Run-A-Muck-Duck

Prose Number Four

It is simple the bunny chews a carrot as the duck fusses at the hand that changes his atmosphere.  Mickey's sticks move as he conducts the train and the symphony strings turn the wheels.  But the formless float, no water to be found, 'cause I've never known water to be that clear.  Thighs and legs I guess, the line turned to an 8 no an & wait, what's that ~ over there, no speech or "What's up Doc?"  The orange carrot, green vegetation topped, falls down, the ground is purple, the bunny is dead.

Response

The first time I ever saw Duck Amuck, was in my Introduction to Film Studies class.  Now I was never unfamiliar with with the character Daffy Duck; he was the one that always spit and had the lisp when he talked.  Anyway, when I watched the short animation I found it quite comical, as did the rest of the class (everyone laughing as if on cue) at how this drawing came to life and actually seemed like a human being.  I later learned that it was a trademark of Warner Brothers to have a more adult like feel to there cartoons than its competitor Disney.

When I was younger and I enjoyed my Saturday morning cartoons, I, along with my sister and my cousin, found ourselves choosing to watch Looney Tunes over any Mickey Mouse cartoon.  In thinking about it now I think we loved the more slapstick, unrealistic situations that the Looney Tunes characters found themselves in, instead of that "moral" of the story, teaching a lesson type cartoon; we went to school five days a week and learning was out the door.  I mean seeing the Roadrunner out wit the Coyote every time was priceless.

This is not an advocacy for Looney Tunes over Disney, but just me thinking back to how I felt and how these companies used certain methods to win over different types of audiences.  From my understanding Disney or Disney "types" would use what is called a symphonic approach, playing on the more poetic side of the art of animation and Warner Brothers or Warner "types" would use what is called the approach cacphonic, the more urban and industrialized based, when it comes to dialogue.

I can see  were the symphonic plays into Disney, which plays onto the more "emotional" side of its audience, like subjects of love and friendship, and Warner being more of pop culture, drawing out laughter from its viewer, which is an emotion as well, but Disney seems to have a more "realistic" standpoint in situations than Warner Brothers.

As for the experimental side, which seems as if it doesn't have anything in common with the previous, also has a more "symphonic" approach, like Disney.  The experimental draws out an emotional response from its viewer, if it is sadness , anger, confusion...etc, and also, like Disney, plays with the idea of music being its source of movement, visually or image based, rather than direct dialogue.