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1972 flick by Ralph Bakshi

Fritz the Cat
The film poster shows a blonde, pale-orange female cat wearing boots and a blue-striped shirt with a suggestive look sitting next to a grey male cat wearing a red-striped shirt on a green couch, with drugs and matches scattered on the floor. The background is a dark blue with the film's tagline spelled in big white letters on the top and the film's title on the bottom.

Theatrical release affiche
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Screenplay by Ralph Bakshi
Based on Fritz the True cat
by R. Crumb
Produced by Steve Krantz
Starring
  • Skip Hinnant
  • Rosetta LeNoire
  • John McCurry
  • Judy Engles
  • Phil Seuling
Cinematography
  • Ted Bemiller
  • Cistron Borghi
Edited past Renn Reynolds
Music by
  • Ed Bogas
  • Ray Shanklin
Animation by
  • Manny Perez
  • Art Vitello
  • Phil Duncan
  • Dick Lundy
  • Virgil Ross
  • Norm McCabe
  • John Sparey
  • George Griffin[1] [2]
  • James Tyer
  • John Gentilella
  • Rod Scribner
  • Ted Bonnicksen

Production
companies
  • Fritz Productions
  • Aurica Finance Visitor
  • Krantz Films
Distributed by Cinemation Industries

Release appointment
  • April 12, 1972 (1972-04-12)

Running time

 80 minutes[iii]
State United States
Languages
  • English language
  • Yiddish
Budget $700,000
Box office $90 million

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American contained adult blithe black comedy motion-picture show written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in his feature film debut. Based on the comic strip by R. Crumb and starring Skip Hinnant, the picture show focuses on Fritz (Hinnant), a glib, womanizing and fraudulent true cat in an anthropomorphic animal version of New York Metropolis during the mid-to-late 1960s. Fritz decides on a whim to drop out of college, interacts with inner city African American crows, unintentionally starts a race riot, and becomes a leftist revolutionary. The movie is a satire focusing on American college life of the era, race relations, and the free love movement, and serves as a criticism of the countercultural political revolution and quack political activists.

The film had a troubled production history, as Nibble, who is a leftist, had disagreements with the filmmakers over the film'due south political content, which he saw as being critical of the political left.[four] [5] [6] Produced on a upkeep of $700,000,[7] the picture show was intended past Bakshi to broaden the animation market. At that time, animation was seen predominantly as a children'south medium. Bakshi envisioned animation every bit a medium that could tell more than dramatic or satirical storylines with larger scopes, dealing with more mature and diverse themes that would resonate with adults. Bakshi also wanted to plant an contained alternative to the films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, which dominated the animation market due to a lack of independent competition.

The moving-picture show's depiction of profanity, sex and drug use, particularly cannabis, provoked criticism from more bourgeois members of the animation manufacture, who accused Bakshi of attempting to produce a pornographic animated flick, as the concept of adult animation was not widely understood at the time. The Motion Motion-picture show Association of America gave the film an X rating (a recent equivalent to NC-17 rating films), making information technology the commencement American animated film to receive the rating, which was then predominantly associated with more arthouse films.

The film was highly successful, grossing over $90 million worldwide, making it one of the about successful independent films of all time.[8] It earned significant critical acclaim in the 1970s, for its satire, social commentary and animations, although it besides attracted some negative response accusing information technology of racial stereotyping and having an unfocused plot, and criticizing its depiction of graphic violence, profanity, sexual activity and drug employ in the context of an animated film. The film'southward use of satire and mature themes is seen as paving the style for future animated works for adults, including The Simpsons,[9] South Park [9] [10] and Family Guy.

A sequel, The 9 Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974), was produced without Crumb'south or Bakshi'southward interest.

Plot [edit]

In the 1960s, at Washington Foursquare Park in Manhattan, hippies gather to perform protest songs. Fritz, a true cat, and his friends show up in an attempt to run into girls. When a trio of attractive women walk past, Fritz and his friends frazzle themselves trying to get their attention with their music but are annoyed to find that the girls are more interested in the crow standing nearby. The girls effort to flirt with the crow, making unintentionally cavalier remarks nigh blackness people. After the crow snidely rebukes the girls and leaves, Fritz convinces the girls that he is a suffering soul and invites them to "seek the truth". They arrive at his friend'south apartment, where a wild party is taking place. Since the other rooms are crowded, Fritz drags the girls into the bathroom and the 4 of them have an orgy in the bathtub. Meanwhile, two bumbling constabulary officers (portrayed as pigs) get in to raid the political party. Every bit they walk up the stairs, 1 of the partygoers finds Fritz and the girls in the bathroom tub. Several others bound in, pushing Fritz to the side where he takes solace in marijuana. The 2 officers intermission into the apartment, but find that information technology is empty considering everyone has moved into the bath. Fritz takes refuge in the toilet when ane of the pigs enters the bathroom and begins to beat upward the partygoers. As the pig becomes exhausted, a stoned Fritz jumps out, grabs the pig'southward gun, and shoots the toilet, causing the water chief to break and flooding everybody out of the apartment. The pigs chase Fritz downward the street into a synagogue. Fritz manages to escape when the congregation gets up to gloat the United States' decision to send more than weapons to State of israel.

