Fritz The Cat

Synopsis: A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. Its hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself.
Director(s): Ralph Bakshi
Production: American International Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
UNRATED
Year:
1972
78 min
1,178 Views


Hey, yeah. The 1960's?

Happy times, heavy times.

All right, so you get

your daughter, right?

She might be Catholic,

Jewish, anything.

So you bring her up

in what they call...

the bourgeois,

American-type-society family.

Bring them up so they don't

screw until they get married.

You take them to church

on Sunday.

Teach them all you can

about bringing up a family...

how you should look and act...

then you send them to college.

You bust your hump.

No government subsidy.

Nobody's paying nothing.

You save your money,

or you borrow the money...

you work overtime,

you send her to college.

You want her

to get an education.

The first Easter

she comes home on a vacation...

she says, "Hey, Dad,

I'm living with some guy."

"You're living with some guy?

What do you mean?"

"This is the thing now.

Free love."

We're getting away

from the original point.

What we're trying to find is,

why are these bastards rioting?

Because they did dope.

Listen, you're going

in the wrong direction.

What of it?

What happens is, look,

I'm sending you to school...

I'm breaking my ass to send you

to college, right?

I expect you're going

to learn something.

Why be a janitor?

Learn something.

To justify my investment in you.

But some of these people

revel in the fact...

that their kids are leaders,

are rabble-rousers.

This son of a b*tch

just started a riot.

These kids think

they're the first generation...

that ever screwed

before they got married.

We all did,

but we always had one girl.

She screwed...

that girl you took out.

It's better off

these kids don't get married...

because they haven't got

the guts to stick with it.

Hey, you f***ing intellectuals

You think

you're so where it's at

Before you fill your minds

with any junk

Better listen to Fritz the Cat

'Cause writers and poets

and artists

It's your duty

to live life to the most

So fly out, brothers,

and check out the world

Give me a ride to the coast

Fritz the Cat

He fought many a good man

Laid many a good woman

Live life to the fullest

Cry out for more

until it bleeds

Help me,

help me help you, mother...

Love me,

I hate you, love me

I kill you, love me

I love you

What a mob in the park today.

God, the place

is crawling with phonies.

Yeah, high school punks.

Those creeps are always here

on weekends, man.

Most of them are total jackoffs.

So many people here

and nobody here.

-Dig that chick, man!

-Over there?

Man, look at that ass on her!

-What a baby carriage.

-So what, man?

If you hadn't showed up so late,

we'd be all right now.

Fritz always does it, man.

Everybody's here with

their guitars already.

Sixteen versions

of "Lemon Tree."

I just want someplace

where I can sleep.

I mean, I can cook.

I can sew and do housework

and things like that.

Get out the guitars.

Come on, get them out.

And one, two, three.

Once I had a little girl

Who was in love with me

Well, well, baby,

I know, I know

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah

Oh, mama, mama,

singing it, ho

Dumb chicks.

-Easily impressed by spades.

-lt's the thing, man.

Look, I'm gonna split.

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Ralph Bakshi

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, Bakshi was eventually promoted to animator, and then director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and the most successful independent animated feature of all time. Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features. He is well known for such films as Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978), American Pop (1981) and Fire and Ice (1983). In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years. After a nine-year hiatus from feature films, he directed Cool World (1992), which was largely rewritten during production and received poor reviews. Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy (1994) and the anthology series Spicy City (1997). During the 2000s, he focused largely on fine art and painting and in 2003 co-founded The Bakshi School of Animation with his son Eddie and Jess Gorell. Bakshi has received several awards for his work, including the 1980 Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings at the Giffoni Film Festival, the 1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation, and the 2003 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest Film Festival. more…

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