Fun Stuff > ENJOY
Tintin
Caspian:
Hearing about this movie made me do a little sex-wee. I was a huge fan of tintin back when I was a kid; still have a stash of them in the toilet that I read fairly often. Guess it's just because I'm optimistic by nature but I'm really looking forward to this. Sure, some things of my childhood (DBZ, for one) wouldn't work too well in live action, but having seen the cartoon of this, and having read the comics I'm quite optimistic that it'll turn out well. I'm thinking of something vaguely Indiana Jones-ish in approach, and that's exciting.
Also: About the racist undertones. Who cares, seriously? It wouldn't be the only old book with them, and the comics were totally excellent, racist/sexist/soprano-ist (What was her name again? I always forget) undertones aside.
StaedlerMars:
It's not going to be live action. It's going to be animated.
Bianca Castafiore
TheFuriousWombat:
It's being done by Weta a la Gollum's character so it's not technically pure animation.
onewheelwizzard:
I love love love Tintin. The early ones (Soviet, Congo, Blue Lotus, Broken Ear, ) do contain a lot of racist stereotypes but Herge definitely cleaned up his act as he went on and by the time he was writing with supporting characters like General Alcazar, Jolyon Wagg, and Ben Kalish Ezab, the quality of the books completely overshadowed any residual stereotyping. Tintin is brilliant.
CGI is basically the only way a modern adaptation of Tintin could work, and even then I'm skeptical. But we'll see.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Caspian on 05 May 2008, 03:05 ---Also: About the racist undertones. Who cares, seriously? It wouldn't be the only old book with them, and the comics were totally excellent, racist/sexist/soprano-ist (What was her name again? I always forget) undertones aside.
--- End quote ---
I care. It doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the books (and almost certainly still would, I just haven't read them in years) but I still find it interesting. Mark Twain isn't rendered null and void by dodgy racism and neither is Hergé, but that doesn't mean there's any reason to ignore it. Aside from anything else it all makes that thoroughly unofficial comic where Tintin is re-imagined as a working class anarchist with a foul mouth and strong desire to throw down with the police and shoot the bosses even funnier.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version