Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is a Warner Bros.- owned cartoon character who became famous for her appearances on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series .
He first appeared in Tex Avery's cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937 and, thanks to the influences of various producers , directors and cartoonists, developed into one of the most popular characters in the Warner Bros. Especially as a counterpart to Bugs Bunny , he soon won the audience's sympathy. Its lisping, wet pronunciation is characteristic . In Germany, Gerald Schaale speaks Daffy Duck.
character
The black duck was the first cartoon character from the genre of "Knallkopp" characters, that is, the kind of aggressive characters whose actions and thoughts are completely decoupled from the conventions of traditional logic and instead are consistently nonsensical and alogical in concept. Cartoon characters from earlier years, especially those from Walt Disney , initially followed the same logical principles in their actions as are commonly practiced in reality, and only later suffered caricaturically exaggerated mishaps.
Daffy's personality has been subject to many different characterizations; For example, he was portrayed by various artists as an insane, crazy-giggling whistle or greedy, complaining and glorious rascal.
history
1930s and 1940s
Daffy drew considerable attention when he first appeared in 1937 in a commercial slugfest story about the hunter and the hunted (with Piggy Dick as Daffy's opponent). He was portrayed as a more assertive, unconcerning troublemaker who threw all restraint overboard, a type of figure who represented something completely new at the time.
In its external appearance it was short and stocky at this point, with a squat waddle and a thick beak. The only remaining elements in his habitus, which were already established at this point, were his black plumage and his characteristic lisp voice. He lent them to him in the USA by the actor Mel Blanc , who ironically based them on the speech impediment of the producer Leon Schlesinger .
In the 1930s and 1940s, animator Bob Clampett used Daffy in numerous Warner Brothers cartoons. Clampett's interpretation of the character is a wild eccentric who is constantly dashing through the picture and shouting “Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! ”. Outwardly, Clampett Daffy slimmed down by drawing him as a tall and slender, almost lanky drake, rounding his beak and feet.
In the early 1940s, director Robert McKimson tamed the character a little. Daffy's former rival, Piggy Dick, was partnered with him. During the Second World War, Daffy appeared in numerous propaganda films.
1950s
After Bugs Bunny had eclipsed Daffy as the most popular cartoon character of the Warner Brothers, he began to be increasingly used as an antagonist of the rabbit, whom he jealously and vying for attention competed in the limelight. It was also used in numerous cartoons that parodied popular films and radio serials (e.g. Robin Hood Daffy from 1958). In 1953 he met the villain character of Marvin the Martian for the first time in the cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24th ½ Century . At that time the cartoonist Chuck Jones redesigned his character again by making him gaunt and grumpy. In Jones' famous Hunter's Trilogy ( Rabbit Fire , Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! ), Bugs gets the inexperienced hunter Elmer Fudd to shoot Daffy in a variety of ways (which of course returns to its old position in a matter of seconds). Here Daffy is no longer selfish, but simply tries to "somehow get through" himself. But since he cannot do anything he tackles right, but rather all of his endeavors backfire, he has to get over the loss of his tail feathers and the loss of his dignity.
Indeed, the new, self-centered Daffy was just emerging as such in the Jones cartoons. Many critics consider Jones' cartoon Duck Amuck (1953), which cleverly mixes a story as such with genre-reflective artifacts and thus transcends the medium in itself, as the most successful Daffy Duck cartoon, if not the best cartoon of all. In this episode, Daffy is harassed by a godlike cartoon animator, whose vicious brush changes the cartoon world in which Daffy is embedded, disrespectfully, arbitrarily, and carelessly: The scenery, the musical background, the synchronization and even Daffy's external shape are constantly changing. When Daffy finally asks the culprit to reveal himself, it turns out that the nefarious animator is none other than Bugs Bunny. Duck Amuck impressively demonstrates that a character's personality can be recognized regardless of their demeanor, their surroundings, their voice and the plot of their story.
1960s
In the 1960s, Daffy was used by Warner Bros. as a villain character in various Speedy Gonzales cartoons.
1980s to the present
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In the 1980s, 1990s and the early years of the new millennium, Daffy appeared in small roles in cartoons or in mixed films in which cartoon characters interact with real actors. In Wrong Play with Roger Rabbit (1988), for example, he dueled Donald Duck as a pianist, in which the two tried to outdo each other in a nightclub with their piano playing skills. From 1991 to 1995 Daffy appeared in the television series Tiny Toon Adventure as a mentor to little Plucky Duck and as a teacher at the ACME Looniversity. Later he even had leading roles in the real-life mixed films Space Jam (1996) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). Between 2003 and 2005 he was a permanent figure in the cartoon series Duck Dodgers , which was received largely benevolently by the critics. Since 2011 he has played a decisive role in the US series The Looney Tunes Show with most of the old characters who were already seen in the Looney Tunes short films.
Discography
- 1991: Party Zone (feat. The Groove Gang)
- 1992: Dynamite
swell
- ↑ Gerald Schaale speaker | Contact | Booking | Speech samples. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany / UK charts
See also
Web links
- Portrait of Daffy Duck on the Warner Bros. website
- Cartoons featuring Daffy Duck on the Warner Bros. website
- Daffy Duck at Discogs (English)