Man you left nothing good on one of my childhood hero’s Old Shatterhand.
I went back and read the Winnetou books again in my 30s. Might I point out that he was able to captivate his readers enough to trigger the German fascination with the US and the Cowboys and Indians and still does. His writings were powerful enough in its idealism, his portrait of friendship and peace, that the communist banned his books for his constant credo of living free. Did he plagiarize, probably, did he lived out the success of his books sure. The reason authors can’t do this today is because the internet will expose them for it.
I can give him credit for taking his readers and heros into countries that most Germans only dreamed of and driggered the urge to travel and to explore. Was he accurate in his descriptions of the country probably not.
If you want go with your theme, ripp apart the terrible remakes of the legendary movies that triggered their own longing for adventure in the sixties. The original movies are still legendary today for the fact that they were filmed in communist Yugoslavia with most European cast, during the Heights of the Cold War.
The really interesting part is that the Native American is played by a French man and that the main character, that is suppose to be German was played by an American.
Let’s not forget that while May set his hero in the
Man you left nothing good on one of my childhood hero’s Old Shatterhand.
I went back and read the Winnetou books again in my 30s. Might I point out that he was able to captivate his readers enough to trigger the German fascination with the US and the Cowboys and Indians and still does. His writings were powerful enough in its idealism, his portrait of friendship and peace, that the communist banned his books for his constant credo of living free. Did he plagiarize, probably, did he lived out the success of his books sure. The reason authors can’t do this today is because the internet will expose them for it.
I can give him credit for taking his readers and heros into countries that most Germans only dreamed of and driggered the urge to travel and to explore. Was he accurate in his descriptions of the country probably not.
If you want go with your theme, ripp apart the terrible remakes of the legendary movies that triggered their own longing for adventure in the sixties. The original movies are still legendary today for the fact that they were filmed in communist Yugoslavia with most European cast, during the Heights of the Cold War.
The really interesting part is that the Native American is played by a French man and that the main character, that is suppose to be German was played by an American.
Let’s not forget that while May set his hero in the