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The Adventures of TINTIN |
The Adventures of Tintin (known as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn outside North America is a 2011 American 3D motion capture computer-animated adventure film based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé (Georges Remi). Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the film is based on three of the original comic books: The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941), The Secret of the Unicorn (1943), and Red Rackham's Treasure (1944). It is the first-ever animated film for both Spielberg and his longtime collaborator, composer John Williams.
Spielberg acquired rights to produce a film based upon the Adventures of Tintin
series following Hergé's death in 1983, and following their subsequent
lapse, re-optioned them in 2002. Filming was due to begin in October
2008 for a 2010 release, but release was delayed to 2011 after Universal opted out of producing the film with Paramount, who provided $30 million on pre-production. Sony chose to co-produce the films. The delay resulted in Thomas Sangster, who had been cast as Tintin, departing from the project. Producer Peter Jackson, whose company Weta Digital provided the computer animation, intends to direct a sequel. Spielberg and Jackson also hope to co-direct a third film.
The world première took place on October 22, 2011 in Brussels. The film was released in the UK and some other European countries on October 26, 2011, and in the USA on December 21, 2011, in Digital 3D and IMAX.
The Adventures of Tintin received generally positive reviews from critics, and became a box office success with a worldwide gross of over $373 million. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film that year. It is the first non-Pixar film to win the award since the category was first introduced. Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. It is currently nominated for five Saturn Awards, including Best Animated Film, Best Director for Spielberg and Best Music for Williams.
Plot
Tintin (Jamie Bell), a young journalist, and his dog Snowy are browsing in an outdoor market in a European town (scene starts off with a cameo of Hergé doing Tintin's portrait). Tintin buys a model of a three-masted sailing ship, the Unicorn, on the cheap, but is then immediately accosted by the sinister Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine (Daniel Craig),
and the mysterious figure of Barnaby (Joe Starr), who both try to buy
the model from Tintin, without success. Tintin takes the ship home, but
it is broken during a fight between Snowy and a neighbour's cat. As it
breaks, a parchment scroll slips out of the ship's mast. Snowy spots it
but is unable to alert Tintin. Meanwhile, incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Nick Frost and Simon Pegg) are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk (Toby Jones). Tintin visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall,
where he learns that there are two model ships. Tintin puts the scroll
in his wallet, only to have his wallet stolen by a pickpocket.
Later, Tintin is shot at, then abducted by accomplices of Sakharine, and imprisoned on the SS Karaboudjan. On board, Tintin escapes and meets the ship's nominal captain, Haddock (Andy Serkis). Haddock has been supplied with whisky by first mate Allan (Daniel Mays),
who is working for Sakharine, and the captain is permanently drunk, and
doesn't know what's happening on board his ship. Tintin and Haddock
(and Snowy) eventually escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat. Sakharine sends a seaplane to find them, but Tintin is able to capture the plane, and fly towards the (fictitious) Moroccan port of Bagghar, but they crash in the desert.
Dehydrated in the heat, and suffering from a sudden lack of alcohol,
Haddock hallucinates, and starts to remember stories about his ancestor,
Sir Francis Haddock (Andy Serkis), who was captain of the Unicorn during the 17th century. Sir Francis' treasure-laden ship was attacked by a pirate ship, led by the masked Red Rackham
(Daniel Craig), and, after a fierce battle and eventual surrender, Sir
Francis chose to sink the Unicorn, and most of the treasure, rather than
allow it to fall into Rackham's hands. It transpires that there were
three models of the Unicorn, each containing a scroll. Together, the scrolls will reveal the location of the sunken Unicorn, and its treasure.
The third model ship is in Bagghar in the possession of the wealthy Omar Ben Salaad (Gad Elmaleh), but it is encased in a bullet-proof glass display case. Sakharine's plan is to stage a concert involving famous diva Bianca Castafiore
(Kim Stengel), the "Milanese nightingale", whose penetrating singing
voice will be able to shatter the glass case, allowing Sakharine's
trained hawk to fly down and steal the third scroll. After a chase down
to the harbour, pursued by Tintin and Haddock, Sakharine finally escapes
with all three scrolls. Tintin chases him back to Europe and arranges a
police reception for him on the dockside. Haddock and Sakharine, who is
revealed to be the descendant of Red Rackham, replay their ancestors'
swashbuckling sword fight, using dockside cranes, swords, and even
bottles of whisky. Haddock is eventually victorious and Sakharine is
promptly arrested by Thomson and Thompson.
With the three scrolls in their possession, Tintin and Haddock find
that the indicated location is Marlinspike Hall, and that the hall had
been built originally by Sir Francis Haddock. There, in the cellar, they
find some of the treasure, and a clue to the location of the sunken Unicorn. Both men agree to continue the adventure.
Cast
- Jamie Bell as Tintin. Bell replaced Thomas Sangster, who dropped out when filming was delayed in October 2008. Jackson suggested Bell take on the role, having cast him as Jimmy in his King Kong remake.
- Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock and Sir Francis Haddock. Serkis played Gollum in Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and King Kong in the 2005 remake, which were both roles requiring motion capture. Serkis joked he was concerned that Jackson wanted him to play Tintin's dog Snowy, who was animated traditionally, i.e., without motion capture. Serkis remarked upon reading the comics again for the role that they had a surreal Pythonesque quality.
- Daniel Craig as Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and Red Rackham, Sakharine being the descendant of Red Rackham, the pirate who attacked the Unicorn, the ship captained by Sir Francis Haddock. Craig collaborated with Spielberg on Munich, Toby Jones in Infamous and Bell in Defiance.
- Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as Thomson and Thompson, bumbling detectives who are almost identical. Spielberg invited Pegg to the set and offered him the role after he had completed How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. Pegg also starred alongside Serkis in John Landis' Burke & Hare, released in autumn 2010.
- Enn Reitel as Nestor, Captain Haddock's butler.
- Tony Curran as Lieutenant Delacourt, an ally of Tintin.
- Toby Jones plays Aristides Silk, a pickpocket.
- Gad Elmaleh as Omar Ben Salaad.
- Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays play Tom and Allan, smugglers aboard the Karaboudjan.
- Kim Stengel as Bianca Castafiore
- Joe Starr as Barnaby, an FBI agent who tries to warn Tintin about purchasing the Unicorn and winds up shot by Sakharine's thugs.
- Sonje Fortag as Mrs Finch.
- Cary Elwes and Phillip Rhys appear as seaplane pilots.
- Ron Bottitta as Unicorn Lookout.
- Mark Ivanir as Afgar Outpost Soldier/Secretary
- Sebastian Roché as Pedro/1st Mate
- Sana Etoile as Press Reporter
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