Duck Amuck
April 17, 2006 11:26 AM   Subscribe

Duck Amuck [youtube]
posted by none (17 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: meh



 
Yes, I also enjoy watching things on YouTube.
posted by jenovus at 11:36 AM on April 17, 2006


Kill da wabbit.
posted by Pollomacho at 11:36 AM on April 17, 2006


This isn't really worth a meta call-out, but this is a horrible FPP. It's blatant copyright infringement and provides absolutely 0 context to make up for it.

That said, Duck Amuck is an absolute classic piece of animation and well worth watching.
posted by empath at 11:39 AM on April 17, 2006


This must be the linkroll part of the community weblog.
posted by spock at 11:40 AM on April 17, 2006


Duck Amuck was #1 on a Cartoon Network top 100 list a few years ago.
posted by danb at 11:42 AM on April 17, 2006


Geez... looks like a lot of the Warner Bros classics are up there.

Wonder how long before they notice and have a shit fit?
posted by BobFrapples at 11:43 AM on April 17, 2006


I'm not sure I can condone this. On the one hand, yes, "Duck Amuck" is one of the greatest American short films ever produced, and should be viewed and studied by everyone. On the other hand, this is some pretty clear copyright violation, and the cartoon is easily purchasable in this fine boxed set. On the other other hand, every single person directly involved in the production of "Duck Amuck," namely director Chuck Jones, writer Michael Maltese, producer Edward Selzer, voice performer Mel Blanc, and artists and animators Philip DeGuard, Ken Harris, Maurice Noble, Lloyd Vaughan and Ben Washam, is dead, and I'm vehemently opposed to the trend of seemingly indefinite copyright extension.

In short, I'm conflicted.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:47 AM on April 17, 2006




This is part of the plan to offically get youtube links removed from the internet... keep posting them none!
posted by bigmusic at 12:00 PM on April 17, 2006


I agree with XQUZYPHYR. I love this cartoon, and watched it gleefully, having not seen it in years. More links like empath's would have been nice in the FPP, as I think Duck Amuck's cheerfully modernist, metafictional, unreliable animator has echoed throughout a lot of work in the past few years, from David Foster Wallace and Umberto Eco, to the recent film Tristam Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story. A bit of digging and fleshing-out could have made for a great FPP about metfictional devices in film and animation.

Thanks for the rotten persimmons, cousin.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:26 PM on April 17, 2006


Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy haaaaaands -----KA-BOOM!
posted by keswick at 12:44 PM on April 17, 2006


keswick that's amazing - I was just about to ask what he was singing before the bomb exploded.

synchronicity.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 12:55 PM on April 17, 2006


"Duck Amuck" is indeed brilliant (whether or not it should have appeared on YouTube), but if you want to see something even better, check out the the sequence in Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." that inspired it.
posted by speedlime at 12:55 PM on April 17, 2006


YouTube is not a real business.

YouTube targets piracy by limiting video length. To 10 minutes, thus this one still fits.
posted by dhartung at 1:22 PM on April 17, 2006


Great post, and right to the point—let Daffy speak for himself. From the Senses of Cinema article, Chuck Jones, written a few months after Jones' death in February 2002:
On one level, a Jones character is just a flat and superficial thing, like any animated drawing, but it somehow finds a unique response in the depths of human memory, precisely, I think, in the way it lives with the impossibility of its own life. Daffy, in fact, is never more himself than at the moment that Jones lets Bugs rub out Daffy's world altogether in the famously 'deconstructive'... Duck Amuck (1953):

What I want to say is that Daffy can live and struggle on in an empty screen, without setting and without sound, just as well as with a lot of arbitrary props. He remains Daffy.
May we all be as true to ourselves. A few choice words from Chuck's little black duck are welcome from any source, any time, any place.
posted by cenoxo at 1:36 PM on April 17, 2006


BOP-I was going to quote that line!
posted by OmieWise at 1:49 PM on April 17, 2006


it's sour persimmons.
posted by OmieWise at 1:49 PM on April 17, 2006


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