Batman The Animated Series

Wow first of all its being a long time since i dont post something.......so this is what i want to talk about.... since i took English 101 with Mr Toth my point of view of movies series and cartoons has changed especially in the way i see Batman the animated series... in this cartoon we are able to see many of the elements of film noir that we learn during the course... such as cruelty, crime, many dark allies....... death, murder........ betrayal between friends... flashbacks... femme fatales such poison ivy and catwoman they used charms ans sensuality to manipulate man and obtain what they one............. so just wanted to tell you guys that taking that class has change how i see things and i learned a lot and hope you guys did :D

Outline for the Presentation (100 Points)

 Who Famed Roger Rabbit?

I.             Introduce your film and provide the premise of the film in three sentences or fewer.




                This Film is the story of where a toon hating private eye Eddy Valiant is Roger Rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of the murder of the famous Marvin Acme. also, this movie involves Judge Doom's evil plot to kill all toons with the "dip" and the destroy Toontown to build the first Freeway in California.

II.            Characteristics and Conventions of the Film that Link it to Classic Film Noir

                1. Ambiguous protagonist 

•  Eddy valiant represents one of the biggest piece of evidence that this film is one of the best representation of film Noir and Neo Noir. I'm not saying that Brick and Chinatown aren't but this is the only film that has Bugs bunny and Mickey together. Anyway, he is retired cop that decided to be a private eye, a hard drinker with a hard life(poor), living and working in the same dirty and old apartment room. like any other protagonist of this genre he has the classic sad that makes him weak and mediocre.(the death of his beloved brother). This makes him hate all cartoons. dispite whats is said he is the old fashion noir detective and a job is job and as he get involved in this case he is able to let his grudge go. this what defines the classic ambiguous character. 

                2. Femme Fatale

• It is impossible to talk about this film with mentioning the stellar appearance of Jessica rabbit as the voluptuous, seductive, ultimate and ferocious femme fatale. she is designed as the perfect woman, since ther first apparence in this film the audience is able to notice sex sexual appeals. her first appearance is her leg sticking out from behind a curtain, right before she sings a song seducing every man in the audience. there is one fact the separate her from all the other femme featales and it is that at the end of the day she is a good heart women that only looks for the ell being of her husband. 

              3. Visual elements.

• The visual elements of Classic Noir are clearly shown in this film.  For example, many of the scenes are at night time place in an urban setting with the classic dark and gloomy wet streets  Also, many other other scenes are places in dark and shadowy alleys  that gives felling of anxiety and paranoia to many of the characters and audience at this point everyone expects anything to go wrong. 

III.          Elements of the Film that Deviate from Classic Film Noir and Link it to Neo Noir

                1.Neo Noir

• In many ways, Noir has evolved to a genre classified as Neo Noir; one that has taken crime,            violence, sex, and murder to a new level.

                3. Intermixing of races.

• the introduction of different races and scenes that show anxieties of our time in this film updates the genres. in the film of the only whites appeared and only their anxieties where shown. 

                2. Neo Nazi Character and Genocide.

• the classic Noir movies such as "Double Indemnity," the violence is not as graphic instead in this film we are able to see brutal murder and massive killing plot from the character Judge Doom.  

Quotes from Outside Sources (These may be inserted anywhere in the outline)

Source One:

Context:  Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
According with Bill chambers author Film review “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”	Jessica is “Based on classic Noir femme fatales like: Barbara Stanwyck, veronica Lan, Lana Turner… [also, this character]… is voice by Kathleen Turner.”	This demonstrates how the director of this film is throwing at the audience and viewers the pure scene of Film Noir at their faces by giving and basing this character in femme fatales of the past.  Equally important is the obvious fact that he chooses Kathleen Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit, since she is the femme fatale from the Neo Noir Film “Body Heat;” one that in many ways is the remake of an iconic film from the Classic Noir Period called “Double Indemnity.”

