#The adventures of tintin ii movie#
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#The adventures of tintin ii tv#

#The adventures of tintin ii movie#

I give it 875 portholes.According to French site FigaroВ (via The Playlist), French director Patrice Leconte is hoping to make a live-action Tintin movie based on the story 'The Castafiore Emerald.' It was theВ third-to-last completed Tintin story, and unlike most other Tintin tales, it doesn't involve globe-trotting adventure. It plays fair with Spielberg (who received HergГ©'s blessing before his death in 1983). 'The Adventures of Tintin' is an ambitious and lively caper, miles smarter than your average 3-D family film (how can any thinking person want to see one Chipmunks movie, let alone three?). The little dog has always been dubious about his master's daring schemes Tintin will propose an expedition, and Snowy will think in a thought balloon, 'Not by foot, I hope!' Some of the funniest moments in the movie involve Snowy's determination to convey urgent information to dunderheaded humans. One of the benefits of animation is what it allows Spielberg to do with Snowy. HergГ© devoted more time to local color, character eccentricities and explosive dialogue, and I learned to mystify my friends with such Haddockisms as 'Tonnerre de Brest!' and 'Mille sabords!' ('Thunder of Brest!' and 'A thousand portholes!'). There's gunfire in the HergГ© comics, but the amount that goes on here is distracting. Spielberg too closely imitates a traditional action movie. The chase is on to find a lost treasure with ancient connections to Capt. The movie involves the same headlong hurtle through perilous adventures, involving dire endangerment by explosives and so on.

#The adventures of tintin ii tv#

A more traditional 2-D approach was done for a TV series, which you can check out on YouTube I like it, but Spielberg is more ambitious and his characters seem more believable, to the extent that anyone created by HergГ© is real. Spielberg and a team of artists and animators have copied not the literal look of the Tintin strips, but the feel. The other characters are permitted more detail Thomson and Thompson in particular are given noses that would make W.C. His face, as described by an eyewitness to a police artist, would produce a sketch of вЂ¦ Tintin.

Tintin looked human, if extremely streamlined. My worries became irrelevant during the movie's opening scene.

Anyone could draw him his face has two dots for eyes, little curves for eyebrows and a mouth and a nose that is like a sideways 'U.' To make him seem more real would be to lose Tintin. Not only did Tintin inhabit an adamantly 2-D universe, but he was manifestly not real. It was reported that Spielberg would use motion capture technology on his characters. My little French-English dictionary was a great help. Starting that year at Cannes, I read every single Tintin book, and even bought a Tintin and Snowy T-shirt. Sometimes a situation will require an entire page. They are drawn by the Belgian artist HergГ© with elegant clarity (the 'clean line' approach). Tintin's adventures come in book-length, their pages the size of old Life magazines. His yellow hair comes up to a quiff in the front. Tintin looks like a prepubescent to me, but is treated by everyone as sort of an honorary grownup. A rum-soaked old sea salt named Captain Haddock ( Andy Serkis) is often found nearby. Two maladroit Interpol inspectors named Thompson and Thomson ( Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) are often on the same cases. He is a newspaperman who rarely seems to go to the office but can usually be found globe-trotting on an unimaginable expense account, always accompanied by his gifted dog, Snowy. This Tintin (voiced by Jamie Bell in the film) is a piece of work. 'Zut!' So loved is he, I learn, that papers would rerun his old exploits even after the death of his creator, HergГ©.

#The adventures of tintin ii full#

A back page in full color is given over to comics, and half the page is devoted to Tintin. The beloved character вЂ¦ can we flash back? It is a morning in May at the Cannes Film Festival, and I am drinking my coffee in the sunlight and reading Nice-Matin, the regional paper.