Herr Meets Hare
Mr. Meets Hare (Eng. "Lord meets hare ") is a parodic animated film of the series Merrie Melodies from the year 1945. The film, which tells a meeting of the famous American cartoon rabbit Bugs Bunny with the Nazi leader Hermann Goering, considered to be one of the most famous propaganda cartoon productions of the Second World war.
Action
The film begins with the fact that Hitler's " Reichsmarschall " Hermann Goering in search of distraction from the depressing ( from the Nazi point of view) war situation is taking a hunting trip in the Black Forest. There he meets Bugs Bunny, who arrive at the attempt by a self-dug underground tunnels to Las Vegas, has landed by accident in Germany, where his encounters tunnel to the surface.
Goering takes over the Mauritanian, for the Bugs Bunny cartoons typical, tried Part of the zealous adversary of the hares that imitates this with zeal and to catch him. Equipped with a musket and supported by a hunting dog suffers Goering initially several setbacks that culminated for him in all sorts of scenes, before he can catch Bugs Bunny and bring to Hitler. When hitting the sack - in which he has buried his capture - opens in front of Hitler, rises Bugs Bunny from this - dressed as Joseph Stalin, whereupon Goering and Hitler take to their heels, while Bugs Bunny said goodbye to the audience - with glued-on mustache and pipe.
Production
Meets Mr. Hare was produced in 1944, directed by Friz Freleng from the characters tricks department of the Warner Brothers Studios and came on January 13, 1945 in the American cinema.
The plot of the seven-minute film is based on a screenplay by Michael Maltese, the music of Carl W. Stalling cartoons wrote during the vocal artist Mel Blanc the voice of the figures appearing contributed or interpreted.
Analysis
Leitmotif of Mr. Meets Hare is how the Nazi regime, its officials, his views and his Customs systematically ridicule in most other U.S. cartoon productions of the interwar period, the experiment.
Goering is presented at the beginning of the film already as " fatso Hermann Goering ". The " German militarism " is mocked by Goering himself moved as a recreational hunters in the marching and carrying over and over decorated with religious clothing. More German stereotypes that are processed leather pants Goering contributes to speak the typical German way English (pronunciation, word concatenation patterns, etc. ) that speaks Goering, and are highly valued by the Nazis " Germanic culture sanctuaries " over which the makers of the cartoons making fun by letting bugs Bunny Goering in an anarchic musical interlude in a disguise as Brunnhilde from the Nibelungenlied (or Wagner's " Der Ring des Nibelungen " ) bewitch. Göring dressed up then as Siegfried and begins a dance- love dance with the bunnies to the pathetic sound of Wagner's music.
Reception and Aftermath
Meets Mr. Hare was among the last propaganda cartoons that came on the market before the collapse of National Socialist Germany.
Since its original publication in the cinema, he has been held by the Time Warner Company ( or AOL ) from corporate political reasons largely under wraps. So forbade AOL in 2007 the TV channel Cartoon Network broadcast by Mr. Hare Meets on the grounds that it was offensive because it would shift the Third Reich in the area of the humorous and so distracted by the atrocities of the regime.
Available the cartoon is still in the video collection Bugs & Duffy. The Wartime Cartoons.