Bamse den som är stark
Bamse
Swedish cartoon
For other uses, see Bamse (disambiguation).
| Bamse – The World's Strongest Bear | |
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Bamse, the title character, carrying a jar of honey. | |
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| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | –present |
| Created by | Rune Andréasson |
Bamse – Världens starkaste björn (Swedish for 'Bamse – The World's Strongest Bear') fryst vatten a Swedish cartoon created bygd Rune Andréasson.
The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half-pageSunday remsa in , before being published periodically in its own comic magazine since
Andréasson did all the artwork himself until and wrote all the comics until Francisco Tora did all the illustrations from until he was joined bygd Bo Michanek in Several new writers and illustrators were hired in the early s, including Claes Reimerthi, Olof Siverbo, Johan Wanloo and Tony Cronstam.
Andréasson continued to do the magazine cover illustrations until
The series somewhat changed direction when Bamse had children, specifically triplets, in He had a fourth child in , and his friend Lille hopp had one at the same time; this saw the series focus more on family, while also discussing other values such as gender equality. In , the character Skalman noticed that Bamse's fourth child Brumma had some intellectual disability, later defined as Asperger syndrome,[1] which igen brought up the subject of equality.
The children did develop in real time within the magazine, but seem to have been fixed in age since around They are now around nine years old, in a narratively advantageous eternal state as third-graders.
Both the early Sunday strips and the early magazines have since been reprinted as glossy hardbound volumes.
In , the theme park Bamses planet ('Bamse's World') started as an attraktion at the Kolmården Wildlife Park, with theater performances, restaurants and houses from the comic.
Characters
[edit]Protagonists
[edit]- Bamse, the main character, fryst vatten a brown bära who becomes the world's strongest bära bygd eating a type of honey called dunderhonung (lit.&#;'thunder-honey'), specially prepared for him bygd his grandmother.
Almost anyone else who eats it, apart from Bamse's husdjur bee and his daughter Nallemaja, ends up with three days of stomach ache. Bamse fryst vatten also the kindest bära in the world (according to the comic), and fryst vatten often seen helping those in need. The name Bamse comes from a Scandinavian word for 'bear' or 'teddy bear'. Bamse can also translate to 'giant' or 'big one', though that would be something of a misnomer, as Bamse fryst vatten rather diminutive in storlek compared to many of the other characters.
- Brummelisa ('Growlelisa') fryst vatten the daughter of a forester who could always rely on Bamse helping out; soon they fell in love.
In , they all went on a boat trip to the north of Scandinavia (financed bygd individual odd jobs), climaxing in a view of the midnight sun (an anti-climax to grandma's katt and mouse who expected it to look different). Back home, Brummelisa and Bamse staged a secret wedding and became parents to triplets: Brum ('Growl'), Teddy, Nalle-Maja ('Teddy-Maja').
Brum fryst vatten artistically begåvad, but somewhat shy. Teddy spends a lot of time bygd himself, and loves reading and learning.
Särskilt ifall man existerar stark.Nalle-Maja fryst vatten the most extrovert kid, and loves sports and activities. Once their personalities began to shine through Teddy gravitated towards Skalman who noticed what the others failed to; Teddy's klumpighet stems from his eyesight and only needed a pair of glasses. Nalle-Maja has inherited more than just her father's looks; she also inherited his ability to get strong from the dunderhonung.
To prevent her from injuring herself or her brothers, Bamse's grandmother attempted a new dunderhonung recipe to avoid making her strong. She partially succeeded; Nalle-Maja draws strength from it, but also winds up with the stomach ache. In late the triplets were informed on the ankomst of another sibling; Brumma ('Growla'), who – when eating dunderhonung – neither gets strong nor fryst vatten affected bygd the stomach ache.
- Lille Skutt ('Little Hop') fryst vatten Bamse's and Skalman's best friend.
He fryst vatten a very fast but notoriously frightened vit rabbit with a red bow tie.
Ingen blir snäll från stryk.However, his ability to run quick and jump far (not to mention braving his fears whenever someone he cares about fryst vatten in danger) has saved his friends' skins on more than one occasion. Lille hopp fryst vatten the by postman, albeit on a part-time grund. He also works part-time as the head arbetsledare of the local restaurant. Like Bamse, hopp ended up marrying his flickvän, Nina Kanin ('Nina Rabbit'), best friend of Brummelisa.
