There were so many scenes that immediately reminded me of the Indiana Jones movies especially "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Last Crusade". The whole setting of the Moroccan market, the fight, the chase, the motorcycle with the side-car, etc etc. Anyone else notice the similarity?
"I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!
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Of course. When Spielberg made the Raiders of the Lost Ark and the first French reviews came in the similarity was mentioned. That's when Spielberg got to know Tintin, contacted Hergé and began "working" on a Tintin movie. It took 30 years to finally make it.
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/09/20/steven-spielberg-on-the-indi ana-jones-tintin-connection/
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Both are adventure stories so the comparison seems inevitable - it's just fun to see Spielberg with a new medium like this. They really nailed it.
shareYes, and in a great way....I saw this movie in Netflix and gave it a try thinking it would be a kids PG movie but I was immediately attached to it with all the action and adventure... Very good and waiting for the next one...
yep, i thought, why the hell didn't they get edgar wright and joe cornish to write the script for indy 4? if they make a 5th they should let these guys do the treatment, as they nailed it. it shows that speilberg can still do it when he's free from that tool lucas.
shareYou're a stupid tool.
Barry Lyndon shot first.
*beep* off @unt chops!
shareletter is right, when Spielberg is working with Lucas his movies are actually rather bad, when he's involved with people who actually have talent his films are immensely enjoyable.
Hopefully Lucas has no creative control for Indy 5 or Spielberg tells him to get a bagel or something while they work the script.
Tintin was terrific and there were definitely similarities with Indy, no doubt.
and a COKE.... I'm sorted
All conversations lead to Lucas, he's the devil LOL
But I agree, Indi IV would have been different if Spielberg had total control of the production, from interviews you can tell he wasn't happy with the final product, he never liked the idea of the aliens in the first place.
Agreed.
That is exactly what I thought.
Indy = Tintin,
Professor Henry Jones = Captain Haddock.
I think Spielberg did this on purpose and was unafraid
to hide it, which IMO worked out very well.
The scene where Captain Haddock misfires the bazooka and
shoots the dam is just the 21st centurt version of Henry Jones
shooting the plane wing of the plane he's on in Indy 3.
Anyways, I really enjoyed this Tintin flick even though I had
never watched any Tintin cartoons before.
The scene where Captain Haddock misfires the bazooka and
shoots the dam is just the 21st centurt version of Henry Jones
shooting the plane wing of the plane he's on in Indy 3.
Well put. I just saw the movie and was surprised by the trigger-happy behavior of Tintin as well as the softened-up Haddock. Where is bad temper ? His rude speech ?
But then again, the bazooka, the detail spent on fights, the tragical loss of the part where they go on Tournesol's submarine to find nothing and realize the (whole) treasure is in Moulinsart and find it in the globe by pushing it at the coordinates of the wreckage. I was 10 when I read that and it was magic.
They merged an Indiana-Jones check-list with the source material. The movie isn't bad. It's just that a lot of the soul of the comic has been lost.
At least we can be happy it's not the massacre the Smurf movies are.
Hergé's story is an initiatic tale on par with Melville's Moby Dick and Stevenson's Treasure Island. It tells the story of the quest for the lost, hidden treasure that is our true identity. As explained by Benoît Peeters and other critics of Hergé, captain Haddock is originally a bastard (in the true sense), ie a motherless man lost at sea with no tie to any family. Hence his resort to alcoholism and his distortion of language used - to a comical effect - in his swear words.
The Secret of the Unicorn is the secret of captain Haddock's true origin. It tells that he is really a descendant of a noble sea captain and knight who served on a French royal ship called the Unicorn (La Licorne) under Louis XIV, and the ship's a smaller copy of the Soleil Royal (Louis XIV's royal ship) - like Moulinsart/Marlinspike is a smaller copy of Chenonceau.
Like Hergé himself, Haddock is a secret king of some sort and Tintin, like Jeanne d'Arc, will help him find and restore his dignity and nobility. You can find a similar pair in Wagner's last opera "Parsifal" where the young and innocent hero will do everything needed to heal and restore the disabled and fallen king Amfortas.
In the Crab, Haddock is really the "roi méhaigné" of the Arthurian cycle - and the Fisher King, he's a sailor too.
His first name, only revealed in Tintin's last published story The Picaros, is Archibald which means "naturally audacious". He wears the beard like the Carolingian emperors and, when sober, he can triumphantly defy the sea up to the North Pole (The Shooting Star) and even brave the cosmic void to reach the moon.
In spots, I thought it was very similar - intentionally so, I'd imagine.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
The music is incredibly Indiana Jonesian....
There's something wonderful about a storm.