Hey Good Lookin' (1982) on Netflix

R19821h 16mAnimation Comedy Drama

A stranger holds out what is left of a leather jacket. He tells a middle-aged woman about its owner, Vinnie Genzianna, who leads the Stompers in Brooklyn in 1953.

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In Long Island, a stranger shows a middle-aged woman what is left of a leather jacket she once treasured, and tells her the story of the man who wore it. In Brooklyn in 1953, Vinnie Genzianna leads a greaser gang called the Stompers, with his best friend Crazy Shapiro at his side, though Crazy's father, the detective Solly, keeps trying to kill him. Vinnie runs into his old flame Rozzie Featherschneid, and her protective father chains her to her bed to keep the two apart. Vinnie and Crazy take a car and fill the night with drinking, pool and pranks. Vinnie then wanders onto the black stretch of beach, where Boogaloo Jones, who leads the rival Chaplains, calls for a rumble.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hey Good Lookin' (1982)

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Hey Good Lookin' was first finished in 1975 as a live-action/animated film in which only the main characters were animated and the rest were played by live actors; Warner Bros. pushed its release back and then postponed it indefinitely, calling that version unsatisfactory and citing concern about backlash against Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin.
Warner Bros. refused to spend more money on a film it called "unreleasable", so Ralph Bakshi paid to finish Hey Good Lookin' himself out of the director's fees from Wizards, The Lord of the Rings and American Pop between 1976 and 1982.
On the first day of shooting, Bakshi's actors only acted naturally, flirting with an actress, once the cameras were off, so Bakshi filmed them himself; when he told cinematographer William A. Fraker, Fraker quit and was replaced by a cinematographer who had never worked in film.
Bakshi hired African-American animators, including graffitists, at a time when black animators were rarely employed by major animation studios; after the Coonskin controversy some left his studio in embarrassment, causing production problems on Hey Good Lookin'.
The optical effect needed to blend live action with animation cost more than the film's whole budget, so Ralph Bakshi and cameraman Ted C. Bemiller bought a 35-millimetre camera to project footage onto glass under the animation camera, the same technique used for the rotoscoped scenes in The Lord of the Rings.
Warner Bros. president Frank Wells said Hey Good Lookin' needed "fine-tuned" and told Bakshi he had not fulfilled his contract and had used more live action than promised; Bakshi's lawyer persuaded the studio not to sue him.
Hey Good Lookin' was first scored by singer Dan Hicks, who joined in 1974, but when the film stalled his label released the sessions as It Happened One Bite; the 1982 version was rescored by John Madara.
For the rumble sequence, the actors playing the Chaplains were filmed popping and dancing in styles that later evolved into breakdancing, moves unheard of in the 1970s studio system.