Well...I've never heard of "Tex Willer"...a Euro-hero, I assume...sammy wrote:Woah! White squaw has heap good memory! Chief Leaky Brain not read um Tex Willer smoke signals in many moons time.EP wrote:I can. Kalpeanaama puhuu käärmeen kielellä.can't remember if that was used in Tex Willer
And I guess all I can say is "Good Grief!!""....
...or maybe that should be Hornan kekäleet!!....(see the image at the bottom of this link....Villi Länsi)........and I read this wikipedia link...
Wow...that series is absolutely full of cliches, caricatures and stereotypes....
I see that "Tex" is the epitome of a "square-jawed" "Western" lawman....a John Wayne kind of guy......[Aside:....I read this description of John Wayne recently in a movie review...."a block of granite in a Stetson riding up from the plains...."....
] Excerpts:
"The "first" Tex is an unwillingly outlaw man with a code of honour: to kill only for self-defence. Almost immediately, however, Tex becomes a ranger. Thanks to the marriage with the beautiful Indian Lilyth, he becomes head of the Navajos, known as "Eagle of the Night", and a defender of Indian laws. Tough, loyal, infallible with guns, enemy of prejudice and discrimination, Tex is very quick, and has a quite high disregard for rules."
"Other recurring characters include El Morisco (a kind of warlock-scientist of Arabian origin), the Mexican Montales (originally an outlaw that fought against a corrupted government, after he became a politician), the Canadian trapper Gros-Jean, the Irish boxer Pat Mac Ryan, the red coat Jim Brandon, police officer Tom Devlin, the Apache chief Cochise, and the wizard Navajo Red Cloud."
...and I saw this:
"In Finland Tex Willer was published 1953–1965. After a break of five years, Tex Willer has been published continuously since 1971. The series is still popular and 16 numbers are published a year."
...Amazing the things we stuff into the heads of children...no wonder "re-education" is so difficult...
And I see the consensus on: "Paleface talkum with forked tongue." (...which, of course, means, as sammy explained, ..."The whiteman lies in order to get what he wants.")....is:
Kalpeanaama puhuu käärmeen kielellä. ..."Paleface speaks with snake's tongue." I guess, back then, it wasn't general knowledge among Finnish kids that snakes have forked tongues...
It's called "Hirttämättömät" - from the early 70's
) and maybe I've seen it ages ago... can't remember for sure really, there were so many such 'classic' westerns shown on the telly when I was younger.
