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The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn; USA Release Date December 23
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on July 11, 2011, 08:45:16 pm ---Uhhh--in the trailer, they call him Tintin, pronounced like 'tin can.'
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Wouldn't the French pronounce the entire name to rhyme with "can-can"? ???
As Prof. Higgins says, "The French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly" ;D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 22, 2011, 10:13:20 am ---Wouldn't the French pronounce the entire name to rhyme with "can-can"? ???
As Prof. Higgins says, "The French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly" ;D
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Jeff, click on the short NYTimes video above (it's really worth it, by the way); after the reporter first opens the piece by saying that the character "Tin-Tin" is not very well known in America, he then says he will properly pronounce the name ("snobbishly") the way the Belgian boy would have preferred his own name pronounced: "Tah[n]-tah[n]."
People say there is no explanation as to why Hergé chose the name. When I was a kid, I made up my own explanation--when I saw the cover of my very first Tintin book ever, it was: The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island (Les aventures de Tintin: L'Île Noire)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Island
Well, Tintin was wearing a Tam o' Shanter (a “Tammy” or “Tam”) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_o'_Shanter_(cap)
--and as far as I could figure, the character's name sounded sort of like "Tamtam," if the French were to pronounce it, I thought.
Oh well, it seemed as good as any other explanation at the time-- ??? ::) ;D
(Can you guess I really, really liked Tintin?? ::) ;D )
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Ooooo! :o
Look what I just found! 8)
(I so love "the Internets!" ;D )
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/dec/07/man-who-inspired-tintin
Was this the man who inspired Tintin?
The story of Palle Huld, a globetrotting, red-haired 15-year-old,
may have provided the inspiration for Hergé's comic-book hero, Tintin
By Jon Henley
Tuesday 7 December 2010 15.00 EST
guardian.co.uk
Palle Huld, the fresh-faced boy with freckles, a snub nose and a shock
of bright red hair (left), and Tintin.
Early in 1928, a Danish newspaper ran a competition to mark the centennial of the celebrated author Jules Verne. The winner would re-enact the globe-circling voyage undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Verne's bestselling novel, Around the World in 80 Days. For reasons a 21st-century parent can only wonder at, however, Politiken decided the contest should be open only to teenaged boys, who – if they won – would have to complete the circumnavigation unaccompanied, within 46 days, and without using planes.
Fresh-faced, freckled, with a snub nose, a shock of bright red hair and a penchant for plus-fours, 15-year-old boy scout and car showroom clerk Palle Huld left Copenhagen on March 1 and duly circled the globe – including then-wartorn Manchuria and foreigner-unfriendly Moscow – by train and passenger liner. He returned 44 days later to be greeted by a crowd of 20,000 cheering admirers and his mightily relieved mother, who, according to the Copenhagen Post, "had been prescribed sleeping tablets for the duration".
The following year, an intrepid, globetrotting boy reporter – fresh-faced, freckled, with a snub nose, a shock of bright red hair and a penchant for plus-fours – made his first appearance in a Brussels newspaper called Le Petit Vingtième.
Over the following 50-odd years, Tintin, the creation of a Belgian comic artist called Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, went on to star in some two-dozen comic books with more than 200 million volumes being sold worldwide.
Meanwhile, Huld, who died last week, went on to a glittering career as a stage and screen actor in Denmark, performing for years with the Danish Royal Theatre and appearing in 40 movies.
But was he the inspiration for Tintin? Huld certainly suggested so. However, some Tintinologists believe their hero was more likely to have been inspired by a French war and travel photojournalist called Robert Sexe – who not only, like Tintin, rode a motorbike, but also had a best friend called René Milhoux (Tintin's dog, Snowy, is called Milou in French) and toured the Soviet Union, the Congo and the US in the same order as Tintin's first three books.
It is not, sadly, a dispute that is ever likely to be solved: Hergé died in 1986, and in any case always claimed that "Tintin, c'est moi".
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on December 22, 2011, 12:22:12 pm ---"Tintin, c'est moi".
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Somebody needs to paste that under a picture of Louis XIV. ;D
I heard of Tintin in a French class. But I preferred Asterix. ;D
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 22, 2011, 12:30:48 pm ---Somebody needs to paste that under a picture of Louis XIV. ;D
I heard of Tintin in a French class. But I preferred Asterix. ;D
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I should have been in your class--no Tintin or Asterix in mine. Too bad!
http://docmo.hubpages.com/hub/The-Amazing-Adventures-of-Tintin
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Inspirations
Palle Huld, The Danish teen adventurer
Some say that the character of Tintin was inspired by Herge’s brother Paul Remi who was a soldier in Belgian army. Others point to a Danish teenager called Palle Huld. In 1928 a Danish newspaper ran a competition to celebrate the spirit of Jules Verne at his centennial. The winner would replicate the voyage of Phileas Fogg and would be asked to travel around the world in 80 days. It was restricted to only teenage boys.
It was won by a ‘fresh faced, freckled, snub nosed teenager Palle Huld with a shock of red hair and a penchant for plus fours’ and he duly travelled around the world including Manchuria and Russia and returned to a hero’s welcome 44 days later. As this was the year before Tintin ws launched one cannot deny the similarities. Hulld went on to become a famous Danish actor and always claimed he was the real Tintin!
Robert Sexe
Robert Sexe
Tintinologists ( or Tintinophiles- choose whichever) also claim that the wartime journalist Robert Sexe who became famous in Belgium for his exploits in the motorcycle and travelling around the world reporting on adversity and adventure, could also be a strong influence.
It is rather curious that Robert’s first country of travel matches Tintin’s. His first trip was to Russia, and the timing of his next adventures match the Tintin albums.The similarities don’t just stop there, The correspondent's travel companion and close friend on the motorcycle rides was called Rene Milhoux. Tintin’s faithful companion Snowy is called Milou in the original French. Coincidence or Curiosity?
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