Rock- A- Doodle - Moviepedia - Wikia. Rock- a- Doodle is a 1. Edmond Rostand's comedy . Weiss, Rock- a- Doodle is an Irish, British and American venture produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Goldcrest Films. Detested by the farm animals as a result, he leaves the farm to look for work in the city.
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Afterward, perpetual darkness and rainfall threaten the farm with flooding. He is accompanied by Snipes, a claustrophobic magpie, and Peepers, an intellectual field mouse, as well as several animals from the farm, hoping to find Chanticleer and apologise to him for their behaviour. En route, they are attacked by Hunch, the Duke's diminutive nephew, assigned by him to stop Edmond and the others from finding Chanticleer. They narrowly escape and enter the city. At a show featuring an Elvis- type theme, he is introduced to Goldie Pheasant as a distraction in case Chanticleer's friends come to find him.
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Watch Rock-A-Doodle (1991) - Edmund is a boy whose favorite story of Chanticleer, a rooster whose singing makes the sun rise every morning until the Grand Duke of. Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated musical comedy/fantasy film loosely based on Edmond Rostand's comedy Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by. Rock-A-Doodle (1991) re. Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated film. This film article is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.
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Goldie soon grows genuinely attracted to Chanticleer and realises Pinkie's true intentions when he captures Edmond and the others trying to get a letter to Chanticleer. Realizing that she is in love with him, Goldie confesses to Chanticleer that his friends had come to see him, and Pinkie blackmails Chanticleer to attend his show or never see his friends again. They return to the farm. Chanticleer confronts the Duke, but realises he has forgotten how to crow. The Duke grows tired of this and magically strangles Edmond to his assumed death.
Chanticleer finally remembers how to crow, and begins to sing for the sun to emerge; his cries are heard and the sun rises, driving the Duke's minions away and shrinking him to a very minuscule size. Hunch barely recognises his uncle, but uses this to exact revenge by chasing him with a fly swatter. As Peepers tries to wake him, he does so in his own room, with his mother watching over him after an accident where a tree collapsed into his room. He picks up Chanticleer's book and thanks him for coming back, before he is magically transported into Chanticleer's world, where he witnesses the rooster singing to make the sun shine. He is transformed into a kitten by the Grand Duke as punishment for trying to summon back Chanticleer, and is the one who organises the farm animals to bring Chanticleer back to the farm after the flooding starts. He slowly begins to learn the errors of his ways and he stops being afraid.
He overhears Edmond's call for Chanticleer in the real world and transforms him into a kitten as punishment, planning to eat him. The Duke hates his nephew and threatens several times to kill him if he fails. The Duke is a malevolent powerful creature of the night, with a penchant for eating smaller animals as meals and commanding other villainous owls to do his bidding. He hates sunlight, like all owls, and recoils when light shines on him.
Also, he possesses magical breath that can transform anyone into any creature, as exampled when he turns Edmond into his kitten form. When the sun rises without his crowing, his friends, believing he was lying to them about how his crowing brought up the sun (a fact he himself thought was true), leave him, leading to the adventures of Edmond and the others. In a miserable state, he goes to the city and becomes a popular singer. Through his manager Pinky, he meets Goldie and falls in love at first sight with her. Soon though, his friends come to the city and apologise. He and Goldie are then brought back to the farm, so he can save it.
He is also based on the superstar Elvis Presley. She initially dislikes Chanticleer for stealing her spotlight, but falls in love with him upon becoming more acquainted with him; in one part of the film, Pinky told her that Edmond was a bad kitty, but he was not. He despises the Grand Duke and is dedicated to Edmond's cause to bring Chanticleer back home. He is brave and reasonable, but somewhat temperamental.
His endeavour to find Chanticleer is hampered by the fact that he does not know how to tie his shoes (which he wears because of bunions). However, in the end, he finally figures out how to tie them right. It was Harris' final film role, before his retirement from acting and his death in 1.
He, Edmond, Patou, and Peepers travel to the city in a toybox floating on the floodwaters, with Snipes more interested in exploring the city and its sights than actually helping his friends. Being claustrophobic, this poses a problem when he pokes holes in the box trying to escape and reach open air.
He dislikes garbage and dirt, but loves the food served in the city when they go inside a restaurant where Chanticleer sings, particularly lasagna. Because of this, she is initially terrified of Edmond, but he tries to convince everyone that he used to be a boy. She was willing to accept him for being a cat if he took her and the others to the city. It is not until the very end of the film that she believes him and comments . Hunch enjoys rhyming words with .
He is dimwitted, but extremely aggressive. He carries an all- purpose Swiss Army Knife in a lidless soda can strapped to his back and uses its various bladed objects, tools and household objects (like a flyswatter) as weapons. A small running gag in the film was that whenever the Duke would breathe on him, his magic would transform Hunch into a randomly different creature. He is also Chanticleer's manager in the city. His job is to ensure that Chanticleer never feels the compulsion to return home by convincing him that his friends hate him, making it easy to profit off of Chanticleer's singing skills. He secretly works for the Grand Duke of Owls and he lies to Goldie about Edmond being the bad guy, This is Booke's final film role.
Whenever anybody mentions the owls, he starts to freak out, and he will sometimes snort and whimper. In the late 1. 98. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the proposal was revised by a former Disney animator, Don Bluth, who wanted to tell the rooster's story through live action and animation. The film's opening (which took place at a farm) had Edmond's mother reading the tale of Chanticleer to him. Bluth, who had never done anything in this field, took over from this point. However, very little of this footage made it in the final cut.
When the live action footage was finished during the production, Goldcrest Films recruited Sullivan Bluth Studios to animate the rest of the film. Animation took place in both Burbank, California and Dublin, Ireland.
In response to reactions from mothers during test screenings of her scenes, Goldcrest Films requested that Sullivan Bluth Studios reanimate the scenes by covering her chest with feathers as cel overlays, or simply painting her cleavage out. The crew, because of these changes, had to work overtime to finish the film by Thanksgiving 1.
Don Bluth chose this direction because he was influenced by Roger Rabbit. The animation was shot on an open- matte fullscreen negative, meaning the top and bottom of the image was cropped to fit the theatre screen. However, the live- action scenes, including all animated elements, were shot in hard- matted widescreen.
Domestically, it grossed $1. A Hong Kong company, Media Assets purchased Bluth's next three films: Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park and The Pebble and the Penguin, but none of these films did any better than . The film maintains a Rotten Tomatoes . There are many passing delights. Kuenster has some funny songs. They're not Ashman and Menken (The Little Mermaid songwriting team), but they're sprightly.
The best is probably a Bach- like fugue number, in which the Grand Duke and his owlish goons sing . But in a movie like this, it ain't over till the rooster sings. Why do almost all problems in family movies have to be settled through strength and scheming? Is there any other way to create dramatic tension and excitement?