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New Tintin Movie!

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:50:17 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: Billions of Blistering Barnacles! It's the 'Love Actually' kid! Can't wait to see the big-screen representation of the comic we grew up on!

Clip Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Brit teen in Spielberg's Tintin film

LONDON: British teen actor Thomas Sangster has been chosen to play Tintin in a big screen adaptation of comic adventures of the fictitious young Belgian reporter.

Seventeen-year-old Sangster, who has appeared in films as 'Love Actually' and 'Nanny McPhee,' was picked by Steven Spielberg, who is directing the first in a trilogy of Tintin films, reports said

"I loved Tintin when I was younger," Sangster was quoted as saying by the British press. "I didn't read any of the books but I really got into the (television) cartoon. I wasn't good at reading when I was younger but the cartoon was a good memory for me," he added.

Tags: tintin, love actually, movie, herge, steven, spielberg, thomas sangster, film

Eric Heuvel's "The Search"

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:27:33 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: I want to order this graphic novel for our library. I think, that it will present the Holocaust in another medium that some students will find more accessible, similar to how they viewed the 9/11 report graphic novel.
I am actually having trouble finding out where to order it so maybe someone out there can help with that.
It is an interesting review in the NYT and also another interesting example of how the graphic novel is changing. Though, I do questions some things like the graphic novel version of Beowulf or the Odyssey but maybe it's not that much different from the abridged children's version of the Iliad or Alice In Wonderland.
I am also fascinated by the fact that it is considered a textbook.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real

Among other things, the book, building on the obvious precedent of Art Spiegelman's "Maus," shows how far comics have come as a cultural medium taken seriously here, but also that the Holocaust has come a long way too, as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The visual style of “The Search” is clear, simple, pastel-colored, in a classic Belgian-Franco comic tradition. “Less is more,” Mr. Heuvel, the artist, said in a recent telephone conversation, acknowledging that he pilfered liberally from Tintin’s inventor, Hergé. “We spent endless hours making sure that the Nazi costumes were kept to a minimum because boys can glorify these things.”

She added: “More and more young German students do too. They are sensitive to the idea that the subject is not just about Germans and Jews. It’s about people and life.”

Tags: graphic novel, germany, holocaust, eric heuvel, "the search", nyt

Tintin in the Congo revival

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:53:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abebooks.com

Tintin in the Congo revival

November 20th, 2007

I remember Tintin as a child but mainly from a cartoon series that aired during the summer holidays. Herge’s adventures of Tintin passed me by but when I brought up the subject in the office I was surprised by the number of Tintin fans who suddenly emerged from the woodwork.

Earlier this year in the UK, Tintin was in the headlines but for all the wrong reasons. A human rights lawyer had filed a complaint with the Commission for Racial Equality over the racist content of Tintin in the Congo. Some bookshops removed the book, some shifted the book out of the children’s section.

Clearly Tintin in the Congo is racist but it was written 77 years ago and politically correct writing wasn’t the flavour of the month as colonial Europe geared for another world war.

Tags: tintin

Tin Tin banned in England?

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:04:16 GMT

clipped by: thekay
clipper's remarks: Books are reflections of their times- an innocent illustration in one decade might be regarded as prejudicial and offensive in another.

While I've never been a fan of Tintin myself, the group does need to admit that the illustrations in the comic/graphic novel are not unlike the illustrations in other books that came before and after it.

One of my favourite contriversial books would come decades later- William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. A sad but later heart warming story that can teach us how we need to be careful what we wish for... as well as what animals we choose to depict policemen [pigs not a good choice], food the animals should eat [alfalfa sandwiches might be construed as something else] and parents should always watch over their children [and not stupidly assume they are rocks, which could be symbols for drugs]... but it's such an innocent story! ... and don't get started on Maurice Sendak

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The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) said it "beggared belief" that Borders should sell "Tintin in the Congo", claiming it contained potentially highly offensive material.

"This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles," a spokeswoman said.

"Tintin in the Congo", which first appeared in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle as a comic strip in 1930-1931, is part of the series "The Adventures of Tintin" by the Belgian author and illustrator Herge.

depiction of colonialism and racism

casual violence towards animals

Borders, said Wednesday it had yanked copies of a Tintin book from its children's sections after a race watchdog complained it was racist -- but would continue to sell it on adults' shelves.