Fritz makes it back to his dormitory, where his roommates are too busy studying to pay attending to him. He decides to ditch his bore of a life and sets all of his notes and books on fire. The fire spreads throughout the dorm, finally setting the entire building ablaze. In a bar in Harlem, Fritz meets Knuckles the Crow at a puddle table. After narrowly avoiding getting into a fight with the bartender, Duke invites Fritz to "bug out", and they steal a motorcar, which Fritz drives off a span, leading Duke to relieve his life by grabbing onto a railing. The two arrive at the apartment of a drug dealer named Bertha, whose cannabis joints increase Fritz's libido. While fornicating with Bertha, he realizes that he "must tell the people nearly the revolution". He runs off into the city street and incites a riot, during which Duke is shot and killed by ane of the sus scrofa officers.

Fritz hides in an alley where his older fox girlfriend, Winston Schwartz, finds him and drags him on a road trip to San Francisco. When their car runs out of gas in the middle of the desert, he decides to abandon her. He later meets upwardly with Blue, a drug-addicted rabbit biker. Along with Blue's horse girlfriend, Harriet, they take a ride to an cloak-and-dagger hide-out, where two other revolutionaries—the lizard leader and John, a hooded serpent—tell Fritz of their plan to accident up a power station. When Harriet tries to become Blue to leave with her to go to a Chinese eatery, he hits her several times and ties her downwardly with a chain. When Fritz attempts to break it up, the leader throws a candle in his face up. Blue, John, and the lizard leader then throw Harriet onto a bed to gang rape her. After setting the dynamite at the power plant, Fritz suddenly has a modify of heart and unsuccessfully attempts to remove it earlier being caught in the explosion.

At a Los Angeles hospital, Harriet (bearded as a nun) and the girls from the New York park come up to condolement him in what they believe to be his last moments. Fritz, after reciting the speech communication he used to option upwards the girls from New York, suddenly becomes revitalized and has some other orgy with the trio of girls while Harriet watches in astonishment.

Cast [edit]

  • Skip Hinnant every bit Fritz the Cat
  • Rosetta LeNoire as Big Bertha / Boosted voices
  • John McCurry as Bluish / John
  • Judy Engles equally Winston Schwartz / Lizard Leader
  • Phil Seuling equally Ralph / Additional voices
  • Ralph Bakshi (uncredited) as Al / Narrator
  • Mary Dean (uncredited) every bit Charlene / Dee Dee / Sorority Girls / Harriet
  • Charles Spidar (uncredited) equally Bar Patron / Duke the Crow

Background [edit]

R. Crumb was notwithstanding a teenager when he fabricated the character Fritz the True cat for self-published comics magazines he fabricated with his older brother Charles. The character first appeared to a wider public in Harvey Kurtzman'southward humour mag Help! in 1965.[xi] The strips place anthropomorphic characters—unremarkably associated with children'south comics—in stories with drugs, sex, and other developed-oriented content.[12] Crumb left his wife in 1967 and moved to San Francisco, where he took part in the counterculture and indulged in drugs such equally LSD. He had countercultural strips published in underground periodicals[13] and in 1968 published the outset issue of Zap Comix. Crumb'due south cartoons became progressively more transgressive, sexually explicit, and vehement,[14] and Crumb became the center of the burgeoning underground comix movement.[fifteen] Fritz became one of Crumb's all-time-known creations, particularly outside the counterculture.[16]

[The idea of] grown men sitting in cubicles drawing butterflies floating over a field of flowers, while American planes are dropping bombs in Vietnam and kids are marching in the streets, is ludicrous.

