Knowing as the recognizable and greatest cartoon characters in the world,mickey and bunny will be celebrating their 81th and 69th birthday in 2009.Today, let us look into their history and life journey together.
Origin and time of birth are the crucial purport for an admirable character.Mickey mouse was born in 18 november 1928 by a designer called ub iwerks.Initially, mickey mouse is created for the replacement of an ealier cartoon character ostwald the rabbit by charles mintz.However, the betrayal of mintz made walt disney to come out with a brand new cartoon character and this was when they hired ub iwerks for the design.During the process of producing mickey mouse,ub iwerks had designed several cartoon characters that rejected by the walt disney but turn to the famous characters nowadays,they are carabella cow and horace horsecollar.Inspiration of creating mickey mouse came from the old pet mouse of iwerks's farm and this was when he decided to design a new mouse cartoon character.In the earlier time,this mouse was named 'mortimer mouse',but iwerks's wife was convinced him to change it and this was mickey mouse came to be.
Bugs bunny was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York by two designer Tex Avery and Robert Mckimson.Several historicans was believed that bugs was influenced by an earlier cartoon character called Max The Hare by Charlie Thorson.Even Avery admitted that he had "practically" stole the design of Thorson.Somehow it was chosen in numerous cartoon character in that time due to his personality and its known around' termit terrace' as bugs bunny.
After going through all this 81 years,the emerge of innumberable cartoon characters such as powerpuff girls and spiderman had tried to intimidate the conquest of mickey in the world.Contraily, mickey still remained as the greatest cartoon characters in the world.What makes it so special?Humanize is the attract point to the audience.There was a said by walt disney'a little fellow try the best as it could.People laugh at it as mickey is so human and all of this was started by a mouse!"Undeniably, mickey was similar to us-human , the true love to minnie,the friendship with pluto,the kindness to donald, all of these depicted that mickey was humanized,and this was its personality that attracted numerous audiences.
What about Bugs Bunny?I think that the appearance of itself is special enough.A big teeth and always used the carrot to say its catchphrase"Of course you realize it means war!"The controversy about Bugs Bunny that it is a rabbit or harehad never stopped.Ya most people say that rabbit and hare are the same.However in scienctific aspect,they are not actually the same.Somehow,this issue has increased the popularity of Bugs Bunny.
Both of them are the first cartoon character to have a star in the Hollywood Walk Of Hame and they won numerous awards that acknowledged their distributions to the world.Over the decades,they competed for the animated popularity but the historical moment came in 1988 as both of them appeared in one film called'Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
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