The Adventures of Tintin Page #2

Synopsis: Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and kidnapping Tintin - accompanied by his marvellous dog Snowy - to join him and his gang as they sail to Morocco on an old cargo ship. Sakharine has bribed the crew to revolt against the ship's master, drunken Captain Haddock, but Tintin, Snowy and Haddock escape, arriving in Morocco at the court of a sheikh, who also has a model of the Unicorn. Haddock tells Tintin that over three hundred years earlier his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock was forced to scuttle the original Unicorn when attacked by a piratical forebear of Sakharine but he managed to save his treasure and provide clues to its location in three separate scrolls, all of which were secreted in models of the Unicorn. Tintin and Sakharine have one each and the villain intends to use the glass-shattering top Cs of operatic soprano the Milan
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Paramount
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 60 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
2011
107 min
$75,300,000
Website
6,288 Views


but we haven't got a clue

what he was working on.

Quite right, Thompson.

We're completely clueless.

Interpol doesn't have any other leads?

Steady on, Tintin.

We're still filling out the paperwork.

Police work's not all glamour and guns.

There's an awful lot of filing.

Well, I might have something for you.

Before he lost consciousness,

Dawes tried to tell me something,

and I think he was spelling out a word.

"... B- O-U

"D-J-A-N.

"Karaboudjan. "

Karaboudjan!

Does that mean anything to you?

Great Scotland Yard! That's extraordinary!

What is?

Worthington's have a half-price sale

on bowler hats!

Really, Thomson! This is hardly the time.

- Great Scotland Yard!

- What is it?

Canes are half-price, too!

Are you going to take charge

of this evidence?

Positively.

Never fear, Tintin,

the evidence is safe with us!

Thomson? Where are you?

Well, I'm already downstairs.

Do try to keep up.

Wait! You dropped this.

Good heavens, Thomson!

Look after the evidence, man.

Sorry, Thompson.

My mind is on other things.

Yes. Our light-fingered larcenist.

- What?

- The pickpocket.

He has no idea what's coming.

Go on, Tintin, take my wallet.

Yes, industrial strength elastic.

Very resourceful.

On the contrary. It was childishly simple.

Simply childish, I agree.

- Tintin.

- Tintin.

Gentlemen.

Mind you, I expect he's miles away by now.

I presume you're referring to the pickpocket?

Yes. I mean,

knowing we're just a few steps behind him.

Snowy, what is it, boy? What do you see?

I don't suppose you'd fancy a cup of tea?

You're quite mistaken. I'd love one.

My treat.

- I've got you now!

- You devil!

Stop, in the name of the law!

Got you!

What's going on down there?

Come on, Snowy!

- I do beg your pardon.

- Sorry, sir!

The pickpocket, Tintin! He's getting away!

My wallet!

It's gone!

Come on! Snowy, after him!

Stop! Wait!

- Got you!

- Steady on.

I've lost him!

You must find my wallet.

It's very important. I have to get it back.

And you will. Leave it to the professionals.

We've lost the scroll.

But we haven't lost the story.

"Karaboudjan. "

It's an Armenian word.

That's our lead, Snowy.

What was Barnaby Dawes trying to tell us

when he said our lives were in danger?

- Mr. Tin... Tin?

- Yes.

- Delivery for you.

- But I didn't order anything.

Well, that's because it's you

that's getting delivered!

Quick, get him in the van!

Get off me, you confounded mutt!

He bit me!

Quick!

Get him off!

Shake him off, then run him over!

I want this on the starboard side!

Not here. Look your side.

Hang on.

- Nothing.

- Well, check that pocket, Tom.

No, I've looked in this one already,

I'm sure of it.

Well, have a look in his socks.

- Have you found it?

- He doesn't have it.

It's not on him, boss. It's not here.

- Not here? Then where is it?

- Where's what?

I am tired of your games.

The scroll, from the Unicorn.

A piece of paper like this!

You mean the poem?

Yes.

- The poem written in Old English.

- Yes.

- It was inside a cylinder.

- Yes.

- Concealed in the mast.

- Yes!

I don't have it.

You know the value of that scroll.

Why else would you take it?

Two ships and two scrolls,

both part of a puzzle.

You have one, you need the other.

But that's not it. There's something else.

I will find it, with or without your help.

You need to think about

exactly how useful you are to me.

- We'll deal with him on the way.

- Aye-aye, sir.

Hold this course.

Snowy!

It's good to see you, too.

See if you can chew through these ropes.

He's lying! He must have the scroll.

The question is, what has he done with it?

We searched him all over, boss.

I want you to go back down there

and make him talk.

Break every bone in his body if you have to!

That's nasty.

You know the stakes.

You know what we're playing for. Just do it!

Mr. Sakharine! Mr. Sakharine!

All hell has broken loose!

It's a disaster! The captain has come around.

- What?

- He's conscious.

He's accusing you of mutiny.

- He says you turned the crew against him.

- Sounds like he's sobered up again.

Well, don't just stand there.

Get him another bottle.

Aye, sir!

Okay.

