{"id":46321,"date":"2025-02-12T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46321"},"modified":"2025-02-12T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:24:37","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-forward-march-hare-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/12\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-forward-march-hare-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Forward March Hare (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forward March Hare<\/strong> (1953)<br \/>\nDirected by\tCharles M. Jones<br \/>\nStory by\tMichael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by\tKen Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>A draft notice meant for Bertram Bonny \u2013 the envelope is addressed to \u201cB. Bonny\u201d \u2013 accidentally winds up down Bugs Bunny\u2019s hole. Bugs opens the envelope and mistakenly believes he\u2019s being drafted into the Army. He arrives at the induction processing center, creating confusion by his presence \u2013 but no one has the temerity to question why a rabbit is being inducted. But Bugs creates endless trouble for his drill sergeant, who is repeatedly demoted by the army base\u2019s colonel after Bugs\u2019 incompetence results in embarrassing assaults on the commanding officer\u2019s authority.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cForward March Hare\u201d has plenty of inventive gags, especially during the intake segment when the Army\u2019s medical staff can\u2019t make heads or tails of this unlikely recruit. It is also amusing to see the gruff sergeant\u2019s gradual demotion via close-ups of his uniform arm where V-shaped voids mark the removal of his rank\u2019s stripes.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cForward March Hare\u201d has three major flaws that prevent it from achieving greatness. First, Bugs\u2019 personality is radically altered into a good-natured bumbler, sort of like the characters played by Lou Costello and Jerry Lewis in their respective military comedies. It works in the context of this specific cartoon, but it is out of place within the full Bugs Bunny canon.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the animation is more than a little sloppy, with Bugs\u2019 height varying wildly through his encounters with the Army personnel. Third, and perhaps most annoying, there is a surplus amount of breaking the fourth wall, with the characters spending far too much time glancing at or addressing the viewer. This quickly becomes irritating, and it would become a major flaw with Chuck Jones\u2019 later work at Warner Bros. and in his MGM efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward March Hare (1953) Directed by Charles M. Jones Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam Music by Carl Stalling A draft notice meant for Bertram Bonny \u2013 the envelope is addressed to \u201cB. Bonny\u201d \u2013 accidentally winds up down Bugs Bunny\u2019s hole. Bugs opens the envelope and mistakenly believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078],"class_list":["post-46321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46402,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46321\/revisions\/46402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}