I read on the Disney Comics Pages that some kind of Barks collection a few
years back had been redrawn in places, to avoid racial stereotypes etc. Has
this also been done with the Gladstone libraries ?
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Topic: 199703
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Eirik Krogh Visted
Redrawing
Message 166 -
1997-03-31 at 17:21:19
Eirik Krogh Visted
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Message 167 -
1997-03-31 at 17:21:20
>I remember way back when (it was 1993 or so), when the Disney Company (it
>was Mr. Seidman, I believe), had announced the upcoming publication of
>Rosa's "The War of the Wendigo". Well, we know what happened to that story
>in the U.S. I hope "Tightwad's" fortunes will be brighter (albeit cencored).
I'm new to this list, and haven't heard about this. What happened ?
>was Mr. Seidman, I believe), had announced the upcoming publication of
>Rosa's "The War of the Wendigo". Well, we know what happened to that story
>in the U.S. I hope "Tightwad's" fortunes will be brighter (albeit cencored).
I'm new to this list, and haven't heard about this. What happened ?
Wilmer Rivers
Don's French movie (guess)
Message 168 -
1997-03-31 at 18:39:25
Don Rosa writes about the influence of movies on his stories:
> I'll say that I'm working on this Eldorado story right now that had a
> sequence of the Ducks driving a heavy transport truck through South
> American mountains... I make a point of mentioning this to you
> because it was a very famous FRENCH movie... But this sort of movie
> reference is so obscure that it's meant almost entirely as a private
> joke to myself... How many readers would even know it was a movie
> reference? About 3?
>
Well, I'll take a stab at it. Is it the 1954 film "La Salarie de la
Puer" ("The Wages of Fear"), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and
starring Yves Montand? If so, American audiences may know it slightly
better from its 1977 remake, which was titled "Sorceror" and was
directed by William Friedkin (in a rather lame attempt to follow up
his successful "suspense" films, "The French Connection" and "The
Exorcist"). The connection to French cinema is that Friedkin was
married to the French film star Jeanne Moreau, remember. Anyway, I'm
trying to form this image in my mind: Donald as Yves Montand (or Yves
Montand as Donald Duck???). Or am I totally off the mark in my guess
about what movie you mean?
"The Wages of Fear" was a winner at the Cannes Film Festival, so let's
hope Don's story is similarly successful! But whether it's a complete
success or a total failure, I don't see it as "destroying" Barks's
work. How could it? **No** writer is so talented that he could
"destroy" that wonderful canon, even if he tried!
Wilmer Rivers
> I'll say that I'm working on this Eldorado story right now that had a
> sequence of the Ducks driving a heavy transport truck through South
> American mountains... I make a point of mentioning this to you
> because it was a very famous FRENCH movie... But this sort of movie
> reference is so obscure that it's meant almost entirely as a private
> joke to myself... How many readers would even know it was a movie
> reference? About 3?
>
Well, I'll take a stab at it. Is it the 1954 film "La Salarie de la
Puer" ("The Wages of Fear"), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and
starring Yves Montand? If so, American audiences may know it slightly
better from its 1977 remake, which was titled "Sorceror" and was
directed by William Friedkin (in a rather lame attempt to follow up
his successful "suspense" films, "The French Connection" and "The
Exorcist"). The connection to French cinema is that Friedkin was
married to the French film star Jeanne Moreau, remember. Anyway, I'm
trying to form this image in my mind: Donald as Yves Montand (or Yves
Montand as Donald Duck???). Or am I totally off the mark in my guess
about what movie you mean?
"The Wages of Fear" was a winner at the Cannes Film Festival, so let's
hope Don's story is similarly successful! But whether it's a complete
success or a total failure, I don't see it as "destroying" Barks's
work. How could it? **No** writer is so talented that he could
"destroy" that wonderful canon, even if he tried!
Wilmer Rivers