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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 10:53:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 10:56:13 GMT
Who is Tintin?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 11:39:41 GMT
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Post by lagatta on May 27, 2009 11:52:01 GMT
Deyana, guess it is true that we have two solitudes (if not more). Here in Montréal there are restaurants and other things named after Tintin-related characters, places and stories. There was also a character nicknamed "Tintin" in a popular Radio-Canada series about a fictional newspaper.
Odd that he never made it to Paris, since he has been elsewhere in France.
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Post by pookie on May 27, 2009 12:24:55 GMT
He never made it to Australia either
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 13:33:33 GMT
Thank you for posting this as the other thread was going nowhere .
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2009 15:59:16 GMT
Yes, but wasn't he based in Paris?
That is the niftiest website! Who is playing Snowy? I can't wait to see this movie. One of my favorite movies ever was "Popeye" because it incorporated all the really old characters and look of the original comic strip.
And in the "huh?" department:
LaGatta, what does this mean, please? "... we have two solitudes ..."
and Casimira, I finally figured out your joke by looking at the Ports of Call main page. Whew!
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Post by bjd on May 27, 2009 16:21:58 GMT
Two Solitudes was a famous book in Canada by Hugh McLennan (I think) about the gulf between English and French Canada.
Tintin was Belgian (as was his creator). It wasn't really mentioned where he was living, but most likely it was Brussels.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2009 17:05:59 GMT
Before he moved to Moulinsart (I just learned that it was called Marlinspike in English today), he indeed apparently lived in Brussels. The Château de Moulinsart was a copy of Cheverny in the Loire Valley, one of the smaller châteaux of the region.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 28, 2009 0:07:59 GMT
Thanks, Bjd. I'm embarrassed because I should have remembered that. My son had bunches of Tin-Tin books when he was young, and I avidly devoured them as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2009 12:55:08 GMT
Deyana, guess it is true that we have two solitudes (if not more). Here in Montréal there are restaurants and other things named after Tintin-related characters, places and stories. There was also a character nicknamed "Tintin" in a popular Radio-Canada series about a fictional newspaper. Odd that he never made it to Paris, since he has been elsewhere in France. Oh O.K. It think I know who Tintin is now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2010 20:58:09 GMT
The movie should come out next year... in 3D motion capture, of course.
In France, all we know is that Gad Elmaleh is in it -- he is a French star who grew up in Morocco and moved to Québec before becoming a star in France.
If one is to believe the Imdb site, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be released in the U.S. on December 23, 2011, but there is a vague release date of October 2011 for Sweden. However, the latest project for Spielberg as a producer is "Untitled Third Tintin Film" for 2013, which certainly implies a long term relationship.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 7, 2010 23:00:54 GMT
Which character would Gad play? He doesn't look like Tintin, the Captain, the twin detectives or la Castafiore... Ah, he plays a Moroccan villain! He'd have fun with that.
Gad Elmaleh has this wonderful mobile face - he can play broad comedy, drama or a handsome Mediterranean type... He's been in some very good films and some very forgettable ones.
In French Wikipedia, there is a Tintin portal.
By the way, he doesn't seem to have got to the Netherlands either. Belgian autarchy?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2010 4:54:20 GMT
He has a minor role, apparently, but of course he peed his pants in excitement to be called by Spielberg. Maybe he plays Nestor (doesn't look like him either).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2011 20:29:54 GMT
I don't think Tintin said everywhere he went. Would you?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 11, 2015 18:31:41 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 11, 2015 20:58:38 GMT
I always assumed Moulinsart (Molensloot in Dutch) was in Belgium. Pookie, Brussels is not very far from Paris. Now with the Thalys it is a short hop. Tintin à Québec is just a pastiche, though a well-done one: www.andrewcusack.com/2010/tintin-quebec/I don't think he was anywhere in Canada. He visited the western US and some imaginary tinpot dictatorship, in Central America I believe?
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Post by tod2 on Nov 16, 2015 16:27:35 GMT
I can't wait for my grandson to understand TINTIN....besides that I love eating at TinTin the Chinese restaurant in Paris!
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Post by whatagain on Nov 17, 2015 0:11:26 GMT
Hi There is another castle that looks more like Moulinsart than Giverny. I visited it once.
Herge was RG - Georges Remy, and lived in Brussels. He didn't go to Paris because there was no good beer and no good mussels at the time. And no good chocolate. It was in the 50's. We had not yet conquered France with good beer nor was Chez Léon successful as a chain...
Non mais. My preferred character is Capitaine Haddock. Then the Dupond(t) Tintin is too 'perfect' too politically correct.to asexuated. But ok, he sells...
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 17, 2015 0:16:11 GMT
I like Snowy. (Milou to those of you who read the books in their original language)
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Post by questa on Dec 12, 2015 11:45:09 GMT
Tin Tin is very big in Vietnam and Cambodia, I bought 2 T-shirts, "Blue Lotus" and "Tin Tin in Cambodia's forest" showing the daring young boy reporter with dog and Haddock discovering some skeletons in a jungle. It also had the "Danger Land Mines" logo on the front. Totally in bad taste, I thought of this one, but it was to raise money to treat people injured by mines and, heaven knows, there were heaps of those.
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Post by questa on Dec 12, 2015 11:46:24 GMT
Wasn't Tin Tin in trouble for being pro Nazi in WW2?
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Post by whatagain on Dec 12, 2015 15:19:42 GMT
Hergé was close to the Rex movement. Rex started as a far right movement and was condemned by a cardinal who asked not to vote for Rex. The leader of Rex was Degrelle, who created the 'Legion Wallonne' and fought on the russian front. Degrelle claimed Hitler would have liked a son like him - a boast it seems but that says much about his love for Nazis. The bastard went to Spain (time of Franco) and was seen from time to time in his nazi uniform at weddings or such.
Anyway, Hergé was a little bit too close to those guys, collaborated to the papers 'le soir' under german rules and was unclear after the war. He kept friends who were clearly collabos or just plain bastards. Let us put it like this : he was not clean.
(I bought 10 Tshirts of Tintin in Chien May 22 years ago and still use them ! )
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 13:47:46 GMT
Hergé is a lot like the French actors who continued working during the Occupation. One had to make certain concessions with one's morals to do such things. At the same time, people have to eat and bringing a bit of joy to one's fellow countrymen whether through comic strips or the cinema is hard to condemn. Obviously, there are extremely variable and debatable degrees of how far moral concessions should go at times like that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 8:02:15 GMT
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Post by bjd on Nov 21, 2016 11:54:48 GMT
We have all the Tin Tin books in English and several in French. I would certainly go to that exhibition.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 15:22:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 15:30:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2016 16:16:19 GMT
Oh, I would love to see that! The sketches are wonderful, easily as enjoyable as the finished work. How many times did you go round the exhibition? I imagine it was hard to leave.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 21:27:29 GMT
I only went through the expo once, but it was quite enjoyable.
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