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It has been many years since i have seen an animated version of Tintin, however i do know that i wasn'r really into it and my brothers loved it, so without having seen it for this class i would guess that it is for a young male audience. As we read last week the book appeals to young and old so it would be interesting to know how the adult fan base reacts to the adaptions on film. Also I would guess that the movies would limit the political commentary, i don't think that it is censorship though because if the director chooses not to include something because it is irrelavant to the audience they are targeting,then that is the directors choice. George Bluestone believes the filmaker is an independant artist "not a translator for an established author, but a new author in his own right" (Bluestone, 2008).
August 9, 2008 at 2:00 AM
While we generally agreed in the last week that the original version of the Blue Lotus is amid in general to the children and it appeals to adults, I think this applies to the animated version. In relation to the first question, in my opinion it must be some changes on the original novel when it is animated. These changes varies depend on the potential audience and most importantly on the director perspective or his interpretation to the original graphic novel. What interested me about the first reading of this week Horricks, D. (2004), when he tells his experience as a child about reading Tintin, he says “one of the things that attracted me to Tintin was the impression that each panel opened a tiny window onto another world as vast as real as our own. I used to dream of finding a way to step inside those tiny landscapes and enter that other world”, so each image was inspiring him and stimulate his imagination, of course that was happening with other readers but with different illustration of the secondary world because they simply have different imagination and different thoughts. Therefore when a graphic novel is animated it must have another style, the style of cartoonists or the style of the director because they begin to develop their own internal world or their imaginary world.
August 10, 2008 at 2:27 AM
According to Horricks (2004) the perceptions of comics as a media have changed by moving on to the other media. Horricks (2004) explains how comics in the early 1950s have faced a huge wave of opposition in the form of anti- comics’ campaigns in the US and Britain. In addition NZ parents, teacher and intellectual raised the issue of the influence of comics on children in the magazine and in the parliament. However, all this opposition have changed and comics at present are reviewed in books and have been awarded Int. prizes and been taught in universities. The opposition of course is still existing, however, have moved to the other kind of media such as Video games, which are now the largest entertainment industry. Children spent most of their time playing these games, so; parents, teachers, intellectuals have huge concern about these games and its influences on children and how district them from reading and even watching TV. Horricks (2004) says “the language used to express these fears has been with us for a very long time.” Therefore, it is very normal that any new phenomena faces an opposition because human always have their language ready to express their fear against it.
August 10, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Sorry about the late posting, guys. I have TBL DVD version if you like - I personally find it too childish and even somewhat sanitised compared to Herge's original. (Binna has a copy too). Otherwise, just resume your discussion on my updated Week 3 post. have fun,
:)
August 10, 2008 at 6:51 PM