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LucyStag:
I loved those books as a kid, my brother and I read them all. Probably thanks to my mother's usual good taste. I rediscovered them every few years, but the last time I REALLY got how amazing they are. Plus I am so much more into cartoons/comics than I used to be.
But racist? Yeah, I'm sorry to say there's a laundry list of cringeworthy stuff in many of the books. I hate to think of what was in th Congo one which Herge even noticed later was racist. That and the Soviets one I have not read.
By the way, whoever, the Chinese were actually portrayed much better than most non-whites. Much worse on the Japanese and others.
I vaguely remember the Nick show but I was never crazy about it. Friggin Snowy didn't even talk!
I don't know about these movies, but I am intrigued.
Dimmukane:
No, I mean Tintin was talking to somebody who had outrageous preconceptions of what the Chinese were like and was talking about bound feet, throwing babies in the river, long braids, etc. When they were actually shown it wasn't bad, but a character was going on about how crazy they were...I think it was Braddock.
TheFuriousWombat:
Do you mean Haddock? There is no Braddock as far as I know.
I'm seriously skeptical about the movie. Tintin was a very big part of my childhood and it's going to be very hard to capture the distinctive visual style and overall feel of the comics (racism aside).
StaedlerMars:
In the Blue Lotus Tintin is confronted with Westerners who have this impression of china, and refuse to go into the non-international quarter of whichever city (shanghai?) they're in for that reason. One of Tintin's friends is actually Chinese, he meats him in the Blue Lotus and climbs the Himalayas looking for him in Tintin in Tibet.
Tintin has a lot of confrontations with Americans.
Where the idea that Herge was racist comes from is Tintin in the Congo, where the native population is displayed as childish and barbaric. But this was an idea pretty popular at the time about the depths of Africa.
Yeah... I was brought up on Tintin. It comes with being Belgian.
EDIT: corrected for correctness
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 02 May 2008, 12:06 ---Do you mean Haddock? There is no Braddock as far as I know.
I'm seriously skeptical about the movie. Tintin was a very big part of my childhood and it's going to be very hard to capture the distinctive visual style and overall feel of the comics (racism aside).
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That's the one. It's been a while, forgive me.
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