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Bugs Bunny certainly is an equal opportunity wisenheimer. His most famous adversaries may be sawed off runts (Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Marvin the Martian and various other Napoleonic nudniks) but he takes on the big guys as well. The bulky magician in “The Case of the Missing Hare” towers over the resourceful rabbit, but he simply proves to be a bigger target for public humiliation.

This is a vintage Chuck Jones cartoon, which means (A) our peace loving hero is decisively and explicitly provoked — the offending schnook gets exactly one lick in before all of-course-you-know-this-means-war heck breaks loose. And (B) there are lots of carefully calibrated camera angles and crazy, stylized backgrounds. In fact the P.O.V. gets more dramatic and scenics more simplified as the film progresses (check out how they actually change the big color block backgrounds in the middle of the same scene by the end of the cartoon!)

We had a swords in a basket gag in yesterday’s film (”Hamateur Night”) — same set-up today, whole different take (and some great animated acting!)

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Dave Kirwan