raul sensato 1's Comments
In fact, Amelie was based in a very elaborate gnome theft in Groningen, Holland.
You can check the 2000 webpage here:
http://www.geocities.com/oomroel/roeleng.html
They called the Gnome Oom Roel (uncle Roel) in reference to the traveller in the Fraggle Rock Show.
They sent the owner fotos of the gnome partying the night he went free, then form a huge Berlin Street Party, and from that point they started to travel with it, and borrowing it to people travelling to odd places. Asia, Australia, US, South America,... you name it.
After Amelie was a hit, both the pranksters and the owners were invited to a TV programme in Holland. Amazingly, the owners didn't surprise themselves with it, and just ignored the photographs the pranksters sent them. They didn't get the joke, and they didn't care.
I took a picture with Roel at the time, in Barcelona. Long before the movie.
You can check the 2000 webpage here:
http://www.geocities.com/oomroel/roeleng.html
They called the Gnome Oom Roel (uncle Roel) in reference to the traveller in the Fraggle Rock Show.
They sent the owner fotos of the gnome partying the night he went free, then form a huge Berlin Street Party, and from that point they started to travel with it, and borrowing it to people travelling to odd places. Asia, Australia, US, South America,... you name it.
After Amelie was a hit, both the pranksters and the owners were invited to a TV programme in Holland. Amazingly, the owners didn't surprise themselves with it, and just ignored the photographs the pranksters sent them. They didn't get the joke, and they didn't care.
I took a picture with Roel at the time, in Barcelona. Long before the movie.
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the page in dutch has the actual dates of every travel:
http://www.geocities.com/oomroel/roel.html