Duck Amuck (1953) |
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| Director(s) | Chuck Jones |
| Producer(s) | No producer listed for this movie |
| Top Genres | Animation, Comedy, Family, Short Films |
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Mel Blanc(as Daffy Duck / Bugs Bunny)
Duck Amuck
Released
1953
Duck Amuck
Released
1953
Mel Blanc
(as Daffy Duck / Bugs Bunn...)
Duck Amuck Overview:
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)
Duck 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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Duck Amuck Quotes:
Daffy Duck:
[to second Daffy] Listen bud, If you wasn't me, I'd smack you right in the puss.
Daffy Duck: Don't let that bother you, Jack.
Daffy Duck: Okay, buddy, you asked for it.
Daffy Duck: Don't let that bother you, Jack.
Daffy Duck: Okay, buddy, you asked for it.
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!
[sees himself in a mirror]
Daffy Duck: EEEEEK! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!
Daffy Duck:
[in a rage] ... And I've never be so humiliated in all my life!
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?
[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?
[projector sticks between frames]
Daffy Duck: Now what?
Daffy Duck: What are you doing down there?
Daffy Duck: Down here? What are you doing up there?
[pointing upward, sarcastically]
Daffy Duck: *Down* here.
See More Quotes from Duck AmuckDaffy Duck: Now what?
Daffy Duck: What are you doing down there?
Daffy Duck: Down here? What are you doing up there?
[pointing upward, sarcastically]
Daffy Duck: *Down* here.
Duck Amuck Facts
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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?"
Released in 1953, but completed and copyrighted in 1951. During this late forties-early fifties period, Warner Bros., MGM and Disney/RKO stockpiled many cartoons, releasing them a year or two after completion.
Bugs Bunny needed to be used at the end, because no other character had any kind of antagonism with Daffy (acquired by Bugs over the course of the Hunting Trilogy in Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!) and Elmer Fudd is not a competent enough character - an ironic point considering the next year Elmer Fudd gets his animator's shots at Bugs Bunny in Rabbit Rampage.
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.
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.