Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives

THE BUGS BUNNY/ ROAD RUNNER MOVIE

Directed by Chuck Jones

Screenplay by Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones

Outlandish as it may seem, it is possible that some day Animator Chuck Jones may come to be regarded as the American Buñuel. Like the Spanish master, Jones finds his great subject in obsession, and he understands that finally, all truly memorable comedy results from observing creatures caught helplessly in the grip of irrational, inexplicable passions. Buñuel's obsessives are all sexually motivated; Jones' great creation, Wile E. Coyote, has a loftier theme: the annihilation of that uncannily...

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