Enjoy a heartwarming journey through the legacy of the world’s most famous cartoon superstar – Bugs Bunny. Witness h | dG1fSWRzbDYyMFQ4UWs
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00I really have to go back to Tex Avery's A Wild Air, which finally crystallized who that
00:10character was.
00:12The character isn't going to run in a crazy panic away from a hunter with a gun.
00:17He's going to play mind games with him.
00:20What's up, Doc?
00:23There's a wabbit, Doc.
00:27What's up, Doc?
00:29There's a wabbit down there.
00:31What's up, Doc? was a very common phrase in Texas at the time, and Tex Avery was from
00:38Texas, hence the nickname Tex, and so Tex was the one who actually brought that.
00:44As Bugs developed, especially with Mel Blanc's acting, he became a much richer, more subtle
00:52character.
00:53Originally, it was very...
00:56All right, Doc.
00:57What you talking about there?
00:59Yeah.
01:00It shaped a little more into that, what Mel would often say, the Brooklyn and the Bronx.
01:05That Bronx accent really made the grade.
01:09It told you who this character was, why he was so street smart, why he was going to one
01:14up you.
01:15I think it is a sort of a Brooklyn.
01:18Yeah, what's up, Doc?
01:20I think what Mel did was a sort of a Bronx.
01:24What's up, Doc?
01:25A New York, Upper East Coast.
01:28Don't tell me, I know.
01:31What's up, Doc?
01:32Rabbits.
01:33Street hoodlum.
01:35Without the hoodlum.
01:37I don't know of anyone who has that accent, other than Bugs Bunny, of course.
01:43Bugs Bunny without the voice would have been fine, would have been an okay cartoon character,
01:47but with the voice, he became so three-dimensional, almost four-dimensional, that you had to love him.