10 Amazing Facts About Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[Music] Who Framed Roger Rabbit that was the question on everyone's minds back in 1988 directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a milestone achievement in film technology and how it interacts live-action footage with animation creating a crazy world of the 1940s where both people and cartoon characters coexist Who Framed Roger Rabbit tells the story of famous cartoon star Roger Rabbit who gets framed for murder to help clear his name he teams up with Eddie valiant played by Bob Hoskins who is a disgruntled detective who has a short temper and no tolerance for toons as his brother was murdered by one the murder setup turns out to be a scheme by the evil judge doom played menacingly by Christopher Lloyd who has an evil scheme to demolish toontown along with the public transit so he can build a freeway despite the fact that this evil judge also doesn't like toons and has a lot for killing them in his toxic dip in a twist it turns out that doom himself is a toon Eddie must put aside his prejudices against toons and work together alongside Roger in order to stop judge doom and save the day so today in celebration of this magical movie we are going to explore 10 amazing facts about Who Framed Roger Rabbit to peel back the layers to see if there is any information out there that we might not have previously known so buckle up as we explore this well loved movie let's check it out number 10 Bob Hoskins mental health in Who Framed Roger Rabbit Bob Hoskins plays main human protagonist Eddie valiant a disgruntled private detective who doesn't like Tunes very much and Bob Hoskins was proud to star in the movie as was the first movie he started that his children were allowed to go and see as beforehand he mainly starred in more grittier movies often playing tough British gangsters however performing and Who Framed Roger Rabbit came at a cost his sanity as due to the fact that a great deal of his co-stars were cartoons who were added in after filming Hoskins had to get used to the habit of visualizing and pretending to see his animated co-stars and after doing this for eight months he started to suffer hallucinations and were seeing cartoon characters all over the place he spoke of white incidents where he was speaking to a woman at an event and saw one of the weasels in her hat so Bob Hoskins had to make believe that he was surrounded by cartoons so much so that it affected his brain and he couldn't stop seeing them everywhere that's pretty damn freaky when you think about it also Hoskins claims that the design of Jessica Rabbit wasn't made until after the filming wrapped so he just had to imagine what she would have looked like but he said he didn't picture as being as risque as she was in the film [Music] going by the test footage she was going to look a lot more scarier and blue number 9 the man behind the rabbit lacks on on the men the character of Roger Rabbit was played by Charles Fleischer and he was so dedicated to his animated role that he even turned up on set in every take which featured his character and even delivered lines off screen for his fellow actors to work off and if that wasn't dedication enough he would even turn up on set in a Roger Rabbit costume I guess he was just a committed actor who really wanted to fill the role I'm just glad that the guy who boys baby Herman wasn't walking around the set in a nappy Fleisch as most other notable roles include starring as a dream doctor in a Nightmare on Elm Street and appearing in heavy makeup in Back to the Future Part 2 as the guy who wanted money for the clock tower and these days he's most well known for his stand-up comedy [Music] number 8 based on a book [Music] Who Framed Roger Rabbit is actually based on the book whose cents at Roger Rabbit published in 1981 and written by Gary K wolf the book is so drastically different from the movie it's insane for a start the book is a lot more dark and grim than the movie and also in the book there is no judge doom he was a character purely created for the movie instead in the book the main villain is a genie yeah that's right a genie in the book Roger is short and covered in brown fur and also in the book every time a toon talks in who's censored Roger Rabbit speech bubbles come from out of their mouths displaying the words of what they are saying and what's even more surreal is in the book toons can create their own double gangers out of their own mental energy to be used as their stunt doubles in cartoons to provide stunts that are too dangerous the double gang is eventually disintegrate in time and the double gangers are needed as in the book tunes can die just as easily as humans unlike the film where it's just dip that kills them the biggest shot in regards to whose sense and Roger Rabbit is that Roger dies early in the book from getting shot and Eddie valiant teams up with Rogers double ganger leaving them 48 hours to solve the murder before Rogers double ganger disintegrates in an adventure that leads them to finding an ancient magic tea kettle which turns out to be a genies lamp and houses a homicidal genie there were two more subsequent books including who / / / pluged Roger Rabbit and who whacked Roger Rabbit number 7 deleted scenes and characters this witchcraft that crazy witch as with most films I talk about there was indeed a fair share of deleted scenes associated with Who Framed Roger Rabbit most noticeably the famous Pig had seen where doom catches valiant snooping around the ink and paint Club only to leave him stranded in toontown with a cartoon pig's head leaving valiant to believe that he has been turned into a tuna I get why this was deleted it kind of slows down the pace and it makes valiant look kind of like a buffoon and thinking that he has somehow been converted into a cartoon however the scene turned up in many TV broadcasts of the movie which was a weird practice which used to happen in the 80s and 90s I can remember watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit on TV for the first time and getting confused as to where this scene came from and why it wasn't in the home video version then there are characters who are going to be in the movie but just never made the cut for example Popeye was going to be in the movie as seen here in some storyboards of him hanging out with goofy and judge doom was going to have a bigger gang of toon villains including a toon vulture which sat on his shoulder which incidentally still had a figurine made of it and a fearsome courthouse jury of toon kangaroos a law and order system led by kangaroos in other words the current justice system in Australia number 6 Warner Brothers wanted their cut Who Framed Roger Rabbit was quite revolutionary back in the day a featuring both Warner Brothers Looney tune characters and famous Disney characters however Warner's were worried that their characters were going to be background characters to the Disney ones mainly