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vavuska · 3 years

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Who changed Lola Bunny?

Malcolm D. Lee explained, “This is 2021. It’s important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters. … So we reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice. For us, it was, ‘Let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills, and make her as full a character as the others.'”

(See the complete interview here: X)

So, gone are her curves, thigh-high drawstring shorts and midriff-baring crop top. Instead, Lola Bunny now takes on a sportier look wearing a more standard basketball vest and leggings under her track shorts.

But, let's see more deeply what determinated this choice:

1. Being mad at a fan art is sad, people.

Before, a sad 50 yo guy starts complaing about how "cancel culture" or "politically correct" ruined his life - Really? Changing a cartoon bunny from a movie you didn't see for a decade ruined your life? Wow. Someone should really review the list of their priorities -, let's see how really Lola looked in the 1996 original Space Jam.

Here we have original Lola Bunny:

(Here you can see all Lola's scenes in Space Jam: X)

Yes, Lola walked in a sexy way that show off her curves, or at least she seemed to have curves (a little breast, tight waist, long legs, bootie), but those are not big as in the fan art you are seeing around, and Lola's curves are not evidenced during the match or when she played. Is more her attitude and posture that made her look sexy. However, althought her curves clearly changes every time she is doing something different, from action to action, there are some scenes in which she is purposely made sexy, with saxophone music as soundtrack and male-gaze sections that ends in the same way, Lola surrounded by a bunch of horny and howling cartoon guys.

That's appropriate with Jessica Rabbit: she is purposely made and designed as a parody of the femme fatale from old hard boiler movies, in which attractive, mysterious women were portrayed as evil and manipulative gals who hide criminal intentions. Jessica, with her intentionally exaggerated body, subverted the misogyny of 40s and 30s detective movies: she is kind-hearted, truly loves her naive and goofy husband Roger and uses her powers (beauty and cunning) to protect him. Her body too is used for comic sketches, while this not happens for Lola, that's just a serious and indipendent basketball player. So, the male obsession for her body is out of place, expecially because she reacted with anger at being misconsidered only for being an attractive female bunny. “Don't call me doll” is her catch phrase. So, it seems strange she didn't react at all at the very sexualized presentation at the final basketball match: Lola simply shows her basketball skills, ignoring or accepting passively the reaction of the honey crowd of wolves around her. (Please, notice the association: Lola “admirers” are wolves, predators, while Lola, their object of desire, is a rabbit, a prey)

This is the cartoon version of cat calling: they are like a group of men who sit on their porches and whistle at girls everyday when they walk in from of them. A normal girl or woman would pass over this thing, even if they are bothered, unconfortable or embarassed, because they are more scared by a possible violent reaction of this whistling horny guys at their legitimate anger objections. But here, we are talking of Lola, a strong Looney Tunes bunny, and she could smash that damn basket ball on wolves' face, breaking all their teeth. That would be very a Looney reaction. But Lola doesn't react at all at this situation. Here, on my opinion, screenplayers missed an opportunity, but probably they thought to have already did too much with Lola's personality and “girl power”.

Remember also that Lola is the only young cartoon female character we see in the whole movie. So we can't do a proper comparison with other female relevant characters' rapresentation. (See here for a deeper analysis of Lola's origin and development: X)

However, compared with Bugs, Lola looks more fit, more humanized than Bugs. Lola has clearly a definited breast and booty, but it looks like is more her posture that makes them relevant. Lola has clearly shoulders back to show the rack. Bugs is anthropomorphic but remains an animal, has no shoulders or pectorals more like a human and looks a bit over-weight (fat belly). And his posture don't keep that stomach in, chin up, and march forward.

Lola, on the other hand, has a more human structure. That's why I say she has curves. An example are Mickey and Minnie who are two beans in the same way it is not that Mickey is a bean and Minnie has small tits, they are structurally alike.

Lola's body remembers highly No-Ribs-Jasmine from Aladdin (see the gif for reference). That unrealistic Barbie-like waist that was so popular in the 90s and 80s. (See here for references: X and X)

Now, we are changed a lot from the past 24 years. Barbies didn't have that impossible, unrealistic waist-line anymore, Disney princess concept has changed (see Merida and Moana).

