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Published: 2010-07-19 00:12:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 5190; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 29
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Pipi Longstocking is perhaps the ORIGINAL gingerbraid.
Pipi created by Astrid Lindgren
art (c) me
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Comments: 15
The 1988 film would been saved if it were double-billed with Ghostbusters...
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Horay for Pippi, one of the pluckiest heroines of them all (and I don't mean the animated version!)
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I used the animated version for the sake of consistency.
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Well, don't mind me being grouchy; it's just that having grown up with the books and the live-action Pippi tv series and movies, the animated version comes across as fairly obnoxious...
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I am not famil;iar with most of the media versions of the character. I probably saw a dubbed version of one of the Swedish live-action films on TV in the 1960's. I've seen bits of English language version in which John Shuck (who also once played Herman Munster)appeared as Pipi's father. I beleive that that version was a box office failure in America.
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Well, for Swedes of my generation (born -56) the stories, TV and movies of Astrid Lindgren are extremely important and very closely linked to childhood. I saw the tv versions at a time when there was only one, or perhaps two, tv channels in Sweden. It was a very defining experience for a lot of people.
With the diversity of today, I don't think young people get so strong and similar frames of references. Perhpas that's a good thing...
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I suppose Pipi is as important to Swedes as Anne of Green Gables is to Canadians. When I visited Prince Edward Island in 1990 I saw the cottage industry that had grown up around the books of L.M. Montgomery.
There are several characters in American juvenille fiction that are comparable, but only Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" is comparable to these other characters.
BTW: Anne Shirley is a Gingerbraid and I will do a card of her soon. Also I will draw Abba from "Asterix & the Vikings". I suppose that Swedes can also claim this character as she was named after the musical group ABBA.
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To my shame, I didn't get the greatness of Abba when they were active. I was more into the rock scene. Now, a long time after, I have begun to appreciate what they did.
Abba from the Asterix movie is a nice character. Much of the film was actually made in Denmark, which might add some credence to the portrayal of the vikings..
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We are about the same age. Abba flooded the American radio market in 1975. I couldn't avoid hearing them. Their songs just filtered into my subconscious. When the movie version of "Mama Mia" came out, I already knew every word to the lyrics.
I have yet to see "Asterix & the Vikings". I don't even know if it is available in the USA.
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You can get it from the US amazon.com site, it seems.
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Her expression is typical for her. However, I had to tilt her head and angle her braids in perspective to get her braids in the picture.
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