Tintin
 

Ok. On the one hand, Stephen Spielberg and the Avatar SFX (for hair and noses, it looks like). On the other hand, Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. Steven Moffat and Toby Jones (The Dream Lord from Doctor Who). And Daniel Craig.

... I'd watch the phonebook if it were directed by Spielberg, produced by Jackson, written by Wright and Moffat, and if it featured Pegg, Frost, Jones, and Craig.

Good lord.

Any links you got to offer us?

Main movie site

EDIT: Holy shiksa, music by John Williams?

Why is the most epic movie Tintin?

Usually the OP is expected to provide links.

As for the movie, I hadn't really payed much attention to it but now I am interested.

Sorry, did not know. I usually do that whenever people ask for links.

Will refrain in the future.

I never thought I'd be, you know, planning to see a Tintin movie.

I was just joking anyway.

I think that at this point, without having seen the movie obviosly, my biggest complaint is that it's not in french.

Seriously. Wasn't Tintin like the MORE boring precursor to Johnny Quest and dull 3rd cousin to the Hardy Boys?

Personally I liked Tintin a lot when growing up. It's one of the few comics I actually used to read as a kid. Though that was a long time ago.

I just hope that they keep in the coded references to every character sleeping with every other character and Haddock being heavily related to the Bourbons.

I'm gonna guess they wont.

But then all you are left with is outstanding Nazism!

Ah! But you can hardly blame someone who was only 'fed the prejudices of the bourgeois society that surrounded' him!

Pretty sure everyone hated the Nazis in the 1940s. Except old man Herge!

Oh man just read that Wiki article- how can you leave out the biggest controversy of all- ie that Herge was a nazi collaborator, was publishing Tintin in a occupation friendly magazine and his scripts for whaever reason were deemed suitable nazi propagana. In this time you got stuff like the Shooting Star where Tintin is saved from the evil americans by the brave crew of Italians and Germans. He got out of trouble somewhat later by publishing Secret of the Unicorn and its sequel near the end of the war- these were pretty much straight adventure storys though ith somewhat of an aristocratic bent. He got arrested for it and banned from newspaper work for a long time.

I find it more likely he was trying to get with what seemed to be the winning side, and to do that he had to draw some distasteful things. Only have the wiki article to go by, though.

I'm looking foward to seeing this in theaters when it comes out in December. I grew up reading Tintin (in French) and I've watched a few episodes of the series in English whenever I had the chance. I always found it weird when he called his dog "Snowy", being so used to "Milou", but I guess Milou doesn't sound that good in English :/

I'm also glad that Spielberg chose the "Unicorn" story ark, which was one of my favorites to read, the other being "Les 7 Boules de Crystal" and "Le Temple du Soleil".

It just occured to me that you have another thread more suited for this sort of thing actually...

Ah, whatevers. Tintin, Nazis, fun times.

I'm not familiar with any english language version of Tintin, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to roll with this particular adaptation. Especially because of the name translations. I know Captain Haddock probably doesn't count as very subtle theme naming, but Professor Calculus is at least one level more blatant. I guess I feel that more theme naming doesn't necessarily work too well with the tone of the series.

For the badness of name translations there's probably nothing that can beat the french version of Harry Potter, though.

Milou is Snowy? WTF!? Fuck the movie.

I don't know who this milou character you're talking about is. Probably something stupid.

Professor Calculus...I forgot about that. It just feels so weird, but I guess Professor Sunflower (Tournesol) sounded too uh...frou-frou, in a way? I think I might just go listen to the French version in theaters (since I can, because of the whole living in Québec thing...I mean, why wouldn't I?) Hopefully the voice-overs will be good; I don't usually go see films in French, but for this I'll do an exception.

All this talk about Tintin and nazis and none of you mention King Ottokar's Sceptre, tsk, tsk.

Everyone uses that to go "oh look how anti-nazi he was" but all that story shows is the massive monarchy boner he possessed throughout his career.
But totally serious, Tintin as a nazi agent huntig for the secrets of the unicorn to help fund Hitler's war machine is the best direction they can take this movie.

I totally agree with the monarchy boner.

But I kinda think that if you want to be dick about Herge you could point Blue Lotus. No racism against Chinese because he just happens to know one personally, but man, those Japanese are dicks but it's cool and racist.

World War 2 Japan were pretty massive dicks though.

That can't be denied, but I can't help to think that Herge potrayting them the way he did has a lot to do him knowing Zhang, because sympathy towards them make Japanese seem even more dickish than Herge probably thought before meeting Zhang. But it's kinda a double standard in my eyes anyway.

The world is one big double standard.

e: Fuck you, universe!