#cetautomatix

[luluugah]

i uh, i'll be tabling at a con soon and uh, i made stickers have a nice day

#gaylois #asterix obelix #assurancetourix #cetautomatix #idefix #trans obelix #yeah he trans leave me be #asterix #obelix #idk anymore

[cetautomatix]

If you take the word of this rogue, then he has "all the fish is fresh" and it smells like it was brought 15 years ago!

#Cetautomatix #asterix and obelix #obelix #rené goscinny #astérix et obélix #asterix #albert uderzo

[ocatarinetabellatchitchix]

Non, tu ne chanteras pas ! Non, tu ne chanteras pas !

Le bouclier arverne, page 4, case 10

#Le bouclier arverne #Cetautomatix

[ordralfabetix-fish]

Cetautomatix he thinks that I am selling rotten fish, only he does not know that he is an ignoramus of what to look for, that I am selling high-quality and exquisite fish !!

#Ordralfabetix #asterix and obelix #obelix #rené goscinny #astérix et obélix #albert uderzo #asterix

[this-potato]

Cacofonix: I composed a new song, do you want to listen to it?

Cetautomatix: Just try and you'll get your ass kicked

Cacofonix: Pfft, oh so scary

Cetautomatix: I'll drink the potion and spank you

Cacofonix: HOLY SHIT—

#oh shit this is going to hurt REALLY #i wonder if you use a potion of strength as punishment what will the consequences be? #well i mean will the injuries be serious or just like a normal spanking? #cacofonix #asterix #asterix and obelix #assurancetourix #fulliautomatix

[wariocompany]

Jcroyais que c'était Cetautomatix là

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Je sais hein ??!??! Les prénoms français bien que marrants ont rien à voir aux personnalités des personnages, je trouve. Par exemple Ordralfabétix ... autant que je sache l'alphabet a pas d'importance pour lui ! Par contre les anglais; Unhygienix, Cacofonix, etc.. peut-être Assurancetourix c'est parce qu'il casse tout à cause de sa voix ?¿???¿? Jsp

Oui exactement !! Après y a quand même quelques noms qui ont un rapport - pour Obélix ça a une ressemblance avec le menhir, et Astérix il est très petit et on peut se dire que c'est un petit signe d'écriture... Aussi Cetautomatix puisqu'il est forgeron et on peut se dire qu'il est inventeur... Mais sinon c'est vrai que ça a pas un rapport énorme avec eux

J'ai pas lu en anglais du coup mais c'est vrai que c'est des noms beaucoup plus sensés !

Assurancetourix en vrai j'ai aucune idée mais c'est peut-être pour ça!

#ask #asterix #astérix

[poplinn]

I just thought it was cute

#asterix #cacofonix #fulliautomatix #assurancetourix #cetautomatix #asterix the gaul #asterix and obelix #the secret of the magic potion #asterix: the secret of the magic potion #buff bunny #my stuff

[annah-the-compozer]

I blame Asterix for my taste in strong/facial haired man

#asterix #obelix #cetautomatix #vercingetorix #uderzo #albert uderzo #fulliautomatix

[mrjarviss]

*gently holds*

#im sobbing this is so fucking cute #why is nobody talking about this #asterix #fulliautomatix #cetautomatix

[apanhadonarede]

(Astérix, “O Adivinho”, Goscinny, Uderzo, inspiration: Rembrandt)

#asterix #obelix #ideiafix #assurancetourix #abraracourcix #agecanonix #cetautomatix #ordralfabetix #coscinny #uderzo

[lizaviolonartisan]

🇬🇧 Some screenshots from the new film "Asterix and the Secret of the Magic Potion".

🇫🇷 Un peu de screenshots de nouvel film "Astérix et le secret de la potion magique".

🇷🇺 Несколько скриншотов из нового м/ф "Астерикс и тайное зелье".

🖤❤️🖤❤️💙💙💙🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌲🌲🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

#asterix #asterix and the secret of the magic potion #asterix et obelix #asterix et le secret de la potion magique #Астерикс #новый мультфильм про астерикса #астерикс и тайное зелье #астерикс и обеликс #rene goscinny #albert uderzo #alexandre astier #conservatorix #cacofonix #assurancetourix #ordralfabetix #ordralphabetix #unhygienix #cetautomatix #fulliautomatix #chief vitalstatistix #gaulic chief #abraracourcix #panoramix #getafix #asterix without his helmet #asterix sans son glaive #cacofonix is HOT #asterix is even HOTTER #cetautomatix TOO #panoramix is such a darling

[an-apocalypse-of-magpies]

Asterix and the Legacy of the Original Authors

So I finally saw Asterix and the Secret of the Magic Potion (2018). Significantly, this is the first Asterix story I’ve experienced since the retirement of Albert Uderzo, the original co-creator of the characters and creative lead follower the death of Rene Goscinny.

