Duck Amuck (1953) | |
| Director(s) | Chuck Jones |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Animation, Comedy, Family, Short Films |
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Duck Amuck (1953) was a Family - Animation Film directed by Chuck Jones .
Duck Amuck was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
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Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
on Mar 10, 2012 From The Stop ButtonDuck Amuck is either very memorable or very predictable. If I have ever seen it, it was fifteen plus years ago. Yet I could guess a bunch of the plot twists, including the final one. That final reveal, which might make Amuck memorable, also undoes a lot of the neat stuff the cartoon does otherwise. ... Read full article
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Daffy Duck:
[looking at corny background] That's dandy! Ho-Ho that's rich, I'll say!
[yells]
Daffy Duck: Now how 'bout some color, stupid?
[Artist draws Daffy in wild, polka-dot colors]
Daffy Duck: [in a rage] Mmmmp...
[rants wildly]
Daffy Duck: Not me you slop artist!
Daffy Duck: [artist has re-drawn him as a weird flower-like creature] That's strange. All of a sudden I don't quite feel like myself. Oh, I feel all right, and yet I... I uh...
[sees himself in a mirror]
Daffy Duck: EEEEEK! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!
Daffy Duck: [after the island paradise disappears] Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to you to find that this is an animated cartoon, and that in animated cartoons they have scenery, and in all the years I've...
[as he's venting, he is slowly being erased from feet up and is silenced when his face is erased]
Daffy Duck: All right wise guy, where am I?
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[yells]
Daffy Duck: Now how 'bout some color, stupid?
[Artist draws Daffy in wild, polka-dot colors]
Daffy Duck: [in a rage] Mmmmp...
[rants wildly]
Daffy Duck: Not me you slop artist!
Daffy Duck: [artist has re-drawn him as a weird flower-like creature] That's strange. All of a sudden I don't quite feel like myself. Oh, I feel all right, and yet I... I uh...
[sees himself in a mirror]
Daffy Duck: EEEEEK! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!
Daffy Duck: [after the island paradise disappears] Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to you to find that this is an animated cartoon, and that in animated cartoons they have scenery, and in all the years I've...
[as he's venting, he is slowly being erased from feet up and is silenced when his face is erased]
Daffy Duck: All right wise guy, where am I?
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Facts about
According to Chuck Jones, the revelation of the animator in the ending is just for comedic value - Jones (the director) is speaking to the audience directly, asking "Who is Daffy Duck anyway? Would you recognize him if I did THIS to him?"
This cartoon nearly didn't get made because there was resistance to the idea of using Bugs Bunny in such a limited role near the end.
In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was rated the second greatest cartoon of all time.
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This cartoon nearly didn't get made because there was resistance to the idea of using Bugs Bunny in such a limited role near the end.
In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was rated the second greatest cartoon of all time.
read more facts about Duck Amuck...
