Not the Tintin of childhood

Remington 2022-12-03 23:03:42

Originally, I watched "The Adventures of Tintin" with the spirit of revisiting nostalgia, thinking that I could find my childhood memories in the movie. The first time I saw Tintin in my memory was through a comic book. The most profound thing was that a reporter with a long hair on his forehead led a puppy named Baixue, but Tintin was like a detective, and the other one. The protagonist is the bearded Captain Haddock, and there are also two identical-looking police Dupont brothers in the villain who often do stupid things.

When I sat down and watched the movie, I found that I couldn't remember the storyline of Tintin's adventures at all. Maybe I had been alienated from Tintin's adventures for more than 20 years and had become unfamiliar. The movie "The Adventures of Tintin" is more like a standard American Hollywood commercial adventure blockbuster. The whole plot is like the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, compact and full of suspense, with climaxes. The main storyline of the first "The Adventures of Tintin" is the encounter between Tintin and Captain Haddock and the battle for the treasure of the Haddock family.

There are many wonderful Hollywood commercial blockbusters in the movie. Captain Haddock recalled that the scene of the ancestors fighting against the pirate Kram at sea was as majestic as the naval battle in "Pirates of the Caribbean". The Milan Nightingale's singing seems to return to "The Fifth Element", and the idea of ​​​​shattering bulletproof glass with sound waves is not bad. Moroccan street chase scenes are tense and exciting, 100% transplanted from the classic chase scenes in the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series. The mechanical battle between Captain Haddock and Cram's descendants in the port is somewhat like the shadow of "Transformers" and "Iron Man", and the thrilling confrontation of two steel towers with sparks.

In addition to using CG animation, "The Adventures of Tintin" also uses motion capture technology. Motion capture technology is not unfamiliar. Like the half-human, half-beast Grom in "The Lord of the Rings", the performance of the gorilla Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is all done through motion capture technology. "The Adventures of Tintin" is also a computer special effects personnel who put the captured actions and performances on the produced computer characters, and each movie character is close to the real performance. However, Tintin's facial expressions seem to be a bit too rigid, not as rich and interesting as other supporting roles. The puppy Bai Xue stole a lot of the limelight, and the small supporting roles in the cartoon can always be the icing on the cake, such as Ding Manpengpeng in "The Lion King" and Mushu in "Mulan".

Spielberg will continue to make "The Adventures of Tintin" 2 and 3, just like the "Indiana Jones" series of the great director. Tintin is no longer the simple strokes of Tintin in his childhood comics. Although it is difficult to find the childhood fun and joy in the movie, it is still a good-looking 3D cartoon.





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The Adventures of Tintin quotes

  • Sakharine: [grabs Tom after the ship sinks a lifeboat] You idiots! What have you done?

    Tom: We killed them, boss, like you wanted.

    Sakharine: No! NOT like I wanted! I needed Haddock alive!

    Allan: Wait a minute, boss! There are two boats missing!

    Tom: So, that one must have been a decoy.

    [Sakharine grabs the searchlight, then spots a note Tintin dropped lying on the deck; picks it up; it says, "Bagghar"]

    Sakharine: They're on to us and our destination.

    [turns to Tom]

    Sakharine: Find them!

    [points his cane]

    Sakharine: Make absolutely certain they never reach Bagghar!

    Tom: Yes, boss.

  • Sakharine: [slams Allan against the wall] How could you let them escape? Find them. Find them both.

    Allan: Don't worry. We'll kill them, sir.

    Sakharine: No! You can kill the boy, not Haddock.

    Tom: [groans] What? He's just a hopeless old soak! We should've killed him long since.

    Sakharine: [yanks Tom up close with his cane] You think it's an accident that I chose Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's...

    [yanks Allan up close]

    Sakharine: ... treacherous first mate? Nothing is an accident.

    [a hawk flies over and pearches on Sakharine's left arm]

    Sakharine: We go back a long way, Captain Haddock and I. We've unfinished business.

    [feeds the hawk]

    Sakharine: And this time, I'm going to make him... pay.