house-dongeng : Lucky Luke si penembak cepat

Tokoh dengan sebutan The man who shoots faster than his shadow ini bakal muncul di layar lebar, Lucky Luke. Film Prancis ini menggiring Lucky kembali ke kota asalnya, Daisy Town. Sebagai koboi, ia harus menghadapi bandit-bandit.

Pada tahun 1846, Lucky muda (Mathias Sandor) menyaksikan pembunuhan kedua orang tuanya oleh bandit-bandit yang tak dikenalnya. Gambaran jelas pembunuhan itu mendadak menyeruak di kepalanya saat Lucky (Dujardin) kembali ke Daisy Town.

Hanya saja, kota tempat ia tumbuh itu saat ini dikepalai oleh sejumlah bandit dan penembak jitu. Pemimpin mereka adalah Pat Poker (Daniel Prevost).

Sesungguhnya Lucky sudah bersumpah untuk tidak membunuh orang. Hanya saja, perjumpaannya dengan Billy The Kid, Calamity Jane, dan Jesse James yang suka mengutip kalimat Shakespeare itu memaksanya untuk melanggar sumpahnya. Ia melakukan sederetan tembakan selama satu jam secara beruntun.

Cerita koboi tanpa bandit tak ubahnya seperti sayuran tanpa garam. Lucky punya musuh bandit-bandit Meksiko. Namun, Lucky digambarkan sebagai sosok koboi yang sempurna. Ia bisa menembak lebih cepat dari bayangannya sendiri. Lucky juga selalu dinaungi oleh keberuntungan. Tunggangannya, Jolly Jumper, adalah seekor kuda putih yang sangat cerdik dan tangkas, bahkan dapat memasang sendiri pelananya dan bisa diajak berbicara. Hebat kan?

Bioskop di Indonesia bakal menyuguhkan film Lucky Luke tahun ini. Sutradara James Huth rupanya sungguh-sungguh ingin mengadopsi karakter Lucky Luke berdasarkan imaji ekstrem Morris alias Maurice de Bevere, komikus asal Belgia yang menciptakan karakter Lucky Luke. Mulai dari celana jeans khas Lucky hingga guyonan si Jolly Jumper.

Merunut sejarahnya, serial Lucky Luke mulai dibuat dari akhir 1940-an. Popularitas serial ini mulai menyebar ke seluruh Eropa di akhir 1950-an dan masih terus bertahan hingga 1970-an saat Morris bergabung bersama dengan kreator serial Asterix, yaitu Rene Goscinny.

Film Lucky Luke juga sempat muncul dalam versi animasi. Lucky Luke in Daisy Town muncul pada tahun 1971 dengan pengisi suara Marcel Bozzuffi, dan Lucky Luke in Ballad of the Daltons pada tahun 1978.

Serial Lucky Luke di televisi beredar sejak tahun 1983 dengan pengisi suara Bill Galloway sebanyak 26 judul. Sementara itu, 26 judul lainnya merupakan serial kedua yang diawali pada tahun 1991 dengan pengisi suara Terence Hill. kontan

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow.
Along with The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe.^[1] Popular in Canada, about half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many European languages, some African and Asian languages.

Publication history

First appearance of Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper in Arizona 1880 (1946)

Both a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate parody, the comics were created by the Belgian artist Morris who drew Lucky Luke from 1946 until his death in 2001. The first Lucky Luke adventure named Arizona 1880 appeared in the Almanach issue of the comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on December 7, 1946.^[2] After several years of solitary work on the strip, Morris began a collaboration with René Goscinny who became the series' writer for a period that is considered the golden age of the series. This started with the story Des rails sur la Prairie published on August 25, 1955 in Spirou.^[3] Ending a long run of serial publications in Spirou, the series shifted to Goscinny's magazine Pilote in 1967 with the story La Diligence, subsequently leaving publisher Dupuis for Dargaud.
After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several writers have tried to fill the role of storyteller, including Vicq, Bob de Groot, Jean Léturgie and Lo Hartog Van Banda. In addition to continuing the series, Morris started the related spin-off series Rantanplan in 1987. At the 1993 Angoulême International Comics Festival, Lucky Luke was given an honorary exhibition.^[4]
After Morris' death in 2001, French artist Achdé continued drawing new Lucky Luke stories in collaboration with writer Laurent Gerra.
Lucky Luke comics have been translated into Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (both in the Brazilian and Portuguese forms), Serbian , Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.