Ban 'Tintin in the Congo': British anti-racist group

Herge later justified the book by saying it was merely a reflection of the naive views of the time

Some of the scenes were revised for later editions

Tags: censorship

Welsh rarebit better than pizza

Sun, 27 May 2007 19:54:08 GMT

clipped by: robertapvincent

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Pizza was known as “Italian Welsh rarebit” in 1950s Britain.

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2. Using a gas-fired patio heater for just one hour can waste enough energy to make 400 cups of tea, according to Friends of the Earth.
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3 Laurence Olivier and Tintin's creator Herge were born on the same day.
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4. A swarm of bees can ground a Boeing 737.
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Tags: food, wales

The new Tintin - now he's a revolutionary anarchist

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:03:13 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: If you like Tintin, check this out. Here he's a working-class English kid who joins the anarchist revolution. It's pretty wild.

Clip Source: tintinrevolution.free.fr

The adventures of Tintin

Breaking Free

Yep, this is the on-line version of this rather wonderful parody (or is it a pastiche ? whatever...) of Hergé's creation, which can be disseminated freely for revolutionary/non-capitalist purposes, which is what I'm doing.

There is obviously an awful lot to say about the political relevance of Breaking Free, but I can't be arsed getting into that right now, so just read the fucker (you can also download a zipped file of it ). And then drop me a line ( sylvestreb2000 at no-log.org ) Oh, and I'm preparing a French version, and if you want to buy a paper version you can go there.

Clip Source: tintinrevolution.free.fr

Tags: comics, popular_culture, politics, satire, post:tumblr

Spielberg's Dreamworks To Make Tintin Movie

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:46:43 GMT

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Clip Source: imdb.com

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg's company Dreamworks is set to bring beloved animated series Tintin to the big screen. The film giant has reportedly committed to making at least one film featuring the intrepid Belgian boy reporter, although it has not yet been decided which of the 24 comic books will be adapted for the project. Nick Rodwell, head of Herge Studios which was set up by Tintin creator George Remis in 1950, confirms the company will go into pre-production on a film scheduled for release in 2009. He says, "If movie number one works, we will continue." Tintin first appeared in a Belgian children's newspaper in 1929. It went on to become a comic book series and an animated TV show.

Tags: movies, entertainment, steven spielberg, tintin, comics

Spielberg's Dreamworks To Make Tintin Movie

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:44:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.imdb.com

Tags: spielberg, movie, movies, comic, comics, tintin, milou, belgian, hergé, dreamworks, cinema, books, book

How a Lunar Eclipse Rescued Columbus

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:17:04 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

Such a dramatic episode didn't escape the attention of novelists, who later used eclipse occurrences in a similar way to further their own plots. You'll find the device in H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and even in Hergé's Tintin adventure Prisoners of the Sun.

In some cases, the event is a solar rather than a lunar eclipse. And the details of the eclipse aren't always astronomically correct, especially in the movie versions of the books.

But it worked for Columbus.

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Ivars Peterson

Columbus had observed a lunar eclipse on an earlier voyage and had noticed discrepancies between the predictions made by Zacuto and those contained in the Ephemerides. Moreover, he had no reliable way of determining the correct local time of this particular projected eclipse. The times provided by Regiomontanus for its start and end were for Nuremberg, Germany.

Despite these uncertainties, Columbus was desperate enough to take a chance. On the day before the predicted eclipse, he summoned the leaders of the native inhabitants and warned them through an interpreter that if they did not cooperate with him, the moon would disappear from the sky on the following night.

The natives for the most part were unimpressed; some even laughed. Columbus nervously awaited the outcome of his gamble. Could he rely on tables that had been compiled several decades earlier and that predicted the positions of celestial bodies only for the years between 1475 and 1506? How large were the errors?

Amazingly, the prediction proved correct. As the full moon rose in the east on the appointed night, Earth's shadow was already biting into its face. As the moon rose higher, the shadow became larger and more distinct until it completely obscured the moon, leaving nothing but a faint red disk in the sky.

The natives were sufficiently frightened by this unexpected occurrence and by Columbus's uncanny prediction to beg forgiveness and appeal to him to restore their moon to the sky. Columbus responded that he wished to consult with his deity. He retired to his quarters, using a half-hour sandglass to time how long the eclipse would last. Some time later, when the eclipse had reached totality, he emerged to announce that the moon, in answer to his prayers, would gradually return to its normal brightness.

Tags: eclipse, lunar, moon, earth, columbus, christoper columbus, astronomy, science, history, predict, preiction, navigation, jamaica, new world