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''Duck Amuck'' is a surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros., as part of the ''Merrie Melodies'' series. It stars Daffy Duck, who is tormented by a seemingly sadistic, initially unseen animator, who constantly changes Daffy's locations, clothing, voice, physical appearance and even shape, much to Daffy's anger. Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality, only for the animator to either ignore him or, more frequently, to over-literally interpret his increasingly frantic demands. In the end, the tormenting animator is revealed to be Bugs Bunny. In 1994, it was voted #2 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, losing only to ''What's Opera, Doc?'', also made by Chuck Jones and also written by Michael Maltese. It remains one of the most notable Warner Bros. animations, and has been inducted into the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The short was included on the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1'' DVD box set (with optional audio commentary by noted animation historian Jerry Beck) and the ''Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1'' Blu-ray box set. The short inspired the 2007 Nintendo DS game ''Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck''. ==Plot== The cartoon's title sequence and opening scene suggest Daffy Duck is to star as a musketeer, who boldly acts out an action scene with a fencing foil. As he thrusts the foil and advances, the background abruptly disappears, leaving a plain white screen. Confused by this, Daffy turns to the animator and asks him to complete the scenery. However, instead of a castle from the original scene, the animator paints a farm. Daffy returns and starts to repeat his musketeer opening, but quickly notices the different background. He walks off screen and returns as a farmer, singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm. A few seconds later, the farm scene segues into a winter backdrop; Daffy changes into winter clothes and skies through the snow (to "Jingle Bells") and into a Hawaiian setting. Still dutifully going through the changes, Daffy comes back in Hawaiian garb. After a couple of bars of "Farewell To Three" on ukelele, Daffy ends up back in the plain white background. While Daffy tries to reason with the animator that cartoons should have scenery, he becomes completely erased and redrawn as a cowboy with a guitar. Daffy tries to play it but there is nothing but silence. He requests sound with a sign and is granted with various non-guitar sound effects; Daffy also finds himself briefly generating random sound effects before finally blowing his top and shouting angrily at the animator. Regaining his composure, Daffy demands some new scenery and is given an amateurish line-art cityscape background in pencil. Daffy asks for color, prompting the animator to take the request literally and slap various colors and patterns all over him ("NOT ME, YOU SLOP ARTIST!!"). All but Daffy's face is erased and upon asking where the rest of him was, he is redrawn as a bizarre mismatched animal with a "screwball" flag on its tail. As Daffy walks off (wondering to himself if he wasn't living up to his contract and if he hadn't been keeping himself trim), he becomes suspicious of his new form until the animator creates a mirror and Daffy scolds the animator upon seeing his hideous self ("EEK! You know better than that!"). Everything is erased and Daffy is redrawn again, this time as a sailor. He begins to sing "The Song of the Marines" as the animator draws an ocean scene with an island in the background. Upon realizing that he has been left in thin air and surrounded by nothing but water, Daffy falls into the ocean and surfaces on the distant island where he asks for a closeup, only to have the camera zoom up close to his eyes. As Daffy tries once again to negotiate with the animator to have an understanding, the black screen frame falls on him. After failing to keep the frame up with a stick, Daffy goes ballistic and rips apart the black background. Now at the end of his rope, Daffy demands "Let's get this picture started", so the camera does an iris-out to black, followed by "The End" slide which Daffy frustratingly pushes off camera. Daffy suggests that he and the animator go their separate ways and (hoping, against hope, that nothing further will happen to him) begins a dance routine which is quickly interrupted when the film runs out of alignment, resulting in two Daffy Ducks on the screen. They argue with each other start a fight, but one Daffy is erased just as the other throws the first punch. The animator then turns Daffy into a pilot and draws him into an airplane. The duck excitedly flies around until a mountain is drawn in his path. The plane crashes off-screen, leaving Daffy with nothing but the plane's steering wheel and windshield. He "bails" out of the plane's remains and floats downward with his parachute which is replaced with an anvil. Crashing to the ground, a disoriented Daffy hammers the anvil while dizzily reciting "The Village Blacksmith". The artist changes the anvil into an artillery shell which explodes after a few more hammer strikes. Daffy finally snaps and angrily demands that the animator reveal himself. He does, but not until after he draws a door around Daffy and closes it on him. The camera draws back and reveals the guilty party to be Bugs Bunny at a drawing table, who says to the audience: "Ain't I a stinker?" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duck Amuck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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