Eps 43: James Bond Just Rescued Jessica Rabbit
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CEO Michael Eisner considered Who Framed Roger Rabbit to be too risque, particularly the scenes featuring the Jessica Rabbit character, and this was only one reason the film was initially released under Touchstone Pictures rather than Disneys banner. The omission was soon rectified when the company saw that the issue of magazines featured cel-like drawings of the Jessica Rabbit character, with the insides mixed in with artwork from the film, as well as nude poses of Jessica. Disney was not comfortable portraying Jessica Rabbits character as a victim, so she is now a detective hunting down the Weasel, and dressed in a long trench coat which conceals her cleavage and most of her exposed legs.
Her humdrum, Valley Girl-American voice and strapping, corn-fed voluptuousness do not mesh well; she fits in to the breezy, cruel fictional universe of Bond films roughly as well as Jessica Rabbit does. The Bond girls of other movies are a character from the comics; she is the character from the comics who has the psychological weight.
Frankly, to refer to The films other Bond girl as the girl from the "" is to do the movie no justice, even if the intention is to honour Bond mythological conventions. Bond and Elektra are the same?equally strong-willed, equally manipulative, equally damaged. Elektras King Power seems to also derive from matching Bonds, particularly in early The World is Not Enough.
Within the films narrative, Elektra King is shown as the main Bond girl, and an ally to Bond following her fathers death. Tracy and Elektra are both so unique in the Bond franchise, and the powers that they possess are like magnets; you cannot help but gravitate towards them . In this movie, Daniel, Scarlett, and Roger Rabbit are going on an adventure to rescue Jessica and Daniels parents.
It is up to James Bond, in his Spectre, to save the day -- and the world. James Bond might still have relevance in our fictional lives, but to become a savior to the world, I suspect he would need a different look.
Pavlovian answer, for sure, and evidence of the low-key animal-like guile that is the Bond movies. That the movie would violate such an easy-to-achieve fistful of dramatic integrity is a confirmation that some influential individuals within the Bond empire are hellbent on sticking to the aging, irrelevant tricks, even if that means offending audiences and dropping Brosnans elegant, no-nonsense Bond down to the level of fey, low-brow Roger Moore facsimiles. Bond is a character built on misogyny, and even thebest movie of the franchise is almost unintelligible when leaping over logic.
You can even make an argument that the tech-whiz Q , rather than James Bond, is the true hero here. It is enough to prompt some people to think of this animated classic series as a spiritual follow-up to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which, according to one writer, is no accident. It just happens that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a good homage to the classic animated series legacy, and this kind of heart is what makes the whole thing so much fun to watch. Again, that is just a personal inner-compass for the writers, and we really wanted to feel that OK, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is its own world.
In our minds, nobody has ever said it is, but it is always been kind of in the screenwriters head, it is kind of Roger RabbitAnd is a sequel to Tailgate, it is kind of like the universe. The movie presents Chip n Dale as animated actors in a world that is kind of similar to that which Roger Rabbit was set up forNote, Roger himself is also in the movie, and is also in a cameo appearance, with humans and cartoon characters living side by side. With the classic animated series being cancelled after Dale accepted a part in a James Bond knockoff pilot, 30 Years Later introduced plenty of distance between the once-close friends. Some will tell you that they cannot understand why or how that can happen, but director Robert Zemeckis believes Disney executives simply no longer enjoy the persona of Roger Rabbit.
In fact, Jessica Rabbits character saves herself by beating a weasel over the head with a gigantic mallet. Jessica Rabbit steps out of the shadows -- and shoots the gun and knocks it back from the hands of a shadowy figure behind Valiant, saving Eddies life. As Roger squeezes out through a trap door to free Benny, Rogers love letter to Jessica falls into Eddies lap.