Lola concept is changed in 2012: her design for the new cartoons is totally different and her personality too. She wear a blue or violet dress, almost flat-chested and she was made annoying and silly, just to make a contrast with Bugs smarter. Just like Daffy Duck is dumb as hell and his new girlfriend, Tina Russo (no more dear old Melissa Duck), is way smarter than him. Tina is tough, street-smart, rebellious and feisty. But we will see this thing in the next point.

2. People on the upper floors hated Lola personality.

Lola Bunny had only few lines in Space Jam, but she definitely passed the first impression that she was draw only for make male characters fall in love. Lola was a good basketball player and show it off, in front of a skeptical and then astonish bunch of cartoon guys and also Michael Jordan. She also had a strong personality and said it clear to Bugs she didn't like being called "doll". Lola was beauty and curvy, but not a cheerleader. Lola was a basketball player. Remember this part, because we will talk about basketball in the next point.

If at the box office Space Jam was a success, at Warner Bros there were those who turn up their noses, and they are important people, from the upper floors, who accused the film with Michael Jordan of having completely distorted the philosophy of the Looney Tunes. They blamed Lola Bunny more than everything else. Producers of Warner Bros said she was too perfect for the moody group of Warner cartoons: she was too sensual, provocative and independent, totally alien to that core of crazy characters that act as an exaggeration of the vices of 'man.

And fans hated her too. Chuck Jones, creator of the Merrie Melodies said: "Lola Bunny is a character with no future, she’s a totally worthless character with no personality."

So, Lola Bunny was deleted. Lola would make only some brief apparitions in some comics edited by DC Comics, in Baby Looney Tunes, in which she was a toddler with a very similar personality and resemblance to Space Jam adult version, and also as playable character in some unsuccessful videogames.

Years passed and projects for a sequel of Space Jam never become reality, so in 2003 Warner Bros relased Looney Tunes Back in Action. But Lola wasn't here, because the movie purposely want to make a deep cut with what we saw in Space Jam, according to what said it's director Joe Dante. This movie was a totally failure, but it gave back to Looney Tunes their craziness.

Years passed again, but this time is 2011, 10th of May on Cartoon Network was relased the second episode of The Looney Tunes Show. The series aimed to strongly relaunch the Looney Tunes, long gone from the glories of the past, updating the stories of Bugs Bunny and associates in a sitcom key, with the rabbit sharing a house with Daffy Duck in a suburb of Los Angeles. All interspersed with sketches by Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner done in CGI and the updated return of the Merrie Melodies. But the big news of the second episode is that LOLA BUNNY RETURNED.

And Lola was a character with some relevance within the series, even if something didn't seem right with her. Lola looked different, she was no longer the rabbit version of the femme fatale seen in Space Jam: she was naive, talkative, with her head in the clouds, crazy to the point of becoming Bugs Bunny's stalker. Bugs after having fallen in love with her at first glance understands on the first date that he absolutely can't stand Lola. She is no longer the Lola we used to know, even if the appearance is similar and the name is the same. Lola is effectively a Looney Tunes now. And the fans like her, the public like her, Warner Bros like her.

(See Lola in The Looney Tunes Show here: X)

But this is a big walk in behind from the indipent character we used to know in Space Jam. Lola was turned into the stereotype of the crazy girlfriend for a while. And this is not a surprise, if we remember that in 2012 were popular the "overly attached girlfriend" meme template. (See here for references: X)

However, in The Looney Toons Show Lola has some very funny moments, while in Space Jam she was more serious and a little out of space among the other characters. (See here for references: X)

3. What women wear when they play basketball?

Women's National Basketball Association was only created in 1996. So, women's basketball were not considered - and still is not considered - as important as men's basketball at the time Space Jam was filmed.

In Space Jam 2 there will be WNBA players with a significant role, for example Diana Taurasi and Nneka Ogwumike.

Professional female athletes aren't that curvy because curves are determined by body fat and they have a little.

