Who Censored Roger Rabbit
by:
Gary K. Wolf (author)
Crack detective Eddie Valiant tackles his toughest case: I found the bungalow and rang the bell. My client answered the door. He was almost my height, close to six feet, but only if you counted his eighteen-inch ears. For eyes he had twin black dots, floating in the center of two oblong white...
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Crack detective Eddie Valiant tackles his toughest case:
I found the bungalow and rang the bell.
My client answered the door.
He was almost my height, close to six feet, but only if you counted his eighteen-inch ears.
For eyes he had twin black dots, floating in the center of two oblong white saucers. His white stomach, nose, toes, and palms on a light brown body made him resemble someone who had just walked face first into a freshly painted wall.
"I'm Eddie Valiant, private eye. You the one who called?"
"Yes, I am," he said, extending a fuzzy white paw. "I'm Roger Rabbit."
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345303257 (0345303253)
Publish date: 1982-10-12
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
Definitely satisfied both my reader and comic/cartoon sensibilities. For anyone out there who likes detective stories and classic cartoons/comic strips, you'll love this book. It's just the sort of strange that I love.
If you're able to separate this book from the Disney movie, you'll find it's an enjoyable read. The only problem I had was getting a sense of time - where the movie was set in the 30s-40s, this book seemed to have a contemporary feel to it, but I couldn't always be sure. It's definitely much darker ...
The basis for the movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', 'Who Censored Roger Rabbit' is a much more direct parody of American crime noir. For a parody to be good the details are everything and 'Roger Rabbit' is fuzzy. Heh. The movie brought a lot of charm to the story that the novel lacked, fleshing out t...
The source material for the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has the characters as newspaper comic strip characters rather than film cartoons. When a comic strip character is murdered it is referred to as censoring. Quite a clever concept, but not as fun or funny as the film it inspired.
Another case wherein I liked the film better than the book, although I loved the idea.
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