And it was brilliant.

The plot, simply summarised, is that Getafix (Panoramix in the original French), venerable and wise village druid, slips and falls out of a tree for the first time in his long career. He begins to worry that he’s getting too old for this (indeed, Getafix’s age has always been ambiguous, but he’s easily the oldest recurring character after the appropiately named Geriatrix/Agecanonix, who’s certainly over 80), and that he needs to find a successor, not least of which because only he knows the formula for his legendary magic potion that gives the Gauls the super strength needed to hold off the Roman invasion (the film makes a running joke that druids never write things down). While on the search, an old rival of Getafix’s, Sulfurix (dubbed Demonix in the Canadian English dub, in case it wasn’t clear that he’s evil) is desperately trying to steal the formula, seeking to liberate the Gaulish lands from the Romans and not merely one village. Along with Asterix, Obelix and tagalong kid Pectin(/e), the heroes must find a successor, but is there a Gaulish druid worthy of this most sacred knowledge?

The animation is excellent, as it was in the previous animated outing Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods (2014), really capturing the look and feel of the comic albums. I feel like too much cartoon media these days is afraid to really exploit squash-and-stretch for expressive and dynamic purposes, and with Asterix’s trademark slapstick being Roman soldiers clobbered so hard their torsos sail off into the air before their feet have entirely realised what happened, it was necessary for this. The film is bright and crisp, and the light effects suitably dramatic (and with many a magical zip and zap, it’s crucial to have good lighting).

The story has many of the familiar beats. Alexandre Astier is clearly playing it a little bit safe, but considering he’s writing his own Asterix story, it’s safer to stick with that than to try and push it too far and risk alienating the audience. A crisis emerges, Asterix and Obelix and miscellaneous tagalongs leave the village, shenanigans happen, Asterix and Obelix have a falling out and become separated temporarily, there’s an ominous moment when the magic potion runs out, Romans attack the village, everyone gets back in time to save the day, Romans get punched a bit, big feast under the stars. What I liked, though, is how this story tried to do something interesting with the side characters. While Getafix is a very important character for the story, he rarely gets involved in the actual plot, so it’s nice to see more of him and in particular his character flaws - namely his stubbornness and attempts to do everything himself, even to the detriment of those around him. Even being confined to a primitive wheelchair for a lot of the film due to an injured ankle doesn’t stop him from taking a part, and it’s nice to see more of him than merely ‘wise wizardly old man, keeps calm and lectures people’. Unhygenix the fishmonger (Ordralfabetix) gets an amusing background arc where he believes that he could be Getafix’s successor and tries dabbling with druidcraft in the background, with amusing results. For once, his role isn’t just ‘gets in a fight with Fulliautomatix the blacksmith (Cetautomatix)’, and we get to see that he’s an interesting combination of surprisingly intelligent and thick as two short rocks. Fulliautomatix himself gets to have some humorous musing at his alchemical antics, and at one point the requisite Unhygenix/Fulliautomatix fight is successfully quelled, with Fulliautomatix admitting that he has a short temper and that this was unnecessary aggression on his part. Vitalstatistix (Abraracourcix) leads the village men (apart from the perennially unpopular bard Cacofonix (Assurancetourix)) to accompany Getafix halfway through, leaving the womenfolk to defend the village with a backup supply of potion. Happily, this means we also get to see more of the village women - headed up by Impedimenta (Bonnemine), Mrs Geriatrix (Geriatrix’s unnamed but incredibly young wife) and Bacteria (Ielosubmarine) - than just ‘being someone’s wife’ - Impedimenta plays a vital role in corralling the women for war and appears to be keeper of the potion reserves, while the others get more speaking roles and are able to participate in fights. It’s not much, but in a world of Gaulish men, the women tend to fall by the wayside unless they get to be a sex symbol or someone’s harridan wife. Cacofonix himself gets to play at being a chief, where his cowardly nature makes for an amusing contrast Impedimenta’s more no-nonsense practicality. We also get to see some of the Gaulish children for once! They make fun of their elders and play around with stolen Roman warrior stuff. When the going gets tough, though, the first thing the village defence team do is make sure the kids get somewhere safe, and Cacofonix gets a slightly tender moment where he tries to assure them that he’s going to be okay ... with a long winded speech rather than just getting on with it.