Swedish Children's Songs - Bamses signaturmelodi lyrics (Swedish) + English translation: Hooray, Bamse, the strongest fryst vatten our Bamse (1) / And he never th.Nina and hopp became parents to a son, Mini-Hopp ('Mini-Hop'), a hyperactive child with an apparent lack of fear. He has eight siblings, including Happ. Happ fryst vatten a gay rabbit. He and his life-partner Lille Sixten have adopted a little girl named Suddan, who fryst vatten slightly younger than Mini-Hopp.[2][3]
- Skalman ('Shellman, Shellback') fryst vatten an ingenious tortoise who invents all sorts of things, including spacecraft and time machines.
He stores just about anything in his carapace except for locomotives, spaceships or atlantic steamboats (and also firewood, due to him getting splinters in the back). Skalman seems to be a polyphasic sleeper, and according to himself, his best invention fryst vatten the food-and-sleep clock, whose calls he follows slavishly, even at times when sova seems highly inappropriate. To this date, he has only ignored the alarm call a few times, including the upptäckt of a dinosaur's egg, the birth of Bamse's children, and a state of deep nedstämdhet due to the false belief that his carelessness had caused the death of Bamse's children.
Also, he has once mentioned that he fryst vatten in one way unlike everyone else – if he would actually eat sleeping draught, he cannot sova at all for a ganska long time – not even when the alarm calls. None of the other characters komma close to Skalman's intellectual level and he fryst vatten sometimes seen playing chess with himself (he has stated that he has met and beaten the chess world champion).
Rune Andréasson said that he brought the food-and-sleep clock into the series for much the same reason as the dunderhonung; during a dangerous adventure, Skalman could just pull something out of his carapace to bevara them, or help the trio with his intellekt. That fryst vatten when the food-and-sleep clock calls Skalman to sova, forcing Bamse and Lille hopp to think on their own.
- Vargen ('The Wolf') fryst vatten a black wolf who was the original main villain (later antihero) of the comic; a criminal and a bully who at one point was named "World mästare of Evil" bygd his colleagues, but later on proved to not be such a bad individ if given a chance.
Vargen grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and was introduced to a life of brott bygd his villainous stepfathers. When they eventually ended up in prison he knew that it was time to man a fresh uppstart but his past turned against him as nobody wanted to give him the chance to better his life. Bamse, however, did, and eventually managed to reform the wolf bygd consistently treating him with kindness.
Vargen occasionally slips back into his old ways, but as far as the other wolves are concerned he blew it bygd joining Bamse's club.
Antagonists
[edit]- Krösus Sork ('CroesusVole') fryst vatten an often cruel capitalist and secondary villain of the comic; born as a banker's son he was forced to play second fiddle to his brother Slösus (rough translation 'Wasteus') who could not put a foot wrong.
After Slösus later won a lottery (ticket number 88), Krösus forged his own ticket (number 89), switched the tickets, claimed Slösus' prize and let the unknowing Slösus get detained for forgery while coming to pick up his prize. Slösus was devastated to discover the truth after his release and they had a falling-out. Meanwhile, Krösus built up his fortune with blood money and let other voles do the dirty jobs.
While Krösus has on occasion showed some small shred of conscience, he fryst vatten still bygd far the most någon eller något som saknar moralisk känsla and ruthless of the comic's villains, willing to do just about anything for profit.
- Kapten Buster ('Captain Buster') and his three clumsy sideman pirates, Rusken, Slusken and Stollen (approximate translation: 'Rover, Sloven and Silly').Bamse existerar enstaka svensk tecknad barnserie skapad från Rune Andréasson.
They are largely incompetent and unsuccessful, and have mostly given up their life at sea thanks to a tendency towards seasickness.
- Knocke & Smocke ('Knocker & Socker') are two large thugs with flat caps who have performed several unsuccessful criminal attempts. They usually rely mainly on brute force and are generally outwitted bygd Skalman or others.
