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''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is a 1988 American live-action/animated buddy fantasy-comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The screenplay by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel ''Who Censored Roger Rabbit?'', which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings and animals. ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' stars Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant, a private eye, and Charles Fleischer as the voice of Roger Rabbit, a second-banana cartoon character. The plot takes place in 1947, when Roger is framed for the murder of a wealthy Hollywood businessman and he teams with Eddie Valiant to find the killer and clear his name. The film co-stars Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom, the villain; Kathleen Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit, Roger's cartoon wife; and Joanna Cassidy as Dolores, the detective's girlfriend. The Walt Disney Company purchased the film rights to the story in 1981. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg, with his Amblin Entertainment becoming the production company. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film. Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. Disney released the film through its Touchstone Pictures division on June 22, 1988, to financial success and largely positive reviews. ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' spurred a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation and spearheaded the modern era of American animation, especially the Disney Renaissance. ==Plot== The film takes place in Hollywood 1947, in a world where cartoon characters (known as "toons") regularly interact with real people and reside in the animated district of Toontown. Private detective Eddie Valiant and his brother, Teddy, once worked closely with the toons on several cases; but after Teddy was murdered by a toon, Eddie lapsed into alcoholism and developed a strong dislike of toons. R.K. Maroon, head of Maroon Cartoon Studios, is concerned about the poor performance of his star Roger Rabbit; and he hires Eddie to investigate rumors that Roger's voluptuous toon wife Jessica is romantically involved with famed gag maker and owner of Toontown Marvin Acme. After watching Jessica perform at the underground Ink & Paint Club, Eddie secretly takes pictures of her and Acme playing patty-cake in her dressing room. Roger is distraught by the photos and flees the studio, vowing he and his wife will be happy. The next day, Eddie learns that Acme has been killed by a safe dropped on his head, and that Roger is the prime suspect. At the crime scene, Eddie meets Judge Doom, who controls Toontown with an iron fist and has created the only known means of killing a toon: a mix of turpentine, acetone, and benzene known as "Dip". Returning to his office, Eddie runs into Roger's co-star, Baby Herman, who believes Acme's missing will, which bequeaths Toontown to the toons, may be key to his murder, and that Roger is innocent. Eddie dismisses Baby Herman, but later spots the will in one of the pictures he took. He is then enraged to find Roger in the office, who asks for Eddie's help in clearing him due to his past work with toons. Eddie reluctantly hides Roger in the bar run by his girlfriend, Dolores; and Jessica tells Eddie that Maroon had set her up to pose for the pictures, and Eddie to take them, in order to blackmail Acme. Eddie then learns that Cloverleaf Industries, which has already bought out the Pacific Electric trolley cars, also intends to purchase Toontown. Roger is discovered at the bar by Doom's weasel henchmen, but Eddie escapes with him in Benny the toon cab. They hide out in a movie theater, where Eddie tells Roger about his brother's murder. As they leave with Dolores, Eddie sees a newsreel detailing the sale of Maroon Cartoons to Cloverleaf. That night, Eddie goes to confront Maroon, leaving Roger to stand watch outside; but Roger is quickly knocked out by Jessica and put in her car trunk. Maroon explains that he blackmailed Acme into selling his gag factory so that he could then sell his own studio, and that he wished to save the toons from being destroyed. Before he can elaborate, he is shot dead. Eddie spots Jessica fleeing the scene and, assuming she killed Maroon, pursues her into Toontown. Jessica reveals that Doom actually murdered Maroon and Acme, and she and Eddie are soon captured by Doom and the weasels and taken to the Acme factory. Doom, who owns Cloverleaf, reveals his intent to destroy Toontown with a giant Dip machine in order to build a freeway, forcing people to drive on it by buying up and dismantling the trolleys. Roger enters the factory to rescue his wife, but both of them are tied up and hung from a hook near the Dip machine's water cannon. Eddie distracts the weasels by performing a makeshift vaudeville act, causing most of them to literally die of laughter (with the leader being hurled into the Dip). Doom then battles Eddie using props from the factory, but is flattened by a steamroller. He survives, revealing that he is a toon in disguise—the same toon who murdered Teddy. During a final confrontation, Eddie opens a valve on the Dip machine, causing Dip to pour onto the floor and slowly dissolve Doom. The Dip machine rolls past Roger and Jessica, through the factory wall, and into Toontown, where it is immediately hit by a train. Roger discovers that a piece of paper on which he had written a love letter for Jessica actually contains Acme's will, written in "disappearing, reappearing ink". Roger then shocks Eddie with a joy buzzer, and Eddie kisses him, having regained his sense of humor. Eddie enters Toontown with Dolores, and Roger with Jessica, followed by a group of other toons. The film ends with Porky Pig's trademark "Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!" and Tinker Bell's magic. 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「Who Framed Roger Rabbit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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