“Welcome Home Franklin” en streaming sur Apple TV : NPR
L’histoire de Franklin, le premier personnage noir de la bande dessinée “Peanuts”
Un spectacle animé d’Apple TV montre comment Franklin, le premier personnage noir des “Peanuts”, rencontre Charlie Brown et ses amis dans Snoopy présente: Bienvenue à la maison, Franklin. Apple TV diffuse l’histoire de l’origine du premier personnage noir dans la bande dessinée “Peanuts”.
A Franklin special is really overdue,” said Craig Schulz, the co-writer of the show and son of “Peanuts” creator, Charles Schulz, in an interview with Morning Edition. It’s about how Franklin met Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang.
L’origine de Franklin dans Peanuts
Charles Schulz first drew Franklin in 1968 after receiving a letter from a white Los Angeles school teacher named Harriet Glickman. She reached out to Schulz following the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A few months later he wrote to Harriet Glickman, telling her to keep an eye out for a Peanuts strip publishing in late July. He said, “I have drawn an episode that I think will please you.”
The strip shows Franklin rescuing Charlie Brown’s runaway beachball. The image was powerful — a Black child and white child together on a beach at a time when many public beaches were segregated.
Le renouveau de Franklin dans la série animée
Glickman suggested that adding a Black character to the “Peanuts” cast could help change the “…vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate and violence.”
A few years after his debut in print, Franklin made his first television appearance. In 1973, he was one of the dinner guests in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
“It’s so very easy to get offended or upset,” said Robin Reed, who was 11 years old when performed the voice of Franklin. He told MSNBC in 2021, “We have to remember that at that time, that actually represented progress.” But the producers of Welcome Home, Franklin wanted a do over.
Une représentation meilleure et plus inclusive de Franklin
Director, Raymond S. Perci said, “We were able to recreate that scene and turn something that was this unfortunate controversy into a moment for people to talk about.” This time, the dinner scene takes pace in a pizza restaurant. Franklin again sits by himself on one side of the table. The white children sit on the other side but Linus stands up and says, “Hey Franklin, we saved you a seat over here. Come join us.”
“The characters are real to me, they’re real little kids,” Perci said. “What’s cool is now we get know Franklin a little better and we get a chance to see the other characters kind of in a new light because we get them through his eyes.”
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