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Lucky Luke ➦ animated adaptations:

Lucky Luke/Daisy Town (1971) ★ The ballad of the Daltons (1978) ★ Lucky Luke (1983) (1991) ★ The New Adventures of Lucky Luke (2001) ★ Lucky Luke: Go west! (2004)

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The twelve tasks of asterix (1976)

Ceasar challenges the Gauls to twelve tasks and will become the rulers of Rome if they complete all of them but if they fail they will have to live under the rule of Ceasar.

I definitely prefer this from the last two Asterix movies but I still have some problems with this one. The thing with the Asterix franchise is that you can't really have proper stakes since the main characters are overpowered. It works great for your Saturday morning cartoon but not as a movie. It just makes things repetitive and boring after a while.

The animation is a tad choppy but I like the use of characterization in the posing and the colours are much nicer than before.

While it is far some perfect The twelve tasks of Asterix does a good job for what it's aiming for. If you're a fan of the franchise I'm sure you'll like this.

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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix Creators: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo Studio: Studios Idefix | France, 1976

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Idefix und die Unbeugsamen, clip I

Idefix und die Unbeugsamen (Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles), season I, episode 41 Le glaive de Camulogène/Das Schwert des Camulogenos … but is mostly Quadratus (Anglaigus), my apologies but he is one of my favourites and it was a great surprise to see him on the prequel series, so sharing a video here for informative purposes. Now, for context, in this episode Angly had bought a sword (a Gaul relic) from the merchant Homéopatix, but Chief Abraracourcix was not happy about the situation. I thought it would be suitable for the clip to be on the original French, however all the German voice actors did an incredible work here, Anglaigus’ voice specially, this voice and interpretation of him is my favourite, it does great on portraying a young lad, expressive and dramatic, masculine yet with these delicate inflections and mannerisms. Idéfix et les Irréductibles (Idefix und die Unbeugsamen) and all its characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Studio 58, 2021.

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Showreel from Idefix from Terry Bear on Vimeo.

Showreel of the shots I animated on the serie Idefix et les irréductibles with O2O Studio

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Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 VS René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Henri Gruel and Pierre Watrin, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, 1976

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306. The Ballad of the Daltons (1978)

4/10

Lucky Luke, the Belgian cowboy comic character, locks up four bandit brothers (the Daltons) to halt their lifetime of crime. While in jail, a lawyer visits them and informs them that their rich uncle has died, having been hung for his own myriad crimes. (“A natural death,” one of the brothers tearfully says.) To get their inheritance, according to his will, they must murder the judge who sentenced him, under the supervision of none other than Lucky Luke, as he is the only trustworthy person their uncle knew, and therefore is uniquely fit to oversee this task.

I wish I could make up a plot as poorly contrived and nonsensical as that, but, to my regret, I am simply not creative enough.

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Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa], "Asterix the Gaul") is a bande dessinée comic book series about a village of indominatable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars. The series first appeared in the Franco-Belgian comic magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. It was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until Goscinny's death in 1977. Uderzo then took over the writing until 2009, when he sold the rights to publishing company Hachette; he died in 2020. In 2013, a new team consisting of Jean-Yves Ferri (script) and Didier Conrad (artwork) took over. As of 2021, 39 volumes have been released, with the most recent released in October 2021.

Asterix comics usually start with the following introduction:

The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium...[1][2]

The series follows the adventures of a village of Gauls as they resist Roman occupation in 50 BC. They do so using a magic potion, brewed by their druid Getafix (Panoramix in the French version), which temporarily gives the recipient superhuman strength. The protagonists, the title character Asterix and his friend Obelix, have various adventures. The "-ix" ending of both names (as well as all the other pseudo-Gaulish "-ix" names in the series) alludes to the "-rix" suffix (meaning "king") present in the names of many real Gaulish chieftains such as Vercingetorix, Orgetorix, and Dumnorix.

In some of the stories, they travel to foreign countries, while other tales are set in and around their village. For much of the history of the series (volumes 4 through 29), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.