As a busty volleyball player, I can say, dear people, breats could be very annoying during sport activities: it could be a pain, when you run or jump. That's because a lot of women wear sport bra to compress and support their breast. Sports bra may also include layered cups or a high neck to keep everything in place and protect from painful hits, so women can be safe and comfortable during workouts.

Female basketball players didn't wear crop-tops and tight shorts to play. They wear exactly what Lola wears in the picture above: long sleeveless tees, large shorts and maybe protective gears such as knee pads, sleeves or braces to reduce chronic pain caused by the immense burden put on the knees in basketball, to prevent bruises caused by collisions and hard fall and to provide support after a significant knee injury like an ACL tear. They could wear also compressive arms sleeves to help muscles that are sore or overworked to recover faster. The sleeve enables your blood flow to circulate quicker to the heart, which helps you heal and recover quicker.

Wow. WNBA wears Exactly what wear NBA players. So surprising.

4. This is only a promotional character sketch, not what Lola would look in the movie.

Space Jam 2 would be developed in CGI and there are a little preview frames going around, included one showing Lola jumping and you can see her breast shape. But she totally looks like a comic cartoon character. It's not humanized. It's not designed to be the sexy love interest. She doesn't look out of space among the others anymore, expecially because seems that there would be also Tweety's Granny and Melissa Duck or Tina Russo as players too.

5. Reality.

Really? You want a human anthropomorphic rabbit? Well, Lola as a rabbit would have something like six nipples, but no human-like breast. And, also, real life girls have ribs. No one in real life is that thin. Oh, well, if you don't considered Pixee Fox, a model who had surgically removed six ribs and wears daily a compressive bust corset (yes, like the one that made Elizabeth Swan faint in the first movie of Pirate of the Caribbean) to look like a cartoon fairy (Tinkerbell, you are the one to blame for this).

(See here for references: X)

In conclusion, we can say that all this controversy is based only on a porny fan art and that Lola “new” graphic isn't change too much from the original Space Jam movie. It's just a little more cartoonish.

We can also firmly remeber that Space Jam 2 is going to be developed for children, to relunch Looney Tunes among new generations of children, who are the largest buyers of merchandising (including Happy Meals surprises) and consumers of new cartoons that surely would be developed, if Space Jam 2 would be a success.

However, we should admit that those kids probably know better the 2011 version of Lola than her original version and that 2011 version was more appreciated by fans and producers. Lola's voice actress, Kristen Wiin won BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2012 and was nominated for that prize also about three times in the following years. Also Rachel Ramras, Lola's voice actor was nominated for BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Award in 2016 for her role in Looney Tunes: Rabbit Run.

We don't know anything about Lola's personality in Space Jam 2, so we can't do a proper comparison or a prevision, but, according to what Malcolm D. Lee said, we can assume that original personality of Lola would be preserved.

The controversy is relevant only for Lola's body and not for her personality, and that's is highly rappresentative of what impressed more this bunch of grow-up kids. They grow up to be like the horny wolves and they are howling because their prey is not available anymore.

And, to be honest, being so obsessed with the breast and the body of a cartoon character (that is clearly made up for kids) it's not sane at all. Sorry to say that, but sometimes people need to drink from a bottle of truth.

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sassy-radio-hazbin-queen · 3 years

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I'm gonna send in some songs for all my otps.

First Smurfs, then looney tunes, Loonatics Unleashed, DuckTales and Darkwing Duck.

Here are the otps. For the smurfs. Im doing Lost Village.

Grouchy x Smurblossom

Clumsy x Smurflily

Smurstorm x Smurfette

Hefty x Brainy.

Looney tunes

Wile e coyote x Roadrunner

Lola bunny x Melissa Duck

Bugs x Daffy

Loonatics Unleashed

Slam x Lexi

Tech x Rev

Ace x Duck

DuckTales

Dewey x Gosalyn

Boyd x Huey

Scrooge x Goldie

Darkwing Duck 1991

Honker x Gosalyn

Steelbeak x Negaduck

Launchpad x Drake.

#drake mallard #ducktales #negaduck #drakepad #brainy smurf #daffy duck #gosalyn waddlemeyer #huey duck #looney toons #loonatics unleashed

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hcnnybcnny-archive · 6 years

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Melissa!

