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I don’t anticipate having anything particularly scholarly to say – this isn’t meant to be any kind of Reception-Lite – but I hope maybe it’ll be fun.
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No, instead I’m going to embark on the probably equally self-indulgent but possibly more interesting pursuit of revisiting some film, TV and perhaps books from my childhood that (vaguely) relate to Classics and seeing what I make of them with the benefit of fifteen years or so’s study under my belt. No hilarious reminiscences of school Latin lessons (thanks, Mr Bird!) or of the Faculty circa 2002 (What would be the point? I witter on about that often enough in the common room anyway, and at the end of the day this is Cambridge – besides a few changes to beard lengths and architectural alterations, things haven’t changed much in ten years). Don’t worry though, I’ve got no intention of posting my Classics memoirs. Having now passed my viva, as I languish in that peculiar limbo-period of corrections and waiting for final PhD approval, I’m confronted by the rapidly-approaching end my time as a classics student and a final, enforced transition into the scary world of Real Academia or The Back-up Plan. It’s not like the world hasn’t been visited by prodigies and natural disasters in recent times.īut I’m not here to talk about the apocalypse (though mental note: there probably would be a fun blog post to be written on classical views of the end of the world). Maybe I’m being overly dismissive of the latter, though. The end of term the end of the year even, if we follow the interpretation of Mayan chronology and belief systems offered by that always-enlightening source of academic discussion that is the Internet, the end of the very world itself.
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The movie is still watchable.We’re getting to that time of year when people start to think about endings. I could complain, but hey, it’s not like Cleo hadn’t been depicted as a white woman in the movies before. I can’t help but notice, though, that Cleo looks noticeably lighter in the film than in the comics. And the animation literally brings the comics to life, which probably wasn’t hard, since Uderzo’s art looks animation-ready. The songs don’t advance the plot much, and don’t compare with anything Disney ever made, but they’re mildly entertaining. In it, Asterix and Obelix help their Egyptian architect buddy build a new temple for Cleopatra while thwarting the efforts of a rival architect, and Caesar, of course, to block its construction. It’s an adaptation of their album of the same name, originally serialized in Pilote. In 1967, the first Asterix animated film came out, Asterix the Gaul, produced by Dargaud, Asterix’ publisher, but without Goscinny and Uderzo’s involvement, so instead I’ve chosen to discuss the second film, made the next year, Asterix and Cleopatra, which the duo co-directed. Some examples Americans knew about for years include the animated film version of Heavy Metal the Jane Fonda flick Barbarella, and of course, The Smurfs on Saturday mornings! And it wasn’t just original creations: for decades, Donald Duck was a megastar in Europe in comics form.Įuropean comics characters crossed over into movies and TV when Kevin Feige was still in diapers.
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For years, the newsstand magazine Heavy Metal exposed Americans to a more grownup and sophisticated alternate world of comics storytelling devoid of the childish power fantasies of Marvel and DC, but the tradition goes back much further, with one of the biggest and most important titles of the medium being the series Tintin. One of my teachers recommended I look to a different model of successful comics: a series out of France called Asterix.Įuropean comics, or bande dessinée, as the French call them, have a rich and diverse history, one which is not dominated by superheroes.
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A few already did while they were still in school, so I thought I had to draw superheroes too, and to draw like them: men and women with perfect physiques in a semi-realistic style.
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Many of my friends wanted to break into professional comics, which to them meant Marvel and DC Comics. I was halfway through art school when I decided I’d rather study cartooning than illustration.