Chuck Jones' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was in any matters, my total first exposure to the Warner Bros. cartoons library, mostly the Post-48s TV catalog that was still prevalent at that time. My former experiences went to my pre-school days where I watched it with others toddlers all around. It was easily one of the biggest experiences of that kindergarden place. The likes of Duck Dodgers..., Ali Baba Bunny, Long-Haired Hare and of course, What's Opera, Doc? was a momentum to me that I will easily describe animation like a powerful medium, not just for the gags or characters, but for music, emotions and art. But the "chase" term didn't brought me to mind, if my limited exposure to chase movies were about the Road Runners series of shorts, but that was somehow a ritual that staying respectful of the conventions of slapstick for a newer era.
But like I witnessed in the Internet in past years, jsut saying "chase" in animation is been a trope in itself. Seeing characters just running back-and-forth don't always help to delivering in the writing, especially in the many theatrical Looney Tunes 90s shorts revivals.
The Hanna/Barbera Tom and Jerrys seems to get started the trend of comical slapstick chase in cartoons, but the cat-and-mouse pair wasn't just about that alone. The duo was also able to teamed-up together against a common opponent. When Chuck developped his own T&Js in the mid-1960s, results were rather a mixed bag. Sure, it's more elegant and better than the ill-fitting ones Gene Deitch directed few years earlier and Jones' own final WB shorts onto production, but it's exactly the Road Runner and Coyote on a new suit. It was Jones' words and it's pretty hard to be disagree with him.
But now, I seen where went that hate with the chase trope. You can't going in the wild street without that a bunch of goofy drivers-- semi-trucks, pick-ups, electric cars, regular cars, those annoying scooters or bikes tried to break you up by make yourself at a fault. Many drivers don't look us, do "pretend" to not seen us, are more busy with their own times than own some basic civility and courtship in the road. The city where I live have morphed as if everyone have followed driving class on a Grand Thief Auto or Mario Kart videogame, because some of them do a pretty fine job to not admit their mistakes that they driven too fast or tent to hurt someone.
This is also where in many TV spots about cars, there is sadly a false representation of the way people driven in the street or elsewhere. (Why showed spaces where they aren't one?) Whether you do choose electric or by gas, the cars companies need to pay an extra tax for each time their spots are showed on TV, which would may help the improvements of mass-transit, planting trees and saving the fewer of areas where wild animals do their best to surviving there. As if the life of wild creatures don't matters anymore...
In short, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was likely "The Chuck Jones Movie" today. But with a passion, it was a strong momentum to me the first time I have all seen. I didn't became a fan of Looney Tunes right away, but there was plans in the future to be one, without known that a powerful device with such fan webpages about it would open me the eyes to the history of Warner Bros. Animation and clearly, to known that I am not longer alone in this world to enjoy the artistic feel of these films. Such ironic that originally, Jones have pull this by withdraw Bob Clampett off of the wabbit's fathers in his anthology film when him, (Clampett) didn't credited Jones in anything when Bugs Bunny Superstar was made. The Clampett/Jones rivalry is a little incongrous, which made me ask what do thinking Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson and also Tex Avery of that where they all worked in the Termite Terrace studio department together.
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