Oh, wow...
With all the adoration I've been giving Kolchak: the Night Stalker, I've allowed myself to forget about my other favorite investigative reporter, Tintin. Tintin was, pretty much, the proto-Kolchak--he never let anything get in his way of saving people if they were in trouble, regardless of what trouble he might get into himself. And though he mainly dealt with real-world villains, he did, at times, take on the supernatural.
My intro to Tintin was through the Nelvana animated series from the early 90s, which I still adore. I discovered the comic books after that, and I'm still partial to the Nelvana series, as it has taken out most of the iffier content of the books while keeping the important stuff. And now I'm thinking about the series again because the movie, based on the Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure duology, is at last being released in December--I saw the second trailer for it, and wow... It looks and feels amazing (I had been curious as to whether or not Spielberg was going to keep it as a WWII-era piece; Hérge always wrote each Tintin book in what was, to him, a present-day setting--the earliest books were written in the early 1930s and took place then, while the later books took place in the late 60s/early 70s; Unicorn/Rackham was published during WWII, and it's looking like that will be a period piece. Awesome). I was taken by surprise by Captain Haddock's Scottish accent, though--I always thought he was English, not Scottish. Or maybe I'm just so used to David Fox's voice from the Nelvana cartoon. Regardless, if the trailer is any indication of how awesome the movie itself will be, I'm sure it won't take me long to get used to Andy Serkis as the Captain--Scottish accent and all.
I've also noticed that the movie is adding some things--scenes and dialogues--that weren't in the books (the Nelvana cartoon stuck to the books faithfully while omitting the iffy stuff), but that's not a bad thing, because it seems to be a lot of Tintin and Captain friendship cuteness--they showed a scene where Tintin is driving a motorcycle and the Captain is in the sidecar. It reminded me of the scene where Indy and his father flee from Austria in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which, as I understand it, had originally supposed to be a Tintin movie, though Spielberg decided against it and switched back to Indy, so now I'm wondering if Spielberg put in that scene as a deliberate reference. XD And maybe that's why the Captain has a Scottish accent-- a la Sean Connery...
Whatever. I am very, very excited for this movie--I don't think I've been this excited for a movie since... Yu-Gi-Oh: the Pyramid of Light, which is saying something.
My intro to Tintin was through the Nelvana animated series from the early 90s, which I still adore. I discovered the comic books after that, and I'm still partial to the Nelvana series, as it has taken out most of the iffier content of the books while keeping the important stuff. And now I'm thinking about the series again because the movie, based on the Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure duology, is at last being released in December--I saw the second trailer for it, and wow... It looks and feels amazing (I had been curious as to whether or not Spielberg was going to keep it as a WWII-era piece; Hérge always wrote each Tintin book in what was, to him, a present-day setting--the earliest books were written in the early 1930s and took place then, while the later books took place in the late 60s/early 70s; Unicorn/Rackham was published during WWII, and it's looking like that will be a period piece. Awesome). I was taken by surprise by Captain Haddock's Scottish accent, though--I always thought he was English, not Scottish. Or maybe I'm just so used to David Fox's voice from the Nelvana cartoon. Regardless, if the trailer is any indication of how awesome the movie itself will be, I'm sure it won't take me long to get used to Andy Serkis as the Captain--Scottish accent and all.
I've also noticed that the movie is adding some things--scenes and dialogues--that weren't in the books (the Nelvana cartoon stuck to the books faithfully while omitting the iffy stuff), but that's not a bad thing, because it seems to be a lot of Tintin and Captain friendship cuteness--they showed a scene where Tintin is driving a motorcycle and the Captain is in the sidecar. It reminded me of the scene where Indy and his father flee from Austria in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which, as I understand it, had originally supposed to be a Tintin movie, though Spielberg decided against it and switched back to Indy, so now I'm wondering if Spielberg put in that scene as a deliberate reference. XD And maybe that's why the Captain has a Scottish accent-- a la Sean Connery...
Whatever. I am very, very excited for this movie--I don't think I've been this excited for a movie since... Yu-Gi-Oh: the Pyramid of Light, which is saying something.