1. Melissa was, for all accounts, the Ethel to Honey’s Lucy. Though they both had a rocky start at first. Honey was veeery suspicious of Melissa as she was very protective of Daffy after what his ex wives had done to him In fact there were times, for those first few weeks, where Melissa would feel an icy chill and realize it was Honey glaring icily at her. But once Melissa was able to prove she wasn’t like those abusive ones? Oh, Honey and her became pals quick. This was notable as, during the early years, women toons were often mocked. Upon hearing Melissa be mocked? Honey stormed over and threw a left hook so hard the man lost three teeth and tried to sue the company. Honey was able to trick her way out of it so no charges were ever filed, though. But it became clear from that moment Honey would throw down with people who messed with her friend. But back onto the Lucy & Ethel thing. Melissa was the type that would, in all aspects of the word, be dragged off on Honey’s zany adventures or whatever. Whenever Honey cast a gleaming look over to her Melissa would softly murmur “oh no Honey what are you thinking” before she got roped into her schemes.

2. They were amazing on stage together 100%. Honey & Melissa, much like Bugs & Daffy, were always in sync. They dances, they moved together in unison, they wowed the crowd. One of my favorite numbers to picture Honey & Melissa performing is the following: x.

3. When Honey was redesigned to have long blonde hair that reaches her waist? Melissa freaked out and excitedly footslapped over her to so she could do Honey’s hair since Honey often braided hers ( and usually before this Honey either just had bangs or short hair that Melissa couldn’t style that well ). They spent a lot of time pampering another. Whether sharing a luxurious bubble bath as they put facial masks on, their blonde hair up in curlers, Honey just casually slipping over to steal a cucumber off Melissas face and eat it as the duck groaned at her.

4. ‘HONEY NO.’ ‘HONEY WHY’. Melissas probably...two top phrases at Honey. Melissa knew Honey was always getting into shit, or would get them into it, so Melissa could often be heard screaming into the distance something with Honey’s name on it. ‘Oh, Honey no’ was also commonly heard after Honey would do something and end up stuck or needing help. One time Melissa came to visit Honey and found Honey stuck in an oven because she wanted to ‘toast her buns’ and Melissa just opened it up, saw Honey in there, and went ‘oh honey...no’ and closed her back in there lmao.

5. They have a veeery friendly rivalry. Like not Bugs & Daffy levels but--? Definitely one. They would tease another, get annoyed with the other at times, but it was mostly due to them messing with another more than anything. They know how to push the others buttons and both know no ill-will comes from it. They once had a contest to see who could style their hair quicker...and somehow Melissa accidentally tied Honey’s ears to her head and they both sat there shrieking as Melissa couldn’t untie Honey’s ears and Honey was being dragged behind her flailing. At one point, frustrated, Honey just snapped forward and knocked Melissa over and dragged Melissa behind her instead until they finally broke free.

6. Because the studio constantly redesigned Honey, even giving her whiskers and a more Bugs appearance, sometime Melissa would accidentally mistake her for Bugs. it didn’t help that Honey could play a very convincing Bugs and would go along with it until Melissa saw the real Bugs walk by and would slap her own forehead as Honey chomped a carrot and whispered ‘ehhhh, what’s up, duck?’ at her.

7. Honey & Melissa & Petunia had the best shopping trips and wardrobes and entered every room with a flair about them after they shopped. And then promptly groaned as Bugs & Daffy would steal all their clothing. Melissa and Honey just talking about how they seem to be missing clothing and looking up to Bugs & Daffy sneaking by wearing their outfits.

8. Melissa was one of the few people Honey could cry around. She always felt she had to be strong for Daffy, plus didn’t want Bugs to know how she was hurting with each redesign, so Melissa usually would hear of Honey’s redesigns and sit in Honey’s trailer letting Honey lay against her and sob and wonder what’s wrong with her and why she couldn’t just be seen as PERFECT ENOUGH. Melissa understood Honey’s struggle and was often very sympathetic when they would redesign her constantly. Changing her fur color, her hair, making her have hair then getting rid of it, and constantly seeming to change her in big or small ways. Honey never got a break from it and when she was starting to suffer from horrible self-esteem issues Melissa would always cheer her up and let her vent and say Honey’s catchphrase at her ‘you’re bee-you-tee-ful!’. Which, in turn, earned a happy laugh from the bunny as it helped her feel better about herself.

