Secrets of Tintin 001: Introducing Tintin
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In our first episode, we talk about the origin of Tintin and about the early career of Hergé, aka George Rémi, Tintin’s creator. We also look at the world premiere of the Tintin movie by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in Brussels.
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Links:
- Interview with Steven Spielberg at the premiere of Tintin
- Tintin Movie Trailers
- Tintinologist on Twitter
- Tintinologist.org
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Denyse 8:37 pm on October 23, 2011 Permalink |
I really enjoyed watching the recording of the first episode. I loved reading Tintin as a child; I’m so glad to revisit the stories. Can’t wait for the movie. Father R. and Dave, you did a great job on the podcast. Great listening.
David Handlos 10:34 am on October 27, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks, Denyse.
Had a lot of fun doing the episode. Tintin was definitely one of my favorites as a kid, too!
Glenn 2:14 am on November 27, 2011 Permalink |
I’m going to enjoy this podcast!
Thanks so much for bringing this to us, Father Roderick. Love ye enthusiasm! I have been in love with the world of Tintin since a wee boy of 8 and would often try and sneak a comic past my parent, so I could read it in church! I was always caught out.
Largely because of Herge, I taught myself to draw and drew my first Tintin inspired comic at the age of 10, “The Precious Object’. My hero has a similar hair style and I called him Stephen Cace. The tagline was “This is a Case for Cace”. Between 10 and 16 I drew and coloured three 32 page comics.
I understand that Spielberg only discovered Tintin after someone said that his character ‘Indiana Jones’ reminded that person of Tintin, so Steve looked into it and instantly fell in love with Herge’s work.
The Crab with the Golden Claws was included primarily, as I understand it, because it is in this work Tintin first meets the Captain (except differently to the original graphic Novel). I will be interested to see how they’ll merge all three stories, but the script was in the hands of Steven Moffet (Showrunner of current Doctor Who). He is an excellent writer so we are in MANY good hands. I’m very excited for this movie. I have to wait for boxing day (that’s when it comes out here in New Zealand) I been wanting to see a Tintin movie for about 13 years!
If you look behind the characters there is an incredible amount of detail, in Herge’s work. It really genius.
Regarding Tintin’s age. Before David cleared it up. I can remembering wondering if Herge was giving us a clue on page 28 and Frame 11 of ‘The Black Island’. Tintin is climbing over a wall. He tries to jump onto the roof of Dr. Muller’s car. He misses and face-plants on the road. So in the last frame Tintin is lying there as candles float around his head. I counted the candles. There is 16.
I chuckled at David’s mention of Tintin strength. Yeah he could knock out almost anyone with one punch, but even in ‘The Cigars of Pharaoh’ Page 51 and Frame 10. He defeated a Tiger by strapping it in a straight jacket!
Actual I think that the theme song for the late 80′s early 90′s animated series is fantastic! I really like it. I think it is perfect to the spirit of Tintin.
Anyway Fantastic show. I have subscribed.
Mr Scirev 10:00 am on October 25, 2011 Permalink |
I think storywise the movie will be great, thanks to Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat’s involvement in this production. However I’m not so convinced by the cartoony CGI I don’t think it’s suitable for tintin. They should have gone for live acting instead or realistic CGI. It’s for this reason I won’t watch it at the movies, I’ll rent it later on.
Fr. Roderick 1:41 pm on October 27, 2011 Permalink |
Most reviews are very positive about the CGI depiction of the characters. I think having CGI will guarantee future continuity if they make new movies. Tintin is timeless, ‘normal’ actors age and change. With CGI, Tintin will still look the same in future movies.
Glenn 2:23 am on November 27, 2011 Permalink |
Fantastic point Fr. Roderick. However voices change as one gets older, but I don’t suppose we’ll have to worry about that, if we only get three movies.
danielsmrokowski 3:37 am on October 31, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks Fr. Roderick for introducing me to Tintin when I heard you discuss this comic/movie on The Break. What caught up attention is that Tintin is a reporter and as someone who is currently studying journalism at the university, and after I saw the trailer, this sounds like an interesting and inspiring movie. Looking forward to this new “Secrets of Tintin” series.
May God continue to bless your work in Catholic Media.
I will continue to keep you and SQPN in my prayers.
God Bless,
Daniel
Host/Producer of Special Chronicles Podcast- http://www.specialchronicles.com
Nancy Brown 12:54 pm on October 31, 2011 Permalink |
Our children discovered TinTin through a cousin and fell in love. I’ve read the stories out loud so many times, and had to laugh, Father Roderick, when you mentioned the funny way Snowy barks. I used to say “Woah-ah! Woah-ah!” not knowing if I was pronouncing it right or not. But once you do it once for a child, then every time, Snowy had to bark the same way!
http://www.amazon.com/Six-Adventures-Tintin-I-Herge/dp/0807281034
I also had a complete melody made up for Signore Castafiore’s song “Ah my beauty past compare! These jewels bright I wear!” etc. Professor Calculus, the Thompson Twins. All so funny, so much good story.
Now, two notes.
1. We discovered if you put on those red and blue type 3D glasses, you could actually make the comics appear in 3D. I’m not sure why that worked, but it did.
2. There is a very good audio of TinTin that we took out many a time from our library. I am going to link to it. Once we listened to these cassettes in the car, we listened over and over, and those voices *were* those characters for us. You might want to check into it, the audios would be great on the podcast. Looks like it was done by the BBC Father R–of which you are very familiar
Glenn 2:20 am on November 27, 2011 Permalink |
Fantastic Nancy! I love that you had a tune for Bianca Castifore’s aria. Brilliant.
You should send us an audio of your tune!
Fred 5:09 pm on November 8, 2011 Permalink |
As a kid growing up in Montreal, I read many of the Tintin books. I am very excited about the movie! I own three of the books, one of which (“Coke en Stock”) was passed down by my mother from when she was young. Now I will pull out the books and get ready, even though my limited collection is not any of the earlier stories.