The stories

Luke, a wandering cowboy capable of drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling Dalton brothers, Joe, William, Jack and Averell, and sometimes even their mother, Ma Dalton. He rides Jolly Jumper, "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by Rantanplan, "the stupidest dog in the universe", a spoof of Rin Tin Tin, usually guarding the Dalton brothers at their jail yet never preventing them from escaping. He refuses to smell the Daltons' clothes, and acts as a reverse indicator to the Daltons' whereabouts.
In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean and Jesse James's gang, and takes part in historical endeavours such as the guarding of Wells Fargo stagecoaches, the Pony Express, the building of the first transcontinental telegraph, the Rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma, and a tour by French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Some of the books feature a one-page article offering an historical perspective of the events featured. Goscinny once said that he and Morris tried to base the Lucky Luke adventures on real events whenever possible, but that they would not let historical facts get in the way of a funny story.
The chronology of the albums is deliberately murky, and in most albums no particular year is given. The villains and incidental characters based on real persons lived over most of the mid- to late-19th century. For example, in the album Daily Star, Lucky Luke meets a young Horace Greeley, prior to moving to New York. Although no year is mentioned in the album, this story must take place circa 1830, since the real Horace Greeley moved to New York in 1831. Judge Roy Bean, who was appointed judge in 1882, appears in another album, taking place some fifty years later – and in another album, Lucky Luke takes part in the 1892 Coffeyville shootout against the Dalton Gang. Lucky Luke himself is, of course, always the same age.
"Except for the first album, Lucky Luke has never killed any opponent but still, he seemed to carry along a heavy burden, never committing to anything or anybody, and always riding off into the sunset." ^[5]
At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset on Jolly Jumper, singing (in English) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...".

Jesse James

In 1969, Morris and writer René Goscinny (co-creator of Asterix) had Lucky Luke confronting Jesse James, his brother Frank James and Cole Younger. The adventure poked fun at the image of Jesse as a new Robin Hood. Although he passes himself off as such and does indeed steal from the rich (who are, logically, the only ones worth stealing from), he and his gang take turns being "poor," thus keeping the loot for themselves. Frank quotes from Shakespeare, and Younger is portrayed as a fun-loving joker, full of good humor. One critic has likened this version of the James brothers as "intellectual bandits, who won't stop theorising about their outlaw activities and hearing themselves talk."^[6] In the end, the at-first-cowed people of a town fight back against the James gang and send them packing tar and feathers. - Note the parodic depictions of the Pinkertons.

 Smoking

"Lucky Luke's famous cigarette not only identifies a profile but allows the tempo to be modified and extended, expressing a feeling: in Le Pied-tendre (The Tenderfoot), Morris shows Lucky Luke's feelings at the death of a friend in a series of three frames in which the hero rolls and spills a cigarette."^[7]
Morris, who has been criticized over Lucky Luke's cigarette for a long time, answered his critics : "the cigarette is part of the character's profile, just like the pipe of Popeye or Maigret".^[8] It is claimed that, Morris was forced to remove cigarettes Lucky Luke smokes from his strip and Lucky Luke who "used to be a heavy smoker", had to give up smoking for "commercial reasons", "apparently to gain access to the American market".^[7][9][10] "On World No Tobacco Day in 1989, the magazine Spirou published a militantly anti-tobacco issue." ^[7] Morris won an award from the World Health Organization in 1988 when he replaced Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a wisp of straw in 1983, "an anti-cigarette poster today proclaims "Even Lucky Luke can't stand them!" and shows the happy cowboy in a radical reversal of his image".^[7][11][12] In the 2007 animated film "Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke", Lucky Luke is seen using what appears to be a nicotine patch and mentions that before that he had to "chew on a piece of straw for a while" right after he quit smoking. In the story "The bridge over the Mississipi", he is seen rolling a cigarette again, although he claims it was just to hide his boredom.

 Stereotypes

Much of the humour in Lucky Luke is based on clichés and stereotypes, including many ethnic stereotypes of "sneaky" Chinese or "lazy" Mexicans,^[5] Native Americans, Irish and Italians^[10] as well as "darky" depictions of Afro-Americans. According to the Forbidden Planet (bookstore) correspondent: "They played on the clichés of the genre, with humour that nowadays probably would be considered quite racist (lazy Mexicans, sneaky Chinese), but also with a special sort of being satire, mirroring contemporary social platitudes." ^[5] Lucky Luke himself however, treats everyone with respect and protects any (stereotype-or-not) vulnerable person against injustice.