The Adventures of Tintin by Steven Spielberg

The Adventures of Tintin

Animated movie by Steven Spielberg based on the wonderful series of Comic Books by the Belgian Artist George Remi (1907 - 1983) who was the author who went by the pseudonym Herge (his initials reversed; "RG" pronounced in French). The Tintin comics are seen as the most successful European comic strip books and has been translated into more than 50 languages.

Tintin was the first comic book series I fell in love with, then came Asterix and Obelix, these days there are many. These comic books are for all children aged 7 to 107, and the young at heart.

Tintin is a young reporter always on the lookout for stories.  He always gets into trouble with unsavory characters; spies, drug dealers, slave traders, and many others.  His adventures take him all over the world, from Russia, to America, China, from the deepest ocean to the highest mountains. Tintin is the hero in the stories and gets into all kinds of experiences with his white dog Snowy, a wire fox terrier, who often saves the day. He has a few characteres that come up time and again in his books like, the mad, cussing and swearing old Captain Haddock, the scatty and almost deaf Professor Calcullus, the twins Thomson and Thompson, and the opera singer Bianca Castiafore who shatters glass with her voice. Aparently these characters were all based on real people. The characters of the twins were based on his dad and his twin brother who wore bowler hats, the professor was based on the Swiss physicist Auguste Picard, and Bianca Castiafore on Maria Callas.

In Afrikaans, Tintin is called Kuifie (which refers to his fringe that stands straight up into the air), Captain Haddock is called Kaptein Sardyn.  Thomson and Thompson are called Uys en Buys in Afrikaans, and in French Dupont and Dupond. His dog Snowy is called Milou in French.

Captain Haddock	Professor Calcullus
Thomson and Thompson

Tintin DVD-set Competition
If you send in an sms to 33844 with the Keyword "Tintin" followed by your name, you may be able to win a DVD boxset worth R250. Send in before Monday 19th December 2011 at 12:00

The animated film will be released in Cape Town Next week.


Here is a preview of the Steven Spielberg Tintin movie: Secret of the Unicorn



Tintin comic books:
The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Prisoners of the Sun
The Red Sea Sharks
Cigars of the Pharoah
The Blue Lotus
Red Rackham's Treasure
Tintin and the Shooting Star
The Black Star
Tintin in Tibet
The Castafiore Emerald
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
The Calculus Affair

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Tintin and the Picaros
The Crab with the Golden Claws
Tintin in America
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