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Bugs Bunny is the name of an animated rabbit or rabbit that the Warner Bros. - Comes from cartoon studios. The character was developed by Ben Hardaway , Tex Avery and Chuck Jones . It was also Bob Givens involved in character development. His English voice comes from a. by Mel Blanc , the German spoke Gerd Vespermann . Since 1996 the figure has been spoken by Sven Plate in the German version .
history
According to several American film historians, the character is based on Max Hare from the Disney cartoon The Tortoise and the Rabbit from 1935. The character also has two borrowings from the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened in One Night : The way Bugs Bunny eats his carrots, was taken from Clark Gables character; In addition, the secondary character of the pesky bus traveler Oscar Shapeley ( Roscoe Karns ) influenced the character of the character. A nameless forerunner of Bugs Bunny is first found in the Porky Pig cartoon Porky's Hare Hunt (1938), directed by Ben Hardaway. Because of his nickname Bugs , the nameless character was internally called Bugs' Bunny , which later became the character's name without an apostrophe .
After three more films with Bugs Bunny prototypes ( rabbit in a hat , hare's foot on the warpath and watch out for the camera ), Bugs Bunny appeared in Die Hasenfalle (director: Tex Avery ) for the first time in its now known form. His name was first used in the 1941 film Rabbit Plague . In total, Bugs appeared in well over 150 cartoons and received an Oscar for best animated short film for Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) . In December 1985 he was the second cartoon character (after Mickey Mouse ) to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
watch TV
Since 1960, the Warner cartoons for television have been put together for the series The Bugs Bunny Show (German title: Bunny und seine Kumpane (1970) , later Bugs Bunny - Mein Name ist Hase ). Other cartoon characters such as Daffy Duck , Sylvester and Tweety , Elmer Fudd , the rooster Foghorn Leghorn and the little goshawk Henry were also represented here. Other TV compilations of old Warner cartoons include The Fastest Mouse in Mexico and Piggy Dick .
cinemamovies
After brief appearances in the films Two Guys from Texas (1948), Mein Traum bist Du ( My Dream is Yours , 1949) and Wrong Play with Roger Rabbit ( Who framed Roger Rabbit , 1988), Bugs got the lead role in the films Space Jam ( 1996) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), where Sven Plate spoke to him. All films are real films combined with cartoon scenes. A number of compilations of old cartoons have also been released, such as Bugs Bunny's Wild Swashbuckling Hunt , which includes some of the cartoons produced by Chuck Jones .
Video
The list of videos available in German is very confusing. On the one hand, this is due to the so-called public domain cartoons, for which the USA forgot to renew the US copyright and which has since been allowed to be published by anyone who can get hold of the templates. These cartoon classics made their way to Germany on several cheap video labels . Since the dubbing rights are not free, there are numerous inferior German-language versions. The VHS tapes from the Bambini and Europa labels (“Kunterbunte Kinderwelt”, “Bugs Bunny and his friends”) offer a relatively good synchronization . Most of the characters were set to music by Hartmut Neugebauer and Ekkehardt Belle .
Since 1984 , Warner Bros. has had various VHS series created for the home and rental video market . The best known is probably Warner Cartoons . This nine-part series was published four times up to 1996 (1989, 1990, 1993 and 1996). Each contains eight episodes of a character or character duo: Bugs Bunny , Roadrunner & Willi Coyote , Pepe the Skunk , Porky Pig , Tweety & Sylvester , Foghorn Leghorn , Speedy Gonzales , Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck . The latest version from 1996 only contained five cartoons instead of the original eight. The VHS cassettes Bugs Bunny , Tweety & Sylvester , Foghorn Leghorn , Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck contain the TV versions around Gerd Vespermann and Dieter Kursawe .
The basis of the remaining video cassettes is formed by the twelve-part series “Bugs Bunnys Video Show” from 1984. This contains a dubbed version with speakers from Hamburg specially created for the video market. Many characters were taken over by Wolfgang Draeger and Andreas von der Meden . In 1991 the Warner Bros. released a mix of the previously published material under the title "Bugs Bunny and his friends" with a total of six VHS tapes. 1993 also followed "Bugs Bunny 2" and "Daffy Duck 2", which one attached to the Warner cartoons series. The Daffy cassette contained completely "new" material that had been edited on behalf of ZDF . Among other things, the consequences of the late Piggy-Dick synchronization with Wolfgang Spier and Wilfried Herbst .
Between 1986 and 1990 MGM / UA had another thirteen video cassettes dubbed with Looney Tunes classics. This time they made sure that Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck got the votes they knew from television. Five of the thirteen tapes were dedicated to Bugs Bunny ("Bugs Bunny the Super Bunny", "Bugs Bunny Superstar", "Bugs Bunny and His Enemies", "Bugs Bunny's Funny Magical World" and "Bugs Bunny the Biggest Rascal of All Time"). It contained very early cartoons, the rights of which were held by MGM / UA. Gerd Vespermann spoke for Bugs Bunny , Dieter Kursawe for Daffy Duck (who wrote “Duffy Duck”). The MGM / UA tapes later appeared in a new edition of the European label.
In the course of the movie Space Jam , Warner reported back in 1997 with six "The Stars from Space Jam" VHS. From this point on, the Looney Tunes characters had new voices. Sven Plate was chosen for Bugs Bunny , who had already spoken Plucky Duck in the Tiny Toons . The decision to let Gerd Vespermann speak for the advertisement for the space jam magazine “Alles Karotti” that was played on the VHS tapes was equally confusing .
Apparently none of this stopped sales success, as five more videos came out that same year: "Bugs & Tweety", "Bugs & Daffy", "Bugs & Marvin", "Bugs & Roadrunner" and "Bugs & Speedy" ". The voices from Space Jam could be heard again. This fact was probably forgotten with the latest Looney Tunes DVDs.
The two video series from 1997 form the basis for the Warner Looney Tunes DVDs. Unsynchronized episodes only got their German tone from 2003. This resulted in another change of vote, initially only at Porky Pig . The most recently released Bugs-Bunny VHS were animal documentaries with inserted excerpts from Looney Tunes. Five of these (lions, monkeys, bears, sea lions and elephants) were published in 1997.
See also
- Bugs Bunny / filmography
- What's up, doc? (American winged word)
Web links
- Bugs Bunny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Text of opening credits and closing credits
- "Bugs Bunny" cartoons choice for direct download from the Internet Archive (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bugs Bunny . walkoffame.com. Retrieved April 27, 2015.