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Captain Monkey posted:This was just a test run to try and get the park signed off on and they didn't want them to waste a bunch of time with the threat of something bad happening. 
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Watching Wreck-it Ralph: "King Candy sounds a hell of a lot like the Mad Hatter... but that was in the 50's, right? That guy must be on his last legs..." Turns out Alan Tudyk (the voice of King Candy) just has his Ed Wynn (the voice of the Mad Hatter) impression down pat. Wow. It's clear that they modeled the one after the other, but the voice really makes it. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/giving-voice-to-an-oldtimer-20130426-2ijn4.html
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I feel like there's some Charles Nelson Riley in there as well.
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A nice subtle joke in Young Frankenstein is the city council having a meeting to decide if Victor his making a new monster. One of the elders, unhappy with the accusations, try to remind everyone of the seriousness of the charges by saying that he and the other elders still have nightmares from 5 times before. Which makes it a pretty foregone conclusion that Victor will indeed make another monster.
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At the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the cartoon director Raoul gets mad at Roger for not being able to make stars orbit his head when a fridge drops on it. Toward the end, Roger gets a literal ton of bricks dropped on him which causes stars to appear. Roger, in a daze, says "ready when you are, Raoul." *Also, when Judge Doom is melting, I swear he starts yelling "what a world" grittyreboot has a new favorite as of 11:08 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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grittyreboot posted:*Also, when Judge Doom is melting, I swear he starts yelling "what a world"  Am i missing a joke? Of course he does.
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HenryEx posted:
its p subtle though, like the fact that Bob Hoskins isn't drawn, he's a real guy in real life.
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HenryEx posted:
As does every other melting cartoon character ever since the Wicked Witch first said it in The Wizard of Oz.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:its p subtle though, like the fact that Bob Hoskins isn't drawn, he's a real guy in real life. That actor in all those almost photo-realistic backgrounds really does create quite an effect.
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One time I saw him walking down the streat
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grittyreboot posted:At the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the cartoon director Raoul gets mad at Roger for not being able to make stars orbit his head when a fridge drops on it. You guys might not have noticed this because it's so subtle, but all the cartoons in the movie aren't real people. They're animated.
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Spaceballs is full of heaps of subtle little gags (the Millennium Falcon parked in the background of the Space Diner scene, President Skroob reading a Nixon expose, etc etc) but here's one which I'm not sure we were supposed to notice. In the scene where Yogurt shows off a bunch of Spaceballs merchandise: ... the Spaceballs coloring book and lunch box are just Transformers stuff with a Spaceballs label slapped on and most of the 'Spaceballs' toys in the background and the action figures off to the side are rebranded Starriors. Yogurt's Dinks were obviously cutting a few corners when it came to merch production.  (I'm pretty sure the Dink dolls are just Cabbage Patch Kids in robes) Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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I think my favourite thing from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the routine at the end of the movie, during the climax, where Eddie revives his old Ringaling Brothers routine to make the Weasels laugh themselves to death. At one point there was a thing that I only heard as Jessica piling on the stress, where she yells "We're running out of time!". However, follow the rhythm of the moment: To the tune of Merry-go-round Broke Down: quote:Eddie: She is finishing his verse, not just panicking. I also like that you only see Jessica's other eye when she really freaks out: "Oh my god, it's DIP!" Finally, I like that the toons and the humans are both Jealous of Roger+Jessica but for different reasons. The Human's are thinking "How'd that doofy rabbit end up with a girl like her?" The Toons are thinking: Yeesh, Her? How'd she land a great toon like Roger?" Summarised wonderfully by the exchange near the start of the movie: Eddie: What do you see in him anyway? J: "He makes me laugh"
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Re: Roger Rabbit Subtle moment - That its about a real conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy and that its about developing highways which as a kid I thought basically always existed so I didn't get it. I also like what this talk has to say about the conspiracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrdVkbrLUIM You rewatch that movie as an adult and a big piece reveals itself. A lot of people I talk to about it don't notice it.
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Decrepus posted:When the power goes out at my house I leave the freezer open too because really, what is the point?
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KoRMaK posted:Re: Roger Rabbit A lot of the story elements for Who Framed Rodger Rabbit were lifted from an unmade third film to the Chinatown trilogy, called Cloverleaf. So it's not too surprising that there are similarities to real-life political/corporate corruption.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is what True Detective Season 2 tried and failed to be.
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Android Bicyclist posted:Who Framed Roger Rabbit is what True Detective Season 2 tried and failed to be. Holy poo poo, I think I thought of this before but forgot, so thank you for bringing it up again.
