Wrong game with Roger Rabbit

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Movie
German title Wrong game with Roger Rabbit
Original title Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Zemeckis
script Jeffrey Price
Peter S. Seaman
Gary K. Wolf
production Frank Marshall
Robert Watts
music Alan Silvestri
camera Dean Cundey
cut Arthur Schmidt
occupation

Wrong game with Roger Rabbit (Original title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit auf deut .: Who has attached something to Roger Rabbit ) is a mixed film by the director Robert Zemeckis from 1988 .

action

In a fictional Los Angeles in 1947, people live with cartoon characters, the toons . Cartoons are not drawn, but recorded with the actors in a studio in the Toonstadt district . Roger Rabbit is also an actor; however, his thoughts are not entirely on the subject and therefore he makes mistakes. Studio boss RK Maroon therefore instructs the seedy private detective Eddie Valiant to shadow Roger's wife Jessica Rabbit, who is believed to be betraying him. Valiant is initially not interested, as years ago his brother and partner Teddy was killed in pursuit of a predatory toon by a piano that was thrown on his head; since then Valiant has become addicted to alcohol and developed a strong aversion to toons. But since he owes his girlfriend Dolores, he finally takes over the case.

Valiant photographs Jessica together with industrialist Marvin Acme at the baking-baking-cake game . When Roger was shown the photos, he went crazy and ran away excitedly. A day later Valiant learns that Acme was allegedly killed by Roger Rabbit: Roger is said to have thrown a safe on Acme's head and all the evidence speaks against him. Since Valiant is reminded of his brother's murder by the nature of the murder, and since Jessica Rabbit, of all people, personally protests her husband's innocence, the case finally arouses his interest. He also developed an aversion to Toonstadt's law enforcement officer, Judge Doom, and his henchman, the Wiesel. Their method of justice consists in executing toons with a soup , a mixture of acetone, turpentine and benzene invented by Doom - the only substance that can kill a toon.

In the course of his investigation, Valiant learns that Acme has written a will , according to which he will inherit Toonstadt the Toons; however, the will could not be found. If the document doesn't come up soon, a private company called Cloverleaf, which has already bought the city's tram, will also take over Toonstadt. To make matters worse, Roger hides with Valiant, making life and his investigations more difficult. But he manages to convince Eddie that he didn't kill Acme; he had vented his jealousy by writing a love letter to Jessica, but not with a murder.

Chased by Doom and his weasels, Valiant stumbles upon a clue that studio boss Maroon has a hand in the matter. From this he learns that Cloverleaf intends to destroy Toonstadt. But before Maroon can say more, he is shot from behind. Eventually, it turns out that Judge Doom is behind the whole thing. As the sole owner of Cloverleaf, Doom wants to buy Toonstadt, wipe it out with the soup and build a highway in its place - if (from his point of view) more for aesthetic reasons than for profit reasons. When Valiant gets in his way, it is revealed that Doom is a toon himself - and the killer of Acme, Maroon, and Teddy Valiant. After Valiant managed to make four weasels laugh and kicks a weasel in the soup, a fight with Doom ensues, which ends with Doom accidentally being destroyed by his own invention.

Finally, there is also the will. As a prankster, Marvin Acme had written it in ink that became invisible and reappeared after a while - and Roger had then used the apparently empty sheet for his love letter. And with himself and the toons at peace again, Eddie moves in with Dolores, Roger, Jessica and the assembled toons for a celebration in Toonstadt.

background

Roger Rabbit was released in theaters in 1988. Three years earlier, the director Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, as producers , had already started planning to film the 1981 novella “Who censored Roger Rabbit” by Gary K. Wolf .

A second director, Richard Williams , was hired for animation and Industrial Light and Magic , George Lucas' renowned special effects company , was relied on for tricks and effects . The result marks the high point of the film industry before the beginning of the computer age, which is probably still valid today, because Roger Rabbit actually manages without computer animation.

An anecdote by the main actor Bob Hoskins shows that the film still looks very real: When his young son saw the finished film, he was angry with his father because he hadn't brought any of the toons home with him from filming. He would have liked to get to know her personally.

The interesting thing about this film is that toons (derived from cartoon ) appear from several cartoon studios, such as Betty Boop (from Max Fleischer ), Donald Duck (Disney) and Daffy Duck (Warner Bros.). Warner Bros. recognized the potential of the film early on and granted unrestricted access to their cartoon characters for a fixed license fee with the only condition that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse had to be given the same amount of time during their appearances. The license holders Terrytoons, Fleischer Studios and Walter Lantz Productions, however, only allowed the use of some of their characters for a license fee per character.

