# Tintin movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594 "2011-10-24T01:35:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/101 "2012-01-17T10:25:52Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > \ > Belgian > \ > > I don’t think Tintin’s age is ever discussed in the comics, and of course he never grows any older, but before he contented himself with lounging around Moulinsart living off the Captain’s money he was a professional reporter, and a fairly renowned one at that (because you don’t send a scrub on expensive, all expenses paid trips to the Belgian Congo), so he’d have to have worked for some time to grow a reputation. > With that in mind I’d say he’s in his late twenties, early thirties. FWIW, [here’s what live action Tintin looks like](http://www.renaud-bray.com/ImagesEditeurs/PG/766/766561-gf.jpg). I agree given that picture. He is late 20’s/early 30’s. The recent movie projects him as late teens/early 20’s. But heck, it is just a fictionalization of a fictional character. Shifts will occur. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/102 "2012-01-18T04:22:21Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > \ > Belgian > \ > > I don’t think Tintin’s age is ever discussed in the comics, and of course he never grows any older, but before he contented himself with lounging around Moulinsart living off the Captain’s money he was a professional reporter, and a fairly renowned one at that (because you don’t send a scrub on expensive, all expenses paid trips to the Belgian Congo), so he’d have to have worked for some time to grow a reputation. > With that in mind I’d say he’s in his late twenties, early thirties. FWIW, [here’s what live action Tintin looks like](http://www.renaud-bray.com/ImagesEditeurs/PG/766/766561-gf.jpg). > [@Gagundathar](#): > > I agree given that picture. He is late 20’s/early 30’s. > The recent movie projects him as late teens/early 20’s. > But heck, it is just a fictionalization of a fictional character. > Shifts will occur. You’re thinking as if he was from your time and place. He’s not. I don’t know what belgian or french labor laws were like at the time, but in Spain you could hold a full time job of kinds which would now require a college degree as early as 13 without paternal permission, earlier with your father’s signature on the contract. A 13yo would probably not be sent to perform investigative reporting, but could be sent to sports events, political rallies, social events… and be doing investigative reporting on his own by 16 or 17. A couple of strokes of luck (of which Tintin has truckloads) and he could be his newspaper’s star reporter while still too young to vote (you could vote at 21). There was a recent cleansing in RNE (Spanish public radio), where the new general manager decided to get rid of “all those diplodocuses” who seemed to have been around almost since Marconi got his first patent. There were some they had to fire with hefty compensations instead of giving them “early retirement” because, although they’d been working at RNE for over 40 years, they were still too young to retire under the Spanish General Regime, still under 60. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/103 "2012-01-18T14:43:01Z")
That’s OK. Tintin will never be 60 anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/104 "2012-01-19T03:39:12Z")
As a lover of the Tintin books for nearly 40 years, I can enthusiastically say that I loved the film too. Yes, it mucked around with plots; yes, it smashed three books into one film, invented bits wholesale, and changed an innocent minor character from one book into a major villain. But so what? The film was exciting, fun, and most of all, _it felt like a real Tintin story_. A _new_ one. As a side note, out of all the 3D films I’ve ever seen, the 3D was only worthwhile in two of them: _Avatar_, and now _Tintin_. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/105 "2012-01-20T01:41:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Also, one plot point that I noticed, that I’m surprised nobody mentioned in the movie (deleted scene, maybe?): When the butler is escorting Tintin out of the mansion, he says something like “I’m sorry the mast broke on yours”. But at that point, Tintin never actually mentioned that it was the mast that broke, just “But it fell… Oh.”. Thus providing evidence that the villain knew something that he shouldn’t have, and was thus involved with the theft. > [@Isamu](#): > > I noticed that too! Nestor (the butler) was aware of the nefarious activities of his employers. I assumed they were trying to show that Nestor was unhappy with Mr. Sakharine buying the Haddock ancestral home, and was trying to help Tintin thwart his employer. > [@Tanbarkie](#): > > One mild complaint: did anyone else feel like Sakharine’s ultimate defeat came a little too easily? Especially how, after escaping a car suspended in midair and engaging in a giant crane battle, he just gave up when confronted by the terrifying threat of… Thompson and Thomson? I fully expected Sakharine to make an easy getaway, possibly setting up another big action sequence. So it was a bit deflating to realize that, nope, he’s done for this movie. I am happy that Sakharine got arrested. I was afraid that they would turn him into Rastapopoulos. Also a little disappointed that they reversed the treasure finding sequences from Secret of the Unicorn / Treasure of Red Rackham - I liked the comic book version better, where they come back without any treasure from the island quest, and then discover it hidden inside the castle’s basement. I saw it in 2-D because my 6-year-old is always taking off his 3-D glasses in 3-D movies, but now I’m wondering if I should go by myself to a late night showing to see it in 3-D. The only part of the movie that bothered me was Tintin and Captain Haddock being at Bianca Castafiore’s concer in the Emir’s palace - no one noticed that those two snuck in? P.S. Did anyone notice the cans with the golden crab logo on them, during the closing scene when they are chasing after Sakharine on the wharf? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/106 "2012-01-27T00:30:57Z")
Yes, I saw those. Just came across a reference to the Capt. Haddock who commanded one of RMS _Titanic_’s sister ships: [RMS Olympic - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S._Olympic#World_War_I) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594/107 "2012-09-06T13:15:58Z")
The 1991-92 _Adventures of Tintin_ cartoon series is now available on DVD: [http://www.collectablesdirect.com/p2p/search/searchresults.do?method=view&search=basic&keyword=tintin&sortby=ourPicks&page=1](http://www.collectablesdirect.com/p2p/search/searchresults.do?method=view&search=basic&keyword=tintin&sortby=ourPicks&page=1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tintin-movie/600594.md?page=5)