Spielberg obtained the rights to Tintin in 1984, initially intended to make a live-action film version. Spielberg first learned of the Tintin comics when he was making Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and either (accounts vary) someone showed him the comics or he read about them in a French-language review, where obvious similarity was drawn between Tintin and Indiana Jones and their globe-spanning 1930s period adventures in exotic locales. (See below for Steven Spielberg’s other genre films). The Adventures of Tintin is a big-budget film from no less than Steven Spielberg, the most successful film director in the world. Also of interest is Tintin and I (2003), a documentary about the life of Hergé and attendant controversies.
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The best adaptation was the Canadian-made animated series The Adventures of Tintin (1992), which adapted each episode directly from the original comic-strips extremely closely, even down to retaining the comic-strip panels as directorial set-ups.
There were two French-made live-action films Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece (1961) and Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1965) starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin a one-hour Dutch-made animated adaptation of The Calculus Affair (1964) two feature-length animated films, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969), adapted from Prisoners of the Sun, and the original story Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972). There was a Belgian-made stop-motion animated version of The Crab with the Golden Claws (1947) but this has only had two screenings before the producer was declared bankrupt and fled the country. The Tintin stories have appeared on film a number of times. Panel from Hergé’s original The Crab with the Golden Claws comic In subsequent years, Hergé underwent many personal and health crises, including several nervous breakdowns, even at the same time as he saw Tintin become a worldwide success that made him wealthy. The post-War period saw him banned from work in newspapers for several years as an accused collaborator, before he began the publication of the Tintin strips in the book form.
The Wartime era caused much in the way of problems for Hergé – he accepted what is debated as a collaborationist position with the Nazis where he published five-and-a-half Tintin works in the German-controlled newspaper Le Soir.
Thereafter, Hergé took more control of his work and from The Blue Lotus (1936) on determined to place greater emphasis on researching the cultures that he depicted, having photographs of the globe-trotting areas the story took place sent to him so that he could accurately draw these as backgrounds. Hergé’s mentor, the right-wing Catholic bishop Norbert Wallez, had pushed him to create Tintin as a Catholic hero and the first two Tintin stories published under Wallez’s editorship, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo (1931) hold respectively viewpoints that are anti-Communist and justify Belgium’s appalling colonial record in the Congo. Hergé grew up an enthusiastic Boy Scout and published his first cartoon work in a scouting magazine – Tintin, the eternal boy-man, is the ultimate Boy Scout. Although many are mundane adventure stories, a number of the Tintin stories do venture into fantastic material – the building and launching a Moon rocket in Destination Moon (1953) and Explorers on the Moon (1954) the quest for a fallen meteorite with strange powers in The Shooting Star (1942) an Inca curse in The Seven Crystal Balls (1948) and Prisoners of the Sun (1949) the Yeti as a background character in Tintin in Tibet (1960) and the Erich von Daniken-influenced story of alien visitors in Flight 714 (1968). It was here that Tintin gained his greatest popularity, the books selling millions of copies the world over in numerous translations. After World War II, these were republished in colour and new titles added in a series of books that eventually spanned 23 volumes. Hergé originally created Tintin as serialised stories in a weekly strip in the Catholic newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle beginning with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929-30). Tintin was the creation of the Belgian writer-illustrator Georges Remi (1907-83), better known as Hergé (after the French pronunciation of his initials reversed). The Tintin comic-books were a treasured part of my childhood.
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