Wheeeeee!

[andrewducker]

The new Tintin movie looks like a lot of fun.

(Of course, in traditional Steven Moffat style there's not a single decent female character on show.)

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[buddleia]

To be fair, there's only one in the whole of the Tintin oevre. And I might be the only one who loves Bianca Castafiore.

[brewsternorth]

Wrong! I like her too. (I liked the way she was performed by Linda Polan in the BBC radio adaptation.) But, yes, the fault is in Hergé rather than Moffat.

[buddleia]

She reminds me of my granny!

I won't deny that the selection of Boys Own material is on Moffat, but at least he's perpetuating a fail rather than starting a new one.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Not intended as an excuse, but were there many strong female characters in any of Herge's work? The only one that I can think of was from the Jo, Zette et Jocko.

Just thinking that if brought up on it, they can claim to be sticking to the source material.

[andrewducker]

I wasn't seriously blaming Mr Moffat. The source material is, of course, what you'd expect of the time.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Thing is, there's always scope to re-invent. Ach, maybe I'm just being a bit prescriptive but I don't want to see people put off of seeing something I want to be great.

[andrewducker]

Can you imagine the outcry if they invented a new female character and inserted them into the plot?

Mind you, I'm not sure what share if the audience will have read Tintin.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Bianca Castafiore is probably the only one. There are so few female characters full stop -- I can think of her assistant Irma, the wives of Lampion and Alcazar, and that's about it.

[tysolna]

I don't mind there being no decent female characters if they have gotten rid of the racism, colonialism and bigotry in the process.

As an aside: I didn't even know Moffatt wrote the script! I imagine he's pretty chuffed to be working with that caliber of production.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I like the way it looks but I suspect I will be on occasions outraged at what they do to the plot. In fact, I'm already miffed to see Haddock and Tintin being introduced. They are good friends already by this point.

[andrewducker]

He's introduced in The Crab With The Golden Claws, which is one of the three books this movie is based on.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't know they were doing a plot mash.

How are they combining the drug smuggling of Crab with the treasure hunt of Licorne/Rackham? I sense more outrage... :/

[andrewducker]

We won't know until nearer the time. I assume they wanted to mix the "origin" bits of Crab in with the treasure hunt, so they might start off with the drug smuggling, and lead into the treasure hunt once they've got introductions over with.

I think that expecting adaptations to be entirely faithful is always going to be disappointing. That's why I held off on reading the first books of Game Of Thrones until after I'd seen the first season.

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who was always a bit creeped out by Tintin? I could never put my finger on it but the books always made me feel queasy.

[andrewducker]

I wasn't creeped out by them, but they never really grabbed me that much either. They always felt a bit emotionally flat to me.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge Tintin fan - I love the artwork, but the stories and humour leave me cold. I was worried about the uncanny valley problem but now I've seen this trailer I'm less worried, it looks like something I can imagine watching happily for 90-120 minutes.

And Steven Moffat, Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright has to be the best comedy/drama screen writing line up of all time, so unless Spielberg has edited every single joke out of the script it should be guaranteed fun.

[andrewducker]

I agree, it should be fun.

And yes, I was never a Tintin fan. It just never clicked for me. But the film looks like it should at least be exciting action adventure.