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Picha is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Belge born on 2 july 1942 at Brussels (Belgique)

Picha

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Birth name Jean Paul Walravens
Nationality Belgique
Birth 2 july 1942 (81 years) at Brussels (Belgique)

Jean-Paul "monda" Walravens (born 2 July 1942) is a cartoonist and film director. He was born in Brussels, Belgium.

Biography

Jean-Paul Walravens, quickly fascinated by drawing, studied at the Institute of Fine Arts Saint-Luc. In 1960, he contributed his work as a caricaturist and cartoonist for many newspapers and magazines around the world including National Lampoon and The New York Times. During this period, he adopted the pseudonym Picha. A passion for drawing led Picha to the world of comics. He is the author of several books, as Picha at Club Med (1971) or Persona non grata (1975).

After this period, he went on to animation. In 1975, he co-directed the film Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle, a raunchy parody of the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film was a huge success in its home country France, but ran through troubles with the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate when the estate sued the creators of the film for plagiarism. The estate lost the case when the creators stated that the film was a parody. However, when the film was released in the U.S., the estate demanded that the film title and main character "Tarzoon" be changed due to the film's nature degrading the Tarzan name. In 1979, the now R-rated film was released under the title Shame Of The Jungle, and was rewritten by Saturday Night Live writers Anne Beatts and Michael O'Donoghue and was dubbed by John Belushi, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., Bill Murray, and several others. Despite these efforts, the film was a critical and financial flop.

Picha's next film was the 1980 film The Missing Link. Though it wasn't as successful as Tarzoon, the film was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 1984, the film was released into the U.S. under the title B.C. Rock. Major changes to the film included newly-written dialogue by the comedy duo The Funny Boys (Jim Vallely and Jonathan Schmock), recut footage, different voices, different instrumental score, the absence of the narrator (with the main character telling the story), and nearly all the songs written and performed by Leo Sayer have been replaced by songs by other artists (including Steel Breeze, Hall & Oates, and Rick Wakeman) in order to attract a wider audience. Unfortunately, the film was poorly promoted on video and faded into obscurity. However, this version manages to have a cult following to this day. Picha's future work would never be released in American theaters or any home video format.

Picha's next film was 1987's The Big Bang. After the small success of the film, Picha left the movie industry to concentrate on writing for television. Picha's television works included Zoo Olympics (1990–1991), Zoo Cup (1992–1993), and The Jules ... Dog's life (1995). In 2007, Picha made a comeback with Snow White: The Sequel, a parody of fairy tales, which most animated films were doing at the time.

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Filmography of Picha (6 films)

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Snow White: The Sequel, 1h22
Directed by Picha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Cécile de France, Agathe Schumacher, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marie Vincent, Jean-Claude Donda, Sarah Hadland
Rating47% 2.3766652.3766652.3766652.3766652.376665
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to live. However married life doesn't become them, given her lack of domestic skills and his prancing job. Soon each drifts to an affair, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature, such as the dwarfs acting as loan shark syndicate. The jealous 'good' fairy takes the cake, as motor of evil twists...
The Big Bang, 1h20
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors David L. Lander, Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Alice Playten, Marshall Efron, Perrette Pradier
Rating55% 2.755052.755052.755052.755052.75505
In 1995, World War III begins; Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden destroys itself. The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV. In the north, America and Russia merge, containing a mutated strain of males, forming the USSSR. In the south, all that is left of womankind retreat to their territory of Vaginia. The armies of these two nations are soon at odds with each other as they perfect their most destructive weapons capable of destroying the universe.
The Missing Link, 1h35
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Christopher Guest, Richard Darbois, Georges Aminel, Roger Carel, Jacques Ferrière, Philippe Nicaud
Rating58% 2.9474052.9474052.9474052.9474052.947405
The year is 196303 BC. A group of cavemen rises from the mud, and the first thing on their minds is finding something to eat. After two unsuccessful attempts, the group decides to eat one of their own. Suddenly, the men meet women, but don't know how to make love to them. The elder of the men sees a pair of stegosaurus performing doggystyle, which inspires the elder to do the same thing with one of the women. Nine months later, that same woman is pregnant with two boys, Ah and O. The cavemen like Ah, but are frightened by O and abandon him. Meanwhile, a brontosaurus abandons one of her eggs. Both O and the baby brontosaurus Igua meet, and instantly become friends.
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!, 1h25
Directed by Picha, Boris Szulzinger
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Georges Aminel, John Belushi, Arlette Thomas, Bill Murray, Paule Emanuele, Claude Bertrand
Rating50% 2.5321052.5321052.5321052.5321052.532105
The film takes place in the deepest part of Africa - "Bush Country". The evil, bald, and multi-breasted Queen Bazonga, who resides in a blimp, inside a cave shaped like a women's legs spread open revealing her vagina, plans to conquer the earth. Before she can do that, however, she wishes to have a full set of hair so people can take her seriously. Her two-headed assistant, The Charles Of The Pits, suggest a "scalp transplant", an experiment where someone else's hair is transplanted to another person's head. Bazonga demands that she wants the hair of June, the maid of Shame, ruler of the jungle. Bazonga sends out her penis soldiers to kidnap June. Meanwhile, that night, June kicks out Shame from their home after another night of unsuccessful sex. She ends up sleeping with Flicka, Shame's monkey pal. The next morning, Bazonga's soldiers barge in and kidnap June, but only after they have an orgy with her. Shame hears June's screams and comes to her rescue, but he is too late. Shame eventually decides to save his mate and immediately sets out on his quest with Flicka.