The purchase of the tram and the attempted purchase of Toon City by Cloverleaf is based on the Great American Tram Scandal of the 1930s to 1960s, in which various major car companies bought and shut down tram companies to promote car sales.

The character of Marvin Acme as the owner of the ACME factory is based on the fictional company name ACME, which appears in many animated shorts from Warner Bros. and Disney, as the manufacturer of all props in animated films.

As one of the few Germans in Hollywood, Harald Siepermann drew as a character designer , he was responsible for the storyboard .

synchronization

The Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke took over the synchronization. For dialogue book and - directing was Lutz Riedel responsible.

role English speaker German speaker
Roger Rabbit Charles Fleischer Wolfgang number
Eddie Valiant Bob Hoskins Klaus Sunshine
Judge Doom Christopher Lloyd Hermann Ebeling
Dolores Joanna Cassidy Ursula Heyer
Marvin Acme Stubby Kaye Gerd Duwner
Jessica Rabbit Kathleen Turner (voice)
Amy Irving (vocals)		 Joseline Gassen
RK Maroon Alan Tilvern Arnold Marquis
Benny, the taxi Charles Fleischer Helmut Krauss
Baby herman Lou Hirsch Tobias Master
Smart Ass (Oberwiesel) David L. Lander Lutz Riedel
Psycho (weasel) Charles Fleischer
Greasy (weasel) Charles Fleischer
Wheezy (weasel) June Foray
Stupid (weasel) Fred Newmann
Lieutenant Santino Richard LeParmentier Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
Bongo the gorilla Morgan Deare Helmut Krauss
Mickey Mouse Wayne Allwine Wilfried Herbst
Donald Duck Tony Anselmo Peter Krause
Goofy Tony Pope Gerd Duwner
Ede Wolf Tony Pope Tilo Schmitz
Dumbo Frank Welker
Bugs Bunny Mel Blanc Santiago Ziesmer
Daffy Duck Mel Blanc Dieter Kursawe
Piggy Dick Mel Blanc Wolfgang Spier
Tweety Mel Blanc Santiago Ziesmer
Yosemite Sam Joe Alaskey Walter Reichelt
Witch Hazel June Foray
Betty Boop Mae Questel Renate Danz
Droopy Richard Williams Lutz Riedel
Lena Hyena June Foray Christel Merian
Woody Woodpecker Cherry Davis
Singing sword Frank Sinatra

Awards

Reviews

“A unique combination of cartoon and real action, of real film and animation, of Chinatown and Disneyland, of industry and magic. A perfect film. "

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

“The film is fascinating with its breathtakingly perfect technology and elaborate effects, some of which have never been seen before, in the combination of real and cartoon films; The wit and bite that characterized many of the classic cartoon characters cited, as well as the originality of the story, however, lag far behind. Occasionally too overdone for children. "

- Lexicon of international film

Remarks

The film caused another sensation with the advent of optical playback media such as the laser disk . This made it possible to watch every single picture in a film. Roger's wife Jessica is not wearing panties when she is thrown out of the car in a car accident and Baby Herman looks lustfully under the skirt of a woman as she leaves the set and whistles. The illustrators of the film only said that these are very common gags in such films and that something like this has been cropping up again and again for decades.

Continuation / prequel

Because the film received huge acclaim from both critics and the box office, Walt Disney Pictures and Steven Spielberg planned a sequel. Nat Mauldin wrote a prequel titled Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon , which was set to take place in 1941. Similar to its predecessor, the film was to be peppered with numerous guest appearances by famous US cartoons from 1920–1960. The action begins when Roger Rabbit was young, living on a farm in the midwestern United States. Together with the person Ritchie Davenport, Roger sets out west to look for his mother. He meets Jessica Krupnick (his future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress. Jessica is kidnapped and forced to broadcast for Nazi Germany . Roger has to fly to Nazi-occupied Europe to save them. After their win, Roger and Ritchie get a parade on Hollywood Boulevard , and Roger eventually meets his mother - and father, Bugs Bunny . The film was planned as a direct-to-video release.