The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into 111 languages and dialects as of 2009.[3]

The success of the series has led to the adaptation of its books into 15 films: ten animated, and five live action (two of which, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar, were major box office successes in France). There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix. The very first French satellite, Astérix, launched in 1965, was named after the character. As of 20 April 2022, 385 million copies of Asterix books had been sold worldwide and translated in 111 languages making it the world's most widely translated comic book series,[4] with co-creators René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo being France's best-selling authors abroad.[5][6]

In April 2022, Albert and René’s general director Céleste Surugue hosted a 45-minute talk titled "The Next Incarnation of a Heritage Franchise: Asterix" and spoke about the success of the Asterix franchise of which he noted "The idea was to find a subject with a strong connection with French culture and while looking at the country's history, they ended up choosing its first defeat, namely the Gaul's Roman colonisation". He also went on to say how since 1989, Parc Asterix attracts an average of 2.3 million visitors per year. Other notable mentions were how the franchise includes 10 animated movies, which recorded over 53 million viewers worldwide. The inception of Studios Idefix in 1974 and the opening of Studio 58 in 2016 were among the necessary steps to make Asterix a "100% Gaulish production," considered the best solution to keep the creative process under control from start to finish and to employ French manpower. He also noted how a new album is now published every two years, with print figures of 5 million and an estimate readership of 20 million.[7]

Jesse Pinkman is an allegory for being transgender

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MONOPRIX IDEFIX / 2017

CGI studio : Real Lies

Creative Director : Gilles Fichteberg

Art Director & Copywriter : Cerise Leclerc (+ Antoine Blondet) & Louise Mussot 

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Guitarrist Vuma Levin tours nationally his new jazz album

Vuma Levin

In association with Concerts SA, Vuma Levin presents the national tour if his second studio album, Life and Death on the Otherside of the Dream.

Matching his virtuosity, Vuma will be surrounded by an impressive array of locally based and international musicians. The 5 performances in Johannesburg will feature Vuma himself, Bernard van Rossum (UK/Netherlands), Xavi Torres Vicente (Spain), Peter Auret, Benjamin Jephta, Bokani Dyer and Marcus Wyatt. In Cape Town, the 5 performances will include Bernard van Rossum, Andre Petersen, Shane Cooper, Jonno Sweetman and, of course, Vuma Levin. Lastly, for the Durban leg of the tour, Vuma will do a special duo collaboration with renowned pianist Neil Gonsalves.

Asked about this album launch tour, Vuma says: “This music is, on the one hand, a personal reflection on the last seven years that I’ve spent in the Netherlands in a kind of self-imposed exile away from home. On the other hand it is broader reflection on the crises of the post-Apartheid South African self at home, in the diaspora and in an age of globalisation. Finally, by presenting a series of songs that are deeply hybrid in nature the album is an attempt to implicitly respond the commodification and fetishisation of African art and the cliched ‘single story’ told about South Africa and its people in the West.”

Vuma Levin

Vuma makes use of digital samples and prepared instruments and fuses, contemporary jazz, rock, hip-hop, pop and South African musical forms such as marabi, goema and Nguni-Sotho choral and gourd bow song. All of this hopes to capture and articulate the unique sonic landscape of South Africa and its people whilst still being sensitive to our place as agents in a global order.

Born and raised during the unstable interregnum years of post-Apartheid South Africa, guitarist Vuma Ian Levin’s music is an attempt to interrogate conceptions of identity, nation, culture, power and being both globally and in the emergent, post-1994 national democratic project.

Beginning his studies in jazz at age 18, Vuma received lessons from guitar legend, Johnny Fourie. He completed a National Diploma at the Tshwane University of Technology going on to be presented with the best Guitarist Award (2008). In 2009, he was selected as the guitarist in the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band, which culminated in a performance at the Grahamstown Jazz Festival and later at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival.

Vuma went on to attend the prestigious Conservatorium Van Amsterdam where he graduated and earned the Non-EU Talent Scholarship to finance his masters study. In 2014 he, won the 2nd prize in the National Leg of the Keep an Eye Jazz Awards. He went on to win the 3rd prize, incentive prize and prize for the most original band in the international leg of the Keep an Eye Jazz Awards, which featured bands from New York, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Vienna and Philadelphia. In 2014 he was nominated for the Dutch Eindwerk Prijs and went on to be announced as one of the 9 national finalists. In 2015, he was selected as a finalist in the Dutch Keep an Eye: The Records awards. In 2016, Vuma won the national leg of the Keep an eye Jazz awards and came third in the international leg, featuring bands from Sienna, Boston, New York, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Finally, in the same year Vuma graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam cum laude and was announced as semi-finalist in the Montreux Socar International Jazz guitar competition in which he placed in the top 8.