—Ralph Bakshi, in a 1971 interview with the Los Angeles Times [17]

Ralph Bakshi majored in cartooning at the High Schoolhouse of Art and Pattern. He learned his trade at the Terrytoons studio in New York City, where he spent ten years animating characters such as Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, and Deputy Dawg. At the historic period of 29, Bakshi was hired to head the blitheness partition of Paramount Pictures as both writer and director, where he produced 4 experimental curt films before the studio closed in 1967.[18] With producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi founded his own studio, Bakshi Productions. In 1969, Ralph's Spot was founded as a division of Bakshi Productions to produce commercials for Coca-Cola and Max, the 2000-Twelvemonth-Old Mouse, a series of educational shorts paid for by Encyclopædia Britannica.[nineteen] [xx] However, Bakshi was uninterested in the kind of animation he was producing, and wanted to produce something personal.[17] Bakshi soon developed Heavy Traffic, a tale of inner-city street life. However, Krantz told Bakshi that studio executives would be unwilling to fund the pic because of its content and Bakshi's lack of movie experience.[nineteen]

While browsing the E Side Volume Shop on St. Marking'south Place, Bakshi came across a re-create of R. Crumb'southward Fritz the Cat (1969). Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the volume and suggested to Krantz that information technology would work as a movie.[21] Bakshi was interested in directing the film because he felt that Nibble's work was the closest to his own.[22] Krantz arranged a meeting with Crumb, during which Bakshi showed Nibble drawings that had been created as the result of Bakshi attempting to acquire Crumb'due south style to prove that he could translate the look of Crumb'due south artwork to animation.[19] Impressed past Bakshi's tenacity, Crumb lent him one of his sketchbooks as a reference.[21]

As Krantz began to set up the paperwork, preparation began on a pitch presentation for potential studios, including a poster-sized painted cel setup featuring the strip's cast against a traced photograph groundwork, equally Bakshi intended the film to appear.[21] In spite of Nibble's enthusiasm, he was unsure about the film's product, and refused to sign the contract.[21] Cartoonist Vaughn Bodé warned Bakshi confronting working with Crumb, describing him as "slick".[21] Bakshi afterward agreed with Bodé's assessment, calling Crumb "one of the slickest hustlers y'all'll ever run across in your life".[21] Krantz sent Bakshi to San Francisco, where Bakshi stayed with Crumb and his wife Dana in an attempt to persuade Crumb to sign the contract. Later a calendar week, Crumb left, leaving the film's product status uncertain,[23] just Dana had power of attorney and signed the contract. Nibble received US$50,000, which was delivered throughout different phases of the product, in addition to ten percent of Krantz'southward take.[23]

Product [edit]

Funding and distribution [edit]

With the rights to the character, Krantz and Bakshi set out to detect a distributor, only Krantz states that "every major distributor turned it down"[v] and that studios were unenthusiastic near producing an contained animated moving picture due to the prominence of Walt Disney Productions in animation, in addition to the fact that Fritz the True cat would be a very different animated flick from what had previously been made.[17]

In the spring of 1970, Warner Bros. agreed to fund and distribute the film.[18] [24] The Harlem sequences were the first to be completed. Krantz intended to release these scenes every bit a 15-infinitesimal short if the film's funding was pulled; Bakshi was nevertheless determined to consummate the film every bit a feature.[23] Belatedly in November, Bakshi and Krantz screened a presentation reel for the studio with this sequence, pencil tests, and shots of Bakshi'southward storyboards.[25] Bakshi stated, "You lot should take seen their faces in the screening room when I first screened a bit of Fritz. I'll recollect their faces until I die. One of them left the room. Holy hell, you should have seen his face up. 'Shut up, Frank! This is non the motion picture you're allowed to make!' And I said, Bullshit, I just made information technology."[26]

The movie's budget is disputed. In 1972, The Hollywood Reporter stated that Fritz the Cat recouped its costs in iv months following its release. A year later the magazine reported that the pic grossed $30 meg worldwide and was produced on a upkeep of $ane.3 million. In 1993, managing director Ralph Bakshi said "Fritz the Cat, to me, was an enormous budget -- at $850,000 -- compared to my Terrytoon budgets." In an interview published in 1980, Bakshi stated "We made the film for $700,000. Complete".[7]

Warner executives wanted the sexual content toned downward, and to cast big names for the voices. Bakshi refused, and Warner pulled their funding from the film, leading Krantz to seek funds elsewhere. This led to a deal with Jerry Gross, the possessor of Cinemation Industries, a distributor specializing in exploitation films. Although Bakshi did non take enough fourth dimension to pitch the film, Gross agreed to fund its production and distribute it, believing that it would fit in with his grindhouse slate.[23] Further financing came from Saul Zaentz, who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on his Fantasy Records label.[23]

Direction [edit]

Head and shoulders of a bearded older man in glasses. Smiling, with eyes nearly closed, he is wearing a plain sweater and holding a microphone.