Scriptwriter

Snow White: The Sequel, 1h22
Directed by Picha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Cécile de France, Agathe Schumacher, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marie Vincent, Jean-Claude Donda, Sarah Hadland
Roles Writer
Rating47% 2.3766652.3766652.3766652.3766652.376665
Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to live. However married life doesn't become them, given her lack of domestic skills and his prancing job. Soon each drifts to an affair, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature, such as the dwarfs acting as loan shark syndicate. The jealous 'good' fairy takes the cake, as motor of evil twists...
The Big Bang, 1h20
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors David L. Lander, Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Alice Playten, Marshall Efron, Perrette Pradier
Rating55% 2.755052.755052.755052.755052.75505
In 1995, World War III begins; Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden destroys itself. The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV. In the north, America and Russia merge, containing a mutated strain of males, forming the USSSR. In the south, all that is left of womankind retreat to their territory of Vaginia. The armies of these two nations are soon at odds with each other as they perfect their most destructive weapons capable of destroying the universe.
The Missing Link, 1h35
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Christopher Guest, Richard Darbois, Georges Aminel, Roger Carel, Jacques Ferrière, Philippe Nicaud
Rating58% 2.9474052.9474052.9474052.9474052.947405
The year is 196303 BC. A group of cavemen rises from the mud, and the first thing on their minds is finding something to eat. After two unsuccessful attempts, the group decides to eat one of their own. Suddenly, the men meet women, but don't know how to make love to them. The elder of the men sees a pair of stegosaurus performing doggystyle, which inspires the elder to do the same thing with one of the women. Nine months later, that same woman is pregnant with two boys, Ah and O. The cavemen like Ah, but are frightened by O and abandon him. Meanwhile, a brontosaurus abandons one of her eggs. Both O and the baby brontosaurus Igua meet, and instantly become friends.
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!, 1h25
Directed by Picha, Boris Szulzinger
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Georges Aminel, John Belushi, Arlette Thomas, Bill Murray, Paule Emanuele, Claude Bertrand
Roles Writer
Rating50% 2.5321052.5321052.5321052.5321052.532105
The film takes place in the deepest part of Africa - "Bush Country". The evil, bald, and multi-breasted Queen Bazonga, who resides in a blimp, inside a cave shaped like a women's legs spread open revealing her vagina, plans to conquer the earth. Before she can do that, however, she wishes to have a full set of hair so people can take her seriously. Her two-headed assistant, The Charles Of The Pits, suggest a "scalp transplant", an experiment where someone else's hair is transplanted to another person's head. Bazonga demands that she wants the hair of June, the maid of Shame, ruler of the jungle. Bazonga sends out her penis soldiers to kidnap June. Meanwhile, that night, June kicks out Shame from their home after another night of unsuccessful sex. She ends up sleeping with Flicka, Shame's monkey pal. The next morning, Bazonga's soldiers barge in and kidnap June, but only after they have an orgy with her. Shame hears June's screams and comes to her rescue, but he is too late. Shame eventually decides to save his mate and immediately sets out on his quest with Flicka.

Producer

The Missing Link, 1h35
Directed by Picha
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Christopher Guest, Richard Darbois, Georges Aminel, Roger Carel, Jacques Ferrière, Philippe Nicaud
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9474052.9474052.9474052.9474052.947405
The year is 196303 BC. A group of cavemen rises from the mud, and the first thing on their minds is finding something to eat. After two unsuccessful attempts, the group decides to eat one of their own. Suddenly, the men meet women, but don't know how to make love to them. The elder of the men sees a pair of stegosaurus performing doggystyle, which inspires the elder to do the same thing with one of the women. Nine months later, that same woman is pregnant with two boys, Ah and O. The cavemen like Ah, but are frightened by O and abandon him. Meanwhile, a brontosaurus abandons one of her eggs. Both O and the baby brontosaurus Igua meet, and instantly become friends.