Keskustelujen arkisto

I recently watched re-runs of the Indiana Jones trilogy. When i watched The
Last Crusade, i cant help feeling like i'm watching a movie of Ghost of the
Grotto. Both knights have to guard a valuable thing. Both knights have to
find replacement. And both have grown old thru the time and their similar
appearance strikes me the most. i didnt notice it when i was a kid. Whether
or not the movie was based on that story, i cant help feeling that it is.

the auger nosed antagonist is p.j. mcbrine if im not mistaken.

I agree that many movies take plots from comics and even novels. But the
current releases of superheroes comics movies arent too shabby but yet not
too grand either. I keep hoping that someday some nutcase producer will be
able to produce barks' ducks stories into a movie but using humans as the
actors. it is not impossible yet i would love to see any veteran actor take
on the role of scrooge mcduck. of course, i expect em to wear pants ;-)
somehow, don rosa's life and times stories might be perfec for such project,
depicting scrooge thru all of his hard work to be the richest one in the
world.

Keep On Quacking,
Arie Fachrisal

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> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:39:47 -0800
> From: rob gibson <robgsb at rain.org>
> Subject: barks/disney plots in non disney stories
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
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> I just got caught up on my DCML emails, so my reply is a bit dated. Steven
> Spielberg has admitted being inspired by Carl Barks. In particular he
> mentioned borrowing plot elements from "The Seven Cities of Cibola" for
> "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Could there be a link betweeen "Jurassic Park"
> (book and movie) with the auger nosed pickle hater story?
>
> I am amazed at how many movies are based on comic book characters or
plots.
> One could argue that this is a factor in the decline of comic book sales.
How
> can a comic book compete with a movie?
>
> Rob Gibson

In a message dated 3/26/2003 7:08:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
spe at inducks.org writes:

> >I heard that Gladstone will be reprinting issues of WDC&S from #1 on ...
> >
> >can anybody confirm this?
>
> That is highly unlikely since the license belongs to Gemstone, not
> Gladstone.

I think he meant Gemstone obviously, as I remember reading something about
the project being a possibility in an interview somewhere. It might have been
on IGN...

I hope the rumor has *something* behind it.
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Thanks for reading this nonsense,

Dane Martin

Fabricio de Oliveira Grellet:

>>Does anyone knows a site dedicated to the artwork of Giorgio Cavazzano,
and that includes some of his duck stories?

Excuse me if someone has answered before, and I didn't notice. Otherwise, I
am very susprised nobody has reported fabulous Frank Stajano webpage on
Cavazzano, Scarpa and Barks:

http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/disney/

Santiago.

In discussing HDL's parents,

Mickey stated:
Rosa said that someone in Xanadu told the twins they would have returned
there in order to discover a secret who deals with them. Or something like
this, neither I have the story at hand. Rosa also suggested that Della and
his husband were something like Senior Woodchucks, adventurers, tomb raiders
and so on, and they might be considered "lost in mission" to justify
everything. Or something like this :)

In response, I think that there is definitely something that could be done with this "Senior" Woodchucks idea.
HDL's parents, leaders of amazing missions and adventures are forced to leave HDL with Donald for awhile, but on this trip things don't go so well, and they get in some sort of predicament in which they are unable to return to Duckburg. Then, in some amazing Woodchucks adventure of their own, a trip in which HDL have a feeling will be extremely significant, they are led to their parents.....
Then, to wrap things up without changing the "Duckburg scenario" for future issues and stories.......HDL and their parents have a lengthly discussion about each other, getting caught up on their lives. All of them, having a great desire for knowledge and an sense of purpose in their lives understand that both groups have separate lives to live. HDL's parents are meant to continue with whatever they are doing and convince the boys that they should return home to follow their own destinies.

That's a very stream-of-conscious idea, but I think it would be really exciting and would manage to somehow keep things from getting crazy on either side of the story (before and after meeting the parents).

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,
John Crocker.

JOHN:

> HDL's parents are
> meant to continue with whatever they are doing and convince the boys that
> they should return home to follow their own destinies.

Um, isn't a parent's first and foremost duty that of raising their
children? I would think that the above behavior would have been pretty
irresponsible, and certainly not something in the "family" spirit that
Disney promote. Donald seems to have grasped this, acting as a parent
towards his nephews and trying to raise them as best as he can. As
for travelling abroad, he usually takes the kids with him, rather than
foisting them on a relative.

I'm afraid that Don is right in believing that the reason HD&L are
staying with Donald can only be something unpleasant.

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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From: "Kriton Kyrimis" <kyrimis at cti.gr>
>
> Um, isn't a parent's first and foremost duty that of raising their
> children? I would think that the above behavior would have been pretty
> irresponsible, and certainly not something in the "family" spirit that
> Disney promote.

Remember that back in the old days this beavior was not uncommon.
I know.
I have memories.
It was also just after WW2 and a lot of children had lost their parents.
It could perhaps be a comfort for these children to read about HDL's
situation.
And it was better (?) to be sent to a realtive than to a boardinghouse or
boardingschool.
/Michael

In a message dated 3/27/2003 10:18:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
M.J.Prior at let.rug.nl writes:

> For me, that would be Albert Finney in the role of Daddy Warbucks in "Annie"
>
> (1982). I know that this movie is based on the original "Little Orphan
> Annie"-
> comics, which I've never seen. The resemblance of the two characters is
> striking.

But Daddy Warbucks was created *before* Scrooge.

Hmm...
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Thanks for reading this nonsense,

Dane Martin