- Jiggle it a bit, it's just stuck.

- Jiggle?

Here.

What are you doing? Get off!

It's not stuck, you idiot.

He's bolted it from the inside!

So you want to play like that then,

do you, Tintin?

Get the TNT.

Broken crates. Rope. Champagne.

What else do we have, Snowy?

There are other ways to open this door.

They'll be swabbing the decks

with your innards when we're done with you.

Give it here.

- Don't move.

- What...

Let's go!

Let me have him!

He's got a big shooter!

He got me!

Hold your fire.

He ain't here. He's vanished.

He's hiding.

Search the ship. Quickly!

A giant rat of Sumatra!

So, you thought you could

sneak in behind me

and catch me with my trousers down, huh?

I'd rather you kept your trousers on,

if it's all the same to you.

- I know your game. You're one of them.

- Sorry?

- They sent you here to kill me, huh?

- Look, I don't know who you are!

That's how he's planned to bump me off.

Murdered in my bed

by a baby-faced assassin!

Assassin? Look, you've got it all wrong.

I was kidnapped by a gang of thugs.

The filthy swine.

He's turned the whole crew against me!

Who?

A sour-faced man with a sugary name.

He's bought them all off, every last man.

Sakharine!

Nobody takes my ship!

You're the captain?

Of course I'm the captain.

Who else could I be?

I've been locked in this room for days

with only whisky to sustain my mortal soul.

Well, I assumed it was locked.

Well, it's not.

Now, you must excuse me.

If they find me here, they'll kill me.

I have to keep moving.

Try and find my way off this drunken tub.

"Tub"? Tub?

Tub?

- Thanks.

- Pleasure.

I'm Tintin, by the way.

Haddock. Archibald Haddock.

There's a longboat up on deck. Follow me.

Hang on a second.

Did you say "Haddock"?

How could you let them escape?

Find them. Find them both.

- Don't worry, we'll kill them, sir.

- No.

You can kill the boy. Not Haddock.

What? He's just a hopeless old soak.

We should've killed him long since.

You think it's an accident

that I chose Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew,

Haddock's treacherous first mate?

Nothing is an accident.

We go back a long way,

Captain Haddock and I.

We've unfinished business.

And this time, I'm going to make him pay.

We have to reach a locked door at the end

of this corridor. This is gonna be tricky.

You wouldn't happen to be related

to the Haddocks of Marlinspike Hall,

would you?

Why do you ask?

It's for a story I've been working on.

An old shipwreck that happened

off the coast of Barbados.

A man o'war. Triple masted. Fifty guns.

- What do you know of the Unicorn?

- Not a lot. That's why I'm asking you.

The secret of that ship

is known only to my family!

It's been passed down

from generation to generation.

My granddaddy himself,

with his dying breath, told me the tale.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (French: [ʁəmi]; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé ([ɛʁʒe]), was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums which are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930–40) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936–57). His works were executed in his distinct ligne claire drawing style. Born to a lower middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels, Hergé began his career by contributing illustrations to Scouting magazines, developing his first comic series, The Adventures of Totor, for Le Boy-Scout Belge in 1926. Working for the conservative Catholic newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, he created The Adventures of Tintin in 1929 on the advice of its editor Norbert Wallez. Revolving around the actions of boy reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, the series' early installments – Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Tintin in the Congo, and Tintin in America – were designed as conservative propaganda for children. Domestically successful, after serialisation the stories were published in book form, with Hergé continuing the series and also developing both the Quick & Flupke and Jo, Zette and Jocko series for Le Vingtième Siècle. Influenced by his friend Zhang Chongren, from 1934 Hergé placed far greater emphasis on conducting background research for his stories, resulting in increased realism from The Blue Lotus onward. Following the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, Le Vingtième Siècle was closed but Hergé continued his series in Le Soir, a popular newspaper controlled by the Nazi administration. After the Allied liberation of Belgium in 1944, Le Soir was shut down and its staff – including Hergé – accused of having been collaborators. An official investigation was launched, and while no charges were brought against Hergé, in subsequent years he repeatedly faced accusations of having been a traitor and collaborator. With Raymond Leblanc he established Tintin magazine in 1946, through which he serialised new Adventures of Tintin stories. As the magazine's artistic director, he also oversaw the publication of other successful comics series, such as Edgar P. Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer. In 1950 he established Studios Hergé as a team to aid him in his ongoing projects; prominent staff members Jacques Martin and Bob de Moor greatly contributed to subsequent volumes of The Adventures of Tintin. Amid personal turmoil following the collapse of his first marriage, he produced Tintin in Tibet, his personal favourite of his works. In later years he became less prolific, and unsuccessfully attempted to establish himself as an abstract artist. Hergé's works have been widely acclaimed for their clarity of draughtsmanship and meticulous, well-researched plots. They have been the source of a wide range of adaptations, in theatre, radio, television, cinema, and computer gaming. He remains a strong influence on the comic book medium, particularly in Europe. Widely celebrated in Belgium, a Hergé Museum was established in Louvain-la-Neuve in 2009. more…

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