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“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a bonafied classic film that saw cartoon characters and humans living together trying to get along. Bob Hoskins was perfectly cast as irritable P.I. Eddie Valiant whose brother was murdered by a toon. He’s desperate for money and takes a job getting incriminating evidence against Roger Rabbit’s wife, Jessica. The film was fun, entertaining and showed what magic can be made when studios put aside their differences and work together. How can you not just smile ear-to-ear seeing Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse in the same frame?

What a lot of people may not realize is that the film was based on a novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbitt? By Gary Wolf. The book is decidedly different from the film in so many ways. Namely, the entire plot. The book does focus on P.I. Eddie Valiant who is not a fan of toons, but has no real past with them, i.e. he doesn’t have a brother who killed by one. Eddie is actually hired by Roger to investigate why the DeGreasy brothers, Rocco and Dominic, aren’t honoring their deal to give Roger his own strip. Eddie takes the case only for the money, but soon uncovers a much bigger plot that involves Roger’s wife Jessica and murder.

Again, the book is quite different from the film. The toons aren’t in films, but comic strips in the local paper. They have to pose with someone taking the photos to be printed in the paper. When the toons talk they create word-balloons – just like in the comics – that turn to dust and have to be cleaned up, causing Valiant some headaches.

Roger himself is quite different, too. He’s brown, doesn’t wear the red suspenders and is kind of a jerk. He wants his own strip and lots of money – though he’d give it all up if only Jessica would come back to him.

If you’re a fan of the movie you may find yourself a little disappointed that such icon characters do not appear in the novel. Benny the Cab is nowhere to be seen and neither is (this surprised me) Judge Doom or his Dip. See, cartoons can be killed just as easily as humans, but in order to take the punishment they do for the strips they have an ability to create doppelgangers that fall apart after only a few hours.

The book itself isn’t long and is a very quick read. The chapters are short, usually only a few pages at most and you’ll find yourself quickly turning the page to get to the answers as one mystery builds to another.

I enjoyed the book immensely, though was not entirely happy with the ending. Thought it was kind of weak and didn’t pack that punch a good mystery needs. It wasn’t bad, just not entirely satisfying. I found myself saying out loud, “Really?” as I read the final chapters.

Overall, though, it’s a really good read and a great example of how to adapt a good novel into a great movie.


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Who Censored Roger Rabbit Gary K Wolf 9780345303257 Books Reviews

I've always loved the film, so I decided to try the book. In short, the book is funny in a fairly charming way, but at the same time, fairly dark and really mean spirited. I get the satire of it, and the real world parallels and all that, but I still really didn't like the way Valliant was talking to, or about Roger Rabbit, even if he's pretty terrible in this book as well. It's a fun, very quick read, but man is it far away from the movie.
This book is surprisingly good, both darker and richer than the movie it offers a far more adult experience and is still entertaining. It also explains how Roger died but was still capable of aiding Eddie Valiant. And this Roger is a far cry from the movie's loser protagonist, which clears up another mystery as well, how he landed the gorgeous Jessica. Great read. I am buying another copy for my film class student friend.
When I saw this book I was unaware the film was based on a book. Thought I read this as lately I’ve been into detective stories. Not the same story as the film. The film story had a Chinatown kinda thing going with the crime happening as LA was expanding its public transit. The book is more Mike Hammer style.

I’ll try to keep spoilers to a minimum. The writing in the first part of the book was not great. The author could have done some revisions before turning it in. However the idea of the world he was setting up where toons and humans have always existed with each other took some of the attention away from writing good pulp. The second half of the book led to a great story with a terrific twist ending. Kudos for dreaming up this world and having a fine story arc to go with it.
A word of warning this is not the Disney's picture plot. Not at all. The story is quite dark, so can see Disney borrowed the idea of toons living in the same world as people but developed their own plot. The MC character is also a third class private eye, and Jessica Rabbit is a gorgeous girl, but the similarities stop there.

The above said, the plot is a very interesting, noir one. There a cool plot twist that you can smell several chapters away, but it's nice anyway. The toon characters are well developed and, whilst Wolf's writing style is not a Pulitzer-award-winning one, it's straightforward and easy to read. The book feels like Blade Runner but with toons.

Not a thought-provoking story, but one you will certainly enjoy.

Kiss,

Gacela
Since the book was so vastly different from the movie, it had the bonus of giving a completely new story, which was a lot of fun. I remember reading this book back when the movie came out and being so frustrated that the movie and book were almost nothing alike, but I found that to be more fun this second time around. The novel is a great whodunnit Detective Noir style book with plenty of descriptive phrases right out of a cheesy detective movie. There were some clever. playful concepts regarding cartoon characters and their abilities in comics, but I felt that by limiting himself only to characters in comics (and not characters from cartoons) he missed out on some great opportunities that ended up being dealt with in the film. I know he wrote two more books with these characters, and modeled them (and their stories) after the film rather than this book, so I'm interested in continuing this world of Toon Town.
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” is a bonafied classic film that saw cartoon characters and humans living together trying to get along. Bob Hoskins was perfectly cast as irritable P.I. Eddie Valiant whose brother was murdered by a toon. He’s desperate for money and takes a job getting incriminating evidence against Roger Rabbit’s wife, Jessica. The film was fun, entertaining and showed what magic can be made when studios put aside their differences and work together. How can you not just smile ear-to-ear seeing Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse in the same frame?

What a lot of people may not realize is that the film was based on a novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbitt? By Gary Wolf. The book is decidedly different from the film in so many ways. Namely, the entire plot. The book does focus on P.I. Eddie Valiant who is not a fan of toons, but has no real past with them, i.e. he doesn’t have a brother who killed by one. Eddie is actually hired by Roger to investigate why the DeGreasy brothers, Rocco and Dominic, aren’t honoring their deal to give Roger his own strip. Eddie takes the case only for the money, but soon uncovers a much bigger plot that involves Roger’s wife Jessica and murder.

Again, the book is quite different from the film. The toons aren’t in films, but comic strips in the local paper. They have to pose with someone taking the photos to be printed in the paper. When the toons talk they create word-balloons – just like in the comics – that turn to dust and have to be cleaned up, causing Valiant some headaches.

Roger himself is quite different, too. He’s brown, doesn’t wear the red suspenders and is kind of a jerk. He wants his own strip and lots of money – though he’d give it all up if only Jessica would come back to him.

If you’re a fan of the movie you may find yourself a little disappointed that such icon characters do not appear in the novel. Benny the Cab is nowhere to be seen and neither is (this surprised me) Judge Doom or his Dip. See, cartoons can be killed just as easily as humans, but in order to take the punishment they do for the strips they have an ability to create doppelgangers that fall apart after only a few hours.

The book itself isn’t long and is a very quick read. The chapters are short, usually only a few pages at most and you’ll find yourself quickly turning the page to get to the answers as one mystery builds to another.

I enjoyed the book immensely, though was not entirely happy with the ending. Thought it was kind of weak and didn’t pack that punch a good mystery needs. It wasn’t bad, just not entirely satisfying. I found myself saying out loud, “Really?” as I read the final chapters.

Overall, though, it’s a really good read and a great example of how to adapt a good novel into a great movie.