The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of " ¡Ándele! ¡Ándele! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yeehaw!" Spanish for "Go on! Go on! Up! Up!", although " Ándele arriba" may have been intended as meaning "hurry up." Sylvester soon gets his comeuppance. The cartoon features Sylvester guarding a cheese factory at the American/Mexican border from a group of starving Mexican mice. Freleng made Speedy rounder, cuter, and dressed him in traditional Mexican attire, complete with a sombrero. It would be two years before director Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short, " Speedy Gonzales". Although he was created by McKimson, the majority of the cartoons with him were directed by Friz Freleng.
Later on, this original version of Speedy is used as an unnamed background character a couple of times. The cartoon featured him outwitting a smart-and-stupid pair of cats, George and Benny, aboard a ship. This early Speedy was a leaner, rattier-looking creation that had a sizable gold front tooth and wore a red shirt but no pants or sombrero. Speedy debuted in the 1953 cartoon " Cat-Tails for Two", directed by Robert McKimson.
0 kommentar(er)
