Favorite Looney tunes director? Poll

[TRobot]

Who is your favorie looney tunes director.

Mine is Chuck Jones by far.

[nakak]

Hmmmmm....keep in mind there are more directors than that (you should've put the "other" option).

I think it's a tie between Jones, Clampett, Frank Tashlin, and and Freleng.

I love Art Davis' work too. It's a shame his department was short lived.

[Steve Carras]

i'm really with "cbrubaker" there..and Art Davis should have been there and Frank Tashlin...

[TRobot]

your right...im sorry i forgot about them.:sad:

[tb4000]

I enjoyed Chuck the most. He always made the characters subtly break the fourth wall, even if they played the whole thing straight.

[TRobot]

Chuck in my mind had the most style,best writing(even though he didnt write his cartoons he came up with concept's and worked heavily with Mike Maltise)and his cartoons have a certain ''feel'' to them that no one else has.

[tb4000]

Have you seen any of the ones he directed between 1994-1998? Superior Duck, Another Froggy Evening, or From Hare to Eternity?

[Fifi Fanatic]

I'm gonna have to go with ol' Chuck as well, for the simple reason that Wile E. Coyote was my childhood hero. :)

But it's a real toss up between Jones and Clampett. Probably my single favorite Warner cartoon is Clampett's "A Corny Concerto". :)

[mojokingbee1]

I chose Chuck Jones. He's what I call "The 'Final Fantasy VII' of cartoonists".

[Mr. Manager]

Clampett is the best by far.

[Speedy Boris]

If you had asked me five years ago, I would've said either Jones of Freleng, because those are the two that everyone remembers. However, as I've been watching the Golden Collections (especially the last two), I've grown very fond of Avery, Clampett, Davis, McKimson, and Tashlin.

But I don't have an all-time favorite because all directors came up with great cartoons- I can't choose.

[Daffy Dork]

Clampett is without a doubt the best director. His cartoons had an amazing sense of direction and frantic pace and characterization with that noone else could match. I also find the animation in his cartoons to be the best, but according to the "Falling Hare" commentary, he just let the animators get as creative as they wanted, so he wasn't really in charge of that.

I always liked Avery's work a lot though too. And as of late, I've become VERY fond of Tashlin's.

[AarHan3]

Charles Martin Jones. The King. :cool:

I admired most of all his later work, including Bugs Bunny In King Arthur's Court, Rikk-Tikki-Tavi, Bugs Bunny Bustin' Out All Over, and the Roadrunner shorts done for The Electric Company.

[Eric B]

Clampett and Avery were the best. But since I associate Avery more with MGM, it seems to me that Clampett was the perennial WB director. When he left, then Jones and Freleng became the creative leaders, but IMO, they pushed the series into a rut of "winning formulas" such as the Sylvester and Tweety/Coyote and Roadrunner, and then even Daffy came to fill in the hapless antagonist role for Bugs Bunny, and then the endless, same-ol same ol' Pepe Le Pew. There was much more variety of themes back in Clampett's day. (Great Piggy Bank Robbery, etc) while Freleng and Jones earlier stuff was lame (Sniffles, Duck Soup to Nuts, etc).
They did come up with great ideas, (in the contexts of their ongoing formulas, such as the Rabbit Fire trilogy and Birds Anonymous), but still those pairups with the supposed bad guy being hapless and geting pummeled all the time was pushed into the ground.

[nakak]

Regarding the repeating formula, do keep in mind these shorts were meant to be shown in theaters, thus, many people only saw it once or twice, and never again. Freleng even admitted that if they liked the joke, he would use it again.

Television, however, made it seem repeative, thanks to rerun.

