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Posted June 11, 2015
What the hell is going on this year?
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Fenixp: What the hell is going on this year?
It's a SIGN!!!
Posted June 11, 2015
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Fenixp: What the hell is going on this year?
It's 2009 all over again.
Posted June 11, 2015
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Fenixp: What the hell is going on this year?
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Elmofongo: It's a SIGN!!!
Oh my god, Voldemort will return!!!!!!
Posted June 11, 2015
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Elmofongo: It's a SIGN!!!
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Maxvorstadt: Oh my god, Voldemort will return!!!!!!
No worse:

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Morgoth
Posted June 11, 2015
Actually, while I never saw any of the movies, I do know who Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, and Karl May are. My teacher for German in high school mentioned them, and I happened to find English translations of them in my university's library a few years later. For others who don't know the series, Karl May died in 1912. For other Americans, at least as far as the books go, think Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Tarzan, John Carter, Alan Quatermain, and you're in the right ballpark.
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awalterj: Croatia was part of Yugoslavia back then. I wonder if there are organized Karl May tours to the filming locations or if some of those areas are still closed off to hikers due to land mines from the war.
There's a small museum owned by a hotel in the area, and you may find a wigwam-shaped catering establishment here and there, but other than that, the tourist association hasn't seen fit to capitalise on Winnetou. Who knows, maybe there are IP rights to consider, or just pure lack of creativity. Still, the nature is beautiful to look at, and there's ample opportunity for sports like alpinism and kayaking. In any case, we've been working hard over the past 20 years to clear the mines, and the area is considered to be safe, though you never know with those landmines.
Posted June 11, 2015
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wolfsrain: Thanks for reminding me of a part of my childhood. Seen the movies when i was a kid.

R.I.P. Pierre Brice...You tried so hard to escape the role of Winnetou, but you did such a good job that you are remembered mainly for that:(
Pierre Brice didn't have any regrets though, in an interview a couple years ago he said "“Non, rien de rien, non, je ne regrette rien – I regret nothing, just like Edith Piaf.”


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Fenixp: What the hell is going on this year?
It's not just this year, it's simply the fact that more epic icons are dying than new ones are rising but I must admit there has been an uncanny high number of iconic deaths in the last 2 years or so.

To put it into El Cid wording, they are riding out of the gates of history into legend.


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Luned: Actually, while I never saw any of the movies, I do know who Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, and Karl May are. My teacher for German in high school mentioned them, and I happened to find English translations of them in my university's library a few years later. For others who don't know the series, Karl May died in 1912. For other Americans, at least as far as the books go, think Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Tarzan, John Carter, Alan Quatermain, and you're in the right ballpark.
Finally someone from across the Atlantic who knows Karl May, high five! I'm sure Karly May books/movies would be a lot more popular in the US if they were more known.


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Charon121: There's a small museum owned by a hotel in the area, and you may find a wigwam-shaped catering establishment here and there, but other than that, the tourist association hasn't seen fit to capitalise on Winnetou. Who knows, maybe there are IP rights to consider, or just pure lack of creativity. Still, the nature is beautiful to look at, and there's ample opportunity for sports like alpinism and kayaking. In any case, we've been working hard over the past 20 years to clear the mines, and the area is considered to be safe, though you never know with those landmines.
Maybe it's good that Croatia hasn't capitalized on Karl May tourism, otherwise you'd be overrun by middle-aged and elderly German tourist groups in masses. I plan to one day go to Croatia and solo hike around those beautiful mountains and lakes and make some landscape paintings. Definitely high on my bucket list!
Posted June 12, 2015
Requiescat in pace Pierre Brice.
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Charon121: Fun fact: most of the scenes were shot in Croatia, in the Plitvice Lakes National Park. So it's not only Spain that's famous for having provided the scenery for Western movies. ;)
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Maxvorstadt: In the credits of the movies is stated that the movies were shot in Yugoslavia.
To put it in the famous words of Professor Kupfer: "Danke, setzen, nicht genügend!". See here.
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