There is a new Tintin movie on the way from Spielberg and Jackson nesxt year, but in the meantime? should this tintin graphic novel be banned?

 

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Bid to ban 'racist' Tintin book

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is calling on high street books to pull a Tintin adventure from its shelves over claims it is racist.

Complaints about Tintin and the Congo have led to Borders and Waterstones moving it to their adult section.

 

A spokeswoman said the book contained "words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles".

 

Borders said they are committed to let their "customers make the choice".

 

'Racist claptrap'

 

The store's spokesman added: "Naturally, some of the thousands of books and music selections we carry could be considered controversial or objectionable depending on individual political views, tastes and interests."

 

A Waterstones spokesman said: "We have reviewed the title's situation and are moving it away from the other Tintin titles into the graphic novel section."

 

The CRE spokewoman said: "How and why do Borders think that it's okay to peddle such racist material?"

 

"The only place that it might be acceptable for this to be displayed would be in a museum, with a big sign saying 'old-fashioned, racist claptrap.'

 

"It's high time that they reconsidered their decision and removed this from their shelves," she added.

 

The book's publishers Egmont said the book comes with a warning that it features "bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period - an interpretation some readers may find offensive".

 

The Tintin adventures were written by Belgian author Herge - real name Georges Prosper Remi - from 1929 until his death in 1983.

 

He continued to revise his books after their publication, and admitted embarrassment over some of the views they expressed.

 

A scene in Tintin in the Congo in which the eponymous hero gave a geography lesson to Africans about Belgium was later changed to a maths class.

 

below news about the film

 

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Spielberg, Jackson team for Tintin

Duo pact for adventure trilogy

By ANNE THOMPSON, PAMELA MCCLINTOCK Variety

 

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks. Pics will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.

The two filmmakers will each direct at least one of the movies; studio wouldn't say which director would helm the third. Kathleen Kennedy joins Spielberg and Jackson as a producer on the three films, which might be released through DreamWorks Animation.

 

Tintin has long been a passion project for Spielberg; he and Kennedy have held various film rights to the comedic adventure book series off and on for more than 25 years. With the rights in place, Spielberg, Jackson and DreamWorks began quietly developing the project. Jackson has also long been a fan of the comic books.

 

Jackson's New Zealand-based WETA Digital, the f/x house behind "The Lord of the Rings" franchise, produced a 20-minute test reel bringing to life the characters created by Remi, who wrote under the pen name of Herge.

 

"Herge's characters have been reborn as living beings, expressing emotion and a soul which goes far beyond anything we've seen to date with computer animated characters," Spielberg said.

 

"We want Tintin's adventures to have the reality of a live-action film, and yet Peter and I felt that shooting them in a traditional live-action format would simply not honor the distinctive look of the characters and world that Herge created," Spielberg continued.

 

Official word of the three-pic pact comes just weeks after Jackson inked a deal with DreamWorks to direct "Lovely Bones," based on Alice Sebold's haunting tome about a 14-year-old girl who watches over her family — and attacker — from heaven after she is raped and killed.

 

Tintin project, announced by the two filmmakers and DreamWorks co-chair-CEO Stacey Snider, may explain, at least in part, why DreamWorks emerged the winner in the bidding for "Bones," beating out several other suitors.

 

Tintin also answers the question of which tentpole Jackson will turn his attention to next.

 

The Spielberg-Jackson project isn't likely to languish in development for long. Spielberg could become available this fall after wrapping "Indiana Jones 4." Jackson will wrap "Bones" by the end of the year. He had been developing another possible franchise, Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, set during the French Revolution.

 

Spielberg and Jackson have selected three stories from Remi's "The Adventures of Tintin" series, which encompassed 23 books published between 1929 and 1976. The series still attracts 2 million new fans a year.

 

Series, which has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, chronicles adventures of a junior reporter who will follow stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.

 

Jackson said WETA will stay true to Remi's original designs in bringing the cast of Tintin to life, but that the characters won't look cartoonish.

 

"Instead," Jackson said, "we're making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people — but real Herge people!"

 

DreamWorks bought the film rights from Herge Studios in Brussels, Belgium. Company is led by prexy Fanny Rodwell, Remi's wife when he died in 1983.

 

"We couldn't think of a better way to honor Herge's legacy that this announcement within days of the 100th anniversary of his birth, May 22, 1907," Rodwell said.

 

Spielberg and Jackson are currently evaluating whether to release Tintin through DreamWorks Animation. Paramount distributes all DreamWorks Animation films.

 

for the benefit of ANNE THOMPSON and PAMELA MCCLINTOCK this is Dupond & Dupont also known as Thomson and Thompson!!!

 

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this bunch of post-punkers are the Thompson Twins

 

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this is scatman john

 

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and these are the 118 118 dudes.

 

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Dupond & Dupont are not related!!!

When I read TinTin as a child I never really noticed the racism very much, but when you look at it now, it's pretty damned clear that they are the most foul racist garbage this side of a BNP election manifesto..... And given Belgium's incredibly brutal Imperialist history in the Congo, it just makes things even worse... I think that things like this should really be consigned to the rubbish heap of history, seriously... Would Borders stock copies of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" or copies of "The Klansmen"...?? Yeah, let's see the fukkers use the "customers make the informed choice" argument then..... <_< And frankly, I think their arguement is a bogus one anyway, it's more like "ooooh, look, there's a big Hollywood FILM coming out about TinTin.... KERCHIIIIINNNGGGGG"; can you say the words "cash-in"..... <_< <_< Not much money to be potentially made in stocking copies of "Mein Kampf" or "The Klansmen", hence no copies on the shelves..... The reasons to stock "TinTin In The Congo" are bugger all to do with "consumers making choices" and a LOT more to do with the money Borders'll make off the big Spielberg film adaption.....

 

Even Herge himself became embarrassed by them and continually revised them.....

When I read TinTin as a child I never really noticed the racism very much, but when you look at it now, it's pretty damned clear that they are the most foul racist garbage this side of a BNP election manifesto..... And given Belgium's incredibly brutal Imperialist history in the Congo, it just makes things even worse... I think that things like this should really be consigned to the rubbish heap of history, seriously... Would Borders stock copies of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" or copies of "The Klansmen"...?? Yeah, let's see the fukkers use the "customers make the informed choice" argument then..... <_< And frankly, I think their arguement is a bogus one anyway, it's more like "ooooh, look, there's a big Hollywood FILM coming out about TinTin.... KERCHIIIIINNNGGGGG"; can you say the words "cash-in"..... <_< <_< Not much money to be potentially made in stocking copies of "Mein Kampf" or "The Klansmen", hence no copies on the shelves..... The reasons to stock "TinTin In The Congo" are bugger all to do with "consumers making choices" and a LOT more to do with the money Borders'll make off the big Spielberg film adaption.....

 

Even Herge himself became embarrassed by them and continually revised them.....

 

I agree with you.

The reasons to stock "TinTin In The Congo" are bugger all to do with "consumers making choices" and a LOT more to do with the money Borders'll make off the big Spielberg film adaption.....

 

on this point i dont agree, because obv the film will take ages to come out in the uk and by them all this will have died down and the dudes doing all the deals will have like loads more official merch to push.