The motion-picture show was the characteristic debut of writer and director Ralph Bakshi.

Bakshi was initially reluctant to straight Fritz the Cat because he had spent years working on blithe productions featuring creature characters and wanted to make films focusing on human being characters. He became interested in working on the film because he loved Crumb's work and considered him a "full genius".[xviii] During the development of the pic, Bakshi says that he "started to get giddy" when he "all of a sudden was able to get a squealer that was a cop, and this detail other grunter was Jewish, and I thought, 'Oh my God—a Jewish pig?' These were major steps forward, because in the initial Heckle and Jeckle for Terrytoons, they were two black guys running around. Which was hysterically funny and, I think, bully—like Uncle Remus stuff. Merely they didn't play down south, and they had to change 2 black crows to 2 Englishmen. And I always told him that the black crows were funnier. So it was a tiresome awakening."[28]

In his notes to animator Cosmo Anzilotti, Bakshi is precise, and fifty-fifty specifies that the crows smoked marijuana rather than tobacco. Bakshi states that "The weed had to read on screen. It's an important grapheme detail."[29] The flick'south opening sequence sets the satirical tone of the film. The setting of the story'south period is not only established by a title, but as well by a voiceover by Bakshi playing a graphic symbol giving his account of the 1960s: "happy times, heavy times". The film'due south opening dialogue, by three structure workers on their luncheon break, establishes many of the themes discussed in the picture, including drug use, promiscuity, and the social and political climate of the era. When one of the workers urinates off of the scaffold, the picture'southward credits play over a shot of the liquid falling against a blackness screen. When the credits end, information technology is shown that the structure worker has urinated on a long-haired hippie with a guitar. Karl F. Cohen writes that the film "is a production of the radical politics of the period. Bakshi'south depiction of Fritz's life is colorful, funny, sexist, raw, vehement, and outrageous."[18]

Of his direction of the film, Bakshi stated, "My approach to animation every bit a director is alive activity. I don't approach information technology in the traditional blitheness ways. None of our characters get up and sing, because that'southward not the type of picture I'thousand trying to do. I want people to believe my characters are existent, and it'due south hard to believe they're existent if they get-go walking downward the street singing."[17] Bakshi wanted the film to be the antonym of any blithe film produced by the Walt Disney Company.[eighteen] Appropriately, Fritz the True cat includes two satirical references to Disney. In one scene, silhouettes of Mickey Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Donald Duck are shown auspicious on the United States Air Strength as it drops napalm on a black neighborhood during a riot. Another scene features a reference to the "Pink Elephants on Parade" sequence from Dumbo.[30] A sequence of the camera panning beyond a garbage heap in an abandoned lot in Harlem sets up a visual device which recurs in Hey Good Lookin'.[31]

Writing [edit]

The original screenplay consisted more often than not of dialogue and featured but a few changes from Nibble's stories. The script and storyboards went largely unused in favor of more experimental storytelling techniques.[six] [25] Bakshi said, "I don't like to spring ahead on my films. The way yous feel almost a film on Solar day One, you may non feel the aforementioned way xl weeks down the route. Characters grow, so I wanted to accept the option to change things, and strengthen my characters  ... Information technology was sort of a stream of consciousness, and a learning process for myself."[25] Bakshi wrote the characters without feral creature behavior to lend the material greater realism.[32]

The starting time part of the picture'due south plot was adjusted from a self-titled story published in a 1968 issue of R. Crumb's Head Comix,[6] [33] while the second function is derived from "Fritz Bugs Out", which was serialized in the February to October 1968 issues of Cavalier,[6] [34] and the last part of the story contains elements of "Fritz the No-Good", first published in the September/Oct 1968 issue of Cavalier.[35] The terminal one-half of the picture show makes a major deviation from Nibble's work. Animation historian Michael Barrier describes this section of the pic as being "much grimmer than Crumb's stories past that signal, and far more violent."[6] Bakshi stated that he deviated from the comics because he felt that the strips lacked depth:

It was beautiful, information technology was sweet, but at that place was nowhere to put it. That'due south why Crumb hates the motion picture, because I slipped a couple of things in there that he despises, like the rabbis—the pure Jewish stuff. Fritz can't hold that kind of commentary. Winston is 'just a typical Jewish broad from Brooklyn'.  ... [The strip] was cute and well-done, just there was cipher that had that much depth.[36]

