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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1988)
Film emerges as ‘classic’ RABBIT from Page 10 As Chuck Jones said when he spoke in Lincoln two weekends ago, the Warner Brothers cartoons were not made for children, or adults, they were made for their creators who were isolated in the studio and rarely got to see a final print before the cartoon reached theaters. Theaters, not Tele vision. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pepe LcPew and Elmer Fudd were not made to babysit children, but to enter tain. In “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Zemeckis and Spielberg capture that j spirit nicely, never surrendering to preciousness. When things become unbearably cute, Hoskins is there to scowl or look on the whole animated spectacle as some surreal nightmare from which he must escape at all costs. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” • .. n i,___ |> IIUI « MU J !■ IV IX. IIO IIIU^IV VIUMW generational boundaries easily. This j is possibly the first time that Spielberg has truly succeeded in his task to take the intellectual stigma off of the word “movie.” This is the sort of movie one could tout out at Cannes and, with pride, announce it was a “movie,” or a “flick,” not a “film” or a milestone of “the cinema.” There arc some flaws to “Roger Rabbit” that mostly occur to you hours after you’ve stopped reeling from the initial effect of so much sheer pleasure. Christopher Lloyd’s performance is far loo melodramatic. It would have made more sense to keep Lloyd three-dimensional in the noir vein, make the villain a Sydney Greenstrect for instance, instead of making him up as a male Witchypoo. A Greenstrect or even John Huston parody would have played off Hoskins’ relatively straight perform ance beautifully. Also, and this plagued Industrial Light and Magic’s Big Finale in “Howard the Duck” too, the final confrontation between Hoskins and the evil that would level Toontown for a freeway takes place in the garage of ACME, the company that pro duced enough faulty inventions to keep Wile E. Coyote in a body cast for all eternity. The confrontation is unbearably static and, coming after the Hoskins’ miraculous tour of Toontown, is an overly long letdown that cries out for a more inventive culmination to the mystery. Still, there is invention in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” to spare. In the end the magic wins out and an amnesia to the movie’s faults sets in. I ikp ihp fhararlprt in W/urnnr r>ar_ toons, any flaws in the movie may drop on you like a ton of bricks or an anvil, but within a second you’re ready for the next invention, th next remarkable creation. Like Chuck Jones said, “not everything worked.” Ah, but when it does work, as with Hoskins’ trip into Toontown where everything — bullets, trash cans, trees, rocks, the sun, street signs, swords,buildings,ad infinitum — has life, moves, sways, sings and speaks, there is nothing to compare it to. It is art as sure as Van Gogh lost an ear. And it is entertainment as sure as Charlie Chaplin ate a shoe. A country that can pul a real, flesh and blood human being into Toontown and have him shake hands with a rabbit is all right by me. Next thing you know they’ll pul a duck on the moon. ! -1 I I STILL TIME! SRJ offers nearly new one and two bedroom apartments at a convenient location for UNL students. Contact SRJ today and take advantage of their low I summer rates. Effective until July 31. One bedrooms start at $240 and two bedrooms at $310. k 477-4434 OR 421-3989 Compiled by Ken Havlat July 5 Blonde Waltz QN CAMPUS " ^ ^ark Hummel and the Blues Survivors Sheldon Film Theater SURROUNDING AREA Thursday June 30 through Sunday July 3 Omaha “The Manchurian Candidate” At Civic Auditorium „ ,, _ July 7 Robert Plant with Joan Jett Howell Theater June 30, July 1 -2 and 5-9 “Pippin” At the Ranch Bowl July 5 The Del-Lords BANDS At Chesterfield’s At Howard St. Tavern July 1-2 The Finnsters July 4-7 Ron Thompson and the Resistors At Duffy’s Kansas City July 1-2 The Return July 1-2 James Harman Band at Grand Emporium July 15 Flaming Lips July 3 Bruce Hornsby and the Range at Starlight July 4 Brian Ritchie at the Lone Star At the Zoo Bar July 6 Mutabaruka (reggae-dub artist from Jamaica) at June 30 Buddy Guy the Grand Emporium July 1-2 The Blue Crew July 10 Monsters of Rock at Arrowhead Stadium Once at Ontday-Hwj pannei'b\vftcr\tiuy PoA Corner ^ f«trtt {XJjSfbvUon" jail, Pewter lived Derm t „{ J and ti<ht... -were made... Said, j thePoA- ^ ^ r ,,J. W«v arewetoed. f ' F*tw keaan Iheir W terrae S '"(£& hfnehaa IV—1 march lmT-\Tt * And he lived As a fret** f'N*w. TtlC 2 there f'*ic.. gtviAt- p~n c^£,*» ZlA^cRE | 5)lc~ 5 ' R»hjCrfMeR U FRONT PAGE NEWS! Here's the scoop. Tickles has prices so low5 you'd think eve rything is on sale. And the se lection? The largest in town. . . ^Pirkip^ 237 S 70th *3814 Normal Blvd I AVjlV lV I J Pickles Plaza at 17th & P F* .. Nebraska's Supermarket of Sound RECORDS TAPES • COMPACT DISCS