The other night, after seeing posters for the new Smurfs movie, myself and some friends began discussing the Smurfs in detail. And I had one question that no-one could answer definitively…why was Gargamel after the Smurfs in the first place?
Sure, the knowledgeable Smurf aficionado can tell you that Smurfette was created by Gargamel to destroy the Smurfs internally via seduction, although if she’s the ONLY female Smurf I’d be amazed that they knew what to do with her; but why was Gargamel trying to catch the Smurfs anyway?
Suggestions included that he wanted to eat them, or that he wanted their treasure, or even that through alchemy he thought he could turn them to gold. I suggested that the whole thing was an Allegory for Hitler and that he wanted to wipe them out in a bizarre cartoon metaphor for ethnic cleansing, which was widely shouted down.
After some research it seems that originally he DID want to turn them into gold, before deciding he wanted to eat them. However, according to the (somewhat tenuous) source of Wikipedia, at one point he is quoted as saying “I don't want to eat them, I don't want to turn them into gold, all I want now is to DESTROY THEM!” Now I’m not one to suggest that the cartoonists were intending a Smurfacaust, but that sounds like ethnic cleansing to me.
I’m always smurfing right.
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