Bakshi'south unwillingness to use anthropomorphic characters that behaved like feral animals led him to rewrite a scene in "Fritz Bugs Out" where Knuckles saves Fritz'south life by flying while holding Fritz; in the movie, Duke grabs a railing before the car crashes into the river, a solution that Bakshi wasn't entirely satisfied with, but prevented him from having to use any feral animal behavior in that scene.[32]

In the motion picture, at that place are two characters named "Winston" – one appears at the first and end of the pic, the other is Fritz's girlfriend Winston Schwartz. Michael Barrier notes that Winston Schwartz (who appears prominently in "Fritz Bugs Out" and "Fritz the No-Good") never has a proper introduction in Bakshi'south movie, and interprets the naming of a dissever grapheme every bit Bakshi'southward attempt to reconcile this; however, the ii characters look and sound cipher alike.[vi] Bakshi intended to end the picture show with Fritz'due south death, but Krantz objected to this ending, and Bakshi eventually changed it to the final ending.[32]

Casting [edit]

The film's voice cast includes Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles, and comic book distributor/convention organizer Phil Seuling.[37] Hinnant, who would get known as a featured performer on The Electric Visitor, was cast because he "had such a naturally phony voice", co-ordinate to Bakshi.[38] Bakshi and Seuling improvised their dialogue as comically inept pig officers; Bakshi enjoyed working equally a voice actor and after went on to provide vocalisation roles for some of his other films.[32] Bakshi re-created the vocalisation he did in this film for the part of a tempest trooper in his 1977 animated science fiction moving-picture show Wizards.

Audio design [edit]

Some scenes used documentary recordings which were made past Bakshi and edited to fit the scene;[twoscore] these were used because Bakshi wanted the film to "feel real".[31] Co-ordinate to Bakshi, "I made tons and tons of tapes. ... When I went to have the film mixed, the audio engineers gave me all kinds of crap about the tracks not being professionally recorded; they didn't even want to mix the noise of bottles breaking in the background, street dissonance, tape hiss, all kinds of shit. They said it was unprofessional, simply I didn't care." Although the sound designers insisted that Bakshi needed to re-tape the dialogue in the studio, Bakshi refused to relent.[31]

Almost all of the motion-picture show'south dialogue, except for that of a few of the main characters, was recorded entirely on the streets of New York City.[41] For the film's opening sequence, Bakshi paid two construction workers US$50 each, and drank Scotch whisky with them, recording the conversation.[31] In the Washington Square Park sequence, only Skip Hinnant was a professional actor; Fritz's friends were voiced by young males Bakshi found in the park.[31] One of the sequences that was not based upon Nibble's comics involved a comic chase through a synagogue full of praying rabbis. For the voices of the rabbis, Bakshi used a documentary recording of his father and uncles. This scene continued to have a personal significance for Bakshi subsequently his male parent and uncle died. Bakshi states, "Thank God I have their voices. I have my dad and family praying. It's then nice to hear at present."[29] Bakshi also went to a Harlem bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to blackness patrons, getting drunkard with them as he asked them questions.[25]

Music [edit]

The picture's score was composed by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin. The soundtrack was released by Fantasy Records and Ampex Tapes, along with the single, "You're the Only Girl" b/w "Winston". The movie also featured songs by Charles Earland, Cal Tjader, Bo Diddley, and Billie Holiday. Bakshi bought the rights to employ Vacation'due south performance of the vocal "Yesterdays" for $35.[42]

Animation [edit]

Four cartoon figures of cats dressed in human clothes, walking single file.

Fritz trying to pick up a trio of immature women at Washington Square Park. The background is a watercolor painting based on a tracing from a photograph, giving the film a stylized realism virtually unprecedented in animation.[19]

Many of the animators who worked on the picture were professionals that Bakshi had previously worked with at Terrytoons, including Jim Tyer, John Gentilella, Nick Tafuri, Martin Taras, Larry Riley, and Cliff Augustine.[43] According to Bakshi, it took quite a long time to assemble the right staff. Those who entered with a smirk, "wanting to be very dirty and describe filthy pictures", did non stay very long, and neither did those with a low tolerance for vulgarity. Ane cartoonist refused to draw a blackness crow shooting a pig policeman. Ii female animators quit; one because she could non bring herself to tell her children what she did for a living, the other because she refused to draw exposed breasts.[44]

