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Les Douze Travauz D Astérix
I watched “Les Douze Travauz D’Astérix,” which I found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=717&v=VN0kmk75BmY. Roger Carel played the main character, Astérix, and Asterix’s good friend and sidekick, Obelix, was played by Jaques Morel. The movie was produced by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, and was made in 1976. Pierre Tchernia directed it. In this movie, Astérix and the other Gauls defeat the Romans in a battle, causing the Roman soldiers to believe the Gauls are gods. Julius Caesar is not so quick to believe, however, so he gives the Gauls 12 challenges they must complete to prove they are gods. These tasks are: Beating the fastest Olympian in a race, throwing a javelin farther than a javelin-throwing champion, beating a professional wrestler in a wrestling match, crossing a lake in which sirens live, not becoming hypnotized by an Egyptian who makes people think they are animals, eating all the food a cook for the Titans serves them, passing through the Cave of the Beast, where the mix of the cartoon characters and the actual pictures created an erie effect; finding Permit A 38 in The Place That Sends You Mad, crossing a crocodile-infested canyon on an invisible tightrope, solving the Old Man’s riddle, surviving a night on the Haunted Plains, and finally, staying alive in the Circus Maximus. Astérix and …show more content…
At the beginning of the movie, children were shown raising their pointer fingers in the air, which is what the French do instead of raising their whole hands, as we do here in America. Also towards the beginning of the movie, Astérix said hello in the language of the different flags that appeared on the screen, but when the French flag appeared, he crowed like a rooster. This was because the rooster is France’s national bird. Additionally, France’s appreciation for food and affinity for unusual dishes could be seen in the scene with the enormous feast from the Titan

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