{"id":44914,"date":"2024-08-21T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44914"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:19:44","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-hillbilly-hare-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/21\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-hillbilly-hare-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Hillbilly Hare (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hillbilly Hare (1950)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Bob McKimson
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nAnimation by Rod Scribner
\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n

Sorry we missed you last week, but I\u2019ve been very ill as of late.<\/p>\n

In either case, \u201cHillbilly Hare\u201d further emphasizes the wonderful marriage between Looney Tunes and classic music, or in case it\u2019s Southern music. \u201cHillBilly Hare\u201d isn\u2019t anything particularly special, but it\u2019s a great and very funny misadventure with Bugs mainly because of the wonderful musical direction. I dare say that I learned about square dancing because of \u201cHillBilly Hare\u201d and loved the way the short utilized it as a means of comedy. While this certainly the first comedy to take square dancing and use it as a comedy plot point or running gag, \u201cHillBilly Hare\u201d is just so great about.<\/p>\n

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That becomes especially true with how Bugs is able to take the gag and bring it in to a whole other new dimension that still cracks me up. He doesn\u2019t just reduce the gag to one room, but eventually has his two foils running through the woods and up mountain tops. Bob McKimson\u2019s work here really warrants a ton of merit as he delivers a version of Bugs who is just top tier all around. Even in the face of the foils Curt and Punkinhead Martin, two stock one and done villains for Bugs.<\/p>\n

Granted, they fulfill their purpose of the hillbilly stereotype as needed, but they\u2019re fairly unremarkable villains. They\u2019re just hillbillies with different color swaps. Warner would do the same thing all over again with \u201cFrench Rarebit\u201d except with French chefs Louie and Francois. They, too, are very forgettable foils in the Bugs bunny verse Seriously, I love Warner but their animators really knew how to be lazy when they felt like it. In either case, \u201cHillbilly Hare\u201d gets by thanks to the ace comic timing, excellent animation, and of course the top notch music direction.<\/p>\n

In particular, the short ends on a big musical number with Bugs getting the brothers to dance for his attention dressed as a Southern Belle.<\/p>\n

It then devolves in to such a hilarious competition that the writers don\u2019t even to know how to end on. Thankfully they don\u2019 try and close on a pretty hilarious one-liner all the way through.<\/p>\n

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Hillbilly Hare (1950) Directed by Bob McKimson Written by Michael Maltese Animation by Rod Scribner Music by Carl Stalling Sorry we missed you last week, but I\u2019ve been very ill as of late. In either case, \u201cHillbilly Hare\u201d further emphasizes the wonderful marriage between Looney Tunes and classic music, or in case it\u2019s Southern music. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[71,99,167,219,610,3069,1175],"class_list":["post-44914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-comedy","tag-looney-tunes","tag-merrie-melodies","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44916,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914\/revisions\/44916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}