the smurfs
by Sapir Gur and Shahar Skandrani
Introduction
the smorfs are a belgian comic created by the belgian comics artist peyo. the smurfs are a small blue creaturs who live in a mushroom shaped houses in the forest.
there are more them one hundred smurfs charecters and their name’s are based on adjectives that characteristic each one of them, like “jokey smurf” who like to tell a lot of jokes to his fellow smurfs, or “ brainy smurf” who is the village intellectual who’s not afraid to shere his wisdom with his fellow smurfs.
the smurfs wearring a white hats (Phrygian caps) which reapesent the freedom in the modarn era (1958).
the word “smurf” was orginal dutch translation of the french “schtroumpf” which according to peyo’ is a word invented durring a meal with a fellow cartoonist, whem eh could not remmember the word “salt”.
the smurfs begain as a comic and expand to advertising, films, TV series, video games, theme parks and dolls.
Peyo
How the smurfs look
Language
Smurf village
the mushroom like houses are similar to one another and are located in the middle of a deep forest with grass, a river, and vegetation. Humans such as Gargamel live nearby, though it is almost impossible for an outsider to find the Smurf village except when led by a Smurf.
Garamel
His main goal in life is to destroy the Smurfs or to capture enough of them to create a potion that will give him more magic and will make him the powerful wizard in the world.
On the series, Gargamel tries to find a potion that will help him pass through the magic wall to the smurfs village but he always explode.
Smurfs comic
By 2008, Smurf comics have been translated into 25 languages, and some 25 million albums have been sold.
The Smurfs (TV series)
The Smurfs (also known as simply Smurfs and syndicated as Smurfs' Adventures) is an American-Belgian animated fantasy-comedy television series that aired on NBC from September 12, 1981, to December 2, 1989. Made by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series by the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo and aired for 256 episodes.
Smurfs movie
The film tells the story of the Smurfs as they get lost in New York, and try to find a way to get back home before Gargamel catches them.
The Smurfs reached the $500 million milestone in the weekend of September 23–25, 2011.