Progetto B.a.r.k.s. #2 - Dal terrore di golasecca all'incendiario - '45 - '46

Hello and welcome to the second episode of the project B.A.R.K.S. ! I'm really happy with the appreciation that has received the pilot of the project , which I hope will grow more and more. But don't linger and let's go over in this new bubbly episode! in this episode we go through the two years 45 46 Barks improves visibly , developing more and more the character and psychology of the Ducks , will also begin to produce even a few ten -pager that doesn't want only to make people laugh but also to convey messages more or less important. But we start with one which is a real jewel: Donald Duck and the terror of the river!! the plot of this story may appear trivial but the way in which Barks trafficking and develops the story-plot that turns it into a real pearl Donald buys for $ 30 a houseboat in Ohio and decided to go with the nephews for a holiday but soon The Ducks will come across a monstrous sea ​​serpent ! Really amazing how Barks, from a plot like this, was able to create a story which you just can't missed In the first part of the story the Good Artist will create situations really hilarious : the ones that follow are pages and pages of pure fun The reader will not fail of laugh! Memorable in this sense the "river lessons" that Donald learns sailing on the river for the first time then , however , there is a setback Enter: the snake. It isn't a beast to make fun of, as others that Barks will show us in following years: it's scary. From here on, there will be a growing voltage that will not subside even after the discovered that the beast is only artificial. It's great how the nephews remain stunned due to the absence of streams of blood after having pierced the monster with some harpoons: it is something that undoubtedly makes characters and what they do much more realistic. The climax is therefore reached when Donald Duck is swallowed by the monster and is succubus of the frightening death threats of the mysterious manipulator. I've spoilered so brutally right to analyze the personality of this particular villain: he scares others because he likes it. because he enjoys it. the perfect nihilist , in short : a bit like Alex of A Clockwork Orange, just to give you the idea. It is certainly one of the most interesting character of the barksian cast. Dialogue taken from the story : "But why? " "Why scaring? " "why?" "why do people dance?" "Because they like it , because they've fun !" "I likes to scare people to the death." a true psychopath, in short : like Criminal Minds'. Really great, especially for those years and for a Disney comic. The snake is drawn very fine, as well as the setting and the characters always very expressive as Barks, on the other hand , always does. The particularity of this story is that when it's published in Italy for the first time , on " Topolino", is completely changed: some cartoons are replaced by others, are performed pumping absurd and, above all, the story is set in Italy ! Yes, in Italy , in Golasecca , which is a small town that really exist in the province of Varese near the Ticino that it is the river on which the Ducks browse. In the adventure Donald even cites the Po the Adda , Como , Pavia crazy stuff, in this first rambling our local version INDUCKS link in description For this story, my advice is that you have to read it only if you're a philologist or a collector "of race", because, in my humil opinion, the only element noteworthy is that the story represented the only point of contact who will have carl barks and the most famous mouse in the world. In war period the drawers scarce and due to this, Barks decides to help so will draw this mickey mouse's adventure, on story and screenplay of others in this story barks only puts pencils and it is really evident the whole plot is lackluster sometimes banal and devoid of mordant and above all you feel that the story would have been better with more pages, a thing that for barks, the undisputed master of narrative rhytms, it would be really abnormal . It isn't much to say It is felt as the Good Artist were not, as it were , inspired by : the cast of Mouseton isn't drawn very fine. You can locate some cartoons in which the poses and expressions of the characters are unnatural , artificial : it is as if the characters themselves did not believe to what are doing , as if an actor did not believe to what he is doing on the scene. Moreover, it fails to impress the proverbial expressivity, characteristic of his ducks also the character design is rather archaic , with the return of Mickey in shorts . It is maybe this story too which helps to inspire the Spanish artist Cesar Ferioli for the construction of its proverbial and distinctive style . I know that someone likes this story, also some illustrious names as Luca Boschi but honestly it did not succeed to convince me. INDUCKS link in description This here is just one of the best stories to talk about distortions of an original work this time the censorship is not applied in Italy but rather already in the United States where the editors decide to change the ending of "donald duck - the firebug" The reason of this choice ? before talking about it, i need to talk about the story, which is definitely atypical both in form and in content. as regards the shape , is unusual due to the handling of the tables As a matter of fact, each page contains about 10 cartoons in place of the canonical 7-8 regarding the contents, the story is curious since it deals with a subject a little ' prickly: psychotic pyromania. Donald , due to a blow in the head, develops a morbid passion for the fire and the flames and become wanted by the police because of several fires raging in the city. The story seems obvious but in fact it is not at all: actually follow many plot twists which going to turn the narration where necessary , in addition, it's important , to a difficult topic as that maniacal obsession. other times , even before this story, Barks had presented a Donald Duck who became very good at doing something or obsessed by something after a blow on the head. For example , before this story, there was " Donald Duck The Mad Chemist", but never as in this case . The behavior of Donald Duck is, as a matter of fact, typically obsessive -compulsive, pathological Barks also emphasizes this with another character in the story : you've to find out what it is . Donald also be deemed innocent and there will be only the nephews to help him for groped to clear him . here returns a theme dear to Hitchcock in barks' story, the innocent falsely accused and persecuted by everything and everyone . In the ending drawn by the Good Artist Donald Duck , after having set fire to the room of the court, was -rightly- sent to jail Editors , however, believe this final too morally harmful and then change completely the final, inserting two cartoons