Extra Credit- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1. Marvin Acme was a crime victim. According to Jewkes, was his victimization newsworthy? If so, discuss at least three news values that relate to his victimization.
Marvin Acme’s victimization was definitely newsworthy. The first news value that is relevant to this story is threshold. Marvin Acme was murdered and in a big way, he had a safe dropped on his head! The safe was dropped in his warehouse and it is a very “toon” way to be murdered. The nature of the murder alone draws attention to the case. Secondly, there is sex involved, or in this case “patty-cake”. The night before his death Jessica Rabbit was photographed playing “patty-cake” with Mr. Acme despite being married to Roger. This became a
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Jessica Rabbit was the primary suspect in the crime for much of the movie. According to the feminist perspective in Jewkes, how would the media have characterized her? In other words, what angle would they have exploited?
Jessica Rabbit’s physical attractiveness would have been exploited. She herself even mentions the way she is drawn. Her character is built on sex appeal and lust. It comes as no surprise that the media would have a field day with
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Eddie Valiant is a private investigator who was hired to look into a cheating scandal and ended up investigating Marvin Acme’s murder. The viewer spends the film trying to decide just who dropped the safe on Marvin Acme’s head, and the viewer gets to see Eddie’s process through it all.
7. Is Eddie a hero or an anti-hero? Defend your position.
Eddie is an anti-hero. We know Eddie is a drunk and a private investigator that hates all toons, but a few scenes in the film shed some light on why he is the way that he is. A toon killed his brother and partner. He ends up helping Roger Rabbit despite his hatred of toons. He can be rather violent, as shown in the scene where he forcedly shoves a pickled egg into a man’s mouth for badmouthing his late brother. He does not seem to have a black and white moral code like a traditional hero would. Eddie did “white knight” things but can sometimes be a bit of a sleuth.
8. Rafter discusses four reasons why folks go bad. Which of the reasons best describes the
In the same scheme, both in the movie and the book, the father is presented as abusive and alcoholic on many occasions. In words, the book gives a detailed account of the damages inflicted on Eddie by his father’s violence: “he went through his younger years whacked, lashed, and beaten.” (Albom 105) In the film, t...
Recently he met this girl who had knew a few answers to the question he is searching for. Eddie is on a dangerous path to his investigation,but he is determine to find the killer. After his cousin is killed, Eddie's aunt pressures him to avenge her son's death. Eddie drops out of City College and works odd jobs, all the while wondering about this, the latest of the senseless killings that have become a fact of life within the community. A run of unlucky breaks adds to his frustration as he is completely caught up in the violence he disapproves
Remelgas, Alexandra. “News Reporting And Editorial Interpretation Of The Palmer Raids 1919-1920 By Three Detroit Newspapers: A Study” Thesis For Degree Of M.A. MSU, 1970,
Eddie Costello’s current view of the war is as a "sore asshole", but he says he started out as a "seventeen year old adolescent patriot". Eddies experience is similar to Johns in that he initially went to great lengths to participate in the war, lying about his age to get a munitions factory job at only 14.
Many of Bundy’s crimes involved the rape of college girls, who were being killed on a rate of about one a month. This provided police investigators the challenge of finding out who was commiting these murders, and why they were being committed. In accounts by the few
Eddie is not doing the best for his family at all and he is without
Pretty Woman, 1990s Hollywood movie, embodies many new as well as old values and ideologies. I was surprised when I saw that, the old themes and sexual stereotypes are not completely abandoned, but the old portrayals of gender stereotypes are transmuted.
Boxer questions American media’s fixturized dependency on the dead mother and attributes it a sort of widespread “cute” hysteria--moreover, concerning femininity and the womb. One may theorize her stance is purely in favor of resolving the hegemonic vendetta of “the newest beneficiary of the dead mother: the good father” (Boxer 3). However, by analyzing the nature of many contemporary cartoons through the feminist lens, Boxer illustrates a developing society of varied tastes rather than one typically bashed under the premise of promoting an increase in female character prominence. Boxer’s article--while topically may appear to criticize the significance of “dead mothers” in cartoons--is really a consequence of radical change in societal gender roles. This consequence is illustrated subliminally through Boxer’s
The interesting literary devices of using the protagonists birthdays illuminates details of Eddie’s character by giving us backstory about Eddie’s home life as well as character development as to what type of person Eddie develops into over time in a
His kind nature is shown when he acts as a father figure towards Catherine; "Well, tell me what happened. Come over here, talk to me. " This shows he has an interest in her problems, he uses a very comforting manner. Eddie is a family man and agrees straight away to help illegal immigrants.
Eddie’s Mom: Yes… that’s true but he had passed away at an early age due the disease. I don’t know what I would do if I also lost Eddie!
It is the story of a man named Eddie who for almost his whole life was the
now bad things about he would be a good guy to go out with but, Eddie
On a chilly afternoon in late 1977, a young, newly-wed woman of 26 was dropped off at her Volkswagen Beetle by her sister-in-law. Her name was Gini McNair. She waved goodbye to her companion, unlocked the driver's door, and stepped into her vehicle. Sitting at the wheel, with the key in the ignition, she glanced around the deserted Boulder Canyon Road located outside of Boulder, Colorado. While waiting for her dusty red Volkswagen to warm up, she saw another one, light blue, heading down Sugarloaf Road towards her. When she glanced at the driver as he went past, he took the opportunity to look her over as well. With piercing eyes, Ted Bundy quickly examined Gini as he drove by her. When his eye caught hers, Gini immediately felt like she had just been delivered a swift punch in the stomach. He turned around at the bottom of Sugarloaf Road and drove over to where she was parked. As he walked over to her window, she rolled it down. He leaned in close and asked, "Are you having car trouble?"
Introduced by his father, Eddie gets a job at his father’s friend Greg Lushington’s farm. At first he feels completely misfit in this “aggressively masculine world”, but gradually he develops a good relationship with the manager Don Prowse and Mrs. Tyrrell. But the new environment doesn’t make him free from the identity issue. On one side, he is very “glad of this employment for his hands, and it made him feel more masculine” (186); on the other side, the “phantom” of Eudoxia haunts him sometimes. When he falls from the horse, it is Prowse who saves him; “Eudoxia…would have liked to thank, or in some way reward, the sweaty brute who had carried her halfway across the Bithynian plain. She