Who framed the behind-the-scenes production of Roger Rabbit?

New "genre film": the combination of real people and comics

The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is adapted from Gary Wolf's best-selling novel of the same name. It adopts the genre film mode of combining black detective films and comedy films, takes Disney cartoon kingdom in the golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s as the story background, and adopts the most advanced film technology at that time in the 1980s, skillfully combining real people with animated images, giving animated films a new look and charm.

As a modern fairy tale, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is fascinating with magnificent and fantastic colors and whimsical creativity. The film is set in the golden age of Disney Cartoon Kingdom in the 1940s, and combines elements of comics, comedies and black detective films. As a commercial film, the most prominent feature of this film is that it adopts the latest means of film technology in the 1980s and skillfully combines real people with cartoon characters, thus giving cartoon films a new look and charm and creating a new era of cartoon films.

It is nothing new to let live actors and cartoon characters perform together, but it is even easier today with the development of computer technology. However, in that year, who framed Roger Rabbit?

Every picture in the film that combines real people and animation is perfectly matched in terms of picture texture, lighting effect and positional relationship. In addition, there are often scenes of physical contact between real people and animated images in movies, and the lens can move freely between real people and animated images. These shots rarely appear in similar films in the past, which requires very high production technology.

There are more than 1000 special effects shots in the film, which is produced by Industrial Light and Magic Company, and its founder is the famous director george lucas who directed Star Wars. In order to make the screen effects of real people and animated images consistent, and make the camera move flexibly, Canadian animation designer richard williams invented a photography system with multi-level conversion of light, shadow and tone by means of new technical means. Every picture that combines real life and animation is made up of fourteen pictures. Let Roger Rabbit and Detective Eddie work together.

The production cost of the film was 45 million dollars, but it created a box office miracle of 654.38 dollars+700 million dollars that year and became one of the most popular movies of that year. The film was even rated as the top ten films of the National Film Review Board of the United States by 1988, and 1989 won the Oscar for best visual effect, best sound effect, best editing and special achievement. Obviously, these are inseparable from its magnificent and fantastic pictures and whimsical creativity.