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Smurfs 3D Movie – I’m so against it!
One upon a time, in a magical and mythical lands know as the Belgium and France, a group of comic book artists spend their time working on some of the best comic book series ever made. things where easily censored in those days you see, and yet they didn’t want to reduce themselves on doing some silly comic strip just for kids. So they use all their satiric skills to make their work as sophisticated as possible. Soon Franco-Belgian world flood with very clever comic books, who while visually did look, like something for kids, had intelligent humor which in fact attracted more the adults, who got the hidden jokes children wouldn’t get.
Ow, it was marvels time! We got Rene Gościnny who created Asterix, Lucky Luke and Iznogoud, Hegre who created Tintin, Franquin who made Spirou and Fantasio and off course… Peyo, who among some fine comic books as Johan and Peewit , Benoît Brisefer and… The Smurfs!
Much like most of Franco-Belgian comics, the Smurf did relay on clever humor, satire and sociological commentaries. The second albom “ Le Schtroumpfissime” was a prefect take on democracy with some smart political references throw in and “Schtroumpf Vert et Vert Schtroumpf” concentrate on dialect wars in Belgium.
Unfortunately Peyo sold rights to his works to “Hanna-Barbera” … “What? What? What?” - Somebody may ask – “But that series was so good!” Well, yhe! As, an animated cartoon, Hanna-Barbera version o the Smurfs was pretty fine and I’m not questioning it… However compeering it to the books it’s just strongly infantile. Most of the clever jokes where replace by some very simple slapstick jokes, characters personalities where simplify and some things changed completely (in books Gargamel was not a wizard but a alchemist who didn’t want to eat the Smurfs but need them to created a philosophic stone to change metal into gold). I get some changes like in the books Brainy Smurf was bit with, a hammer by others, while in the cartoons he is simply kick off the village to make the whole thing less violent for the kids, but sadly most of these changes made the cartoon loss it potential and original charm.
The idea of new movie (after seeing how they already destroy Garfield and few other comic books on the big screen) sound even worse! I like how ever the idea of having Smurfs 3D while humans wll be live action, but it dosent cheer me up very much...
Ow, whell! Whe wait we see!
Ow, it was marvels time! We got Rene Gościnny who created Asterix, Lucky Luke and Iznogoud, Hegre who created Tintin, Franquin who made Spirou and Fantasio and off course… Peyo, who among some fine comic books as Johan and Peewit , Benoît Brisefer and… The Smurfs!
Much like most of Franco-Belgian comics, the Smurf did relay on clever humor, satire and sociological commentaries. The second albom “ Le Schtroumpfissime” was a prefect take on democracy with some smart political references throw in and “Schtroumpf Vert et Vert Schtroumpf” concentrate on dialect wars in Belgium.
Unfortunately Peyo sold rights to his works to “Hanna-Barbera” … “What? What? What?” - Somebody may ask – “But that series was so good!” Well, yhe! As, an animated cartoon, Hanna-Barbera version o the Smurfs was pretty fine and I’m not questioning it… However compeering it to the books it’s just strongly infantile. Most of the clever jokes where replace by some very simple slapstick jokes, characters personalities where simplify and some things changed completely (in books Gargamel was not a wizard but a alchemist who didn’t want to eat the Smurfs but need them to created a philosophic stone to change metal into gold). I get some changes like in the books Brainy Smurf was bit with, a hammer by others, while in the cartoons he is simply kick off the village to make the whole thing less violent for the kids, but sadly most of these changes made the cartoon loss it potential and original charm.
The idea of new movie (after seeing how they already destroy Garfield and few other comic books on the big screen) sound even worse! I like how ever the idea of having Smurfs 3D while humans wll be live action, but it dosent cheer me up very much...
Ow, whell! Whe wait we see!
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Comment by Lord Galvatron on July 2, 2009 at 9:31am - Oh yeah so with The Smurfs were a big part of my childhood I lived of re-runs of the cartoon in the 90's but a 3d live action movie? As if Transformers and G.I Joe wasn't bad enough
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Comment by Jay Perry on July 1, 2009 at 3:59pm -
It could be ok,and lol n2y3724.AUSTIN!!!!
da-na da-na-na-na(wow)da-na da-na-na-na(ow)
ok im done.
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Comment by Luis Pabon on July 1, 2009 at 11:09am -
During that times, here in argentina we were living in kind of our golden era of comics. I would STRONGLY recomend you to google a bit about artists such as Breccia. he even worked with moebius, and adapted some stories by H.P. Lovecraft. We also had Solano Lopez, and the GENIUS "Nine" (his last name is Nine), who was a best seller even in japan. Also if you like the marvel line, and de DC line, check Eduardo Risso, I met him on my university and he told me about a few conversations with Stan Lee, who aknowledged that the artists all over the world started paying atention to narrative other than muscles thz to Argentina and France´s comic.
SADLY, that golden era is over. Today the comic industry in Argentina is dead, since artists prefer to work for foreign contratists that pay in dollars or EUROS.
BTW, America´s comic industry had a case similar to that of the SMURFS with Calvin and Hobbes, which I consider to be a work of art, but the author refused to sell te character rights to none other than Disney.
Also check Yugoslavian Enki Bilal (my favourite graphic novel artist).
Hope some of you find this info interesting. i'll be glad to share some more info to whoever likes comic from around the world.
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Comment by Janek the Crov on July 1, 2009 at 5:09am -
@ Kara,
I think you just need to read this blog post that Maciek wrote to know why would one care about the Smurfs... And comparing them to Gummi Bears is really incorrect (and it actually kind of is what Maciek seems to point out in his post).
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Comment by SpillGamerMike on July 1, 2009 at 12:29am - I agree with Lindsey.
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Comment by schwoogie on June 30, 2009 at 5:40pm - im gonna smurf you right in your smurfing smurf you smurfy smurf smurf!!!!!!
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Comment by MisterKeitel on June 30, 2009 at 3:31pm - Lindsey- I disagree. If they took a cast of really hot female actress (like Megan Fox, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Hathaway and Carmen Electra), colored them blue and dressed them up as male and female Smurfs (except for Papa Smurf, who should be Michael Gabbone) then it would look amazing.
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Comment by Lindsey=mc2 on June 30, 2009 at 3:24pm - If they are live action the actors will look like a huge bunch dumbasses in that make-up talking about "smurf this!" "Smurf that!".
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Comment by MisterKeitel on June 30, 2009 at 3:10pm
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Well, myself I'd be far more interested in a live-action Smurfs with Scarlett Johanson and Smurfette. I can just imagine her with blue skin and hair.
BTW- N2Y3724, Why do you have moving giff of Joe the Plumber?
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Comment by N2Y3724 on June 30, 2009 at 1:58pm -
SMURF IN LIVE ACTION!?
LETS HOPE THEY DONT LOOK RAPED IN CG
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