![]() ![]() ![]() I believe a great deal of the success of this picture comes from taking the mundane city and creating fantasy elements within it. Eddie doesn’t like them, he thinks they’re weird and a little chaotic, but that’s just the way life is. One of the strengths of this picture is that they don’t explain the mix. There’s also a third element of the overall world, and that is a unique mix between humans and toons. It’s also Hollywood, which is the classic place of entertainment and fantasy. The city world is the classic place for the detective story, the classic place of deceit, intrigue and hiding out. What is the world of this story? Hollywood, 1947. And the arc of Eddie becoming this barrel of laughs kind of guy didn’t work for me.Ĭontext: But let’s go back to the beginning and look at the context step. ![]() This is certainly a change, but it’s not really a self-revelation. So apparently Eddie learns to laugh at the end of this picture. Roger Rabbit asks him at the end, have you finally learned not to be a sourpuss, to have a little fun? And he says yes and gives Roger a big kiss. Then does this little song and dance number. But what, if anything, does he realize about himself? You may recall that he’s supposed to be a sourpuss. And he certainly realizes at the end that toons were not the cause of his troubles. Do we know why? Does he learn something about himself that can allow him to do that? Does he have a self-revelation? He is somehow able to pour out the liquor and give up drink. The main character is Eddie, played by Bob Hoskins. Let’s first go to the end point, the self-revelation. And the question that I want to look at as we work through the structure of this film is why. It has an incredible connection between the real characters, or real actors, and cartoon characters.Īnd yet, if you were like me, it doesn’t seem to grow beyond technical excellence. This is certainly one of the most imaginative pictures in a while, and it hits the structure steps of a detective story quite well. ![]()
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