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.
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.
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