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Full Frontal Nerdity Doesn't Like Tintin

The web comic, Full Frontal Nerdity, ran a strip on the Tintin Movie.

full frontal nerdity does Tintin

Aaron Williams, creator of Full Frontal Nerdity does have a point. It is going to be very difficult for the film to walk that line between being faithful to the source material and bringing it up-to-date for a modern audience. The ideas behind Tintin, such his faithful dog Snowy, are very dated and out of place in our cynical culture.

But this I see as the great opportunity for the films.

Tintin is a way of reintroducing the idea an innocent hero. The true, upright figure that you can respect. We may be a massively different society now than we were when Tintin was first created but humans always have a need for escapism. We need our heros to ride in on their white-horses as a distraction from troubles of our world.

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One Response to “Full Frontal Nerdity Doesn't Like Tintin”

  1. Pe-ads Says:

    I’m all for well-rounded characters. You need them in a good novel. People who have both bad and good in them.
    I loved Tintin when I was a kid, because of the funny names, daring deeds, and swashbuckling adventures. It was great. Still is now :-)
    Also, Tintin is a ‘blank’ character. He has little background story, unspecific age, and hardly any character traits, excepting heroism. Tintin was my hero. I could put myself in his place, because of his blankness. He became me. That has only happened twice in the 100s of books I’ve read. Once in Tintin, once int eh awesome Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland. I doubt it will happen again soon, if ever.
    In short, Tintin is great in the books, though it will be very hard giving him a personality on screen. People don’t want blank characters on screen. It will be interesting to see Jackson’s/Spielberg’s/Bell’s depiction of Tintin. I look forward to the film.

    Pe-ads

    February 12th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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