The Spike also transforms Jack into an muscular superhero-like doodle, who returns the Spike to its rightful place, sending him, Holli and the invading doodles back to Cool World and restoring the balance between the two dimensions. Frank learns what has happened and returns to the real world, where he teams up with Jack in a bid to stop Holli. In 1990, Ralph Bakshi decided that it was time to make another animated film. "[26], Deseret News reviewer Chris Hicks described it as: "...a one-joke movie – and it's a dirty joke. See more ideas about Cast iron, Cast iron cooking, Iron. [17] The promotional campaign was focused on the sex appeal of Holli. Filming & Production Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, animation production manager (uncredited), property master (as Robert J. Visciglia Jr.), effects assistant animator (as Chang Yei Kim), stunt double: Brad Pitt/Gabriel Byrne (uncredited), animation camera operator (as Bill Bemiller), second company grip (as Don L. Duffield III), animation camera operator (as Bob Jacobs), assistant camera: SpaceCam (as Steven A. Saas), ink and paint supervisor (as Tania M. Burton), assistant animation coordinator (as Robert Gibbs), animator: "Holli Would" and "Lonette" (as Steve Gordon), animation designer / animator / layout artist, assistant animation coordinator (as Klay R. Hall), assistant animator (as Buddy James McArdle), cel service supervisor (as Jessie Palubeski), ink and paint special effects (as Leonor M. Wood), character designer / character layout artist, mark-up artist (uncredited) / painter (uncredited), costume designer: Kim Basinger / costumer: Kim Basinger, live action model: Bob (as Robert N. Bell), live action model: Holli Would / live action model: Lonette, production coordinator: layouts/backgrounds (uncredited). In 1963 Harlem, a 15-year-old gang member (Hampton Clanton) falls in love with a teenage prostitute. Bakshi and Mancuso lost three WGAW arbitrations claiming they created the story. The first game was developed by Twilight and released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and DOS. Official Sites Image size. Cool World movie reviews & Metacritic score: Cartoonist Jack Deebs (Byrne) is transported into a cartoon universe called Cool World by Holli Would (Basinger), … "[6] Bakshi said he had developed the film as a mix of comedy and horror that he described as "a hard R-rated story" but Paramount wanted a PG-13 film, one of the reasons for the doomed and angry relationship between filmmaker and studio. Cartoon Characters, Cast and Crew for Cool World (1992) Previous Cartoon | Next Cartoon . The concept of the film involved a cartoonist who created a comic book while in prison that makes him an underground "star". Frank aggressively confronts Jack, explaining to him that the Cool World has existed long before Jack created the comic series. [15][16] In a letter to the city's Recreation and Park Board, commission officials wrote that they were "appalled" by the board's approval of the alterations: "...the action your board has taken is offensive to Los Angeles women and is not within your role as custodian and guardian of the Hollywood sign. [9] The film's animators were never given a screenplay, and were instead told by Bakshi to "Do a scene that's funny, whatever you want to do! Its lifetime gross was US$14.1 million,[22] barely more than half its reported US$28 million budget. [...] [Mancuso] was sitting there with Kim [...] agreeing with her. In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother. With Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn, Brad Pitt. Vital scenes that take place in a night club (coma club/slash club). "[27], Variety reviewer Brian Lowry compared the film to an extended music video, praising the soundtrack and visuals, but panning the story. Release Dates [2], Cool World marked Bakshi's return to feature films after nine years. Jack spends his sentence creating a series of comics based on his visions. [31], Contributing to the low box office was the fact the studio withdrew all advertising support after the opening weekend. Bakshi began a rewrite to meet the studio's demand. According to Bakshi, Basinger had attempted to rewrite the film halfway into its production because she "thought it would be great [...] if she would be able to show this picture in hospitals to sick children [...] I said, 'Kim, I think that's wonderful, but you've got the wrong guy to do that with.' The film was originally pitched as a live-action/animated horror film by Michael Grais and Mark Victor about an underground comic cartoonist who after leaving prison a folk hero for his comic book series "Cool World" is pulled into his creation by the characters he thinks he created but who he discovers exist with or without him. BCDB Rating: 3.7 / 5 Stars from 7 users. [10] It included the track "Real Cool World" by David Bowie, his first original solo material in roughly three years; the song was written exclusively for the film. Meanwhile, Jack (who is still in his doodle form) and Holli are last seen as Jack begins planning their new life together, much to Holli's dismay. 