A Conversation for Chuck Jones - Animator and Director
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Orcus Started conversation Jun 17, 2002
'In December 1992, his classic mixture of Wagner, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd What's Opera, Doc? (1957) was inducted into the Smithsonian's National Film Registry for being 'among the most culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films of our time.' Anyone who has seen the piece would be hard put to disagree with their assessment'
I have just one thing to say.
Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit now!
Brilliant!
Surely the finest anuimator the world has ever seen.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 17, 2002
Well, I can think of one or two animators that might argue with that assesment, but I'd certainl;y settle for describing him as one of the most uniquely inventive individuals of the 20th Century.
Glad you enjoyed it anyway.
OH Bwunhilda, you're so wovely...' 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 17, 2002
Oh, btw, it's *Spear* and magic helmet...
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Orcus Posted Jun 17, 2002
'has been many years since I've seen it unfortuately 
Still my memory didn't fail me too badly.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 17, 2002
Oh indeed not.
I'm waiting for WB to do a sensible dvd re-issue of the entire Jones/Avery/Freleng/McKimson archive. Not *that* I would pay good money for. 
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Orcus Posted Jun 17, 2002
...would not be disagreeing with you there.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 17, 2002
Of course, I meanr 'now', not 'not'.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 17, 2002
"Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock..."
Very happy this one got into the Guide at last 
For me, and I suspect an awful lot of others, Chuck Jones shaped the ideas of what animation ought to be. Nice one guys
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 17, 2002
You're too kind.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 17, 2002
Not at all 
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superdogmonkey Posted Jun 17, 2002
Excellent! it's been too long since I last saw a C .Jones film but this brought it all flooding back.
things I remember:
Kill the wabbit!
Wanting the Roadrunner to be caught and eaten.
The horror on the female cats face when Pepe's smell reached them.
As a kid, knowing that the name Chuck Jones meant 5 minutes of pure excitment.
Thanks,
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Orcus Posted Jun 18, 2002
...they are surely unique in that they were funny when I was a child and somehow managed to be *even funnier* when I grew up.
Now *that* is a feat.
On a lightly down note mind you I must say that I think Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerrys were not a patch on the Hanna Barbera originals.
...and no mention of Yosemite Sam - my favourite character.
However, along with Tom and Jerry, Bugs, Daffy and co. are way superior (for me) to Walt Disney's cartoons.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 18, 2002
Yosemite Sam was Friz Freleng's invention, and was never identified with Jones in the same way that Bugs was.
The same way that Foghorn Leghorn is always associated with Bob McKimson, despite being (I think) Tex Avery's original idea.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 18, 2002
Glad to be of service, sir.
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Orcus Posted Jun 18, 2002
I presume the abominabubble snowman was also a Freleng or McKimson effort also then (Seeing as it wasnt' mentioned)- another funny fave of mine
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 18, 2002
I think that may well have been Jones-unfortuneatly, when his career includes 300 animated shorts, I think we tried to pick out some of the more significant ones.
I think you.ll find that the link to Chuck's own site has a full filmography somewhere.
It is of course, total coincidence that that 'What's Opera Doc?' and 'Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century' are my personal favourites...
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Orcus Posted Jun 19, 2002
Yes, Duck Dodgers is up there with me too.
I would agree wholeheartedly on your top two
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jun 19, 2002
Marvin, yet another alien with designs on demolishing the planet earth...purely in the interests of scientific research, of course.
Funnier than a Vogn, though...
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- 10: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (Jun 17, 2002)
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