" Some films, some fiction, some comics are helping us preserve our faith in our desire for an enlightened world, to the compromises we make with the way the world exists "(Stanley Cavell, The Cinema make us better? )
Inhuman, inhuman too. In the gallery of Disney characters, it is one that wins all the votes of exasperation with almost all young readers of the Journal de Mickey and Scrooge Magazine : in French it is called Gontran Happiness (Gladstone Gander English). Stereotype the snob and a dandy in his Sunday best, Gontran Happiness is not a duck, it's a jar, a jar boastful, arrogant dandy always dressed to the nines, a follower of the costumes and hair bent sharply serrated. One can easily imagine a cologne lavandée covers the slightest hint of sweating in this animal that oozes vanity and incomprehensible vein. Lorsqu'enfant, it has not yet built - as we all inevitably do one day - our little personal theory on luck and happiness, the good and evil, fate and providence, meet at the bend a narrative drawn inevitably undermines Gontran Happiness a little. It embodies no doubt one of the most authentic of the individual stinking, self-centered and proud of it. Gontran Happiness is an aristocrat who have related party with a spell of sustained an injustice so overwhelming that we can refer those who have given themselves the trouble to be born, even those who do not need anything to succeed precisely because "everything" they succeeded. 
In the spirit of cartoonist Carl Barks Gontran that Happiness was born in 1948. And, because we had to make this character a few acceptable its creator has invented a destiny, a genealogy own to explain where it came from and, in turn, to excuse a little bit what it is without managing to generate a true compassion in its audiences. only Son of Daphne Duck and Gustave Happiness, Happiness Gontran lost his parents after a free picnic, the latter having too stuffed foods offered. Gontran had to be adopted by Matilda McDuck's sister. It is therefore an absurdist drama as no one knows them in vain Iosnesco that Mr. Bliss was born. Loaded symbols of luck, trampling clover four-leaf clover leaf on the individual does not, however, why he can buy up love in a world where everything seems to arrange themselves to make life the easiest, most natural way that is easy. Besides, knowing no trouble living, he knows - when he wrote that he covets the beautiful Daisy, that using words that resemble his life "my little candy, my little pie tatin, etc.. ". As underlined by the nephews of Donald in a short story titled The Love Letters " his prose is so sweet it would give us Diabetes ". However, if it may seem amazing, lucky Gontran Happiness always turns against him. Is easily understood: since no merit to live, none of his actions can not be inspired by any heroism. Envy he might arouse his or her fellow players unfailingly turns into contempt. And, the consideration for the chance becomes clear. Gontran Happiness, while lucky he is, remains and will remain all his life, a jar dedicated to the most extreme deserts. 
are accepted without difficulty this for moral tales of Mr. Happy because this conclusion seems to us to restore some justice, a world order where it is established that we can have it all. Clearly, the role and effect of Gontran foil prémâchent accompanying us from childhood, this ideology of domination (probably brought by both by the dominant Catholic moral and social diffuse than default sometimes called "culture") which is the basis of this common sense that locks our lives on the screen " nobody can have everything in life and good . How do we know when give some estimates Gontran Happiness is, ultimately, the first victim of our cruelty ideological. Would we not better at the bottom, if we accept with joy the happiness of those who succeed with arrogance and without any effort? Another moral Gontran Happiness never know and probably neither do we in the shadow of the bell jar so well informed by our quest for merit and recognition. Too human ... 
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