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.