The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

[Joe Allonby]

That was a great Daffy Bugs short.

Bugs represents American resilience, pragmaitism, and cleverness. The
positive self-image of the post-WWII country.

Daffy is all self-interest, venality and greed.

"Try to imagine how little I care."

"It's  mine, mine mine, all mine!"



On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm kinda partial to rubbery, loose-limbed Bob Clampett.
>
> My vision of the Temperance card [in the Thoth deck Atu 14 is called
> "Art", which is easier to read but not as pretty as the Rider-Waite version]
> is from a Daffy Duck feature. He's doing vaudeville, and nothing seems to
> click. For his finale he drinks some gasoline, downs a couple of sticks of
> tnt and lights himself, resulting in a massive explosion and feathers
> everywhere. Out of the ruble, a Daffy angel emerges and floats up saying
> "the only problem with this trick is you can only do it once." That moment
> of Dafft's Angel is my vision of the Temperance card:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZmRnAo6s
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > I love Daffy. But I prefer the Chuck Jones iconic version to the
> frenetic
> > Tex Avery version.
> >
> > Chuck Jones: an American artistic genius. . . .
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:12:28 +0000
> Subject: Re: The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation
> I love Daffy. But I prefer the Chuck Jones iconic version to the frenetic
> Tex Avery version.
>
> Chuck Jones: an American artistic genius.
>
> Warner Bros had it all over Disney.
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:44 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > I definitely fall into the Daffy camp as well.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >  >Sent: Mar 8, 2008 2:12 PM
> > >To: kelber at mindspring.com
> > >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > >Subject: Re: The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation
> > >
> > >On 3/8/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Daffy Duck more than Bugs Bunny.
> > >
> > >Daffy's all black.  Or all white, depending on how you look @ it ...
> > >
> > >> There's also a division between the winners and/or good-guys (Mickey,
> > Bugs, Jerry) and the hapless losers (Daffy, Tom, etc.)  Presumably we're
> > meant to cheer for and identify with the former?
> > >
> > >Years ago, a coworker gave us all cloisonne Warner Brothers cartoon
> > >character pins, eerily well-suited to our individual temperaments. He
> > >of course awarded Bugs Bunny to himself.  I of course got Daffy Duck
> > >...
> >
> >
>
>
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