The real star of the film (well, alongside Asterix, Obelix and Getafix) is Pectin. Pectin is a scrappy little girl from the village who’s into inventing and engineering, and her establishing scene is ignoring the other kids playfighting so that she can finishing what seems to bee some kind of automatic watering machine. She’s smart, creative, appropriately afraid of the dangers that crop up but wants to do right by Getafix, whose wisdom she deeply admires. It’s fairly clear even from the outset what her role will be. Eventually, in the darkest moments, Getafix teaches Pectin the secret recipe - including Getafix’s secret ingredient - in order to save the village. She assures Getafix later that she will try to forget the recipe, so that she won’t accidentally reveal it to the wrong sort, but just as the credits roll, Getafix muses what we’re all thinking - that this girl might be worthy to be his successor. Pectin’s important because of the series’ ... shaky history with feminism. The film sets out that only men can become druids, and women are even forbidden from the woods where they meet. When taking Getafix to the meet, Pectin has to wear a hood and hike her dress up to look more like a boy appropriately. To allow Pectin to become a druid would defy ... well, some lofty ideal that only men can become druids. Like so many old sexist tropes, the reason has become ‘... well, they just don’t’. So it’s good that this is addressing that, as well as forcing more female characters into the limelight. The most prominent female character in all of Asterix is Impedimenta, followed maybe by the heartthrob and Obelix’s crush Panacea. I’ve elaborated above the problems there. In Asterix classic, women are to be desired or to be overbearing wives to henpecked husbands. It’s likely that Goscinny and Uderzo meant no malice by this writing; they were two French men writing a humour comic, and played on the popular tropes accordingly. But they (or rather, Uderzo) did attempt to tackle feminism in this comic before. It was ... well, it was a bit clunky.

Asterix and the Secret Weapon (1991) was a rather dated and fearmonger-y take on feminism, having a feminist activist outsider called Bravura comes to the village, encourages the women to rise up against their husbands (the men, out of chivalry and hen-peckedness, do not resist), seizing control of the village. Asterix, being both a bachelor and bit of a firebrand at perceived injustice, confronts Bravura, whereupon she flirts with him to try and seduce him into marrying her, whereupon he (shock horror) strikes her out of reflex. But Gaulish men do not hit women! Asterix is banished to the nearby forest for his insolence, eventually joined by the other men, fed up with the overbearing women. When the Romans (knowing that Gaulish men will not attack a women) send a detachment of female soldiers to the village, the women have turned it into a primitive shopping centre, where the female soldiers can shop and get their hair and make up done and forget all about attacking the village. Yeah. Feminists are salacious witches who would enthrall men and subjugate them, women love nothing more than shopping and beauty, it’s ... it’s bad. Secrot of the Magic Potion at least attempts to fix this by questioning male dominance in a role without being so weird about it, and having the women be just as much proud, organised village defenders as the men, arguably more so, given they lacked the weapons or numbers they normally had with the men around. (I know that the most recent album, Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter (2019), kinda deals with this too, but I haven’t yet read that one)

Putting aside the feminist rant, the key theme of this film seems to be the passing of the torch, clinging to past glory, and stepping up to take responsibility. Getafix isn’t getting any younger, and as much as might hurt his pride, he needs to train someone to take his place. The other elder druids, it transpires, are foolish, complacent and irresponsible, getting too used to just messing around and partying. They’re getting senile too, shamefully admitting to keeping crib sheets to remember which apprentice druids are any good. Druids not writing things down seems to be a metaphor for old masters, well versed in their craft, who know it all so well that they don’t need notes ... and then struggle to teach others, so they keep doing it all themselves. Sulfurix is bitter that, despite his magic fire being useful, Getafix is held up as the better druid. Way back when, they were finallists in a druidcraft competition, and being able to conjure flame from nothing is certainly a useful talent that won out over Getafix’s useless but dramatic and very complex magic. Getafix is implied never to have held a grudge over this, especially given that he would eventually develop the magic potion that makes his people so formidable. Sulfurix, meanwhile, found his ‘useful’ parlour trick get weaker and less reliable over time, and he seems to have very few tricks under his belt by the present, so fixated was he on this one thing. His Villain Rant at Getafix at the end is pure projection - he’s become irrelevant, because his one thing became all he was known for. Finally, with Cacofonix being acting Chief, the women defending the village, and Cholerix (Teleferix) the apprentice druid and later Pectin striving to create the magic potion and fill Getafix’s footsteps, there is a theme of people, even wildly unprepared people, stepping up to take responsibility because it’s what needs to be done, be it for the sake of a legacy or simply because this operation won’t run itself. Such a theme rings loud in, I remind you, the first original Asterix story on film since the death or retirement of both of the original creators. They’re on their own now, with a great and beloved legacy to continue, and I think they’ve done a wonderful job. The film was not perfect by any means - the English dub lip-flaps weren’t that well aligned (my DVD didn’t have French language options), the story’s quite formulaic if you’re a fan of the series, and Sulfurix is ... not subtle as the villain - but if you like Asterix, you’ll like this. And if you don’t care for Asterix, it’s still enjoyable.

