November 27th, 2007 admin Posted in Cartoon, Cartoons | No Comments »
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Speedy Gonzales, “the fastest mouse in all Mexico“, is an animated cartoon mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.
Speedy’s major traits are his ability to run extremely fast, and his comedic Mexican accent. He usually wears an oversized yellow sombrero, a white shirt and pants, and a red ascot.
Speedy debuted in 1953’s Cat-Tails for Two, directed by Robert McKimson. This early Speedy was a meaner, skinnier, rattier-looking creation with a sizable gold front tooth.
It would be two years before Friz Freleng and animator Hawley Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation for the 1955 Freleng short, Speedy Gonzales.
The cartoon features Sylvester the cat menacing a group of mice.
The mice call in the plucky, excessively energetic Speedy to save them, and amid cries of “¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!” (Spanish for Up! Move!)
courtesy of Mel Blanc, Sylvester soon gets his painful come uppance.
The cartoon won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
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