The key issues behind chappatte's work

We figured out in class that there could be a few key issues behind chappatte's cartoon, here are three of them:
- Could the internet be a threat spread of culture or convorsely foster it ?
- Is the younger generation really aware of the illegal practices on the internet when it comes to culture
- Does the internet epitomize the idea of progress or can we argue that it also shows its limits.

We can truly say that Chappatte is an excellent cartoonist as he showed all these issues with only one cartoon, and 9 words. Chappatte used humor and irony through the young man, irony is the best weapon as everybody understands it although it doesn't say things directly. He also used the Cannes festival event as everyone knows the festival and it can touch every reader/viewer.

A fanatic geek at the cannes film festival, 2008

Patrick Chappatte is a lebanese-swiss cartoonist who was born in pakistan in 1967. Born to a lebanese mother and a swiss father he lives between LA and Geneva. Patrick Chappatte draws cartoons for the international New York Time, the New York Time, le Temps,  Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Chappatte is a rewarded cartoonist as he recived the Overseas Press Club of America’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs. 
He currently participates to a project that has the goal of promoting dialogue through cartoons in conflict-ridden countries such as Serbia, Ivory Coast, Kenya and a few other. He presented his project in a TED talk in 2010.



This image is a cartoon by Patrick Chappatte, it was published in the international Herald tribune the 16th of may 2008. We can notice cannes' logo at the bottom of the cartoon, la "palme d'or" with cannes in capital letters at the bottom of it. Cannes is the most popular and important film festival in the world, it takes place in France and the rewarded artists receive the popular "palme d'or". The cartoon will certainly deal with this popular french festival.

What directly flash out of the drawing are the warm colors, the red carpet, the yellow cannes logo (the eye is automatically attracted by a logo), and the yellow dress/blond hair of a woman in the foreground. At the background of the cartoon, we can see a couple dressed in fancy clothes, walking up the stairs of the red carpet, waving at a huge crowd full of journalists taking pictures and fans asking for autographs. We can assume it is a famous couple, someone who participates at the festival. But the essential part of the cartoon is at  the foreground, another famous couple right at the middle of the image with a man (certainly a celebrity like an actor, a director...) signing an autograph for a young man, who wears a t-shirt with an "@" on it. The young is the only one talking in the cartoon and he says to the famous man "I love your movies, I pirated them all".
Chappatte used humor through this young man to denounce illegal downloading of movies on the internet. Chappatte wanted to tell us how ambiguous it is because the young claims he loves the movies of this celebrity but he doesn't make the film industry work as he illegally downloaded them. We can notice the director/actor is making a funny face as the teenager totally assumes he illegally downloaded this man's movie, the cartoonist uses comic of situation.
 I don't think money is really the problem with this issue as the movie industry is making a huge amount of money. But, if everybody starts to watch their movies illegally and most of all free, it may be a problem (and also for small budget movies).
I think this young man represents the whole of our generation, a generation that uses the internet for lots of things and even for illegal actions.
However these last years we saw the emergence of something new that I find really clever; Netflix. Netflix is an internet platforms with lots of movie and series, it is not free but very affordable. I think it is good for the film industry as you don't have to move from home to watch a movie and that it still costs some money and respects author's rights. Before I had it at home I use to watch my movies in streaming (illegally), since I have Netflix I no longer do this.