{"id":147861,"date":"2015-06-29T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/29\/benpaddon-wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:35:37","slug":"benpaddon-wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/29\/benpaddon-wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-147861 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/29\/benpaddon-wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel\/attachment\/147862\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_miuledAA1X1qb05aco1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_miuledAA1X1qb05aco4_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_miuledAA1X1qb05aco4_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/benpaddon.tumblr.com\/post\/113274569424\/wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel-like-there\" target=\"_blank\">benpaddon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wellheyproductions.tumblr.com\/post\/109976565955\/nerdgerhl-i-feel-like-there-are-probably-too-many\" target=\"_blank\">wellheyproductions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nerdgerhl.tumblr.com\/post\/84740112226\/i-feel-like-there-are-probably-too-many-people\" target=\"_blank\">nerdgerhl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I feel like there are probably too many people just scrolling past this so let\u2019s go through everything that\u2019s going on here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. With Roger\u2019s\u00a0voice actor standing off camera,\u00a0Bob 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. In all gifs, Roger\u2019s 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\u00a0facsimile\u00a0of the actual handcuff, but just for barely a second.)<\/p>\n<p>4. The crew <i>voluntarily<\/i> (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.\u00a0This is why, other than comedy, Roger is so dang clumsy.\u00a0Instead 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_EUPwsD64GI\" target=\"_blank\">watch the whole scene here<\/a>, just to see how few shots there are of Roger where he doesn\u2019t interact with a real object.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<i>Jurassic Park<\/i>, the first movie to make the leap from fully physical creature effects to seamlessly integrating\u00a0realistic\u00a0computer\u00a0generated images with live action footage. Roger\u2019s shadows weren\u2019t done with CGI. Hoskin\u2019s sightlines were not digitally altered. Wires controlling the handcuff were not removed in post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Who<\/i> fucking\u00a0<i>Framed Roger <\/i>fucking\u00a0<i>Rabbit<\/i>, folks. The greatest trick is when people don\u2019t realize you\u2019re tricking them at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This movie will be studied and analyzed and revered and worshipped for generations because, not only of the ground breaking techniques they used to make the magic happen but, for those of us that grew up with Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry, for 2 hours we were able to believe that they all really existed. <\/p>\n<p>This is one if the LAST great movies that was ever made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s also not forget that writing. \u201cOnly when it was funny\u201d isn\u2019t just hilarious, it\u2019s 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\u2026 until it\u2019d get a laugh from an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this movie, EVERYTHING about it, is so finely crafted. I could wax lyrical about it for days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>benpaddon: wellheyproductions: nerdgerhl: I feel like there are probably too many people just scrolling past this so let\u2019s go through everything that\u2019s going on here.\u00a0 1. With Roger\u2019s\u00a0voice actor standing off camera,\u00a0Bob Hoskins acts into empty air and frantically sawing at his handcuff, continually looking up and down at different visual marks of various depths. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/29\/benpaddon-wellheyproductions-nerdgerhl-i-feel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14867,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147868,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147861\/revisions\/147868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}