months ago

    I didn’t get it as a kid, but it’s so clearly a metaphor for the decision to build freeways through marginalized communities that happened in real life. Thanks for posting this here, I hadn’t seen this movie in probably 15 years, and it holds up really well. Too bad there wasn’t a real life Eddie Valiant back then.

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    6 months ago

    This movies background is amazing. How they created all the effects was groundbreaking. I love watching the clips of the behind the scenes for scenes like the dish throwing where they created animatronics to handle the actual physical props, and then painted the cartoons over it.

    It’s also amazing to me that no one drew shadows on cartoon characters in films until this movie.