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And for my next trick, I'll try to review every movie I see this year. Let's see how long I can keep it up, or if I have anything intelligent to say about them...
1. Tintin i piraternas våld (Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'or, 1961; English title Tintin and the Golden Fleece)
I'm very seldom on con panels, mostly because I seldom have anything interesting to say. It has happened now and then, though, and one time I was on the same panel as Bryan Talbot (before I became a drooling Bryan Talbot fanboy) discussing live-action films of comic strips.
I mostly talked about French and Belgian comics, as that's what I know best, and mentioned among other things the two live-action Tintin films from the early 1960s: Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or and Tintin et les oranges bleues. This is the first one and by far the better of them.
One beautiful day at Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock is reached by the news that his old friend Thémistocle Paparanic has died in Istanbul, and that Paparanic has left him his boat, the Golden Fleece. The Captain and Tintin fly to Istanbul to look at it, and discover that the Golden Fleece is a decrepit old tub, just barely seaworthy. Just when Haddock is about to leave in disappointment, someone offers to buy the boat for several times its worth. This makes Tintin suspicious, a suspicion which is justified by subsequent attempts at their lives...
Once you get over the fact that Tintin, Haddock, the Thompson twins, and Professor Calculus look like comic book characters in an otherwise realistic setting (and the Captain's obviously false beard!), this is a nice adventure movie, largely shot on location in Turkey and Greece, not very violent and probably aimed at a rather young audience. My main gripe is that the Swedish DVD subtitler, who has obviously not read Tintin in many years if ever, is acting the goat. Haddock does have a colourful language, yes, but the Swedish equivalent of "Bloody hell!" is simply not an acceptable translation of "Tonnere de Brest!"
Watched with Anna and Roos.
1. Tintin i piraternas våld (Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'or, 1961; English title Tintin and the Golden Fleece)
I'm very seldom on con panels, mostly because I seldom have anything interesting to say. It has happened now and then, though, and one time I was on the same panel as Bryan Talbot (before I became a drooling Bryan Talbot fanboy) discussing live-action films of comic strips.
I mostly talked about French and Belgian comics, as that's what I know best, and mentioned among other things the two live-action Tintin films from the early 1960s: Tintin et le mystère de la Toison d'Or and Tintin et les oranges bleues. This is the first one and by far the better of them.
One beautiful day at Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock is reached by the news that his old friend Thémistocle Paparanic has died in Istanbul, and that Paparanic has left him his boat, the Golden Fleece. The Captain and Tintin fly to Istanbul to look at it, and discover that the Golden Fleece is a decrepit old tub, just barely seaworthy. Just when Haddock is about to leave in disappointment, someone offers to buy the boat for several times its worth. This makes Tintin suspicious, a suspicion which is justified by subsequent attempts at their lives...
Once you get over the fact that Tintin, Haddock, the Thompson twins, and Professor Calculus look like comic book characters in an otherwise realistic setting (and the Captain's obviously false beard!), this is a nice adventure movie, largely shot on location in Turkey and Greece, not very violent and probably aimed at a rather young audience. My main gripe is that the Swedish DVD subtitler, who has obviously not read Tintin in many years if ever, is acting the goat. Haddock does have a colourful language, yes, but the Swedish equivalent of "Bloody hell!" is simply not an acceptable translation of "Tonnere de Brest!"
Watched with Anna and Roos.