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Tintin advertised in Cannes

For the film festival in Cannes, this enormous advertisement has been released:

3 things immediately strike me about this image outside of the fact that it’s obviously very close to Empire’s picture: to start it takes Herge’s classic panel of Tintin running against a wall and with the color and lighting makes it look kind of mysterious and dark. We can begin to get the ”film noir” feeling they were talking about a long time ago when asked about the feel of the film. Second Snowy looks more like the book’s version of Snowy than any previous version I’ve seen. Of course it’s hard to tell from such a far distance, but his ear’s and nose look just like the real Snowy’s. Something about him looks funny to me, maybe the part under his neck, but that’s because I can’t really see his position very well. It would be great to get a better close up shot of this. Is it nowhere digitally online?

The third thing is that Tintin is holding a gun in his right hand. There are multiple reasons for giving him one in this image. It makes Tintin look more interesting than if he were simply ”running” like he is on Empire.  Now he’s running after or away from something. People will see the gun and know that Tintin has something he’s fighting against, that the movie will be more than a movie about dogs, teens and Unicorns. That the film will have action and adventure. However the gun is small enough that it adds more to the effect that the movie is old and mysterious than to making Tintin look violent. I suppose there will already be people complaining about Tintin using a gun and how we can expect a super violent Tintin. But Tintin did use guns when he had to. He wasn’t Rambo or James Bond, always travelling around with who knows how much ammo in his pockets, but he was no MacGyver either.  He used guns in extreme situations when you just had to catch that villain no matter what. So it isn’t all that strange that Tintin would have a gun in the picture.

The Cannes film festival will be held from the 11th to the 22nd of this month. We should keep an eye out for anything else Tintin related that may show up. And in the meantime see if we can get a clearer image of this shot.

Thanks again Britto for finding this info. You do a really really great job.

Sources: the Tintin Facebook page.

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8 Responses to “Tintin advertised in Cannes”

  1. Britto Says:

    Thanks. :)
    On my blog already has people commenting that the image of Tintin with a gun is appellative… but as you said, the Tintin by Hergé used it when necessary.
    But I think if they will choose a more childish face, the fact that he was with a gun can be a cause for controversy …

    May 7th, 2011 at 2:43 am
  2. Mike Dutton Says:

    I’m starting to feel that this film isn’t just going to be a success, it’s going to be something very special. Not just for Tintin fans, but for everyone who loves adventure films. We already know the great number of people working on it, and it feels to me that this film really is going to be huge.

    May 7th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
  3. Proman Says:

    Where is my ‘LIke’ button?

    May 7th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
  4. chupersipmunk Says:

    wait, is Tintin holding a gun in the picture?

    May 7th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
  5. Mike Dutton Says:

    I hate to be paranoid, but I’m starting to get a little concerned.

    We know how perfect everything has been regarding the Tintin movie, but is it me, or are things going too well?

    I just have this feeling that everything has been so perfect, that something’s going to go wrong… Maybe it’s codswallop, I don’t know…

    May 8th, 2011 at 1:34 am
  6. Stephen Says:

    ha ha ha! I have felt the same way for some time! It almost seems like things are too good to be true…perhaps it’s just because we are so unused to seeing so much effort put into making a good movie, especially one important to us.

    May 8th, 2011 at 7:58 am
  7. Mike Dutton Says:

    Okay, I have found a somewhat larger image of the same snapshot. It still tells us little, but I shall present it anyway: http://www.afnews.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Tintin-Cannes-cartellone.jpg

    We can see that Snowy looks more like the book version, but Tintin’s face is still hidden from view, that is to say unless you’re in Cannes.

    I can also conclude that this isn’t just a photograph. It’s a snap from a short film of someone in Cannes. However, the creator of the video doesn’t get a closer look at the poster, so again, Tintin’s movie look remains inconclusive to us.

    Now I have defended the movie in the past many times, but I will express a very important warning to other fans: If Tintin does happen to look a little more childish than we hoped, don’t let that spoil the movie. Sure, character design is important, but it is not the main focus of the movie. There’s everything else that also needs to be considered. Let’s not also forget that Tintin’s drawing style changed all the time in the books, and he had a very childish look in the Unicorn/Rackham books anyway. Perhaps this has been done deliberately, in order to capture that aspect of those books. After all, his common white socks are black in the movie, as they were in the books. It’s all about which Tintin suits you best. Are you into the post-war appearance, the 30′s design, or the Picaros/cartoon movie design? Or are you like me, and do not care so long as the character in the film represents a design that was at least in one book? There will be many debates over which design of Tintin people prefer, so we had better be prepared for anything and respect the movie for what it is: a movie.

    Besides, Snowy looks decent enough, and if Tintin looks decent too, then we’re fine; if he doesn’t, it doesn’t matter. We should still respect what we’re given on this occasion. Improvements can be made to the inevitable sequel after all.

    May 9th, 2011 at 12:13 am
  8. hey809 Says:

    just release a teaser already!

    May 9th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
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