Which non-indian film u saw recently has made u post here???

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Originally Posted by V_S

Wow! Thanks Sid for the note. Can't wait to see this movie. Very excited to see it. Not sure, why they didn't release everywhere at the same time. Yesterday, happened to watch glimpses of it in Jaya TV 'Madan Talkies'. Should be a masterpiece from Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

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Some experimentation to test am.. modhala UK then india dont know on what basis..

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Originally Posted by wizzy

doesn't Captain Haddock resemble Spielberg? :-D

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Lol.. maybe.. but the attitude/personality is totally different

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Originally Posted by V_S

LM,
I too read some of TinTin comics during my school days, but don't remember anything now. I happened to visit this site recently and downloading all the TinTin comics and reading when time permits. In case you are interested, please visit this site: http://tintincomicsfreedownload.blogspot.com/
It seems this film is based on three TinTin comic books: The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). Reading these three first. Great quality time.

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Thanks a lot for the link.

Tintin is like young Spielberg. A wonderkid, bit of a genius. A maverick who crosses seas, takes part in many adventures (from Jaws to Indy Jones to Jurrasic Park to what not). Who dearly Wants that Paternal figure (like Sam Neil in Dinosaur films, Kids in ET turning the father/parental figures, Truffaut in Close Encounters, Schindler in SL, Sean Connery in Indy Jones, etc) in Haddock to get it done.

Overall, a densely packed Adventure. A lot of shuffling & reshuffling had been done. They've merged some plot points & characters from other books. They omit the Island adventure/treasure hunt & offer an immediate payoff for the audience, that they immediately get to Marlinspike Hall & now apparently there's more treasure in the Island. Which is unmindful of the fact that they juiced out the payoff of that plot (where we could have seen Submarines & Sharks, and my favorite Professor Calculus! Stuff that good Ol' Steve might feast upon)

Herge might be turning in the grave. But he could at least cherish the fact that Spielberg stretches the full potential of the transitions (from one Haddock to another), flourishes & vistas. Certain set-pieces have a stench of Indy Jones. They've tried to do as much justice as they could to Snowy. Haddock is lot more affable here. As a kid, we were fascinated in a distant way by the alcohol, temper, & irreverence of the man in the comic book. And especially how he's profiled & presented by Herge. He smiles a lot more here. And it's a lot less blistering, with warmth!

Love the opening credits (meaning to open a thread on this), made me wish for "Catch me If you can" in 3-D. Why not? In the end, there's a happy family reunion of Haddock, Nestor, Tintin & Snowy. Haddock puts on his hat. We don't need the credits roll his name, it's Spielberg with bulb-lit 'I'.

Not totally unmindful of Saul Bass' with regards to Opening credits of this sort.

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Originally Posted by kid-glove

Tintin is like young Spielberg. A wonderkid, bit of a genius. A maverick who crosses seas, takes part in many adventures (from Jaws to Indy Jones to Jurrasic Park to what not). Who dearly Wants that Paternal figure (like Sam Neil in Dinosaur films, Kids in ET turning the father/parental figures, Truffaut in Close Encounters, Schindler in SL, Sean Connery in Indy Jones, etc) in Haddock to get it done.

Overall, a densely packed Adventure. A lot of shuffling & reshuffling had been done. They've merged some plot points & characters from other books. They omit the Island adventure/treasure hunt & offer an immediate payoff for the audience, that they immediately get to Marlinspike Hall & now apparently there's more treasure in the Island. Which is unmindful of the fact that they juiced out the payoff of that plot (where we could have seen Submarines & Sharks, and my favorite Professor Calculus! Stuff that good Ol' Steve might feast upon)

Herge might be turning in the grave. But he could at least cherish the fact that Spielberg stretches the full potential of the transitions (from one Haddock to another), flourishes & vistas. Certain set-pieces have a stench of Indy Jones. They've tried to do as much justice as they could to Snowy. Haddock is lot more affable here. As a kid, we were fascinated in a distant way by the alcohol, temper, & irreverence of the man in the comic book. And especially how he's profiled & presented by Herge. He smiles a lot more here. And it's a lot less blistering, with warmth!

Love the opening credits (meaning to open a thread on this), made me wish for "Catch me If you can" in 3-D. Why not? In the end, there's a happy family reunion of Haddock, Nestor, Tintin & Snowy. Haddock puts on his hat. We don't need the credits roll his name, it's Spielberg with bulb-lit 'I'.

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:thumbsup: YEah the meeting of tintin and haddock originally happens in the crab with the golden claws and its merged here or is there something else u meant?also they changed the timelines of particular events and lot of modifications in the scenes and how it happens in a good way too :) and i loved the title credits too.There will defn be sequels to this and calculus lam kandipa varuvainga.. Venki says he didnt like the film at all.. He hasn't read the comics so as a film he said its not worth it.

Regarding captain haddock, Yes except the cursing and more veri thanam the film had a lot of "haddock" moments especially that bianca castafiore singing scene.. captain and snowy in that scene :rotfl:

Yeah that's what I meant by 'merging'. And yeah, that's what I meant by shuffling & reshuffling.

And of course, events happen in different locations as well. Haddock narrates this in his flat & they already know each other. And Herge makes use of brilliant match cutting & dissolving. Even the animated tv/cartoon series (which had a brilliant opening credit but mediocre otherwise) stayed faithful to it. Trying to reproduce it shot by shot. But Spielberg & the bunch of scriptwriters decide to introduce Haddock to Tintin, so that the uninitiated audience (along with Tintin) meet characters as the narrative unfolds. Except for T & T of course. And all of it would make sense at plot level. And they take off this meeting in the ship & then fly off to the desert, in a manner they find both visually as well narratively interesting. Similarly that gig with Bianca Castofiora could happen in a Tintin universe, even if it didn't happen in that particular comic. EllamE justified-a thaan irundhadhu. It's not that you need to know a bit of Tintin universe, a lot of folks seemed to enjoy it.

Excellent and thank you k_g :clap: Thanks k_g and Sid for wonderful insights. Gives a good summary how it compares/deviates with the original comic. Oh yeah, now I remember Prof. Calculus! So he is not in this one? I too believe there will be sequels coming after this. How does John Williams scores here? Would love to see a separate thread on this.

Williams' score is immersive, doesn't call out for attention. Wonderful work by the master.

Love the opening when Tintin poses for a painting & his drawing is the comic Tintin. Ha ha. Jamie Bell :clap: Neraiya edathulla avaroda shades theriyudhu.

OTOH, didn't see much of Daniel Craig in RR or Sakharine. Or Andy Serkis, Pegg, Frost. Facial gestures get a little dodged by the facial hair, I suppose. That's the only explanation I could think of.

Thanks k_g. :smile: Atleast from the image clips here, I found hard to get the actual person, especially Pegg and Frost (Thomson twins). Jim Carey was excellently done in Christmas Carol, likewise Tom Hanks in Polar Express.