I know I haven’t been active in this thread for a bit, but I’ll give my two cents about the Jessica Rabbit thing. I think the detective outfit is ridiculous, but I also think Jessica Rabbit is a character who at least has “design problems”.
The coat is a cheap attempt to make Jessica Rabbit work in the modern day, when if she’s to be included in modern works, a lot more creativity could be put into her character.
Now for the sake of a theme park ride where there’s not much room for exploring characters, the alternate appearance works fine. But if this was say, a sequel to the original movie, I think a somewhat meta-contextual approach to her already existing attributes is the way to go.
I’m not gonna write a film script just for the sake of demonstration, but perhaps you go for an examination of what it means to have a character who ”uses her feminine wiles“, and what leads to characters like that (obviously using metaphors and what not).
For some final points: 1. “It’s a cartoon, why so deep?”. Roger Rabbit is a relatively mature movie for something with Mickey Mouse and Looney Tunes in it. In my opinion, the only way to make a worthwhile piece of RR media in this day and age is something along these lines.
2. “Why change pre-existing characters?”. If you really want a sequel where a character has nothing added to their personality, a sequel that’s a clone of a decades old movie, then you can have that. But even removing this point from the overall discussion, that just sounds uninteresting to me.
Anyways I realize that nobody really wanted to hear a mini-analysis of a movie and beyond. But I just felt I’d say something about this.