down to the fact that the movie was being released by Disney so to keep Warner's happy Looney Tunes characters were promised to have as much screen time as the Disney characters which is why we would often see major Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons show up at the same time for example the scene where Donald Duck and Daffy Duck are playing their pianos and the scene where we see both Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny skydiving yeah about that scene many people claim that Bugs Bunny subtly gives Mickey the finger hmm I don't know maybe number 5 Roger Rabbit was going to die in an early draft I already mentioned that the book the movie is based on his pretty dark and grim and revolves around the death of its main character Roger Rabbit however Roger nearly met his maker in the movie adaptation too because for whatever reason writers really seemed to have it out for this poor rabbit as an early draft of the script would see Roger die to which the sting song the Lazarus heart would be played over his death scene okay that's pretty random you see here's the thing in the movie Roger turns out to be such a lovable character just imagine how traumatized those kids who saw the film would have been and knowing that this cartoon character they fell in love with had died wow talk about putting the little ones in therapy also in an early draft of the movie there was going to be a big shock twist which would have revealed Jessica Rabbit and baby Herman to be the villains of the movie once again weird number for casting possibilities [Music] it was during the casting process of the movie that legendary British screen actor Tim Curry auditioned for the role of judge doom but his performance was considered too frightening by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg Wow just imagine how awesome curry would have been in the role Christopher Lloyd's betrayal was already pretty freaky so I can only imagine just how terrifying Cory's rendition of the character was hey don't worry about not getting the role Tim Curry you still got a scary child eating clown role coming your way a few years later down the track after Who Framed Roger Rabbit also both Spielberg and Zemeckis is number one choice for Eddie valiant was Bill Murray but he wasn't hired simply because Zemeckis and Spielberg couldn't track him down Robert Zemeckis said in a newspaper interview that they wanted Murray but just couldn't get in contact with him and when Murray read the interview he started yelling and screaming despite the fact that he was in a public place as he would have loved to have starred in the movie oh well I guess he was too busy taking on Viggo at the time so if only Bill Murray didn't leave his phone off the hook then he might have starred in Who Framed Roger Rabbit then again Bob Hoskins was perfect in the role and nothing can replace good old bomber number three who bought the Roger Rabbit merch [Music] as you would imagine there was a variety of merchandise associated with Who Framed Roger Rabbit first of all there were these flexible figurines you know those ones that you can bend but I remember these types of figurines weren't really popular with the kids at the time because the bendiness doesn't last too long and the bendy figures always looked kind of weird there was a lineup of standard Roger Rabbit solid action figurines and I can remember getting Roger Rabbit one Christmas and I was so excited I got him out of his packaging and pulled his arm down which was sitting up in the packaging and just like that the arm broke off and I was heartbroken Goodwyn LJN no wonder the Angry Video Game Nerd hates you so much speaking of which then there was a Nintendo game where you play as Eddie valiant and you're walking around trying to solve puzzles and clues while avoiding the weasels the gameplay was long boring and tedious with near dysfunctional driving levels then there was the Gameboy game which surprisingly was actually a lot better than the Nintendo version this time you play as Roger and your main objective is to save Jessica Rabbit after she gets kidnapped by judge doom and Roger must go to dooms mansion and kill him and that is literally the main objective hell yeah go Roger you kill that bad guy then there was the board game dip flip I don't know anything about this so yeah you flip yeah remember in the early nineties when all the kids were playing dip flip yeah that's right I don't even [Music] number two the story is somewhat based on fact [Applause] in Who Framed Roger Rabbit judge dooms evil plan is to dismantle the red car trolley in order to build a freeway this somewhat represents a practice that took place in the early 40s where corporations tried to dismantle the public transit in order to force people into buying Motor Vehicles it is also further claimed that the story of corporate corruption involving the removal of the public transit was the script for the abandoned sequel to the movie Chinatown which was going to be called cloverleaf as in cloverleaf the company's scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the writers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit Jeffrey Pryce and Peter S seaman are both self-proclaimed fans of the movie Chinatown and thus were working off the script of the abandoned sequel so let me get this right when we watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit what we are really watching is the sequel to Chinatown do you hear that do that listen yeah that's right that is the sound of my mind being blown number one the first screening audience hated it [Music] at the time Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the most expensive thus far in the 1980s with a whopping budget of 70 million so it must have come as a hard blow when the first batch of test audiences did not like the movie in fact they hated it well this is because the first screening consisted of 18 to 19 year olds and clearly the wrong demographic for the film I mean come on these guys were in their late teens no wonder they didn't like the film eighteen to nineteen year olds don't want to watch movies about Mickey Mouse Bugs Bunny and Dumbo they want to see Jason Voorhees running around killing people the thing is Who Framed Roger Rabbit went on to become such a treasured classic so it's really kind of hard to imagine that his first public response was a negative one nevertheless the film went on to make three hundred and twenty eight point eight million dollars that's a lot of dosh so the tension after the first screening no doubt would have been short-lived so that was my exploration into a Roger Rabbit I hope you enjoyed it and remember you should never judge an entire species of tunes you can't judge all of them based on the actions of one of them otherwise unfair discrimination and prejudices are formed anyway I'm in T and I know imma turn [Music] [Music]

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Published: Thu Mar 22 2018