After taking the Backlot Tram Tour, various props decorated the streets including two different photo opportunities with Jessica: a glittery cardboard cutout and "The Loony Bin" photo shop which allowed you to take pictures in costume standing next to an actual cartoon drawing of characters from the film. With the success of the film and upon the opening of Disney's MGM Studios on May 1, 1989, the film's characters featured prominently in the company. She also appeared frequently in the Roger Rabbit comic book series, and she had her own feature in most issues of Roger Rabbit's Toontown such as " Beauty Parlor Bedlam", where she comes face to face with her arch-enemy, Winnie Weasel. In the first two shorts she made no impression, but in the third short Roger fantasizes over her, calling her a 'babe in the woods' and panting like a dog. It was said by her animators, that Jessica is so "exuberant", because they wondered how far they could take her behavior without comments from the Walt Disney Studios.Īfter the film, Jessica also appeared in the Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman shorts Tummy Trouble as a nurse, Roller Coaster Rabbit as a damsel in distress, and Trail Mix-Up as a park ranger. She deeply loves her husband Roger, claiming that he makes her laugh and that he makes a more fitting husband than Goofy. She claims to Eddie Valiant, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way," which has become a popular quote. She is one of the most famous sex symbols on the animated screen, being compared to that of Betty Boop or Red Hot Riding Hood. Jessica was based on Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), and Veronica Lake (noted for her famous "Peek-A-Boo" hairstyle). Amy Irving was cast to sing " Why Don't You Do Right?" (a blues song made famous by Peggy Lee) for Jessica's first scene in the movie. She is one of several suspects in the framing of her husband, who is a famous cartoon star. She is re-imagined in the film as a sultry, but moral, cartoon singer at a Los Angeles supper club called The Ink and Paint Club. In the book, she was an amoral, up-and-coming star and former comic character, over whom her estranged husband, comic strip star Roger Rabbit, obsessed. Jessica Rabbit is Roger Rabbit's wife and the tritagonist of the book and movie. I’ll be keeping my own eyes peeled for Judge Doom’s unbroken stare next time I sit down to watch this instant classic - which is kind of a funny thing to call Who Framed Roger Rabbit when you consider the early receptions for the film.This page contains or is about mature content. I just like to find little things that make him even more evil, and that was that. It wasn’t really difficult, I’d just keep my eyes open as long as I could, try to time it out with the next take and all that. It makes him even more ominous, more scary, if he’s just looking like that. They’re not human, so I just felt Judge Doom should never blink. I just felt a toon doesn’t have to blink their eyes to remoisten their eyeballs. In 2020, the Back to the Future cast member revealed in the following quote from a Twitter video during a Disney+ Q&A why he decided to abstain from blinking when portraying the odd and sinister character: However, perhaps the real MVP of the (mostly) live action Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is Christopher Lloyd, who went unnecessarily (but admirably) far with his performance as Judge Doom - who not only turns out to be the one who framed Roger Rabbit, but is really the Toon who killed Eddie’s brother in disguise. (Image credit: Disney) Christopher Lloyd Avoided Blinking While Filming Who Framed Roger Rabbit were able to retain the same look and feel of old school cartoons and still feel authentic in a three-dimensional world. So drawn animation, by its own nature, you have to invent.īy making these two-dimensional creatures "2.5-dimensional," as Richard Williams called it, Roger Rabbit and co. By doing it 2.5 dimensional, it looks like the old stuff, and the old stuff is inventive. It’s the invention, especially when you’re looking at those old cartoons, they’re doing crazy stuff. However, a year earlier, he was able to dish on his ideas of how to make the Toons appear especially life-like with what he described to The Wrap as "old stuff inserted into new stuff." He elaborates on this in the following quote: (Image credit: Disney) Animator Richard Williams Aimed To Make The Toons "2.5-Dimensional"Įarning a special Academy Award for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the film’s Canadian animation director, Richard Williams, who unfortunately passed away in 2019 at the age of 86.
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