Tintin
Fictional character appearing in The Adventures of Tintin
Origin	Brussels , Belgium
Genre	Male
Species	Human
Hair	Roux
Eyes	Black
Activity (s)	Reporter , adventurer
Feature (s)	Tuft of hair on the front Knickerbockers
Address	26, rue du Labrador Castle Moulinsart
Family	None known
Entourage	Snowy Dupond et Dupont Bianca Castafiore Archibald Haddock Tryphon Tournesol
Pest (s)	Roberto Rastapopoulos Dr. JW Mller Allan Thompson
Created by	Herg
Portrayed by	Jean-Pierre Talbot Jamie Bell
Voices	Thierry Wermuth George Poujouly
Film (s)	Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece Tintin and the Blue Oranges Tintin and the Lake of Sharks The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Set (s)	The Adventures of Tintin, according to Herge The Adventures of Tintin
Album (s)	24
First appearance	Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929)
Last appearance	Tintin and Alph-Art (1986)
Publisher (s)	Casterman

Tintin is a fictional character created by Belgian cartoonist Herge , the comic book in 1929. The young reporter is the protagonist of the comic series The Adventures of Tintin.

Herge, Tintin's creator, calls his character inspired album of Benjamin Rabier Tintin Elf, released in 1897. Tintin clothes resemble those of other character Onesimus from the same album. In the Rabier album "Tintin" is the diminutive of the name "Martin."

The character of Tintin is without a past: almost no time during his adventures there is no mention of events that took place in a situation beyond them - except by suggestion of his creator: an air passage over the Spain July 22, 1931 on his return from the Belgian Congo to join Brussels - and he never revises the characters he could find out albums. Nothing in his adventures only refers to inter-books or to an event prior to Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Moreover, the time seems to have taken on the character (no more than any character in the comic), while the outside world is changing significantly from one album to another, according to the real world enough. We still think he was a scout ( We walked on the moon , page 46).

In addition, Tintin seems to have no family. His only companion is his everyday little white dog, Snowy. The illustrated Catholic Youth Brave Hearts had, therefore, considered as ineligible Tintin in its pages as an example for youth. They are Jo Zette and Jocko , who have a family, Herg published one time in the comic. Brave Hearts but finally published The Seven Crystal Balls , Prisoners of the Sun , Tintin in the Land of Black Gold with a mottled brown and Snowy boards in unpublished album.

Throughout his adventures, Tintin has received some awards:

• Colonel in the army of San Theodoros - ( The Broken Ear )
• Knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican ( Syldavia , fictitious country whose capital is Klow - Ottokar's Sceptre )
• Knight of the Order of San Fernando ( San Theodoros - Tintin and the Picaros ).

Physical characteristics

His famous roving rebel appears for the first time in a box of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Herg decide then maintain this physical trait that makes her so recognizable heroes. In addition, a trip to Goblin Tintin motorcycle until Moscow , a character created by illustrator Benjamin Rabier , will serve as a model.

It also seems that the history of globe-trotting Danish red hair Palle Huld Herg was able to inspire. At fifteen, the Danes will be only in 1928 round the world in 44 days with cap and knickers, paid by the newspaper Politiken following a competition .

Leon Degrelle , known as the founder of Rexism Belgium, friend and colleague of Herg in 1929, said in an interview in 1981 have inspired the character of Tintin Herg. A book apocryphal of Degrelle Tintin my boyfriend , will develop this statement in 2000, arguing that particular hairstyle, knickers and the reporter's first trips were inspired by Herg's character Degrelle. Late and disputed claims, particularly by Paul Jamin, and mutual friend of Herge Degrelle .

Age

Tintin's age is difficult to determine. This is not an adult , as suggests its small size and puny appearance. In Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , the way it floats in a raincoat German police may suggest a size for children, but this fact does not seem to recur in the future.

However, Tintin is not a teenager , let alone a child as evidenced, for example, in his first adventure ( Tintin in the Land of the Soviets ), his mastery of driving and air (plane). Moreover, he lives alone in her own apartment with his dog Snowy , has worked as a reporter, seems to support himself / herself and is physically strong. In an interview, Herge has just answered that "it is young" . This ambiguity is likely to help the reader, child or adult, 7 to 77 years , to identify with him. According to Herg, his physical age was changed from 14 to 17 years and age 14 years morale has remained .

Personality

Tintin fight against evil in general, or at least against what he considers to be bad . In Cigars of the Pharaoh , The Blue Lotus and The Crab with the Golden Claws , he fights drug traffickers. In Sharks , he fought against slave traders. In L'Affaire Tournesol , it seeks to prevent two imaginary states, the Syldavia and Borduria , to seize a weapon that could prove even more destructive than the atomic bomb.