In gild to save money by eliminating the demand for model sheets, Bakshi permit animator John Sparey draw some of the first sequences of Fritz. Bakshi states that he knew that "Sparey would execute them beautifully." Poses from his sequences were photocopied and handed out to the rest of the coiffure.[19] The film was produced almost entirely without pencil tests. Co-ordinate to Bakshi, "Nosotros pencil tested I'd say a thousand feet [of footage], tops. ... We practise a major feature without pencil tests—that's tough. The timing falls off. I can ever tell an animator to draw it better, and I know if the attitude of the characters is right, only the timing you lot actually can't run into." Bakshi had to judge the timing of the animation simply past flipping an animator'southward drawings in his hand, until he could encounter the completed animation on the screen.[17] Veteran Warner Bros. animator Ted Bonnicksen was incredibly dedicated to his work on the film, to the point where he completed his animation for the synagogue sequence while suffering from leukemia, and would take the scenes home at nighttime to piece of work on them.[29]

In May 1971, Bakshi moved his studio to Los Angeles to hire boosted animators in that location. Some animators, including Rod Scribner, Dick Lundy, Virgil Walter Ross, Norman McCabe, and John Sparey, welcomed Bakshi'south presence, and felt that Fritz the Cat would bring diversity to the animation industry.[45] Other animators disliked Bakshi's presence, and placed an advertisement in The Hollywood Reporter, stating that Bakshi's "filth" was unwelcome in California.[45] According to Bakshi, "I didn't know who these guys were because I was from New York, and then I threw the ad abroad."[46] However, Bakshi establish the negative reaction to the film from his peers to be disheartening.[45]

Cinematography [edit]

Because it was cheaper for Ira Turek to trace photographs to create the backgrounds, Bakshi and Johnnie Vita walked around the streets of the Lower East Side, Washington Square Park, Chinatown and Harlem to take moody snapshots. Turek inked the outlines of these photographs onto cels with a Rapidograph, the technical pen preferred past Nibble, giving the film's backgrounds stylized realism that had never been portrayed in animation earlier.[xix] Afterward Turek completed a background drawing in ink on an blitheness cel, the drawing would exist photocopied onto watercolor paper for Vita and onto animation paper for utilise in matching the characters to the backgrounds. When Vita finished his painting, Turek's original drawing, on the cel, would be placed over the watercolor, obscuring the photocopy lines on the painting.[25] However, not every background was taken from live-action sources.[47] The tones of the watercolor backgrounds were influenced by the "Ash Can fashion" of painters, which includes George Luks and John French Sloan.[48] The film also used aptitude and fisheye photographic camera perspectives in gild to replicate the way the film's hippies and hoodlums viewed the city.[48]

Rating [edit]

Fritz received an X rating from the Picture show Association of America (equivalent to the mod NC-17 rating), condign the commencement American animated film to receive such a rating. Notwithstanding, at the time, the rating was associated with more than arthouse fare, and since the recently released Melvin Van Peebles movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which was released through Cinemation, had received both an 10 rating and considerable success, the distributor hoped that Fritz the Cat would exist even more profitable.[49] Producer Krantz stated that the picture lost playdates due to the rating, and thirty American newspapers rejected brandish advertisements for information technology or refused to give it editorial publicity.[eighteen] The picture show'due south limited screenings led Cinemation to exploit the film'due south content in its promotion of the film, advertising it as containing "90 minutes of violence, excitement, and SEX ... he's X-rated and animated!"[49] According to Ralph Bakshi, "We virtually didn't deliver the picture, because of the exploitation of it."[17]

Cinemation'due south advert style and the film's rating led many to believe that Fritz the Cat was a pornographic film. When it was introduced equally such at a showing at the Academy of Southern California, Bakshi stated firmly, "Fritz the Cat is not pornographic."[17] In May 1972, Variety reported that Krantz had appealed the X rating, maxim "Animals having sexual activity isn't pornography." The MPAA refused to hear the entreatment.[xviii] The misconceptions about the film's content were eventually cleared upward when it received praise from Rolling Stone and The New York Times, and the flick was accustomed into the 1972 Cannes Motion-picture show Festival.[49] Bakshi later stated, "Now they practise as much on The Simpsons equally I got an 10 rating for Fritz the Cat."[50]

Earlier the moving picture'south release, American distributors attempted to greenbacks in on the publicity garnered from the rating past rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult blithe films from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, re-titled A Grand and One Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex. All the same, neither film was really submitted to the MPAA, and it is not likely that either feature would have received an Ten rating.[17] The film Downwards and Dirty Duck was promoted with an X rating, simply besides had non been submitted to the MPAA.[51] The French-Belgian blithe film Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle initially was released with an X rating in a subtitled version, only a dubbed version released in 1979 received an R rating.[52]