7 images of the Cool World cast of characters. The animation was strongly influenced by Fleischer Studios (whose cartoons were released by Paramount in the 1930s and 1940s) and Terrytoons (where Bakshi once worked, and whose Mighty Mouse character was also adapted into a series by Bakshi). [24] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "C" on scale of A+ to F.[25], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "[Cool World] misses one opportunity after another...[it is] a surprisingly incompetent film. Brad Pitt also provides Frank's voice in doodle form. [12][13], As part of the film's promotion, the Hollywood Sign was altered to include a 75-foot (23 m) tall cutout of Holli Would. In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. As Lonette mourns him, she finds out from Nails that Holli was briefly in her doodle form when she killed Frank and explains that when a noid is killed by a doodle, the noid is reborn in Cool World as a doodle. "[29], Leonard Maltin panned the film: "Too serious to be fun, too goofy to take seriously; lead characters unlikable and unappealing. "[4], A soundtrack album, Songs from the Cool World, featuring recordings by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Moby, Ministry, The Future Sound of London, and others, was released in 1992 by Warner Bros. "[7] Bakshi also stated that he "had a lot of animators there that I'd brought in and I thought that maybe I could just have fun animating this stuff, which I did. A cartoonist enters a strange world and meets his creation (Holli Would and Monkeybone). [28], The Los Angeles Times said: "[T]he plot makes almost no sense. Jack and Holli leave for Earth, where Holli finds herself experiencing real sensations. The film's sets were based upon enlargements of designer Barry Jackson's paintings. Anyways, feel free to use this meme! Each piece is kept by one of her gang members. As an ambulance truck takes her away, Frank is transported to "Cool World", an animated city of surreallandscapes and random cartoon violence. The two are involved in a traffic collision; Frank's mother dies, while Frank is transported to an animated realm named the "Cool World". So I called my lawyer, who was still speaking to me because no one ever leaves Hollywood, and asked him where I should go to sell a movie. His comic book Cool World describes a zany world populated by doodles (cartoon characters) and noids (humanoids). Find out where Cool World is streaming, if Cool World is on Netflix, and get news and updates, on Decider. When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. Riding on a motorcycle that he won in Italy during his service, Frank and his mother are struck by a drunk couple. A 1992 movie by Ralph Bakshi where a cartoonist finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. In 1945, in Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (Kim Basinger; also for Final Analysis[clarification needed]). The consensus reads: "Cool World throws a small handful of visual sparks, but they aren't enough to distract from the screenplay's thin characters and scattered plot. Cool World (c) Ralph Bakshi. Cool World Cool World Cool World (1992) Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film by Dave Koch. Nails, having been freed from Jack's pen in the ensuing chaos, brings Frank's body back to Cool World. The premiere audience I saw it with certainly did. Cool World When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) was behind bars, he found escape by creating "Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Wood.but the 'toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. [33], The film garnered[when?] Company Credits "I thought if I did the animation well, it would be worth it, but you know what? It wasn't worth it. [3], On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 6% based on 48 reviews, with an average rating of 3.17/10. For other uses, see, "Noids" redirects here. Cool World marked Bakshi's return to feature films after nine years. Meanwhile, Frank has become a detective in the Cool World and keeps his eye on Holli to ensure that the two dimensions do not intertwine. Frank Harris, a returning GI (Brad Pitt) is reunited with his mother. Looking to watch Cool World? [citation needed]. [19] A four-issue comic book prequel to the film was published as a miniseries by DC Comics. For information about Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) in the UK, see, "Holli Would" redirects here. 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[11] Mark Isham's original score for Cool World, featuring a mixture of jazz, orchestral pieces, and electronic remixes, and performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, was released on compact disc by Varèse Sarabande, and in complete form in 2015 by Quartet. Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. The cartoonist is offered a cigarette but refuses to smoke it. "[3] Bakshi heard the original pitch of Cool World by Michael Grais and Mark Victor to Paramount Pictures (where Bakshi had worked as the final head of the studio's animation division) as an animated horror film. Even though Frank's a human, she genuinely loves him and wants to consummate her relationship with him--while Frank ultimately feels the same way about Lonette, he's very adamant about upholding the only true law of Cool World: noids can't have sex with doodles (which is ultimately for not … She is a doodle inhabitant of Cool World, but she wants to be a real woman living in the real world and she is willing to resort to anything without hesitation to make her dreams come true, even killing. • Gabriel Byrne as Jack Deebs, an ex-convict cartoonist who is seemingly responsible for the creation of Cool World. Photos of the Cool World (Movie) voice actors. The two are involved in a traffic collision; Frank's mother dies, while Frank is transported to an alternate universe called the "Cool World". Platformer based on Cool World (1992). [6] The film's voice cast includes Maurice LaMarche, Charlie Adler and Candi Milo. "[30], The Washington Post reviewer Hal Hinson wondered "whether Kim Basinger is more obnoxious as a cartoon or as a real person," and felt that the combination of animation and live action was unconvincing. Directed by: Ralph Bakshi. In interviews after the release of the film Bakshi claimed he rewrote the script and was backstabbed by Mancuso with a new screenplay before production began. Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated black comedy fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. "[18] Designer Milton Knight recalled: "Audiences actually wanted a wilder, raunchier Cool World. The Cool World is a jive-animated parallel dimension created by animator Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne). When Jack displays skepticism about the idea, Holli abandons Jack to search for the spike on her own. Now for some of you who don't know what that movie is, it's a Adult Version of Roger Rabbit. Having sex with cartoons leads to all sorts of problems, a bad movie being one of them, but is there more to this film than it seems? The Cool World stars real Harlem youth, and some real gang members: "[17] Protestors picketed the unveiling of the altered sign. Two different games were released in 1993 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES, alongside a Game Boy version of the former. Records. [21], Cool World opened at sixth on the North American box office, with $5.5 million. | [6] Paramount threatened Bakshi with a lawsuit if he refused to complete the film. 5184x6080px 315.14 KB. A multitude of monstrous doodles begin pouring into the real world and begin turning noids in the city into doodles. When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Would.But the 'toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. While contemplating their situation, Holli tells Jack about the "Spike of Power", an artifact which was the cause of Frank getting sent to Cool World and placed on the top of the Union Plaza Hotel by a doodle who crossed into the real world, and admits she wants to use it to remain in her noid form permanently. The film begins in 1945-era Las Vegas. "[5], As the sets were being built in Las Vegas, producer Frank Mancuso Jr., son of Paramount president Frank Mancuso Sr., hired Larry Gross to change the film from R rated to PG-13. Holli wants to become human -- or a "noid" in Cool World parlance. Shortly after his release from prison, Jack is transported into the Cool World and smuggled into a local nightclub by Holli and her henchmen, the Goons. Cool World is such a frustrating film. [citation needed], In 1997, John Grant wrote in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy that Cool World "stands as one of the fantastic cinema's most significant achievements, an 'Instauration fantasy' that reveals greater depths with each viewing. Also, unlike Holli (who's evil and murderous), Lonette's a genuinely kind, friendly and sweet-natured character. Post your Comments or Review [4] Bakshi also contributed to the script, but both their work was uncredited as Michael Grais and Mark Victor's original concept formed the basis of the film. Looks like a Roger Corman version of Roger Rabbit. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of Cool World with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com Despite this, Frank himself is in love with the doodle Lonette, but limits himself to platonic advances. Sep 13, 2020 - Explore Sonja Stewart's board "Cool World of Cast Iron Cookery", followed by 610 people on Pinterest. Navigate the levels of Cool World as Harris to find five pieces of the map that leads to Holli and stop her before she uses the Golden Spike. Frank survives, but his mother dies. In 1992, cartoonist Jack Deebs is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the murder of a man he had found in bed with his wife. It is not to be confused with, "Animation's Bad Boy Returns, Unrepentant", "Rotoscoped Memories: An Interview with Ralph Bakshi", "Still Bakshi after all these years: Iconoclastic 'Fritz the Cat' director has another tale to tell", "When Paramount's 75-Foot Hollywood Sign Stunt Pushed Locals Too Far", "Hollywood Residents Can't Shroud Anger Promotion: Paramount Pictures defends attaching a movie cartoon character to the famous sign. [20] It featured a script by Michael Eury and art work by Stephen DeStefano, Chuck Fiala, and Bill Wray. During Preproduction, Grais’ original screenplay in collaboration with Mark Victor written as an R rated film was told by new studio head to change it from an R-rated film to a PG-13 film per studio directive. Due to the damaged