Who Framed Roger Rabbit connection...

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GwendolynC

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I was watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit last night, before going to bed- just felt like watching it for some reason. Well, after last night, I've gained a brand new appreciation for it, realizing just how well done the movie was...

But I also came to an interesting realization...

The characters and events mentioned in the movie appear to be more connected than initially realized. I was going to post this on Wikipedia, but wasn't entirely sure how to do it, so I figured I'd just spill it here, and let someone else take care of it:

towards the beginning of the movie, Eddie Valiant is told that Judge Doom became the Judge of Toontown by buying off the residents with a "million cajoles"


towards the END of the movie, Eddie Valiant confesses to Roger that his brother was killed by a toon who they were chasing after, upon his having robbed a "couple million cajoles" from the bank.

If I'm correct on this, Judge Doom paid off the residents of Toontown WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, and killed Teddy Valiant in the process.

Whattaya'll think?
 
There is indeed a really deep hidden meaning to this film that most people aren't aware of. The whole plot line symbolises what became of the animation industry when it went into the fifties. I think I read this in 7 Minute: The Death of Cartoons (I think that's the title).

It really gets deep if you get down into it. Industrialization post-war... even the fact the characters are called "toons" pretty much has a significance (suffice to say, it's tantamount to a racial slur- what humans call animated characters).
 
Yeah, it was an allegory for racism of the time. Doom himself was somewhat of a self-hating toon in his own right. He did kill Eddie's brother, but discovered a way to kill his own people, and was creating the Clover highway for humans.
 
Actually, they called them samollions(sp?). But, yeah, the movie centered around the usual 1940's-50's detective crime drama. The only difference was, that they did it with cartoon characters to get kids to watch it.

It's all about the clash between pre-WWII and post-WWII culture and society. America moved from a "We all hang together, or we'll all hang seperately," mentality, to a "I want to be rich, and screw everyone else," mentality.

Judge Doom was clearly a sociopath, but the only reason he got away with it was because society had changed.
 
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