Source Two:

Context: Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
the article “Roger Rabbit’s World” by Robert Castle, claims that the movies takes place	“In a racially separated America [and]… Toons replace Blacks in their roles… By extension, the Toons are barely tolerated minorities relegated in their own ghetto, Toon Town.”	This is one of the biggest updates of Noir in which it includes the intermixing of races. Following this point further, Toons are also undesired minorities thrown in their own ghetto. Then, this reflects the contemporary anxieties of times because this problem is still seen in our society, still many minorities such Blacks and Hispanic are left behind in worst part of the cities or ghettos by the most powerful ethnic groups. The idea of the intermixing of races and the segregation of ethnic groups are the anxieties of times and at the same time elements in which the genre has evolved.

conclusion

•Thus, the film “Who framed Roger Rabbit?” possesses elements of classic Noir such as the detective figure and ambiguous protagonist represented by Eddy Valiant that gets involved in a murder case just for his own morbid curiosity. Jessica Rabbit is the ultimately Femme Fatales that has a seductive and voluptuous body that will hypnotized any man. Fantastic and entertaining plot full of crime, sex, murder and corruption, visual element such as dark alleys, are typical elements of Classic Noir. However, It also has updated elements of Neo-Noir such as brutal murder, cartoons in a serious environment of darkness, racism and segregation of the ethnic minorities, profanity and unexpected twist.

Optional Component:  Film Clip

If you use a film clip in your presentation, be sure that you provide appropriate context or background information and have the clip easily accessible.  After showing the clip, explain how that clip demonstrates aspects of noir or neo-noir.

Context:  Discuss the background situation regarding the film clip:	Provide a brief description of the scene you are showing:	Significance: How does this clip demonstrate conventions or characteristics of noir or neo-noir?

Annotated Bibliography :The dark and the light of Roger Rabbit

Article #1

Robert Castle in his article Roger Rabbit's World explains that most of its plot is full with childish amusements and unreal violence of cartoons. also that most of the plot of this parody is derived from the film "Chinatown." more over this article main focus is one of the most controversial problem in U.S. which is racism "The toons replace black in roles waiters, doormen, [and others]...By extension, the toons are barely tolerated minorities relegated to their own ghetto, Toontown." differently to Film Noir, where the characters where mainly black and subject of racism was never touch, in this film racism takes a big role and becomes the theme. this is one of the elements of Neo Noir in which different races are included. 

Article # 2

int he review of the film "Who framed roger rabbit?" Bill Chambers focuses mainly  in the movie itself than in elements of film noir or  neo noir. this is the story of a private eye "Eddy Valiant(Bob Hoskins)" who used to help toons but after a piano toon fell on his brother he started to hate toons. this event makes him "stand for the heart of darkness." on the other hand in this review is explain about the genocide that toons are facing due the of the Dr. Doon a Nazi figure that wants to build a freeway. this is compare with the water scandal in Chinatown. also it is mention a general gamma of element of film noir, few examples are hard living anti hero, valiant, femme fatale , Kathleen turner, brutal murder, moral curruption, and sex.

Article #3

Brendon Bourzard in his article Roger and me, talks about the how a film that seems to be directed for a young audience, comes up with many scenes where profanity ans sex are presents. moreover, it depicts a very deep analysis about a socially divided america where the minorities (cartoons) lives in their own ghettos. and they are exposed to segregation from the real people, in this case they represent whites.

Article # 4

in this article John Simon in his article " Turn on, Toon in, Drop out." expreses how the minorities are degraded to the lowest level of societies. even in one of the scenes where Eddy Valiant and Maroon are in an office Dumbo appeared and maroon says that he got for a good price and the best thing is that "they work for peanuts".. this is considered an anxiety of the time in Neo Noir.... we still see these minorities such as black and Hispanics working for the minimum wages trying to whatever just to have some money and something to eat.

Article # 5

In the article "The Light and Dark in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? the author talks a about the ambiguous character in this this film who is represented by Eddy Valiant... how this character demonstrates his ambiguity by starting to as happy as cartoon and then being drag to the dark side... and at the end show his noble side again. more over it also talks about other element of film Noir such as the classic wet foggy streets in this film and of course the stellar appearance of the voluptuous and seductive Femme Fatale.

Who framed Roger Rabbit?????

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?? written by Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a movie about a hating toon detective that is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. Many elements of classic Noir are very visible in this film, one of them that inevitable  to miss is the appearance of the hard boiled detective, a classic and murderous femme fatale,  and the clueless ambiguous protagonist, murder and sex. On the other hand the elements of Neo Noir makes their appearance also in this film. for example on the traits that I personally admire of this movie is the fact that the directors and writer presented Toontown as the ghettos and the cartoons as the races that are in a lower social position(many of this they included Jewish, blacks and other minorities) and as in many Neo Noir film they involve other cultures and races. another very important scene of this movie that exemplifies the elements of Noir is the resurrection of the sex scene in Chinatown. in this film they just made seems as a simple game of patty cake sending a subliminal message to its audience that mostly gave a sexual allusion.  and at the end, this movie has a very interesting twist in which the femme fatale comes out to be good, and the character that seems very respectable ends up being the bad guy. 