Mauldin later renamed the script Who Discovered Roger Rabbit . Spielberg left the project because he no longer wanted to satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List . Michael Eisner commissioned Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver with a revision in 1997. Stoner and Oliver kept on Roger's search for his mother, but made him an involuntary star on Broadway and Hollywood. Disney was impressed, commissioned Alan Menken to produce five songs for the film and offered to do executive production. One of the tracks, This Only Happens in the Movies , was included on Broadway actress Kerry Butler's debut album in 2008. Eric Goldberg was to become the new animation director and he began redesigning Roger's appearance.

Spielberg, who was building DreamWorks at the time, had no interest in the project, although Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy remained loyal to it as producers. Screen shots for Who Discovered Roger Rabbit were made in 1998 at Disney's animation unit on Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The result was a cumbersome mix of computer animation, traditional animation, and live action that Disney didn't like. In a second test, the toons were completely computer animated, but this project was also refrained from in view of a forecast budget of more than 100 million dollars. Eisner decided to call off the film project. In March 2003, the co-producer of the original film, Don Hahn, said: “Don't expect a sequel from Roger Rabbit anytime soon . Animation is being taken over by computers these days, and traditional animation is simply no longer at the forefront. "

In December 2007, Marshall admitted that he was still “open” to the idea, and in April 2009 Zemeckis revealed that he, too, was still interested. It has been reported that the original authors, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, are currently working on a new script for the project. Furthermore, the toons are to be animated in a traditional cartoon style, while the rest is recorded using performance capture technology. In June 2010, in an interview with Empire magazine, Hahn confirmed the development of a sequel: “Yes, I can't possibly comment. I totally deny that, but yeah ... If you're a fan, you'll soon be very, very, very happy. ”In 2010, Bob Hoskins announced that he was interested in the project and that he would like to take up his role as Eddie Valiant again. However, he retired from acting in 2012 after having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a year earlier ; he passed away in 2014. Marshall has since confirmed that it will be a prequel, similar to the earlier drafts, and that the script is almost ready. During an interview at the premiere of the film "Flight," Zemeckis said it had been sent to Disney and was awaiting approval from studio bosses.

media

DVD
  • Wrong game with Roger Rabbit . Special edition. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2003
Blu-ray
  • Wrong game with Roger Rabbit . Anniversary Edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2013
  • Wrong game with Roger Rabbit . Anniversary Edition (Steelbook). Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2014
Soundtrack

literature

  • Gary K. Wolf: Who censored Roger Rabbit ?. St Martin's Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-312-87001-9 .
  • Anonymous: Wrong game with Roger Rabbit. (OT: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ). Ehapa film tape 13. Ehapa, Stuttgart 1988.
  • Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. 2nd edition, 177 p. Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Siepermann IMDb. Retrieved April 18, 2012
  2. ↑ Harald Siepermann about me . Retrieved April 18, 2012
  3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Wrong game with Roger Rabbit. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Wrong game with Roger Rabbit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ a b Chris Gore, The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, St. Martin's Press, New York, July 1999, chapter "Roger Rabbit Two: The Toon Platoon"
  6. ↑ Michael Fleming, Variety ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rabbit redux revving up, June 23, 1997, accessed January 16, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  7. ↑ Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly , Steven Spielberg and George Lucas: The Titans Talk !, April 16, 2008, accessed April 17, 2008
  8. ↑ a b c d Martin “Dr. Toon “Goodman, Who Screwed Roger Rabbit? ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Animation World Magazine, April 3, 2003, accessed November 3, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mag.awn.com
  9. ↑ Kerry Butler's 'Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust' Set for May Release , Broadway World, February 28, 2008, accessed April 4, 2008
  10. ↑ Don't expect a Rabbit sequel , USA Today, March 26, 2003, accessed November 4, 2008
  11. ↑ Roger Rabbit Sequel Still In The Offing? Stay Tooned, Says Producer , MTV Movies Blog, November 11, 2007, accessed November 4, 2008
  12. ↑ Eric Ditzian, Robert Zemeckis 'Buzzing' About Second 'Roger Rabbit' Movie , MTV Movies Blog, April 29, 2009, accessed April 29, 2009
  13. ↑ MTV Movies Blog
  14. ^ Empire of June 22, 2010.
  15. ↑ HeyUGuys, Twitter, September 2010
  16. ↑ Bob Hoskins retires from acting .
  17. ↑ Frank Marshall Talks WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT 2 Sequel, THE BOURNE LEGACY, THE GOONIES 2, More, Collider from October 18, 2012.
  18. ^ Despite Bob Hoskins' Retirement, the 'Roger Rabbit' Sequel is Still Possible, slash film from October 16, 2012.