![]() Spielberg returned the favor and agreed to help produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and to bring along Lucas’ team of visual effects wizards from ILM - as long as Amblin Entertainment and Disney split the box-office takes and licensing rights 50-50. Wolf’s 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Before coming to Disney, Eisner had served as head of production at Paramount Pictures, where he worked with Spielberg and George Lucas on Raiders of the Lost Ark. In 1985, then-new Disney CEO Michael Eisner revamped a dead project about an adaptation of Gary K. It might have been a case of one mic being used to record both of them and Eddie's line just didn't pick up well as it was closer to Dolores.The road to Thanos gathering all six infinity stones in Infinity War was long, but the road to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was the biggest clash of egos in animation. There is a lot of noise from the trolley in the background right after this line so perhaps whatever was used to make the shake was audible for his line but okay for Dolores' line. Reading his lips there with the audio muted it does appear that he says that same line but the rerecord doesn't match up with his mouth movements so it's hard to know why it happened. It's at 12:50 where Eddie says "Yeah that was a long time ago, have to do that again some time" There is one other time in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where I'm not sure if it was a line that was rerecorded due to a bad take or if the audio contained something deemed inappropriate which I doubt. Smokey and the Bandit is one for this happening a few times, when Bandit first picks up Frog a lot of the audio is rerecorded and you can instantly tell as the quality jumps up quite considerably. Yeah I was surprised too, I've always been one to notice changes with audio and in a lot of older films when they needed to rerecord dialogue they'd of course do it in a studio so the audio ends up sounding far more crisp compared to the audio recorded on set. Had no idea they’d censored the dialogue, interesting. ![]() There's also some dialogue that was changed for Benny the cab, at 1:17:51 after Roger drives up to him in Eddie's destroyed car asking what happened the line that Benny speaks doesn't at all match up to what his mouth is saying, I've not been able to work it out, it's something similar to what is spoken but not the same.įunnily enough all this language has become a bit less controversial in recent years so probably could be restored but who knows if they still have the raw scene audio tapes those original lines would be on. It goes film version then lip read.ġ1:44 "Put the poor guy on two weeks notice" was originally "Put the poor bastard on two weeks notice"Ģ7:57 "Gee wiz Eddie if you needed money so bad why didn't you come to me" was originally "Jesus Eddie if you needed money so bad why didn't you come to me"ģ7:15 "No kidding, just talking to you could get me a wrap for aiding and abetting" was originally "No shit, just talking to you could get me a wrap for aiding and abetting"ġ:05:39 "You've got a lot of brass coming up here by yourself" was originally "You've got a lot of balls coming up here by yourself. The least we can hope for is they don't just turn it into a smeary mess every time a toon appears.Īs for people talking about the uncensored version, there's a French PAL HDTV version that is not censored so is probably the highest quality version know to not be altered, it looks to have likely come from a cinema print.Įarlier this year I compiled a list of all the times I noticed the audio quality drastically changed and it was due to lines being replaced, they were never heard in any version so were likely the first censorings done, here's what I found. Hopefully too the DNR done for Disney+ was simply to allow for it to stream better and it won't be nearly as heavy for the physical release or maybe not have it at all but I sadly doubt that. That's interesting I've not heard about VistaVision helping with there being less degradation, how does it do that? Is that why the Back To The Future films were not recomposited? I suppose so but if any film deserved to be restored from all the source materials it's this one. But as the VFX were done on VistaVision there shouldn't even be that much degradation, there's always some with an optical composite but it doesn't deserve being smacked with DNR as in this case it means that most of the movie will be a wax fest. ![]() It'd be akin to post-producing almost the entire movie from scratch.
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