interdimensional fabric, Jack and Holli spontaneously flicker in between their doodle and noid forms. During his sentence, he has visions of the Cool World and the femme fatale Holli Would, who seems to beckon him. Here's a cast meme of Ralph Bakshi's Cool World. | The film received negative reviews for the story, acting, animation and its unconvincing combination with live-action, though the soundtrack received praise. The film's plot transposes two alternate dimensions: the real world, and the Cool World, a world of animated characters, called "doodles." Cool World was the last feature film directed by Bakshi at the time, but in 2015, Bakshi released another film, "Last Days of Coney Island", funded on Kickstarter with help from Matthew Modine. "Real Cool World" is a song from the soundtrack of the film Cool World, performed by David Bowie. Holli then secretly steals Jack's pen, which she uses to entrap Frank's partner Nails the Spider when he attempts to stop her. Paramount's marketing president Barry London noted: "Cool World unfortunately did not seem to satisfy the younger audience it was aimed at. It also received positive reviews, as did the work of John Dickson. Holli Would is the main antagonist in the Ralph Bakshi's 9th animated feature filmCool World. (Cut to footage of Cool World) NC (vo): Wait a minute, I thought that was one of your biggest cinematic disasters. | Among Jack's many creations is the knock-out broad Holli Would (Kim Basinger). It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, where he is seduced by one of the characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. He also informs Jack that his fountain pen is a lethal weapon in the Cool World, and warns him that sexual intercourse between "noids" (slang for humans) and "doodles" (slang for the Cool World's inhabitants) is forbidden, as this can break the fabric between both dimensions. Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Cartoon, Portal Fantasy. According to Bakshi, "I made 1,500 bucks in 10 years of painting; I thought it would be nice to pick up a piece of change. The fact that Paramount Pictures donated a mere $27,000 to Rebuild L.A. should not be a passport to exploit women in Los Angeles. | No relation to the later Ralph Bakshi semi-animated feature of the same name, Cool World is set in the meanest sections of Harlem. Cool World. Make sure to credit! Sure enough, Frank is then revived as a doodle, allowing him to continue his relationship with Lonette. Eventually, artist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) also enters Cool World and sets his lustful sights on his own creation, a blond bombshell named Holli Would (Kim Basinger). "[4], Several different licensed video games based on the film were created by Ocean Software. [14] The alteration angered local residents. [...] And much of what's going on here seems more angry and nasty than inspired or funny. The cartoonist gets menaced by the strange world's creatures when they first enter (road kill animals/Holli's goons). Similar to Holli Would, Lonette has a promiscuous nature (albeit not to the same extent as Holli does). They arrive at the casino and climb to the roof, where Holli kills Frank by pushing him off the building and seizes the Spike. "[5], The visual design of the live-action footage was intended to look like "a living, walk-through painting," a visual concept Bakshi had long wanted to achieve. "[23] On Metacritic the film has a score of 28 based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Bakshi's talents are on display, but so is the meddling hands of Frank Mancuso, Jr. and Kim Basinger who turned this from … Vote Now! The soundtrack received stronger reviews from critics than the film itself, including a four-star rating from Allmusic. Released on 10 August 1992, it represented his first new solo material since Tin Machine dissolved.. Holli later seduces Jack and they have sex, which transforms Holli into a noid. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. Starring: Brad Pitt, Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger. Brad Pittas Detective Frank Harris, a detective for the Cool World Police Department who is bent on catching Holli. [8], Bakshi had originally intended to cast Drew Barrymore and Brad Pitt in the film's leading roles. The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas. [citation needed], This article is about the 1992 hybrid live-action animated film. [4] Bakshi states that Paramount Pictures "bought the idea in ten seconds. IMAGE DETAILS. He was inadvertently teleported by Dr. Vincent Whiskers, a doctor who created a "spike" that was supposed to take him to the real world, but b… [4] The artwork by the character Jack Deebs was drawn by underground comix artist Spain Rodriguez. Pitt was cast as Frank Harris instead, with Gabriel Byrne as Deebs and Kim Basinger as Holli. "[32], Animation historian Jerry Beck described the film as being "for adults and Bakshi completists only", writing that the film "has a great premise, a great cast, and the best animation he's ever been involved with", but critiquing it as a "pointless rehash of many of Ralph's favorite themes, and the story literally goes nowhere". Cool World (1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.