As a child, I spake as a child, thought like a child ... uh, I mean, when I was a kid I saw some films that were not really for children and all because of the child that a channel strip-or several-transmitting morning, just at Christmas time.
Yes, finished the school year and, if we are not enrolled in any course of summer-painting, usually, "my brother and I spent all morning in front of the TV watching" cartoons ".
Thus, in this 'practice', which by accident or fate, or neglect, I saw the movie Wizards of War , not once but several times, without understanding much.
WIZARDS the original title of this 1977 film directed by Ralph Bakshi , pioneer filmmaker and animator call entertainment for adults. And although Wizards not belong to that genre, not the child belongs.
Interestingly, Wizards not only released the same year that Star Wars and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind , but is contemporary of the same in its production and most of the work of George Lucas , who even held talks about the film at 20th Century Fox, this being who asked Bakshi to change the title Wizards of War , as it was originally intended Wizards, not to be associated with Star Wars and not hurt each other at the box office. Bakshi Lucas agreed it had allowed Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker -record the voice of one of the characters Wizards (Sean, king of the fairies) . Bakshi and Lucas negotiated with the studio franchise fees, marketing and profit, so they had to auto finance part of their films and they would not be affected in the box office profits.
Wizards had an acceptable success at the box office but not outstanding as Star Wars.
Many blame the non-success of the film is due to the ambiguity of their treatment, then, in search of it not an entertainment for adults but familiar, she fell in excessive childishness of some characters, which, whether intentional or not, I end up overshadowing the value of its realization.
But what's it about? Well, Wizards is a post-apocalyptic film set in a bleak and distant future in a land much like the post-WWII Europe and Tolkien's Middle Earth, inhabited by mutants, fairies, elves, monsters, goblins, witches but without humans. A powerful sorcerer conjures evil forces to prepare a final invasion of the noble land and thus dominate the known world. For this machine uses a past that shows Nazi propaganda pictures of the troops of mutants for these to inspire a war without mercy.
His twin brother, Avatar will try to stop the invasion using only the help of an elf and a fairy and the power of his magic.
was in this movie where I first heard the name Avatar , who despite his appearance, is a powerful sorcerer. remarkable influence of Cheech Wizard in character creation.
While still a child I could not understand the film, its powerful images and characters so unique I have pursued since then. 
And how Elinore forget, that scantily clad fairy transparent and laughter Chilo that, as I recall, showed me her boobies provocatively before Sabrina be put to play in the pool in your video Boys boys boys.
These 
are nipples!
are nipples! think this film an exquisite piece of animated feature. Beyond the fanaticism that could be generated in my being a child, there is much to say about it in the narrative, technical and film, however, not to bore the casual reader or accidental, I just say that much of the innovation film due to the fact I mentioned at the beginning: Bakshi had auto finance stop it, so it saw very limited financial resources and had to resort, yes, sir, to wit.
To cut the process of filming / animation Bakshi applied the method of rotoscoping by referencing many silent films and films of war and many frames of film SM Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky . So, could create the battles without raising the cost of animation.
And as I began to write / speak in language no-se-me-understand-anything , I will say that this can and should be considered a cult film. Lucas
should draw on the poster for this film to create the tauntauns displayed on The Empire Strike Back ... and people must have thought Saw the father of Elinore -President, when they decided to use that mask pathetic.
is also true that Bakshi is strongly influenced by The Lord of the Rings of Tolkien, whose animated adaptation worked since 1976 , and which only came to make a delivery just a year after Wizards. I've always said that adversity brings out the best or the worst of human beings and in the specific case of the filmmakers is a definite formula. Without doubt, adversity and economic and technology-enabled the final outcome of Wizards were a great delivery of cinema. Rarely seen, true, but not without artistic value incalculable.
I dread to think what would have made James Cameron with something in his hands. Yes, perhaps a blockbuster, but a little for the seventh art. Curiously, the word Avatar me think about it. Another film
recommended 100% can be downloaded from any site with just googling correctly his name and year of production: Wizards (1977)
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