#wabbitseezon

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whatsupduck · 6 years

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i always felt a little weirded out by lola x bugs bc they have the same last name so before i knew lola was bug's love interest i thought she was his sister. i just could never get over that and it ruined the ship for me completely.

YEAH UHHHHHHHHH ITS A BIT WEIRD IF YOU HAVE THE WRONG FIRST IMPRESSION i guess the same goes for melissa & daffy duck and porky & petunia pig though so... it’s not a one-off thing

also like... if you compare it to disney, you have mickey and minnie mouse, they aren’t married & they’re not related, nor are donald and daisy... so i guess it’s alright!

#txt #Anonymous

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incorrectquoteslooneytuneslatino · 7 months

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Lucas: Melissa, tengo que ayudar a mis amigos.

Melissa: Lo puedo entender.

Lucas: Probablemente es una simple sobrecarga de la tarjeta madre.

Melissa: Eso no lo entiendo.

Lucas: Jejeje…

Melissa: Jajaja…

Lucas: (se va).

Melissa: Adiós dulce… Mi dulce chocolate.

Fuente: Manual de supervivencia escolar de Ned (2004 ~ 2007)

#looney tunes #incorrect quotes #classic looney tunes #looney tunes clásicos #daffy duck #pato lucas #melissa duck #melissa x lucas #lucas x melissa #daffy x melissa #melissa x daffy #manual de supervivencia escolar de ned #ned’s declassified #ned’s declassified school survival guide

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ducklooney · 5 months

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Duckvember - Crafty, Loved and Professional Duck (Ducks) - Donald Duck and The Three Musketeers - Daffy Duck as Scarlet Pumpernickel

I drew in a hurry and sorry I didn't get to add the background. Also just to say that I will be doing two more Duckvember related themes and that wraps up my drawings with this year's Duckvember.

I wanted to do this for a long time, but for some reason I didn't get around to doing it, but I want to do themes related to The Three Musketeers, one of my favorite pieces of literature that I've read, and I have some great ideas about it. Yes, the first drawing is a redraw from the cover of the book or comic called "Ducktargnan and the Three Musketeers" written by Guido Martina and drawn by Pier Lorenzo De Vita in 1957. Yes, even though this comic is a parody of the given piece written by Alexandre Dumas (The Elder, Not the Son), it's still good to see Donald fitting in as a musketeer (otherwise he's d'Artagnan, while his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie are Athos , Porthos and Aramis). So I drew Donald the Musketeer sparring with his nephews also sparring. Yes, they are professional swordsmen, that is, professional musketeers. XD

The second and third drawings are related to Looney Tunes Daffy Duck from one of my favorite classic shorts called Scarlet Pumpernickel directed by Chuck Jones from March 4, 1950. Even though it was a parody of Baroness Orczy's novel called "The Scarlet Pimpernel", Daffy really enjoyed the role. So I drew Daffy along with my student Plucky Duck from Tiny Toons who also plays Scarlet Pumpernickel and wants to be just like Daffy. In my headcanon Plucky is Daffy's nephew. The next drawing is of Daffy as Scarlet Pumpernickel with the Lady Melissa he saved. By the way, it was recently Melissa Duck's birthday (December 1st) so I wish her a happy birthday. And I love this loving couple.

The following drawing is like a redraw of the scene from the 2004 movie "Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers" where Daisy Duck ends up kissing Donald the Musketeer. Yes, Daisy plays lady-in-waiting and maid of honor for Queen Minnie, while Donald is a musketeer along with Mickey and Goofy. Even though it was a parody of the work of the same name by Alexandre Dumas and it was far from the original, I enjoyed the movie, and I love the love couple between Donald and Daisy who turned out great in that movie.

I hope you like these drawings and these ideas. Feel free to like and reblog this. And please don't use the same ideas from me without my permission and don't use without mentioning me.

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