It’s only natural that Los Angeles, home to the film and television industry, would pop up as the setting for many a film. Tracing the secret, true history of Los Angeles through three wildly different films, released across three different decades Roger and Eddie are in a jam. Confidential, this is a movie about the secret history of Los Angeles. And if you remember the movie as primarily one about goofy cartoons and wacky slapstick, well, it has those elements, but it’s about something else, too. Roger Rabbit is one of the best films of its era, however, and it deserves to be remembered even more than it is, its unique blend of cartoony sensibility and more adult storytelling having anticipated so many of the blockbusters that followed. When’s the last time you heard somebody do a Roger Rabbit impression? The movie was the second biggest release of 1988 and won numerous Oscars (while being nominated for even more), but its cultural footprint ended up being remarkably small. (Josh Spiegel has much more about this idea over at /Film.)Īnd Roger Rabbit was the rare box-office hit that didn’t garner a sequel (though its title character starred in a handful of animated shorts). ![]() ![]() If nothing else, the movie’s star, Bob Hoskins, should be properly remembered for perfecting a whole new style of acting that has only come to take over big-budget studio movies more and more. Its gathering of dozens of cartoon all-stars in the same place now feels like a nod toward a future when all pop culture would be thrown into a blender all of the time, and its use of computers to blend real actors with animated characters remains jaw-dropping in both its complexity and its effect. Robert Zemeckis’s zany, brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit, released 30 years ago on June 22, 1988, is remembered by the many who love it as a film ahead of its time.
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