In a month's time, a new Steven Spielberg movie will introduce millions of American children and more than a few adults to the intrepid boy reporter Tintin and his dog, Snowy. The movie trailer and early buzz suggest that "The Adventures of Tintin" crackles with swashbuckling Indiana-Jones-like action sequences and vertiginous escapes, all intensified by a swirling John Williams score. The open question is whether the film will retain the charm of the cartoonist Hergé's original comics. This is no trivial matter to Tintin's legions of devoted fans across the globe (if not so much in the U.S., where the character is less familiar). In Europe, where the movie has already opened, some enthusiasts have been more horrified by what the movie does to their favorite fictional Belgian than grateful for Tintin's increased exposure. For Tintin's abiding appeal has nothing to do with smash-em-up, big-budget special effects. He is not a superhero or a young James Bond. He is not even really a reporter. His adventures are dramatic yet human-scale, invested with a spirit of moral enterprise and derring-do, in a cartoon world populated by characters at turns quirky, faulty, comical and villainous. Tintin moves through this world with wit and confidence but not infallibility. In the course of 23 rich and eventful stories, he gets into countless scrapes: We see him get trapped and drugged and sandbagged and even pelted with rotten fruit. Yet the ageless youth with the blond quiff, natty plus fours and sidekick terrier is always on the side of the good guys and always defending the underdog. ENLARGE HERGÉ/MOULINSART 2011 And he is always gorgeously drawn in the distinctive clean lines of his creator, Georges Remi (whose initials reversed and pronounced in French produced the nom de plume Hergé). Hergé's style is so perfectly suited to the two-dimensional medium of comics that any digital version was bound to produce howls of outrage. It was to address these anxieties that Mr. Spielberg and his collaborator, Peter Jackson, chose motion-capture animation in which to make their movie. Using live actors to animate digital images was thought a way of getting as close as possible to Hergé's ligne claire (clear line) drawings, a technique that avoids shading and hatchmarks, uses color flatly, and gives each line equal weight. Tintin first emerged from Hergé's pen in 1929, in a tiny black-and-white comic strip in a Belgian newspaper supplement aimed at Catholic youth. The cartoonist closely identified with his young character and, from the start, so did young readers: Children mobbed a Tintin lookalike during an early publicity stunt. The young reporter's first adventure, "Tintin in the Land of the Soviet," took children behind the façade of Bolshevism and showed them the cruelties and deception of Stalinist rule. The peril-packed story was based not on Hergé's firsthand observations but on contemporaneous anticommunist accounts. Readers adored it, though Hergé was later to deprecate this fledgling and uneven work. (When, in 1942, the cartoonist began revising and adding color to his oeuvre, he omitted this book; it did not come back into widespread availability until 1973.) Soon Tintin was off to Africa in "Tintin in the Congo" (1931), where the young hero shot wild game, praised Belgian missionaries and outfoxed a homicidal shaman. A year later Hergé sent his character to investigate Al Capone's crime syndicate in "Tintin in America" (1932), a turbulent adventure that takes Tintin and Snowy from gangland Chicago to a Blackfoot Indian reservation and back again. Tricked into visiting a cannery, Tintin escapes death in a meat grinder only when, in a droll Chicago moment, the workers go on strike and the machine shuts down. ENLARGE HERGÉ/MOULINSART 2011 There are really no humdrum pages in the adventures, which is a reminder of their origin as weekly comic strips. To keep the attention of young readers, Hergé crammed his stories with conflict and sight gags, with explosions and pratfalls and jets and cars and rampaging animals. This energetic pacing, sustained over 60-odd pages in book form, manages to make the experience of reading Tintin both prolonged and quick. It also speaks to the narrative taste of young readers, who love action and do not require the emotional psychodrama or character development adults so enjoy. There are other reasons that Tintin has resonated with so many readers for so long. Through his international exploits—in pre-revolutionary Shanghai, the jungles of Peru, a faux Eastern European police state, even the surface of the moon 20 years before Neil Armstrong got there—Tintin shows young readers that the world in all its complexity is theirs to bestride. The resonance with children can't be exaggerated. When you are young and your hero crash-lands in the Sahara or treks through the snows of Tibet, you do, too. The Himalayas and North Africa then become, in an elusive yet s
Another Tintin adventure that is full of laughter-inducing scenes, Herge takes Tintin on a James Bond-like adventure as he confronts a previous enemy involved in the contamination and sabotage of oil in an effort to start another world war. Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins, and the outrageously obnoxious Abdullah are again sources of antics that can leave you in stitches.
Across Europe, car engines are spontaneously exploding; a result of someone tampering with the petrol at its source. With Europe on the brink of war, Captain Haddock is mobilised into the navy while Tintin and detectives Thomson and Thompson set off for the Middle Eastern kingdom of Khemed on board a petrol tanker. written by deeksha
Another Tintin adventure that is full of laughter-inducing scenes, Herge takes Tintin on a James Bond-like adventure as he confronts a previous enemy involved in the contamination and sabotage of oil in an effort to start another world war. Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins, and the outrageously obnoxious Abdullah are again sources of antics that can leave you in stitches.Main thing is that in our area they have conducted story telling competition was held at the before day I read this book. At story telling competition I was one of the audience who was participating was gone to another city and the I came on stage in the place who was participating then I told this story. And because of this story our area came in 1st rank.
Another Tintin adventure that is full of laughter-inducing scenes, Herge takes Tintin on a James Bond-like adventure as he confronts a previous enemy involved in the contamination and sabotage of oil in an effort to start another world war. Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins, and the outrageously obnoxious Abdullah are again sources of antics that can leave you in stitches.Main thing is that in our area they have conducted story telling competition was held at the before day I read this book. At story telling competition I was one of the audience who was participating was gone to another city and the I came on stage in the place who was participating then I told this story. And because of this story our area came in 1st rank.It is interesting and awesome book.
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Another Tintin adventure that is full of laughter-inducing scenes, Herge takes Tintin on a James Bond-like adventure as he confronts a previous enemy involved in the contamination and sabotage of oil in an effort to start another world war. Captain Haddock, the Thompson twins, and the outrageously obnoxious Abdullah are again sources of antics that can leave you in stitches.Main thing is that in our area they have conducted story telling competition was held at the before day I read this book. At story telling competition I was one of the audience who was participating was gone to another city and the I came on stage in the place who was participating then I told this story. And because of this story our area came in 1st rank.It is interesting and awesome book. i was nice book
This fictional story is wonderfu. I had read this book many times and there's a pont to be noticed.. It's never keeps us bored.. It's and intresting story and is creative full... Amazing illustrations and is one of the best book I had ever saw... Suggesting this book for childern who have hobby to read intresting fictional stories.. Hats off to the Writer