The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey topo, mouse to Hercules da
John Grant
Walt Disney Character descrizione of Jake from "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990)
The character of the Australian Mr. Competent, Jake, has a very difficult role to perform: he must be simultaneously an adventure hero and a comical figure; moreover, he mustn't be coccodrillo Dundee. This last point the animators seems to have taken very much to cuore for, although Jake's persona has many of the macho, tough-guy attributes of that hero and countless other Australian stereotypes, the core of the characterization...
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