Tintin Movie

3 IMPORTANT FILMS

- Standard Operating Procedure - Fields of Fuel - War Dance.

Take A Bow

I’m not crazy crazy about Rhianna, but this song is just too mad “Take A Bow”..its written and produced by Neyo and Stargate! ENJOY!

Tintin - The Calculus Affair

Some, such as Benoit Peters , in his book Tintin and the World Of Herge have labelled this as the greatest of the series. The Tintin website dubs The Calculus Affair as the most “detective-like” of the whole series. …

Tom McCarthy’s 2006 book, Tintin and the Secret of Literature is reviewed in the Los Angeles Times.

In France in particular, Tintin became a cottage industry, his exploits fodder for philosophers, psychoanalysts and literary critics, all of whom McCarthy leans on in asking, “Is ‘Tintin’ literature?” He notes the “huge irony . . . that the ‘Tintin’ books remain both unrivaled in their complexity and depth and so simple, even after more than half a century, that a child can read them with the same involvement as an adult.” But the question of whether they’re literature is not as interesting now, given the ascendance of pop culture. McCarthy seems to admit as much when he tweaks his query slightly: “As soon as we ask if ‘Tintin’ should be treated as literature, we raise another question: what is literature?”

From: ‘Tintin and the Secret of Literature’ by Tom McCarthy

Alexis Peskine, a Parisian artist of Afro-Brazilian and Lithuanian Jewish background has done some very interesting work exploring the contradictions in French society. Especially the racism and prejudice against immigrants from former colonies. Inevitably he has tackled Tintin.

The work is called “Tintin and your Kids” and depicts Tintin as skinhead. In the background a Congolese flag lies barely visible on a large stack of tires.

Peskine’s inspiration is drawn from what he regards as an overarching paradox in French society that symbolically awards French identity to all those who accept its norms while at the same time harboring prejudice toward immigrants from France’s former colonies. “It is illegal in France to perform a census that collects ethnic information,” Peskine said during an interview in his studio in Hoboken, N.J. “This idea came from long before immigrants ever arrived in France. There is a denial that there is ethnicity and race within Frenchness.”

From: French-Bred

I found these painted metal 28mm(?) miniatures on Monday Night Adventures, a blog on war games and miniatures.

They are produced by Copplestone Castings who lists them as 1920’s Characters - GN9 Sleuths and describes them as Boy Detective and dog.

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Best Method or More Time ? (General discussion)

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fransson: -How you say Tintin in French? -Tan!Tan!

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