Let Me Be Good To You from Basil, The Great Mouse Detective / The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective.
Written and performed by Melissa Manchester
Written and performed by Melissa Manchester
I always thought Basil was rather rakishly dashing in this scene. Y'know, for a mouse.
Did you ever have a cartoon crush?
It's been years since I saw that movie. I'd forgotten that scene. Never even registered anything untoward about it when I was a kid - but I guess that's because strippers were kind of ubiquitous in 1980s action movies, and I saw this film around the same age I would have seen Beverly Hills Cop etc.
ReplyDeleteWhen you first mentioned "mouse burlesque", I thought the likeliest candidate would be Fievel Goes West (https://youtu.be/TylmZEtTGxw), as that has a lot of scenes in a saloon. Disney being more risque than Don Bluth! Who'd have thought!
I think the 80s were probably the darkest era of Disney cartoons. In The Black Cauldron you actually see blood! Normally people just get sleepy and lie down. And at the end of Basil when Ratigan is mostly monstrous rat, that's pretty terrifying. While The Fox And The Hound is like Zootopia without the moral.
DeleteI watched Fievel Goes West when I was younger because it contained James Stewart's last role (as, shudder, 'Wyatt Burp'). I seem to recall there was an odd 'grooming' kind of relationship between a man cat and that little girl mouse.
And I'm going to guess that Basil is the only Disney hero who smokes.
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