[Natey]

tuff between chuck,bob and Tex. But i will have to go with Bob. I always loved his cartoons

[Steve Carras]

Clampett and Avery were the best. But since I associate Avery more with MGM, it seems to me that Clampett was the perennial WB director. When he left, then Jones and Freleng became the creative leaders, but IMO, they pushed the series into a rut of "winning formulas" such as the Sylvester and Tweety/Coyote and Roadrunner, and then even Daffy came to fill in the hapless antagonist role for Bugs Bunny, and then the endless, same-ol same ol' Pepe Le Pew. There was much more variety of themes back in Clampett's day. (Great Piggy Bank Robbery, etc) while Freleng and Jones earlier stuff was lame (Sniffles, Duck Soup to Nuts, etc).
They did come up with great ideas, (in the contexts of their ongoing formulas, such as the Rabbit Fire trilogy and Birds Anonymous), but still those pairups with the supposed bad guy being hapless and geting pummeled all the time was pushed into the ground.

interesting set of comments, Eric B and reminsicent of what you've said on another major Vbulletin MB,.

And worthwhile to note as far as Tiny Toons (BTW one of your favorites as you've stated) thissomewhat one note-ism was carried too far IMO (though Sam who at least was VILLIANOUS from the 0otuset and a multidimension character IMO did the BEST WB short,1960's "From Hare to heir", with Bugs, who still remained two or more dimesnional, in these episodes..)

The Jones forumala was somewhat like what Davis did, a David vs Goliath but with variances at first in the forties (Davis's reign ended too soon to
"jump shar" :p but anyway, I diress.) but then Davis's approach (which going over HSI catalgoue at Warner bros.late 1940s, wasn't just tough little dude up sgainst a hapless big guy entirely as Beck & Friedwald (1989, henry Holt, LT &MM) have said,m but were one..("A Hick, A Slick and a Chick',1947-1948, "The Stupor Salesman",for instance have a rather naively perky innocent with a resource of self-defense (Elmo the "hcik mouse, Daffy), up against a big goliaht and the first had a mosue and cat villian (normal size) with the first up against the latter (tkaing on Jimmy Durante persoanity/voice)( and Slug McSlug in the seocnd is as hapless as Daffy when he tries to flick the "Bic"..with disastrous results..If Davis had lasted to the 50s, as we love to say I wonder WHAT coulda happened and you'vbe speculated on the other board I brought up (the old Termite Terrae, BOB VS CHUCK), what would have happed if the entire cast o'directors (Tahs, AAvery,etc.and even Clampoett) could sdtay,and Davis.One thing for sure..Friz would have to find another star aniamtor..Bob Hope and Bing Crosby and then Dean martin and Jerry Lewis, whose "Cinderefella" apparenlty had an ealry Tahslin short Little Beau Porky from 1936's "Atten'chion" in French..would need a different producer director, Beany and Cecil and classic MGM toons wouldn't have seen the light of day,yada yada yada!

(What if Chuck, who made exemplary 1940s shorts under the Michaerl Maltese and ast first Ted Pierce infleucne had CONTINEUD this style..and the Three bears were allowed by producer Ed Selzer, and Hubie and Boit the Mice ahad continued..if Davis had stayed maybe SLug McSlug, maybe the Hick,Slick and CHick mice and Wellingtion the dog would have lasted...)

[Eric B]

I knew I said some of this before. So it was the old Termite Terrace? (That long ago). I cannot even get onto the new one. The confirmation address keeps coming up as invalid. (been trying for the last few weeks). A Hick, Slick, and Chick, and Stupor Salesman are examples of stories that do not fit that mold. The Hick basically wins on the end, and you do not feel sorry for Slugs, as he truly is a tough bully. Davis' first film, Mouse Menace is more like the down-on-the-hapless-antagonist format I discuss. As for what Davis would have been like if he continued on; I wonder if Quackodile Tears sheds light on that, but it is so many years, it breaks the continuity. (Likewise, is Beany and Cecil what Clampett's Looney Tunes would have become?) It just seems like an isolated instance of Freleng allowing one of his animators to take over (though some of the McKimson unit is in that one too).

[nakak]

Well, do keep in mind that Clamepett didn't direct a single "Beany and Cecil" cartoon. He only served as a producer.

[sun]

sorry, NOT VALID HERE.....

Freeling, Jones, Clampett, And Avery, Are All Just Great, for different reasons . Yes, and one might say they like one better, Ok, And, I that is fair...but comparing them, doesn't work for me. Those four were All Great, And Produced Great Work.. Stuart.


Like Saying 'Daffy Is Better Than Bugs"....................... Forget It...