{"id":7263,"date":"2017-08-08T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2021-07-30T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:38:12","slug":"bugs-bunny-and-the-power-of-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/bugs-bunny-and-the-power-of-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugs Bunny &#038; Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Types Tuesday<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFxDV-ZXsAAMjH0.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7535 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFxDV-ZXsAAMjH0-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFxDV-ZXsAAMjH0-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFxDV-ZXsAAMjH0.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up, Doc? A <a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/products-page\/e-books\/the-power-of-excitement-ebook\/\">Power of Excitement<\/a> character, that&#8217;s what! This week I&#8217;m talking about everyone&#8217;s favorite wascally wabbit, Bugs Bunny of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes fame.<\/p>\n<p>I had the great good fortune to work with the remaining animators of &#8220;Termite Terrace&#8221; fame, including Chuck Jones. \u00a0I interviewed these amazing artists (somewhere I still have those tapes) and looked at their original drawings. in one of my first jobs as a consultant.<\/p>\n<p>The object was to standardize the characterization of the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon for legacy purposes. \u00a0These characters are now all over the world in television, merchandizing, and spin offs (Baby Bugs Bunny). \u00a0And Bugs needs to look like Bugs and act like Bugs wherever he appears. I helped create the official style and character guide.<\/p>\n<p>But back to Bug Bunny&#8217;s Character Type:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/products-page\/e-books\/the-power-of-excitement-ebook\/\">Power of Excitement<\/a> characters play the role of the merry prankster.\u00a0They keep things lively, entertaining, interesting and off-balance for all the other characters \u00a0At heart, these characters are anarchists. \u00a0They love to cause chaos to keep things amusing or to shake up the existing (dull, boring, or pedantic) order of things.<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny\u00a0is smart, sassy and adept at getting into and out of traps. \u00a0He is an anarchist, who refuses to obey rules (including the law of gravity). \u00a0&#8220;Ahh, Doc&#8211; I never went to law school.&#8221; \u00a0Bugs is a charming agent of chaos in every one of his cartoon roles. Bart Simpson is another example of this smart mouth &#8220;bad boy&#8221; character.<\/p>\n<p>If we look to the Dark Side of Power of Excitement, we need to look no further than The Joker in the Batman franchise to find an example. \u00a0The clip below is the definition of an\u00a0Agent of Chaos gone bad:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Dark Knight (6\/9) Movie CLIP - Agent of Chaos (2008) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIcIIBTJA6o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#TypesTuesday &#8211; Power of Excitement characters are Agents of Chaos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,52],"tags":[196,372,980,373,25,26,27,28,30,31,475,32,981,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,479,1358,41,982,42],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-power-of-excitement","category-types-tuesday","tag-agent-of-chaos","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-heath-ledger","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-looney-tunes","tag-movies","tag-nine-character-types","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-the-dark-knight","tag-the-joker","tag-tv","tag-warner-brothers","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",125,125,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",75,75,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",300,300,false],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",320,320,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2013735-59654_bugs_bunny-1.jpg",100,100,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Oscar Harding","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/oscarharding\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"#TypesTuesday - 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