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Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 2015, he directed ten theatrically released feature films, six of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Baks
Animated cartoons have traditionally been places of slapstick and wonderment and only the occasional wicked stepmother. But not in the world of Ralph Bakshi: His first feature, “Fritz The Cat”, was an X-rated excursion into the urban underworld, and in “Heavy Traffic”, “Coonskin” and “Hey, Good Lookin’”, he examined gamblers, pimps, street gangs, dope pushers and 1950s juvenile delinquents.
https://youtu.be/2wwPaXn5jVkRalph Bakshi is a powerful figure in the history of animation. Seeing how bored he was with the conventions of the day, he seemed...
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Oct 31, 2015 · Ralph Bakshi: My youngest son, Edward Bakshi — who produced Last Days of Coney Island and also started an animation course at a university in New Mexico — grew up in an animation household. He ...
Ralph Bakshi sent shockwaves through the entertainment world as the enfant terrible of cartoons as he ushered a long-fluff-oriented children's medium into new platforms, audiences and cultural relevance. The Brooklyn born Bakshi established a career as an animator of children's cartoons,...
Oct 2, 2020 · How Ralph Bakshi Animated Race Perhaps more than any other animator in history, Ralph Bakshi sought to portray society without the slightest trace of Disney magic. One of the most successful independent creators of all time, his work has often been described as unfiltered, unapologetic and, at times, insensitive.
Bakshi was re-admitted thanks to Arkoff's intervention; as arrogant as he could be, Arkoff knew that he was paying for a Ralph Bakshi film, not an adult cartoon by Ralph Bakshi. Bakshi followed the success of "Heavy Traffic" with " Coonskin ," a controversial anti-fable that combines gangster movie tropes with racial stereotypes taken from minstrelsy, including animated characters that appear in blackface.
