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Topic: THE ROGER RABBIT SHORTS
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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted March 10, 2009 03:19 AM
And you can also find 16mm prints of the shorts.
Actually, Roller Coaster Rabbit was meant to open for Arachnophobia, an Ambin production, but Disney demanded that the short be attached to Dick Tracy in hope people would go and see the feature after being lured by the short subject. It shows how much hope they had in the Warren Beatty vehicle.
Another short, Hare in my Soup, was supposed to go with The Rocketeer but it never went into production as Spielberg wasn't crazy about the script.
Two scripts were written for potential prequels (RR2: Toon Platoon, Who Discovered RR?) but never got the greenlight.
Although I like Roller Coaster Rabbit, as it is somehow connected to my former job in the coaster industry, I must say that this film is a total rip-off of two Popeye shorts (Popeye at the Fair, Popeye at the Amusement Park) where Sweetpea goes through the Carnies stalls and avoid catastrophe at each new step.
IMHO, Trail Mix Up features a better timing in its succession of gags.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 10, 2009 10:44 AM
At any rate, it's so cool that we Super 8 collectors can have the joy of seeing all of these shorts on Super 8.
"Hare in my Soup" Boy, I'd love to see the storyboards for that one!
I used to coorespond with Chuck Jones (classic Warner Bros. director, who did story boards for the Donald Duck/Daffy Duck piano duel in "Roger Rabbit") during this time, and in a hand written letter back to me, (yeah, people still did stuff like that back then), when I asked what he thought of the recently released "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", he responded ...
" I didn't like Roger Personally. "
I guess when you've worked with the best (Bugs B.), the rest pale in comparison, especially an upstart by name of Roger. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Lars Pettersson
Master Film Handler
Posts: 282
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted March 10, 2009 04:12 PM
I always felt the greatest idea in the whole Roger Rabbit-concept was of the cartoon characters as real live actors, discussing their character motivations and rehearsing being hit over the head by a 300 pound refrigerator!
As we all know, Rollercoaster Rabbitt ends in flames and total mayhem, and as it all grinds to a halt someone in the studio goes "I donīt see it with FLAMES"...
Actually, Dick Tracy wasnīt all that bad, but I felt one got into it with the wrong expectations, thinking it was going to be something like Burtonīs Batman, while it was really a totally different kind of film, enjoyable not the least for having half of the cast from The Godfather AS WELL AS Bonnie And Clyde in it! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Jean-Marc, where DO you get all that info!? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Also, are you no longer in the rollercoaster-game?
Cheers
Lars
Oh, also check out the extras on the Disney "Mickey Mouse and the Three Musketeers" that came out a couple of years ago, thereīs some really funny stuff there; Mickey, Goofy and Peg-Leg Pete commenting on their performances on the DVD audio track, and Pete, finding Goofy and the rest of the cast such amateurs, going "I just canīt work like this!"
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