{"id":279536,"date":"2021-06-21T03:32:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-charles-schulz-created-peanuts\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T03:32:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:32:32","slug":"why-charles-schulz-created-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-charles-schulz-created-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"#why Charles Schulz created ‘Peanuts’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#why Charles Schulz created ‘Peanuts’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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App<\/a>le TV+ is now the home of all-things-\u201cPeanuts\u201d \u2014 so it\u2019s the logical place home for a new documentary about Charles Schulz, who created the iconic comic-strip<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Are You, Charlie Brown?\u201d premieres Friday (June 25) on the streamer and clocks in at under an hour, short by today\u2019s Ken Burns-style standards but long enough to cover all the bases in recounting both Schulz\u2019s life and the \u201cPeanuts\u201d phenomenon \u2014 which conquered that print, TV, movies<\/a> and, now, the digital arena.<\/p>\n

Narrated by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong\u2019o, \u201cWho Are You, Charlie Brown?\u201d opens with new animated footage of Charlie Brown and his pals in school, tasked by their familiar tromboney-sounding teacher to write an essay on where they came from. That opens the door for writer\/director Michael Bonfiglio to recount Schulz\u2019s (and, by extension, Charlie Brown\u2019s) story, starting with Schulz\u2019s childhood as a painfully shy boy in Minnesota nicknamed \u201cSparky\u201d \u2014 after a comic-strip character called \u201cSparkplug.\u201d It was in the cards. <\/p>\n

Sparky, who dreams of starting his own comic strip, isn\u2019t the happiest kid or the best student (\u201cI failed everything it was possible to fail,\u201d he says). He\u2019s eventually drafted into the Army in 1942, sent overseas (he\u2019d never spent a night away) and returns home determined to fulfill his lifelong ambition. After some fits and starts, \u201cPeanuts\u201d launches in 1950 and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeanuts\u201d characters (from left) Schroeder, Franklin, Linus and Charlie Brown.<\/figcaption>
Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bonfiglio does a nice job recounting that history through the use of archival interviews with Schulz, and new interviews with his wife, Jean \u2014 which are interspersed with excerpts of the many \u201cPeanuts\u201d TV specials that began airing in the mid-\u201960s, in color, as it continued to evolve with the changing times. <\/p>\n

(Schulz introduced his first black \u201cPeanuts\u201d character, Franklin, in 1968, after it was suggested by a woman named Harriet Glickman. \u201cI held off on Franklin for a long time because I simply felt I wasn\u2019t capable of doing him properly and I didn\u2019t want to appear patronizing,\u201d he says.) <\/p>\n

Also included are interviews with celebrities who share their memories of \u201cPeanuts\u201d including Al Roker, Paul Feig, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Smith and Billie Jean King \u2014 a good Schulz friend who partially inspired his creation of spunky, athletic Peppermint Patty in the late \u201960s. <\/p>\n

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Charles Schulz at his drawing board in 1956 with his greatest creation: Charlie Brown.<\/figcaption>
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We also learn many interesting factoids about Schulz\u2019s life and how he incorporated parts of this into \u201cPeanuts\u201d: Snoopy was based on a dog he had as a teenager (there\u2019s a photo showing Schulz, the dog and his parents); and Snoopy\u2019s \u201cJoe Cool\u201d and \u201cFlying Ace\u201d personas (battling the Red Baron, etc.) were inspired by Schulz\u2019s five children (his son, Craig, is an executive producer). Sally\u2019s habit of calling Linus her \u201cSweet Babboo\u201d came from a pet name Jean Schulz used for her husband \u2014 and there really was<\/em> a \u201cLittle Red-Haired Girl\u201d \u2014 her name was Donna and she was Schulz\u2019s big boyhood crush (he was distraught when she married someone else).<\/p>\n

Schulz, who never took a vacation or missed a deadline, continued to do all the work on \u201cPeanuts\u201d himself, even after having heart surgery in 1981, when his post-surgical shaky writing and drawing was simply incorporated into the comic strip without missing a beat. He retired in 2000 and died that February at the age of 77, leaving behind a pop-culture legacy that continues to resonate around the world 70 years after its birth.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cPeanuts\u201d gang is now on Apple TV+.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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