I feel like there are probably too many people just scrolling past this so let’s go through everything that’s going on here.
1. With Roger’s voice actor standing off camera, Bob Hoskins acts into empty air and frantically sawing at his handcuff, continually looking up and down at different visual marks of various depths. Look at the slow pan up of his eyes in gif 4, and then the quick shift to his side. Think about how, on set, he was looking at nothing.
2. Starting in gif 2, The box must be made to stop shaking, either by concealed crew member, mechanism, or Hoskins own dextrousness, as he is doing all of the things mentioned in point 1.
3. In all gifs, Roger’s handcuff has to be made to move appropriately through a hidden mechanism. (If you watch the 4th gif closely you can see the split second where it is replaced by an animated facsimile of the actual handcuff, but just for barely a second.)
4. The crew voluntarily (we know this because it is now a common internal phrase at Disney for putting in extra work for small but significant reward) decided to make Roger bump the lamp and give the entire scene a constantly moving light source that had to be matched between the on set footage and Roger. This was for two reasons, A) Robert Zemeckis thought it would be funnier, and B) one of the key techniques the crew employed to make the audience instinctually accept that Toons coexisted with the live action environment was constant interaction with it. This is why, other than comedy, Roger is so dang clumsy. Instead of isolating Toons from real objects to make it easier for themselves, the production went out of its way to make Toons interact more with the live action set than even real actors necessarily would, in order to subtly, constantly remind the audience that they have real palpable presence. You can watch the whole scene here, just to see how few shots there are of Roger where he doesn’t interact with a real object.
The crew and animators did all of this with hand drawn cell animation without computerized special effects. 1988, we were still five years out from Jurassic Park, the first movie to make the leap from fully physical creature effects to seamlessly integrating realistic computer generated images with live action footage. Roger’s shadows weren’t done with CGI. Hoskin’s sightlines were not digitally altered. Wires controlling the handcuff were not removed in post.
Who fucking Framed Roger fucking Rabbit, folks. The greatest trick is when people don’t realize you’re tricking them at all.
Let’s also not forget that writing. “Only when it was funny” isn’t just hilarious, it’s great comedy theory. It lampshades the joke, but also serves to remind the viewer that Toons have a separate set of physical laws they adhere to, mostly revolving around comedic value. Roger cannot remove his hand from the cuffs… until it’d get a laugh from an audience.
Everything about this movie, EVERYTHING about it, is so finely crafted. I could wax lyrical about it for days.
Fell over this odd thing at the locale GameStop while buying my usual blind box stuff for my collections. What is this? Nothing on the box truly explains anything. A warning on the backside mentions it contains wheat.
Quite heavy though. No rattling. I am intrigued.
So I buy one and bring it home. Let’s have a look!
Okay, got the usual paperstuff and such, another box underneath.
Not… what I expected. What even is this? The mentioned wheat warning?
Oh dear lord, the SMELL!
What even is this?! This… some sort of… play dough? There’s NOTHING on the box nor any of the paper inside telling ANYTHING about what this is! Except ONE mention about keeping the… “Shaping compound” in a sealed container to avoid it dries out.
It’s is moist to the touch, unpleasant, and oh heavens above the smell. I rather not touch it.
What is this and whyyyy?! NOTHING anywhere explains anything. The imagery and even the shape of the box is about milk, so what is this and whyyyy?!
I don’t even.
At least the cat was wrapped in plastic to avoid touching the “shaping compound”, so I only have to wash the mouse and the tiny skateboard to get rid of that gunk.
Honestly not sure what I was expecting, but I’m highly disappointed.
Why the little nook on the mouse? There’s nowhere on the board nor cat where to stick that nook in, not even to pretend the cat is holding it.
According to the paper his name is Scoops and he’s… Cathletic.
It provides no further explanation. No franchise, not even a game or stats or any reason for why I would want this thing. It’s just for collecting. Still no explanation or excuse for the freaking “shaping compound”
Never again…
[Update] Yes yes, you people don’t have to keep inform me that gunk is supposed to be some kind of nasty off-brand play dough.
Another site seems to cite that it’s to shape things for the Lost Kitties. Still just calling it “shaping compound”.
It’s just too nasty to touch and smells too badly for me to imagine anyone wants anything to do with it.[/update]
a gang of dangerous criminals infiltrate an ikea and make it their official headquarters. the police allows this. they’ve been too busy arguing over the beds to actually do any crimes. carl’s still lost in the kitchen department
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