In addition, his curiosity led him to try to clarify all sorts of mysteries. Courageous, he always takes the defense of the weak and never hesitate to defend children ( Chang , Zorrino ...) or to save lives in peril of his own. Thus, in Tintin in Tibet , he embarks on a dangerous expedition to the Himalayas to find and rescue his friend Chang. He also expressed great loyalty to his friends and is always ready to forgive. Moreover, it is a calm and composed, and prefers to analyze the situation before acting. However, in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, one can notice that the young hero, though ingenious, commits several blunders and sometimes ridiculed.

Tintin is in fact an archetype of the young hero asexual, without defects or emotional. Herg introduced next to the angel a character who has questions: his canine companion, Snowy , who knows the agony of choice and temptation.

Finally, through the human being, with mistakes and redemption, relapses and acts of courage, questions and weaknesses are usually embodied by the character of Captain Haddock , Tintin while the hero remains immaculate.

Relations

Tintin has no romantic or sexual relationship with a woman. Indeed, The Adventures of Tintin ignore almost entirely the female characters, except the singer Bianca Castafiore and the wife of General Alcazar , both middle-aged, unattractive and grotesque, there is also Irma , the maid of Bianca Castafiore, whiny and without much charm, as Ms. Pinson is the building superintendent of Tintin, generally located at 26 rue du Labrador.

One of the album, The Seven Crystal Balls , shows a young blonde woman, beautiful and elegant wife of a filmmaker in a perilous archaeological expedition, but his role is minor and we do not review more later. If an Arab woman veiled unmasks Captain Haddock too veiled to cross a city without being recognized. She also has a very brief role.

Tintin's only friends are male, starting with the young Chinese Chiang , he saved from drowning in the album The Blue Lotus. It is also very close to Captain Haddock , solo sailor who intervene in all the adventures from the album The Crab with the Golden Claws and Professor Calculus , which appears in The Treasure of Rackham the Red. He has a good relationship with General Alcazar ( The Broken Ear ).

Many authors such as Matthew Parris has been much speculation on homosexuality supposed Tintin . However, according to psychologist Serge Tisseron, Tintin is not homosexual sex because Tintin is never defined and there is no mention of a "choice of an explicit sexual practice" .

Herge, interviewed by Bernard Pivot in 1973 about his favorite album, Tintin in Tibet , and relations between Tintin and Chang Young, said it was "a simple story, not bad, just a story strong friendship, even love " . Tintin lives of an extremely modest and asexual.

The legislation before the war - and even after - on publications for the youth was very strict. There was little in the matter of discretion left to the designers and writers against censorship committees extremely finicky. At that time, male and female youths in Europe were clearly separated both in school life in which their publications were intended. This treatment is not peculiar to Herg, as many authors of novels, like William Golding in Lord of the Flies , choosing not to stage the relations between the sexes, thus allowing further the artist does not scatter his remarks to more complex problems. Therefore, the issue of lack of relationships, even friendships, with women in the albums did not make sense: it is interpreted out of context, and therefore flawed, agreement in the literature Youth at the time.

This modesty and timidity toward sexual matters have logically led several authors and designers, especially Belgian, to violate intellectual property featuring Tintin parodied in unethical situations. Were published in Tintin in contact with the drug , Tintin operating in a world of transvestites , or Tintin having sex with Bianca Castafiore passionate. Some authors have even gone so far as to stage a homosexual relationship between Haddock and Professor Calculus . The Herg Foundation has been called repeatedly to complain in court against these parodies or imitations (closures of websites, seizure of illicit parodies) ^, .

Herg was Scout. Friendly relations he maintained throughout his adolescence were only male, which was again the common lot of boys in the first half of the ^twentieth century.

Physical abilities and intellectual

Tintin is a character intelligent , imaginative and makes use of deduction and cunning in his adventures. It also seems to have some facility with languages abroad. In addition, Tintin is comfortable in any disguise, be it a general uniform ( Blue Lotus ) or a look of old ( The Black Island ), and knows how to be very persuasive. He knows both driving cars , motorcycles , locomotives and tank ride that horse , take the helm or fly a helicopter or airplane. He says he loves puzzles ( The Black Island ).

Although seemingly frail, he is able to get rid of opponents much larger and wider than him in Tintin in the Land of Black Gold , seen knocking one stroke of a huge law sailor powerful enough to drive a round metal air with his fist. Melee, however rare scene in Herge, he wins (including when it comes to fighting against a bear, in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets ). Most often, a mix of cunning and courage that allows him to get out of difficult situations. It is a very good swimmer and fencer, practice gymnastics and the latest yoga. He is recovering quite easily rather difficult situations, such as surviving a bullet fired from a relatively short distance , and Destination Moon , where he received a bullet to the head, that simply slide over the skull.