#asterix #asterix and the secret of the magic potion #not often a film makes me want to immediately write a review

[frankienereau]

Première écoute du nouveau Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Le premier titre annonce l'ambiance générale de l'album : "Think of Me" est une ballade au tempo moyen, tout harmonica en avant, délicate, une réussite.

"She Showed Me Love" : 13 minutes au long cours, d'un morceau où la guitare électrique de Neil allume des feux de broussaille sur la rythmique du Horse. Le morceau est partiellement chanté avant de s'étirer sur une longue coda de 8 minutes, où les choeurs doivent répéter le titre au moins 200 fois (de trop). Et les solos de Neil sont certes intéressants mais l'on se demande à quoi sert d'avoir dans son groupe un pistolero comme Nils Lofgren, si c'est pour lui faire jouer la même rythmique sur deux accords pendant 8 minutes. Stills et Whitten ferraillaient avec Young, pourquoi n'a-t-on pas droit ici à l'un de ces duels suprêmes ? Un sentiment de gâchis... Le morceau méritait mieux !

Avec "Olden Days", retour à la ballade délicatement électrique, belle mélodie mais ici, c'est la voix qui flanche. Neil s'évertue à vouloir chanter trop haut, et son manque de souffle est aussi notable régulièrement.

"Help Me Lose My Mind" est un bon,petit rock tranquille, sympa mais pas transcendant, avec une ambiance à la Zuma.

"Green Is Blue", malgré quelques réticences encore sur la voix, apparaît comme la plus belle ballade de l'album, avec des choeurs somptueux du groupe (qui s'illustre d'ailleurs sur ce point tout au long de l'album).

"Shut It Down", retour au bon rock, là encore très Zuma, une des belles surprises de l'album malgré des choeurs un peu étranges sur le refrain.

"Milky Way", longue dérive électrique à la "Cortez" (en moins bien, hein, faut pas rêver) est l'un des meilleurs moments de l'album, principalement pour ses parties de guitare.

"Eternity", petite ballade au piano, possède une jolie mélodie à la Graham Nash, rien de plus notable que ça.

"Rainbow of Colors" recèle tous les défauts des mauvais morceaux qui jonchent les derniers albums du Loner : texte niais, symboles lourdingues, mélodie nian-nian.

"I Do" clôt l'album sur une berceuse acoustique murmurée, cordes effleurées, tranquille et douce.

Dans l'ensemble, "Colorado" est plutot un bon album si on le compare aux 3 précédents. Il possède une qualité musicale qui rappelle les grands espaces de "Zuma" ou "Sleeps With Angels", sans en atteindre le niveau et l'intensité. C'est un Crazy Horse plus proche de ses collaborations à "Comes A Time", "After The Gold Rush" ou même l'ambiance du premier album du groupe (pochette jaune avec Jack Nietsche), moins garage, plus soft que quand "Poncho" Sampedro est là, lui, le mateleur de riffs, le Cetautomatix du Loner. Lofgren apporte plus de finesse aux rythmiques (guitares er piano) mais son sous-emploi (et même non-emploi) en tant que soliste est fort regrettable.

Regrettable également le travail vocal du chanteur : on connaît son amour de la formule "la première prise est la bonne", mais ici, le contraste entre le travail vocal de ses comparses et le sien (essoufflé, peinant dans les aiguës, voix de tête mal assurée...) est décidément trop criant.

Bon, ce n'est qu'une première écoute et que mon avis. A vous de vous faire votre propre opinion dès demain.

P.S. : Le 45t inclus contient une version solo électrique de "Rainbow Of Colors" bien supérieure à la version avec Crazy Horse. La face B, "Truth Kills" est une très belle ballade inédite (ni sur le CD, ni en streaming) avec Crazy Horse en mode cool.

[fovcomicfigure]

^+^ Asterix Plastoy 1997 Figure - CETAUTOMATIX w/Hammer Behind Back https://ift.tt/3iPYDBC

#comic_figure #figure

[wariocompany]

OLD CETAUTOMATIX SPOTTED

#Astérix et le Banquet #Le Tour de Gaule d'Astérix #Asterix and the Banquet