that make the whole adventure a dream of Donald Duck. these things get totally pissed off primarily because of the dream is a horrible and overused cliché secondly because in my opinion is the basic idea to be wrong . I am absolutely against the censorship. in these cases, in my opinion, there are 2 things to do: to publish the story or not to publish the story there isn't the third possibility " to public the story remodeled and *** " and in this case redrawn, even very bad, from another artist. thirdly I do not see how the barks' final can be moraly harmful for readers because I do not think there are even the reasons to censor the story now you tell me as a final like barks' one could be harmful to the readers' minds I do not think that reading this story then we would have seen children going around with fuel tanks and matches also I do not think which the Barks' final was morally harmful, quite the contrary: donald duck commits an offense and donald duck is punished, Donald goes to prison so editors , dear editors, do not combine these *** because then posterity will suffer. Anyway I've been able to find the final cartoons of the story as they would have been in the will of barks, redrawn years later by the Dutch artist Daan Jippes , which has a really similar stretch to Barks'. The baloon is in Swedish and I publish it here: from what I could understand Donald is complaining of the fact that the judges do not wear fireproof togas or something like that would have been a nice final, cute and absolutely NOT morally harmful (for reasons that I have already said before). Instead , due to the genius of the moment we have to see a story that ends in a way that is really terrible , which makes a mockery of the reader and that is also drawn poorly in last two cartoons . From the graphic point of view apart from the usual speeches about the transformation that is affecting the stretch of barks is proper to make some mention of how barks shows the city of duckburg: as a matter of fact for the first time it represents the center doing so discover us that it is a metropolis and that the Ducks living in a small house in his periphery Barks draws skyscrapers, buildings and in general an oppressive atmosphere for that which I think is the very first contribution to the creation of the '96 series " Paperinik New Adventures ", for friends PKNA , which presents a Duckburg I think that also draws inspiration by the duckburg represented by Barks in " Donald Duck The Firebug" link INDUCKS of the story in the description. Immediately inaugurate the corner of the ten - pagers of this episode with Donald and the icebox robber a story really hilarious thanks also - and perhaps especially - to the Italian adaptation of the dialogues , although it is not fanciful, for this are not less valid. In the story, Donald accuse his nephews to plunder the fridge overnight but you will soon discover that the culprit is himself from here you will emerge a series of hilarious comedians , one of which have a war background: Donald, which is sleepwalker , exclaim addressing Huey, Dewey and Louie "I see you, small Japanese almond-eyed , I run through you with my bayonet as pieces of roast mutton" everything of this is completely replaced in future editions of the story and completely upset in the Italian editions . To quote is also " Donald Duck *** Order," a physical and slapstick comedy for once is a Barks' comic to inspire a short film " The Clown of the Jungle " in both situations Donald is working with the bird-watching : in the ten -pager will try to photograph a very rare bird while in the short film will be disturbed from the Aracuan an exotic bird that ... I bet all you remember of them. Moving on. Another worthy story is " Donald Duck Ten-Dollar Dither," a parable about honesty, in which Barks also finds the time to be ironic about censorship of which himself is a victim . " Donald Tames His Temper" is, allow me to say , the first ten -pager which is a masterpiece as usual in short stories Barks focuses on the everyday life of the ducks , on ordinary life without comparing them with the ex-traordinary of the long stories. Here Donald Duck, at the urging of Daisy, choose their proposals for the New Year, which is to not get angry again. The nephews, still in the phase of mischief , not be long to take advantage of it . Will the duck be able to maintain his commitment? I think this ten -pager is a masterpiece for many reasons : the gags are really hilarious : a few times I enjoyed like this reading a comic book the drawings are crisp, well executed, and make the most of what happens during the story . Once more plays a dominant role the proverbial expressiveness of Barks' ducks . Certainly worthy of note the scene where Huey Dewey and Louie are intent on smashing the kitchen while barks decides to show us the reactions of Donald Duck against what he's hearing , maintaning the shot fixed to Donald Finally, the final cartoon is brilliant : is ilarious and closes the story in the best way . standing ovation. Another remarkable story is "Donald's monster kite" in which Barks show us another dispute between uncle and nephews but here he focuses his attention on the investigation of the psychological side of the ducks that here , to all effects , behave like men. The very successful sequence in which the nephews make use of the " dialectic strategy ", as it is called from them , to avoid the punishment of the uncle, is amazing. also very nice the cartoon in which the nephews care in a truly poignant way for the fate of Donald Duck same story for "Playin' Hookey" in which all the characters recite in a very realistic way and are perfectly characterized. " Donald Duck Swimming Swindlers", in addition to being very funny, emphasizes the role of educator, of father figure who Donald must represent for the three nephews. From the purely hilarious point, I've to mention "Biceps Blues"and "Donald Duck The Smugsnorkle Squattie" even though both stories want to convey messages a bit most important in addition to laugh on the one hand it makes a smart satire the superficiality of American middle class of those years, while in the other hand he emphasize that a dog with pedigree is not necessarily better or however preferable to a half-breed or a stray In short , generalizing, does not matter what that you were born , but what you are, what you've become. We came to the end of the second episode of Barks project: I hope that you've liked it and in this case I urge you to let me know with a comment, likes and he is also important that you share this video to raise awareness of the video and the project to as many people as possible. Also, if you have not subscribed yet , I urge you to do, in order to not to miss even an episode of this project that I am carrying out. I salute you and I refer you to the next video. I leave you to the mistakes. hello to everyone!