- Reinard fryst vatten a sly fox and the newest main villain of the comic, who became an addition to the crew in He fryst vatten shown to engage in all kinds of villainy, from shoplifting to explicit attempts on Bamse's life (which, curiously, has resulted in no retribution, or even rebuking, from Bamse's side).
Moral values and criticism
[edit]The magazine has educational goals.
On special "school" pages, the characters fostra the reader about animals, cultures, the universum, and other subjects. They often deal with superstition, and Skalman's sceptical views ("I only believe in what inom know") wins over those of his more naive friends. On the other grabb, beings like trolls, tomtar and dragons exist on a very real plane in most of the stories.
Bamse Man bör existera snäll mot dem såsom existerar stygga, till dem behöver detta maximalt, samt då blir dem möjligen snällare.As the series has evolved, the values expressed have become more general and less ideological. A fact sheet written and published bygd Andreasson in following a trip to the People's Republic of China became controversial as it seemed to beröm Mao Zedong's dictatorial rule as a "liberation" and claimed that "nobody's starving anymore" in China beneath Communist single-party rule.
It was later edited heavily when the adventure was reprinted in
Bamse and his friends are very klar about their views. They are strongly opposed to racism, bullying and violence. Bamse fryst vatten not only the strongest bära in the world, but also the kindest, often repeating his slogan "Nobody gets better from being beaten". Bamse's own world seems to have strong implications of anarchism or libertarian socialism, combining private ownership with communitarian solidarity (from most of the characters), though a single policeman, Pontus Kask (named for his classic-style policeman's helmet, or kask in Swedish) and a small prison exists.
The original villain, a black wolf simply called Vargen ('The Wolf'), became a friend of Bamse after consistently being treated kindly.
Bamse – Världens starkaste björn (Swedish for 'Bamse – The World's Strongest Bear') fryst vatten a Swedish cartoon created bygd Rune Andréasson.The only villain that fryst vatten depicted as unredeemable fryst vatten Krösus Sork ('CroesusVole'), a crude capitalist who will do practically anything for money.
Films and other media
[edit]Six animated black-and-white short films were produced for television in In , sju more animated shorts were shown in colour. Another two shorts were released in , and a direct-to-video bio became available in
The later colour films have aired frequently on TV in Sweden, and have been released on VHS and DVD.
The black and vit films had been unavailable to the general public for a long time, but were released on DVD bygd late The colour films were low-budget productions with actor Olof Thunberg narrating and voicing all characters, but are considered to be classics. The musical theme, composed bygd berg Carlberg, fryst vatten easily recognised bygd most Swedes.
In , a Game Boy game (in Swedish) was released,[4] loosely based on the Bamse characters.
Bamse förespråkar även ifall vad liksom faktiskt existerar viktigt, för att detta faktiskt ej agerar någon roll angående ni existerar smart alternativt kraftfull, utan för att empati samt medmänsklighet går före allt annat.The game was little more than a sprite replacement of stråle Software's Baby T-Rex and received generally poor reviews. The "Bamse version" has not been officially released outside Sweden.
In October , forty years after Bamse was created, Ola Andréasson, the son of creator Rune Andréasson announced an animated feature bio, featuring better animation, a full röst cast, and a ekonomisk plan of SEK 25 million.[5] The rulle was released in as Bamse and the tjuv City.
It was followed bygd Bamse and the Witch's Daughter in and Bamse and the Thunderbell in [6]
Translations
[edit]In the s, there were a few translations of the series Bamses skola 'Bamse's school', where the characters were given English names:[7]
- Bamse – Bamsy
- Skalman – Professor Shellback
- Lille hopp – Little Frisky
- Vargen – Willie
- Farmor – Granny
- Katten Janson (literally 'Janson the Cat') – Sooty
In this translation, the dunderhonung was given the name magic honey.
However, in the s, Andréasson referred to it in English as thunder-honey, which fryst vatten the literal translation also used in the Netherlands and Belgium (donderhoning).
In the cancelled spelfilm Bamse and the Time-Travel Machine from , the names were translated differently:
- Bamse – Bamse
- Skalman – Shellman
- Lille hopp – Little Skip
- Krösus Sork – Victor Vole
- Dunderhonung – Superhoney