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Android Bicyclist posted:Who Framed Roger Rabbit is what True Detective Season 2 tried and failed to be. well I certainly noticed something tonight that I haven't noticed in dozens of viewings since 1988, briefly visible in the right side of the frame  
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:well I certainly noticed something tonight that I haven't noticed in dozens of viewings since 1988, briefly visible in the right side of the frame "Visit La Brea Tar Pits" It's a tar baby Holy poo poo
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Is that an actual tar baby? 
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...and it's on screen for a short amount of time, but longer than you would expect a loving tar baby to be visible.
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It's the tar baby from Disney's Song of the South:
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Blast Fantasto posted:It's the tar baby from Disney's Song of the South: Well yeah, but the thing is why would they put it into the movie at all.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Well yeah, but the thing is why would they put it into the movie at all. The la brea tar pits tourism committee is run by a bunch of fossils!
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Tar baby/ tar man is a character from west African religious traditions, Brer rabbit stories are pretty much the Anansi stories
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Super Waffle posted:Tar baby/ tar man is a character from west African religious traditions, Brer rabbit stories are pretty much the Anansi stories Song of the South was a super racist movie that Disney tried to pretend doesn't exist for years. Some animator slipping it into the movie is the animation equivalent of a live action movie referencing Birth Of a Nation. Song of the South was also the first Disney movie to use live actors and animation making it a direct precursor to Roger Rabbit. Lot of layers to dropping that character in there. Smiling Jack has a new favorite as of 18:18 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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Smiling Jack posted:Song of the South was a super racist movie that Disney tried to pretend doesn't exist for years. Some animator slipping it into the movie is the animation equivalent of a live action movie referencing Birth Of a Nation. I mean, I won't dispute that Song of the South was a super racist movie, but in my mind, the main "layer" to including that character was just "this is a reference to the filmmaking history that led to this movie". It was a split-second cameo of a character, not a direct endorsement of the ideals behind the movie.
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Patattack posted:I mean, I won't dispute that Song of the South was a super racist movie, but in my mind, the main "layer" to including that character was just "this is a reference to the filmmaking history that led to this movie". It was a split-second cameo of a character, not a direct endorsement of the ideals behind the movie. There was already a few other characters from 'Song of the South' in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit': the three hummingbirds that fly around Eddie Valiant's car and distract him so he crashes, some singing moles and Brer Bear. They already referenced that film a bunch without having to add the tar baby. Smiling Jack posted:Song of the South was a super racist movie that Disney tried to pretend doesn't exist for years. Some of the characters have been creeping back in. Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear have been featured in the Splash Mountain ride for decades (they kept the tar baby scene but replaced the tar baby with a sticky beehive), they had several cameo appearances in the early 2000s Disney TV series 'House of Mouse' and a few years ago they appeared in Kinect Disneyland Adventures .
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Is the tar baby itself problematic, though? I was under the impression that 99% of the racism in the film is Uncle Remus and his "shucks I sure do love being a slave, and my massa is the nicest" attitude. The brer stories always seemed pretty basic Bugs Bunny stuff to me (at least in memory, I haven't watched them in years). Yeah, the tar baby is black, but that's just because it's made of tar. It's not like it runs around eating watermelon and asking where the white women at.
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(White) People started using 'tar baby' as an insult, and so Disney errs on the side of caution.
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the violinist in James and the giant peach describes himself as a moon cricket
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Patattack posted:I mean, I won't dispute that Song of the South was a super racist movie, but in my mind, the main "layer" to including that character was just "this is a reference to the filmmaking history that led to this movie". It was a split-second cameo of a character, not a direct endorsement of the ideals behind the movie. I agree.
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scary ghost dog posted:the violinist in James and the giant peach describes himself as a moon cricket e: saved, just searched this http://www.abss.k12.nc.us/cms/lib02/NC01001905/Centricity/Domain/3797/James%20and%20the%20giant%20peach%20electronic.pdf and it was a grasshopper and there is no mooncricket, phew Seaside Loafer has a new favorite as of 22:56 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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I've written a letter to Disney about this asking, nay demanding they pull this movie from theaters immediately.
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Seaside Loafer posted:well. it was the moon and he was a cricket. hmmmm, i wonder. gently caress, childhood destroyed foiled again
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What are mooncrickets and tar babies?
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EmmyOk posted:What are mooncrickets and tar babies? http://www.rsdb.org/races (search is broken apparently, just use ctrl-f or cmd-f)
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oldpainless posted:I've written a letter to Disney about this asking, nay demanding they pull this movie from theaters immediately. Well, congratulations as it appears your write in campaign was a success.
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CzarChasm posted:Well, congratulations as it appears your write in campaign was a success. You are welcome, black people everywhere!
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