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The Rescuers is a film I truly love, it has a really poignant emotional atmosphere that is truly beautiful for me. And I love the protagonist duo of Bernard and Miss Bianca, their characterization and chemistry are wonderful. Penny is great too, a big part of the film's huge emotional and dramatic punch for me.
I know that so many people think that The Rescuers is very boring and one of Disney's worst. I know I'll never see it regarded as a major classic. But I love it, and always will. It has immense heart. If I'm not mistaken, it's also the last film in which all of Disney's Nine Old Men worked on. And look at this awesome opening. The film sells me from its first second. I couldn't find it in better video quality in YouTube, sorry.
Here's the full song, without interruptions.
It would be awesome for me to see a TV animated show starring Bernard and Miss Bianca doing rescue missions and so on.
When it comes to screwball Daffy, Bob Clampett always comes first to my mind. Him and Daffy were a match made in heaven. Bob Clampett's cartoons were very energetic, fast-paced, and also deranged character animation (often by Rod Scribner). He was the most "looney" of all directors, only rivaled by Tex Avery (who had left Warner Bros. in the early 40s and made history at MGM). In Daffy, Clampett found the perfect character to unleash everything he wanted to do in cartoons! No one did Screwball Daffy better! His surprising exit from Warner Bros. in the mid-40s is vital in the change of Daffy. Chuck Jones seemingly never cared much for screwball Daffy, I think he also thought that the possibilities of screwball Daffy had been exhausted, and that the character needed a big change to stay relevant (also, Bugs Bunny had already become in the late 40s the biggest and most popular Looney Tunes character by far, overshadowing everyone else by a country mile). This video explains all of that very well. It's part of an amazing YouTube series about the history of Looney Tunes.
Jones often projected himself into the new Daffy, he often said that Daffy was the character he related to the most, and "we want to be Bugs Bunny, but we are Daffy".
I know that so many people think that The Rescuers is very boring and one of Disney's worst. I know I'll never see it regarded as a major classic. But I love it, and always will. It has immense heart. If I'm not mistaken, it's also the last film in which all of Disney's Nine Old Men worked on. And look at this awesome opening. The film sells me from its first second. I couldn't find it in better video quality in YouTube, sorry.
Here's the full song, without interruptions.
It would be awesome for me to see a TV animated show starring Bernard and Miss Bianca doing rescue missions and so on.
Gotta agree with @kirbygame ..... However, to take it a step further: I have always preferred Screwball Crazy Daffy Duck over the greedy loser he became anyday.
Screwball Crazy Daffy is, IMHO, the best Looney Tune character ever to exist. Nothing else comes close for me, sadly.
I'm glad the most recent reboot of this franchise understands that - the circa 2020 rendition, I mean.
Wabbit/New Looney Tunes circa 2018-19 had the right idea to make Daffy his proper screwball crazy self, yeah - but that, unfortunately, wasn't good enough for me to watch said series. Damn shame.
When it comes to screwball Daffy, Bob Clampett always comes first to my mind. Him and Daffy were a match made in heaven. Bob Clampett's cartoons were very energetic, fast-paced, and also deranged character animation (often by Rod Scribner). He was the most "looney" of all directors, only rivaled by Tex Avery (who had left Warner Bros. in the early 40s and made history at MGM). In Daffy, Clampett found the perfect character to unleash everything he wanted to do in cartoons! No one did Screwball Daffy better! His surprising exit from Warner Bros. in the mid-40s is vital in the change of Daffy. Chuck Jones seemingly never cared much for screwball Daffy, I think he also thought that the possibilities of screwball Daffy had been exhausted, and that the character needed a big change to stay relevant (also, Bugs Bunny had already become in the late 40s the biggest and most popular Looney Tunes character by far, overshadowing everyone else by a country mile). This video explains all of that very well. It's part of an amazing YouTube series about the history of Looney Tunes.
Jones often projected himself into the new Daffy, he often said that Daffy was the character he related to the most, and "we want to be Bugs Bunny, but we are Daffy".
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