Levin has performed with some of the top musicians in South Africa and abroad including: Feya Faku, Herbie Tsoeli, Nduduzo Makhatini, Marcus Wyatt, Ayanda Sikade, Sisonke Xonti, Bokani Dyer, Thandi Nthuli, Benjamin Jephta, Tumi Mogorosi, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Justin Bellairs, Benjamin Herman (Netherlands), Thijs Borstein (Netherlands), Maarten Hogenhuis (Netherlands), Mark Schilders (Netherlands), Romy Brauteseth, Ariel Zamonsky, Zwelakhe Duma-Le Pere, Robin Fassie Kock and many more.

He has performed at a number of top venues and festivals in South Africa and abroad including: Montreux International Jazz Festival (Switzerland), The Amsterdam Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jazzfest (Amsterdam, Netherlands), North Sea Round Town Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Amsterdam Redlight Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), De Tor (Netherlands), InJazz Showcase (Rotterdam), Budapest Jazz Showcase (Budapest, Hungary), Standard Bank Joy of Jazz (South Africa), Grahamstown Jazz Festival (South Africa), Mahogany Room (South Africa), The Crypt (South Africa), Tagore’s (South Africa), Afrikan Freedom Station (South Africa), The Orbit (South Africa), More Jazz Series (Mozambique). Vuma has received lessons from and attended master-classes by Lage Lund, Jesse Van Ruller, Gilad Hekselman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Terryl Stafford, Reinier Baas, Ambrose Akinmusire, Gary Wittner, Helen Sung, Martijn Van Iterson, Maarten van de Grinten and many more.

Finally Vuma has released two solo albums – The Spectacle of An-other and Life and Death on the Otherside of the Dream – and recorded on 3 others (Aspire and Idefix by Aurelio Project, Phatsound), the first of which received a 4-star review from the Netherlands’ largest Jazz publication “Jazzism”.

Vuma Levin´s South African National Tour is supported by Concerts SA through the Music Mobility Fund, a funding mechanism which offers opportunities for South African musicians to undertake live music tours.

Guitarrist Vuma Levin tours nationally his new jazz album was originally published on Artsvark

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Idefix und die Unbeugsamen, clip III

Idefix und die Unbeugsamen (Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles), season I, episode 42 Pakt der Zaubertränke/Le pacte des potions in German. So we have Anglaigus being mean, but in good quality.

Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles (Idefix und die Unbeugsamen) and all its characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Studio 58, 2021.

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Idefix und die Unbeugsamen, clip II

Idefix und die Unbeugsamen (Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles), season I, episode 46 Canigus, für jedes Tier ein Muss/Canigus, ils en veulent toujours plus, again is mostly Anglaigus (in German because this is so far, his best voice). On this occasion, Angly’s idea of recycling was not well received.

Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles (Idefix und die Unbeugsamen) and all its characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Studio 58, 2021.

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Idefix und die Unbeugsamen, clip V

Idefix und die Unbeugsamen (Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles), season I, episode 32 Leuchtende Waldgeister/La Foret Lumiére, in German. Anglaigus architecting, but then Idefix happened.

Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles (Idefix und die Unbeugsamen) and all its characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Studio 58, 2021.

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Idefix und die Unbeugsamen, clip IV

Idefix und die Unbeugsamen (Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles), season I, episode 36 Monalisa lächelt nicht/Monalisa perd son souriren, in German. Anglaigus conspiring against Monalisa.

Asterix: Idéfix et les Irréductibles (Idefix und die Unbeugsamen) and all its characters © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Studio 58, 2021.

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Original animation sketch of Averell Dalton in The ballad of the Daltons, apparently it’s the 51st frame. Framed is 41 x 38 cm, the paper itself is 25 x 21 cm