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Uderzo turns 80 - Robert Vermaat - 04-23-2007
Quote:As the Bread and Circuses blogger, Adrian Murdoch, notes, the classics-inspiring Albert Uderzo turns 80. The blog quotes the following: The idea of the funny gallic duo first turned up in...
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That man! Had I known wjhat damage he would do, I would never have enjoyed Asterix in my youth! :evil:
OK, ok, Asterix is good fun...
But let's face it, all those who want to do something at an event that's NOT Flavian (or should I say: Asterix-Roman :twisted: ) have a hard time convincing the organisers that they, too, can bring something to the general public.
Chariovalda and myself discussed this a bit today: to some organisers, we basically should not re-enact the historical past, but rather Asterix, ben Hur and Gladiator! 8)
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Primvs Pavlvs - 04-23-2007
Robert we had the same problem here at a local 18th century fort. The little old ladies who ran the board thought everyone should look like Fess Parker!
![[Image: fesshead.jpg]](http://www.tvparty.com/bgifs13/fesshead.jpg)
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Robert Vermaat - 04-23-2007
Yikes! Is that a live animal on top of his head?
hock:
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Chariovalda - 04-23-2007
Methinks it's an alien brain parasite... :mrgreen:
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Primvs Pavlvs - 04-23-2007
LOL nope its a coonskin cap which were worn, but probably not very common.
hock: The Dutch explorers who came down the river here in the 18th century might have worn them :lol:
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Chariovalda - 04-23-2007
That, or a Tribble...
Actually, Uderzo made, if I remember correctly, a comic called "Oumpah-pah le peau-rouge" (Oumpah-pah the Redskin), about the adventures of a big Indian and his thin white aristocratic French friend, the Chevalier de Pate...something. I think there was actually a trapper character in it with another deadish furry animal on his head.
Anyway, imagine what would have happened if "Oumpah-pah" had been more successful and Uderzo would have dedicated his entire life to it, rather than to Asterix...
American 18th century re-enactors would have complained about the audience's expectations of "Oumpah-pah" pioneers, trappers and Indians... :roll:
Ah...just found this...
![[Image: asterix_oumpah_pah.gif]](http://users.skynet.be/asterixlegaulois/divers/images/asterix_oumpah_pah.gif)
Go on to here...[url:3q053f35]http://users.skynet.be/asterixlegaulois/divers/oumpah_pah.htm[/url]
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Martin Wallgren - 04-23-2007
Quote:Yikes! Is that a live animal on top of his head?
Nothing wrong with that, We batavians are quite fond of roadkills on the helmet!
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Memmia - 04-23-2007
I used to get a different Asterix book every single Christmas.
I did prefer Obelix though, and his penchant for wild boar (scrunch!! scrunch!!).
I always wondered what exactly was in the magic potion Getafix concocted. :?
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Chariovalda - 04-23-2007
Quote:Vortigern Studies:wsga748b Wrote:Yikes! Is that a live animal on top of his head?
Nothing wrong with that, We batavians are quite fond of roadkills on the helmet!
...as you can also seen in this Dutch painting from 1850 of the Batavian rebellion...
![[Image: eed_bataven.jpg]](http://www.ferdy.nl/latijn/bataven/eed_bataven.jpg)
That was one big roadkill, though... :wink:
Fess Parker - richsc - 04-23-2007
Actually Fess Parker set up his own very nice winery in California.
Fess Parker
Those coonskin caps were extremely popular with kids in the 1950's while the show was running. In a movie about the Alamo a while back, the character of Davy Crockett, who was a US Congressman, said that the coonskin cap was a newspaper's idea and nothing he would wear otherwise.
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Peroni - 04-24-2007
Quote: LOL nope its a coonskin cap which were worn, but probably not very common. The Dutch explorers who came down the river here in the 18th century might have worn them
A continuation of the Batavian traditions! Add some feathers and you have the Krefeld helmet!
http://www.romanarmy.net/batavianhelm.htm
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - pvblivs cordvs - 04-25-2007
so this is what the cat looks like when you have worn your helmet for a while.
Robert, I remember you wore a furry type of late- Roman Pilleus once.
Maybe you shouldn't have cut the tail off.
Would have looked cool dangling on your back from under your helmet.
Wim/Cordvs
Re: Uderzo turns 80 - Medusa Gladiatrix - 04-26-2007
I always enjoyed reading Asterix comics and I still do, at least the old ones. Anyhow, they got me interested in the Romans and I wanted to learn how it really was and not the comic version.
But one should see them as what they are, they are just comics, nothing less and nothing more. Of course it is annoying if people can't differentiate between comic and historical facts and if you get confronted by that at events.