Cigars of the Pharaoh & the Crab with the Golden Claws
Tintin fought a one-man (or one-boy) war on drugs, ably assisted by his dog Snowy. While drug abuse seems like a modern problem, it has been around for a long time. The fictitious Sherlock Holmes and the real Sigmund Freud shared an addiction (dealt with in the 1976 film, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - more). The Shadow encountered drug smuggling in the 1937 radio episode, The Temple Bells of Neban. The classic anti-drug film, Reefer Madness or Tell Your Children came out in 1936 (more - and you can watch it online here), not long after Tintin's first (1929-1930) appearance, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (more).
Although Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932-1934) and The Crab with the Golden Claws (1940-1941) are not the only Tintin stories that refer to drug smuggling, both of them center on the issue. Even their titles refer to...
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Showing posts with label Steven Spielberg. Show all posts
03 June 2009
08 April 2009
Parents, Children: Watch Tintin Films Online for Free
Jackson and Spielberg Aren't the First to Film Tintin's Adventures
While film fans and Tintin fans anxiously await Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's 2011 film, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, you can get ahead of the crowd by watching for free online a number of older films and television series based on Hergé's classic stories of Tintin, the ageless reporter, and his droll canine buddy Snowy (or Milou, in the original French), including the best films in the most nearly complete Tintin series ever made.
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Yes, they are free!
While film fans and Tintin fans anxiously await Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's 2011 film, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, you can get ahead of the crowd by watching for free online a number of older films and television series based on Hergé's classic stories of Tintin, the ageless reporter, and his droll canine buddy Snowy (or Milou, in the original French), including the best films in the most nearly complete Tintin series ever made.
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Yes, they are free!
Keep Up with Tintin News, Books, and Films
Tintin's Adventures in Books and Film Maintain Internet Popularity
Tintin's adventures began eighty years ago, when he first appeared in a conservative Roman Catholic newspaper in Belgium. Tintin was created by Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé (as his initials, reversed, are pronounced in French).
Through twenty-four books (albums, as they are usually called), Tintin rambles around the globe and through the twentieth century with his canine sidekick Snowy (Milou, in the original French), joined by a variety of characters (from an operatic soprano to an abominable snowman) and legions of readers in some seventy languages.
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Tintin's adventures began eighty years ago, when he first appeared in a conservative Roman Catholic newspaper in Belgium. Tintin was created by Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé (as his initials, reversed, are pronounced in French).
Through twenty-four books (albums, as they are usually called), Tintin rambles around the globe and through the twentieth century with his canine sidekick Snowy (Milou, in the original French), joined by a variety of characters (from an operatic soprano to an abominable snowman) and legions of readers in some seventy languages.
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Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Bring Tintin Adventures to the Big Screen
The First of Three High-Budget, High-Tech Tintin Films Premieres in 2011
Steven Spielberg, whose characters range from Indiana Jones to Private Ryan, has dream-teamed with Peter Jackson, who brought the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to the screen three times (and will return to Middle Earth as producer of two films of The Hobbit), to lens three adventures of Tintin, the most famous comic book character most Americans have never heard of.
Tintin is about to become as big a celebrity in the US, as he is in many other countries, since these two Hollywood legends are throwing amazing technology (and even more amazing sums of money) into a motion-capture trilogy for which the technology of the trans-Pacific collaboration itself is as complex as that of the film.
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Steven Spielberg, whose characters range from Indiana Jones to Private Ryan, has dream-teamed with Peter Jackson, who brought the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to the screen three times (and will return to Middle Earth as producer of two films of The Hobbit), to lens three adventures of Tintin, the most famous comic book character most Americans have never heard of.
Tintin is about to become as big a celebrity in the US, as he is in many other countries, since these two Hollywood legends are throwing amazing technology (and even more amazing sums of money) into a motion-capture trilogy for which the technology of the trans-Pacific collaboration itself is as complex as that of the film.
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Tintin Lives!
With news of a trilogy of Tintin films by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, I realized that most of us in the United States have no more appreciation for Tintin than we have of soccer. So, with this blog, I hope to change that - about Tintin (I'll leave soccer to someone else). I'll be writing some articles when I can't find the information already available on the Internet, and I'll be pointing you to some unlike Tintin links.
So, welcome. Think of me as Snowy, Tintin's faithful and rather cynical canine sidekick (whether I share Snowy's taste for strong drink, you don't need to know), tagging along on the adventure.
So, welcome. Think of me as Snowy, Tintin's faithful and rather cynical canine sidekick (whether I share Snowy's taste for strong drink, you don't need to know), tagging along on the adventure.
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