Blog 7(due 3/16) John Lyver, Bugsy gets Mugsy

In the cartoon Bugsy and Mugsy, Bugs bunny gets to try his hand at enforcing the law by teaching two mobsters a lesson.  Bugs uses multiple ways to trick Rocky and Mugsy into not trusting one another all the while he aparently is building a large lit up sign revealing to the police that it is these two mobsters hiding place. This cartoon and a few other Bugs Bunny cartoons were written around the time when graphic novels (comic books) were coming into popularity, and particularly comic books containing the Mob. Bugs bunny shows the true heart of the animators and the american people in this time of mobsters by not letting them get away and not letting this kind of mob behavior be unpunished.

The animators could have taken the approach to glorify mob violence like comic writers sometimes did, yet they took a very different approach and show their viewers a different side of the mob, and turns them into a joke. Instead of having competent murderous mobsters these two guys are portrayed as not being too terribly bright. Bugs uses an old telephone to talk to one while he sleeps and plants ideas in his head that his companion is out to get him in order to get his hands on the loot, which Bugs thinks is Carrots since one of the mobsters states the jewelry is 14 carat. These cartoons still contain a lot of funny cartoon violence, but not the type of more realistic violence that is portrayed in the media else where.

Bugs comes back to teach these humorous mobsters in another cartoon. He tricks them into thinking the cops are coming and has them hide in an oven which he then starts the gas and blows them up(Dont try this at home kids).

I commented on Michael Griffith’s post at http://mgriffi5.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/post-7-prometheus-and-bob-evolution/#comment-24

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