Mr. Meets Hare

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Movie
Original title Mr. Meets Hare
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Friz Freleng
script Michael Maltese
production Edward Selzer
for Warner Bros.
music Carl W. Stalling

Herr Meets Hare is a parodic cartoon from the Merrie Melodies series from 1945. The film, which tells of an encounter between the famous American cartoon rabbit Bugs Bunny and Nazi leader Hermann Göring , is considered one of the most famous propaganda films Cartoon productions of the Second World War .

action

The film begins with Hitler's "Reichsmarschall" Hermann Göring going on a hunting trip to the Black Forest in search of diversion from the (from a Nazi point of view) oppressive war situation. There he meets Bugs Bunny, who accidentally ended up in Germany while trying to get to Las Vegas using a self-dug underground tunnel, where his tunnel hits the surface of the earth.

Goering then takes on the part of the rabbit's eager adversary, which is typical for the Bugs Bunny cartoons, who zealously pursues and tries to catch him. Equipped with a musket and supported by a hunting dog, Goering initially suffers several setbacks, which for him culminate in all sorts of scenes before he can catch Bugs Bunny and bring him to Hitler. When he opens the sack - in which he has put his prisoner - in front of Hitler, Bugs Bunny rises from it - with a mustache and pipe stuck on - disguised as Josef Stalin, whereupon Göring and Hitler run away while Bugs Bunny says goodbye to the audience .

production

Mr. Meets Hare was made by the animation division of Warner Brothers Studios under the direction of Friz Freleng in 1944 and was released in American theaters on January 13, 1945.

The plot of the seven-minute film goes back to a script by Michael Maltese , the music of the cartoon was written by Carl W. Stalling while the vocal artist Mel Blanc contributed and interpreted the voices of the characters.

analysis

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The leitmotif of Mr. Meets Hare is, as in most other American war-time cartoons, the attempt to systematically expose the National Socialist regime, its functionaries, its views and its customs to ridicule.

At the beginning of the film, Göring is introduced as "fatso Hermann Goering". “German militarism” is mocked by Göring marching on as a hunter for leisure and wearing clothes decorated over and over with medals. Other German clichés that are processed are the lederhosen that Göring wears, the typical German way of speaking English (pronunciation, word sequence patterns, etc.) that Göring speaks, as well as the "Germanic cultural sanctuaries" upheld by the Nazis, about which the makers of the Cartoons make fun of Bugs Bunny Göring in an anarchic musical interlude to the pathetic sounds of Wagner's music in a disguise as Brünhilde from the Nibelungenlied (or Wagner's “ The Ring of the Nibelung ”). Göring then disguises himself as Siegfried and begins a dance of love with the rabbit to waltz music by Johann Strauss.

Reception and aftermath

Mr. Meets Hare was one of the last propaganda animated films that came on the market before the collapse of National Socialist Germany.

Since its original release in the cinema, it has been largely kept under lock and key by the Time Warner Company (or AOL) for corporate policy reasons. In 2007, for example, AOL prohibited the television station Cartoon Network from broadcasting Mr. Meets Hare on the grounds that it was objectionable because it would shift the Third Reich into the realm of humor and thus divert attention from the atrocities of the regime.

The cartoon is still available in the Bugs & Duffy video collection . The Wartime Cartoons .

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