bouche Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Who here is a Tintin fan? Which 'novel' is your favourite? I came across a bunch of Tintin scans and got all nostalgic over them. I've put one up on sendspace here. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 I'm a huge fan, even with its unfortunate racist undertones. I like them all, but my two favourites are: Flight 714 and Tintin in Tibet.I like Asterix almost as much as Tintin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Loved them growing up, and have even bought one in recent years to have around as mine old ones are back home. This one is my favourite, though (and I have a t-shirt with the cover art on it): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 I hope the upcoming Spielberg and Peter Jackson digital 3D Tintin films are good. At least they should be far better than Spielberg's Hollywood Will Smith remake of the Korean revenge masterpiece, Oldboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 (edited) Cheesburg is with jackson on it? Phew. I thought it was just Cheeseburg on his own. What racial undertones are you speaking of? It's been so long, and I was probably in grades 5-7 when I read them all. Edited November 8, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Cheesburg is with jackson on it? Phew. I thought it was just Cheeseburg on his own. What racial undertones are you speaking of? It's been so long, and I was probably in grades 5-7 when I read them all.Although kids certainly love Tintin, adults were also an intended market. The books work on many levels and are historically and politically relevant for the time. Read them again and we'll talk.Racism existed in some of the books (not to mention fascism, class struggles, drug-use, alcohol abuse etc...). For example, the Japanese, like in The Blue Lotus, are drawn stereotypically whilst the Chinese have softened features and are portrayed sympathetically. Blacks don't come off too well either nor do Gypsies (see The Castafiore Emerald).Asterix is also very racist, but then again, it is from Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 those fucking belgians eh Dave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Tintin and Hercule Poirot were the only famous Belgians. And both were fictional! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 The books were penned in 1945 ish too, so I guess there is a window of opportunity to be really racist there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 The books were penned in 1945 ish too, so I guess there is a window of opportunity to be really racist there.They started earlier and ended later than your date, plus many harkened back to an earlier time than 1945. Herge had issues that's for sure and he was a kid himself when he wrote some of the stories. Tintin in America is horribly offensive (but tastelessly funny nonetheless) and so is Tintin in the Congo (Funny? Not so much). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I was a big fan of Asterix growing up. I still have all the books and should go through them again sometime. Clever stuff. That Cleopatra had such a pretty nose As for TinTin, I never got into them I remember the artwork though. The one where he went to the moon was cool. I watched a really interesting documentary on the author a while back. It really sheds a different light on those stories as Jaimoe mentioned. There are heavy political undertones to those stories and many of the characters were parodies on real-life figures. It was called "TinTin and I". Killer visual effects bringing some of the stories to life. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/tintinandi/about.html I'm sure it's available on the interwebs somewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Low Roller Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Good 'ol Tintin. Growing up I always preferred Asterix, Lucky Luke, and Albator though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 And while we're reminiscing, here is something that doesn't make any sense, but as a kid I would drool all over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 (edited) Thanks for posting about Tintin Et Moi. I would love to see that. Unfortunately, I can't find it as a download.When I was a kid, this tin tin stuff used to air. It was in french so I didn't understand it. Edited November 9, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 bouche, i may have a copy of it at work somewhere. That's where I originally saw it. Have boxes full of documentaries from around the world. I'll see what I can do this week. You'd really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 cool kev. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I remember that live action Tintin show. I never watched it because it just seemed too weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 all growed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 (edited) There's also a series of Asterix live-action films; a few are recent. They are big-budget, attracting some of the biggest stars in French cinema. The cast includes Gérard Depardieu as Obelix, Christian Clavier or Clovis Cornillac as Asterix and several famous actors have co-starred in the films like Roberto Benigni, Monica Bellucci and Alain Delon. The films aren's supposed to be very good though, but they are popular. Edited November 9, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I think Laetitia Casta was in one of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Thanks for posting about Tintin Et Moi. I would love to see that. Unfortunately, I can't find it as a download.https://www.getdropbox.com/browse2#/Public/Tintin%20and%20I/Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 for some reason, I don't see any files in that folder. wahhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Sorry, here try these instead:http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part1.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part2.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part3.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part4.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part5.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part6.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part7.rarhttp://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/100612/Tintin%20and%20I/PBS_P.O.V_-_Tintin_and_I__2006_.part8.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keither Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I thought both Tintin & Asterix were great.Favourite Tintin was definitely the 2 book story that started with 'The Secret of the Unicorn' and ended with 'Red Rackham's Treasure'.Best Asterix? I'd have to go with 'Asterix & Caesar's Gift'. I never really got it till a little later on, but how great of a name for a Druid is Getafix! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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