Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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At the age of 9, life could not be any better. I had a Nintendo, WWF wrestling, and had just watched Back To The Future a couple years earlier. My days were spend eating Teddy Grahams and drinking Snapple and the weekends were reserved for my fill of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse. I was happy, I was content. Little did I know that true joy, true happiness, was right around the corner. June of 1988 the groundbreaking film Who Framed Roger Rabbit changed the game forever. Ever juvenile emotion I had was set on fire. Jessica Rabbit turned me from a boy into a man overnight. What was got replaced by what could be as Disney and Warner Bros collided and my universe expanded. This was my Multiverse Of Madness. Today on Buzzn The Tower, we're going to bask in the glory that is Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Dip to my animated dreams, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	And I first kind of thought this was petty.
0:09.1	The more I thought about it, it's actually really brilliant, right?
0:11.5	The value of the brand of Bugs Bunny, the value of the brand of Mickey Mouse.
0:15.7	So Warner Brothers said, yeah, you can use Bugs Bunny and you can use Daffy.
0:19.0	They have to be on screen for equal time.
0:22.0	It works really well.
0:23.0	It works really well.
0:24.0	And at first I'm like, oh, it's so petty, but then I'm like, no, no, no, I get it because
0:27.0	how long that person's in that cameo is a dictation of the value of it.
0:31.1	And like you could totally diminish the brand and it led to the funniest scene in the movie.
0:35.4	The piano war between Daffy and Donald Duck is a direct product of them needing to find
0:40.5	a way to get equal screen time with these kids.
0:42.7	Oh, that's interesting.
0:43.7	Which I think that is unquestionably the best scene of the movie.
0:45.9	The Devil Horace?
0:46.9	I don't know.
0:47.9	I like when Roger slamming the plates on his head.
0:51.1	He's like, no pain, no pain.
0:53.1	Dave and her cut two bits.
1:05.1	Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s.
1:09.6	Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film
1:13.3	ever.
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