Reception [edit]

Initial screenings [edit]

Fritz the Cat opened on Apr 12, 1972, in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.[five] Although the film only had a limited release, it went on to get a worldwide hitting.[32] Confronting its $700,000 budget, it grossed $25 one thousand thousand in the United States and over $90 million worldwide,[53] [54] and was at that betoken the most successful independent animated feature of all fourth dimension.[19] The film earned $four.7 one thousand thousand in theater rentals in North America.[55]

In Michael Bulwark's 1972 article on its product, Bakshi gives accounts of two screenings of the motion-picture show. Of the reactions to the film by audiences at a preview screening in Los Angeles, Bakshi stated, "They forget information technology'due south animation. They care for it similar a film.  ... This is the real thing, to become people to take animation seriously." Bakshi was besides nowadays at a showing of the film at the Museum of Mod Art and remembers "Some guy asked me why I was against the revolution. The point is, animation was making people get upwardly off their asses and get mad."[17]

The film also sparked negative reactions because of its content. "A lot of people got freaked out", says Bakshi. "The people in charge of the power structure, the people in charge of magazines and the people going to work in the forenoon who loved Disney and Norman Rockwell, idea I was a pornographer, and they made things very difficult for me. The younger people, the people who could take new ideas, were the people I was addressing. I wasn't addressing the whole earth. To those people who loved it, it was a huge hit, and anybody else wanted to kill me."[56]

Critical reception [edit]

Critical reaction was mixed, only generally positive. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the motion picture is "constantly funny  ... [There's] something to offend simply almost anybody."[18] New York magazine flick critic Judith Crist reviewed the film every bit "a gloriously funny, brilliantly pointed, and superbly executed entertainment ... [whose] target is ... the muddle-headed radical chicks and slicks of the sixties", and that information technology "should modify the confront of the blithe cartoon forever".[57] Paul Sargent Clark in The Hollywood Reporter called the motion picture "powerful and audacious",[18] and Newsweek chosen it "a harmless, mindless, pro-youth saga calculated to shake up only the box office".[18] The Wall Street Journal and Cue both gave the film mixed reviews.[18] Thomas Albright of Rolling Stone wrote an enthusiastic preview in the December 9, 1971 result based on seeing xxx minutes of the moving picture, declaring that it was "sure to marker the almost important breakthrough in animation since Yellow Submarine".[58] But in a review published afterward its release, Albright recanted his earlier argument and wrote that the visuals were not enough to relieve the finished product from being a "qualified disaster" due to a "leaden plot" and a "juvenile" script that relied too heavily on tired gags and tasteless indigenous humor.[59]

Lee Beaupre wrote for The New York Times, "In dismissing the political turbulence and personal quest of the sixties while simultaneously exploiting the sexual freedom sired past that decade, Fritz the Cat truly bites the manus that fed it."[60] Motion-picture show critic Andrew Osmond wrote that the epilogue injure the movie's integrity for "giving Fritz drawing powers of survival that the motion picture had rejected until and then".[61] Patricia Erens establish scenes with Jewish stereotypes "vicious and offensive" and stated, "Just the jaundiced eye of director Ralph Bakshi, which denigrates all of the characters, the hero included, makes one reflect on the nature of the attack."[62]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show has a score of 59%, based on 22 critic reviews, with an average rating of 5.four/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Fritz the Cat 's gleeful comprehend of bad taste tin make for a queasy viewing experience, but Ralph Bakshi'south idiosyncratic animation brings the satire and manner of Robert Crumb'south creation to brilliant life."[63]

Crumb'due south response [edit]

Crumb first saw the moving picture in February 1972, during a visit to Los Angeles with swain underground cartoonists Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, and Rick Griffin. According to Bakshi, Crumb was dissatisfied with the motion-picture show.[32] Amid his criticisms, he said that he felt that Skip Hinnant was incorrect for the vocalization of Fritz, and said that Bakshi should have voiced the grapheme instead.[32] Crumb after said in an interview that he felt that the film was "really a reflection of Ralph Bakshi'southward confusion, you know. There's something existent repressed about it. In a fashion, it's more twisted than my stuff. It'southward really twisted in some kind of weird, unfunny way.  ... I didn't similar that sex attitude in information technology very much. It'southward like real repressed horniness; he'south kind of letting it out compulsively."[half-dozen] Crumb also criticized the movie'due south condemnation of the radical left,[v] denouncing Fritz'due south dialogue in the final sequences of the film, which includes a quote from the Beatles vocal "The Stop", as "cerise-neck and fascistic"[4] and stated, "They put words into his mouth that I never would have had him say."[4]