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The Film Noir Essence

From the “The Gold Coast Section,” I have chosen the story number one as an example of noir, the title of the story is “The Girl who Kissed Barnaby Jones.” We can relate this story to one of the best seller film noir novel, Double Indemnity. In this novel the main character is seduced to commit a passionate crime by the femme fatale Mrs. Nirdlinger. The male protagonist Tate seems like a loner and loser, he pretty much looks like he has no life or that he does not have anything to do, once this beautiful woman Cherie calls him he is ready to go, and he actually makes it more clear that will do anything for her” If she asked me to shovel shit I’d asked her she needed shoveled” (287). In this passage it is noticeable how easy he let Cherie controls him to do what ever she wants. Also he allow her to control him for his own convenience, just to get what he wants that in this case is sex” I have a great big boner with Cherie’s name on it”(287). After they sleep together (sex) Cherie as the femme fatale shows Tate the corpse of her husband, she puts an act to excuse the fact that she kills him. But Tate doesn’t really believes her, and this is what make this story different from the character of film noir it has this little twist, Tate decides no to help and instead he fights against her, he ran away from the house and in a desperate he calls the cop.”” He did what Walter from double indemnity was not able to do, he did not trapped as rat in maze in Cherie’s seductive devices, and instead he decided to stay in the good side. Besides this entire plot I did not like the end he gets kill and evil won. Still we get this image of darkness and seduction from film Noir but we get this little twist from Neo Noir that send the message that Now a days crime does pay.

The story that does not classify as film Noir is "Kinship, " in most of the story he author is just narrating the life of the main character. this character is half Filipino man that struggle during his teenage years, he becomes in a gang member and goes back to the Philippines where he finds out about his family roots. at the end of thsi story they just stabbed a  man. i was not able to see much of Noir elements in this story.

Death and gambling in Cali

when i started to read the first story "The kidnapper Bell" i got i little confuse because i could not understand what really those cats were or meant... another important point that i have notice about the stories in this collection is that sex have been exploited to its maximum, many of the characters give a lot of importance to this than the one in Film Noir. 

besides that, the author in the story "The kidnnaper Bell" give us a great description of the place where the "accidental" murders happened. In this story what is mainly mention is the LA river, as we all know this river is very shallow and one of the dirty ones, we might think that would be hard for somebody to get drown or get accidentally kill, but in this case is the contrary. we actually get a very bleak image, first this girl kills a man "accidentally" and then in a desperate action to get the bell back she kill herself also. when he got in the death gril's room  and he sees those cats the author gives a description that let  the readers know desperation and hallucination of this character. Moreover the description of the tunnel gives a suspense where you do not know what is goign to happened as the character goes inside and also claustrophobic.
On the second story, the description is good also, the author tries to make the reader feel like if we are the ones driving in those pack freeways. the illustration of the situation in the hotel is very deatil i as reader could imaging everything in great detail like if i was right there.

Crazy psycho Chick

 the beginning of this story was somewhat boring, but as I read the story of "the method" the story intrigued me more and more until I wanted to reach the end as soon as possible. But once I go there it disappointed me , I was expecting to know what was next after the killing. For example I was hopping that the cops or other authorities were going to discover that she was the killer but no it just emended.  However, I really like this story out of the four we have read.  This one is just different, the story about this hardworking girl named "Holly,"? this is the whole irony of this story, that we see this short and innocent looking girl name “Holly” being promiscuous and describing her sexual relations just as F***ing… also wee see her committing the most evil, sadistic, obsessive ways to kill a man. Moreover, we can notice her ambiguity, she seems like a respectable woman, but once this guy Richard gives her the little push to commit a crime, she deliberated all those evil and murderous thoughts. So, due to the high grade of moral corruption, ambiguity in main character that a girl in this case, the greed , the seduction imply by man on woman to obtain what he wants made this piece of literature more fascinating and interesting, than “Morocco Junction.” This story the narrator that is also a girl is pretty much just reveling the secretes of society and the way that the people from Beverly Hills stereotype others.