If I was asked who is my favorite of animation characters, no-brainer I certainly would answer that question with Disney's Scrooge McDuck. That is why, once I put the picture of this character as my profile picture on my Facebook.
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(Source: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck, accessed: 12 January 2014)
The character that created by Carl Barks and then developed by Don Rosa often misunderstood as stingy and materialistic character. However I always see the character in different way. He, Scrooge McDuck, was a figure of adventurer and risk taker. He was loner for most of the time. His journey of life brough him into the state where he hardly could show his intention in understandable responses. Every image that he built was to cover his softness within.
The good points of the character can be summarized from Don Rosa's masterpiece "The life and time of Scrooge McDuck". This masterpiece depicted the struggling life of Scrooge. In his childhood he started working to earn money for his family. When he was thirteen years old, he decided to pursue his fortune leaving behind his family in Scotland. The journey to be 'the richest duck in the world' was nos easy. There were many obstacles but he managed to overcome all of those obstacles. He stood on his faith, on what he believed. Maybe most people, as they do not pay attention to the detailed of his life, think that what his aim just money. However deep inside his heart what he valued most was the adventure and the experience of pursuing the wealthy. The wealthy was not his aim at all, but he tried to make people think so.
Aside of the adventure, it can be seen that the wealth he pursued was actually for his family. Back then to his decision going to America when he was only thirteen, the aim was only to help his poor family. During his journey, there were two times he went back home in Scotland which the aim of his homecoming was related to deal with the economic of his family.
Once, he indeed forgot his ultimate objective about his family. In Don Rosa's "The Empire-Builder from Calisota", Scrooge wanted to show that he was reliable to his family by accumulating wealth more and more. However, as he left his heart behind, he turned to be a stiff person and instead squandered his family. He realized that he was wrong when his family had gone. He could manage to fix it that time, but at that time his pride avoided him doing so. In his old age, he felt sorry for his life until the appearance his nephew, Donald Duck, and grand nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, brought his spirit back. And he managed to pursue new adventures of his live. He realized that to pursue adventures, his objective of his live, did not depend on the age or anything, but the imagination and the actions to make it real.
The good points of the character can be summarized from Don Rosa's masterpiece "The life and time of Scrooge McDuck". This masterpiece depicted the struggling life of Scrooge. In his childhood he started working to earn money for his family. When he was thirteen years old, he decided to pursue his fortune leaving behind his family in Scotland. The journey to be 'the richest duck in the world' was nos easy. There were many obstacles but he managed to overcome all of those obstacles. He stood on his faith, on what he believed. Maybe most people, as they do not pay attention to the detailed of his life, think that what his aim just money. However deep inside his heart what he valued most was the adventure and the experience of pursuing the wealthy. The wealthy was not his aim at all, but he tried to make people think so.
Aside of the adventure, it can be seen that the wealth he pursued was actually for his family. Back then to his decision going to America when he was only thirteen, the aim was only to help his poor family. During his journey, there were two times he went back home in Scotland which the aim of his homecoming was related to deal with the economic of his family.
Once, he indeed forgot his ultimate objective about his family. In Don Rosa's "The Empire-Builder from Calisota", Scrooge wanted to show that he was reliable to his family by accumulating wealth more and more. However, as he left his heart behind, he turned to be a stiff person and instead squandered his family. He realized that he was wrong when his family had gone. He could manage to fix it that time, but at that time his pride avoided him doing so. In his old age, he felt sorry for his life until the appearance his nephew, Donald Duck, and grand nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, brought his spirit back. And he managed to pursue new adventures of his live. He realized that to pursue adventures, his objective of his live, did not depend on the age or anything, but the imagination and the actions to make it real.
"You empty-headed youngsters should be ashamed of yourselves! The quality of your lives depends on what you make of them! The only limits to adventure are the limits of your imagination" -- spoken by Scrooge McDuck to his nephews in "The Richest Duck in the World"
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