Reportedly, Crumb filed a lawsuit to accept his proper noun removed from the motion-picture show'south credits.[64] San Francisco copyright attorney Albert L. Morse said that no adjust was filed, but an understanding was reached to remove Crumb'due south proper noun from the credits.[65] Nonetheless, Crumb's name has remained in the final film since its original theatrical release.[eighteen] Due to his distaste for the movie, Crumb had "Fritz the Cat—Superstar" published in People'due south Comics later in 1972, in which a jealous girlfriend kills Fritz with an icepick;[16] he has refused to use the character again,[xi] and wrote the filmmakers a letter saying not to utilise his characters in their films.[five] Nibble later cited the pic as "one of those experiences I sort of block out. The last time I saw it was when I was making an appearance at a German fine art school in the mid-1980s, and I was forced to sentinel it with the students. It was an excruciating ordeal, a humiliating embarrassment. I call back Victor Moscoso was the only one who warned me 'if you lot don't stop this film from existence made, you lot are going to regret it for the remainder of your life'—and he was right."[66]

In a 2008 interview, Bakshi referred to Nibble every bit a "hustler" and stated, "He goes in so many directions that he's difficult to pin downward. I spoke to him on the telephone. We both had the same deal, five percent. They finally sent Nibble the money and not me. Crumb e'er gets what he wants, including that château of his in French republic.  ... I have no respect for Crumb. Is he a good artist? Yes, if you want to do the same matter over and over. He should have been my best friend for what I did with Fritz the Cat. I drew a good picture, and nosotros both made out fine."[26] Bakshi also stated that Crumb threatened to disassociate himself from whatsoever cartoonist that worked with Bakshi, which would take injure their chances at getting work published.[67]

Legacy [edit]

In add-on to other animated films aimed at adult audiences, the moving picture's success led to the production of a sequel, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Although producer Krantz and voice actor Hinnant returned for the follow-upward, Bakshi did not. Instead, Nine Lives was directed by animator Robert Taylor, who co-wrote the film with Fred Halliday and Eric Monte. Nine Lives was distributed by American International Pictures, and was considered junior to its predecessor.[68] Both films have been released on DVD in the Us and Canada by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the owners of the American International Pictures library via Orion Pictures) and the Uk past Arrow Films.[69] [70] Bakshi states that he felt constricted using anthropomorphic characters in Fritz, and focused solely on non-anthropomorphic characters in Heavy Traffic and Hey Good Lookin', but later used anthropomorphic characters in Coonskin.[31]

The moving picture is widely noted in its innovation for featuring content that had non been portrayed in animation earlier, such as sexuality and violence, and was also, as John Grant writes in his volume Masters of Animation, "the quantum film that opened brand new vistas to the commercial animator in the United States",[68] presenting an "almost disturbingly accurate" portrayal "of a particular stratum of Western society during a particular era, ... as such it has dated very well."[68] The moving picture's subject thing and its satirical arroyo offered an alternative to the kinds of films that had previously been presented by major animation studios.[68] Michael Barrier described Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic equally "not just provocative, but highly aggressive". Barrier described the films as an effort "to push beyond what was done in the old cartoons, even while edifice on their strengths".[71] Information technology is likewise considered to accept paved the way for future blithe works for adults, including The Simpsons, Family Guy and Southward Park.[9]

As a outcome of these innovations, Fritz was selected by Time Out magazine as the 42nd greatest animated motion picture,[72] ranked at number 51 on the Online Film Critics Society'southward list of the summit 100 greatest animated films of all time,[73] and was placed at number 56 on Channel 4's listing of the 100 Greatest Cartoons.[74] Footage from the film was edited into the music video for Guru's 2007 song "State of Clarity".[75]

Home media [edit]

Fritz the True cat forth with The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat was released on VHS in 1988 past Warner Dwelling house Video through Orion Pictures. In 2001, MGM distributed the film with the sequel on DVD.[76] The film once more along with its sequel was released on Blu-ray by Scorpion Releasing and Kino Lorber on October 26, 2021, featuring a new sound commentary past comic artist Stephen R. Bissette and writer G. Michael Dobbs.[77] [78] [79]

Run across also [edit]

  • List of American films of 1972
  • Arthouse animation

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