Occupation

From the first album, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , Tintin is a reporter working for The Little Twentieth , the newspaper publishing his adventures. In the first albums, this profession is because of starting his travels in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , he goes to USSR to make a report on this country, and will face the Bolshevik ready to kill him to prevent him from knowing Westerners the reality of the Soviet Union at the time. In Tintin in the Congo , he did a story on the Congo , while still colonized by Belgium , which leads him into many adventures and he is sent on assignment by his paper to the United States.

In most of the albums that followed, Herg loses more time to make the profession of Tintin. We no longer see him perform his job directly to an employer. Most of his adventures leave directly from home, street Labrador and Castle Moulinsart, Captain Haddock is most commonly associated with a scenario very carefully at the earliest stage. The natural curiosity of Tintin, professional bias of the reporter, and his desire for justice is enough to push him to embark on crazy adventures. In most albums, the press is shown at one time or another, sometimes in a satirical look like in the Castafiore Emerald. The character is an avid reader, but the headline is rarely shown. Sometimes, the press contributes to the same outcome as in the Temple of the Sun , which is a newspaper article that reveals the proximity to the heroes of a solar eclipse.

In The Broken Ear , Tintin decides, no one asked him to do, to find himself a statue that was stolen from a museum, a story he read in a newspaper. In Tintin in America , he went to Chicago , less to do a story that to rid the city's gangsters , who are waiting, however, stand firm on his arrival, because of its reputation as a reporter. In the Temple of the Sun , is her friendship with Professor Calculus , who was abducted, which grows from its research in Peru.

Address

Tintin lives at 26, rue du Labrador in Brussels on the first floor. This street is really not far from the flea market Jeu de Balle, in the name of the street Newfoundland ( 50 50 '34 "N 4 20' 51" E / 50.842676, 4.347512 ). Tintin y box until the album In the Land of Black Gold. Then it seems he moved to Castle Moulinsart (based on Cheverny castle ), where it coexists with Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus.

Another hypothesis would provide a home to the castle of Moulinsart Sarthe would be based on the field Rivesarthe (construction in 1902 was itself inspired by the Chateau de Cheverny ...) , near the town of Malice-on Sarthe- known for its pottery. The first pottery was built there before the Revolution, in 1747, by Jean Loyseau. Some see these names of striking coincidences (Malice / Unicorn, Rivesarthe / Moulinsart Loyseau / Loiseau) . The name is derived from a Moulinsart hamlet Eigenbrakel , a town near Brussels, Sart-Moulin.

Adaptations to the movies

In film, the role of Tintin was played by Jean-Pierre Talbot (in Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece and Tintin and the Blue Oranges ). A quarter century after the first contacts with Herg and then with his successors, director Steven Spielberg will be able to adapt the adventures of a young reporter on the big screen (he acquired the rights to the comic strip in 1983) and Peter Jackson , who realized later . There is even talk of a co-production for a final album. Very little information is available at the moment, except that this adjustment will be based on an existing story and not on an original screenplay, namely The Secret of the Unicorn, which Spielberg will direct (and you're probably John Williams as conductor ), and Jackson will do the next film. The film's release in 2011, it will be entirely in computer graphics, motion-captured. There is Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as "Tintin and Daniel Craig (James Bond) for Red Rackham lend their movements to embody our hero . Andy Serkis ( Gollum ) will camp for his role of Captain Haddock . Steven Spielberg and the actors are American English, the adjustment will change to that language, not French.

Tributes

Charles de Gaulle said that Tintin was his "only international rival" . The former president and founder of the ^Fifth Republic replied that while his former Minister of Cultural Affairs, Andre Malraux believed that France, the only man comparable to man of 18 June was Victor Hugo. In Indeed, the Belgian reporter denounced the Soviet system ( Tintin in the Land of the Soviets ), fought the American mafia, supported the oppressed people of South America and Asia, and even went to the moon, fifteen years before the Americans.

A car brand Triumph led by an English couple in the album The Black Island

In 2000, The Post issued a stamp in French Tintin on the occasion of the Feast of the stamp.

Every two years since 2005 a "Tintin festival is held in Europe. The first festival took place in Brussels from 20 to 23 July 2005, the second edition was held in Lausanne on 7 and 8 July 2007.

The Adventures of Tintin has officially ended with the death of the creator, very haughty heirs of copyright manage rights derived . Before this period, some games have emerged, including a "Tintin and the Tintinors. Nevertheless, many imitations, parodies or suites, which are a form of tribute and are made with more or less talent, circulating illegally outside the commercial circuits .

The American cartoonist Charles Burns discusses explicitly the character of Tintin in his cartoons entitled Toxic: its main character takes the shape of the reporter of Herg when dreams.

See also

External Links

• Official site
• Category Tintin directory dmoz

Further Reading

• Herge, Tintin is due " , in Read Magazine, No. 40, December 1978. An interview with Peter Boncenne where Herg Tintin plays the role to respond.

References

Notes

References

• Tintin portal
• Comics portal
• Portal Belgium

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