For young people living in a fast-paced steel forest, love is most likely a luxury, but friendship is not. The definition of a friend may vary from person to person, but there must be a universal resonance when it comes to importance.
The classic partner on the screen, the friendship between Tintin and his puppy Snow, and friends who have adventured together, have a deep impression in many people's hearts.
Since his birth on January 10, 1929, Tintin, a comic book character who has been wearing a beige trench coat and stubbornly erecting a handful of hairs on his head for decades, has deeply influenced generations.
The Belgian cartoonist Hergé's Tintin has an independent personality, brave, upright, and hateful, traveling the world, making friends everywhere, and being absolutely loyal to friends.
Perhaps like everyone's dream of becoming a scientist when they are ignorant, such Tintin is also the original goal that many people aspire to and strive for.
Tintin and his friends
Chang Xin is many people's evaluation of "The Adventures of Tintin".
There are many characters in the entire series, and Hergé has built a huge narrative structure based on Tintin's adventures, a magnificent "Tintin universe". Each of the characters is three-dimensional and plump, has its own backstory, but is not noisy.
Tintin is smart and brave, calm and calm in the face of danger, never flinching in the face of danger, although he is a journalist, but the follow-up has been given the responsibility of a detective.
Bai Xue, the dog that many people mistakenly think of as Schnauzer is actually a kind of terrier - "fox hunting terrier", although this dog is small, but brave, strong, loyal, friendly, is indeed a replica of Tintin's dog world.
It never leaves Tintin half a step, and whenever Tintin encounters danger, Bai Xue is always the first to step forward. Correspondingly, Tintin will also put a knife on the mountain and a sea of fire for it.
Captain Adok of the Acute Son is a friend of Tintin's on board, a grumpy drunkard who has saved Tintin's life because he loves to drink and saves Tintin's life by mistake, and often bursts out a series of strange words to launch curse attacks on people. He and Tintin and Bai Xue have a lineage of strength and courage, and it is natural to be a good partner.
If Captain Adok is the "unhappiness" of Tintin's side, then the Dupont brothers are the "brainless" that the plot needs, confused, upside-down, always helpful, and contributing to various unreasonable dramatic conflicts in the play.
Think of The Adventures of Tintin as a cartoon version of Indiana Jones, geographically and culturally accurate, depicting the real-world adventures of Tintin and his friends.
In Hergé's pen, Tintin traveled the world with great enthusiasm and traveled almost all over the world, and his journey began in the former Soviet Union, from the Nile in Egypt to Tibet in China, to the Indian tribes of South America, and even to the moon earlier than the Americans.
Tintin in the United States
Tintin in the Americas
Tintin in the Congo
Tintin in Dublin
Tintin on the moon
A world without love
It's also beautiful to rely on friendship
Strangely enough, this is a world without love. Several big men followed a dog around the world, "nosy" all over the world.
Because of his obsession with finding the truth and eliminating evil, Tintin is always in trouble, but he always has a group of friends around him to deal with the crisis together. There is also the dog White Snow, who is never away from Tintin, to accompany Tintin on every adventure.
Douban netizen Mao Ren said, "Tintin's biggest influence on me is that I fell in love with the bristle fox terrier, and incidentally also loved Schnauzer. I guess a lot of people are like me. When you are troubled or depressed, look at Tintin and your mood will be comfortable. Especially recommended for people who have lost love, in a world without love, isn't it also very beautiful to live only by friendship? ”
Tintin and his friends traveled around the world, and the spectators were able to take a break from their real lives and follow their adventures to see the world.
Hergé once wrote in His Letter to Tintin: "For a time, when I was young, my ideal was to become someone like you. ”
Douban netizen Hei Lei said: "When I was a child, in the small highland city where I was born, there was a book stall on the side of the road to rent children's books, 2 cents a book, I gave up the desire to suck popsicles, to return the magic that Eltropics gave me. I'm still looking at it, and there are a few copies in the bathroom and at the head of the bed, and I think I'll see 70 years old. ”
"Whether it's 7 years old or 70 years old, different ages will have different feelings about Tintin. This is a book that you can read for a lifetime. ”
In addition to adventure
And freedom and peace
The Adventures of Tintin differs from other classic series in that it shows the world a real China early in the 1980s.
Tintin in Tibet
Douban netizen Brahms recalled seeing the Chinese plot in "The Adventures of Tintin" when he was a child, and described it this way, "This feeling is the feeling of half a home, the feeling of half a fellow countryman." Especially in the era of China's international isolation and marginalization 20 years ago, this kind of feeling is something that children cannot experience now. To use an inappropriate analogy, it is like a countryman suddenly discovering that there is a good relative in the city. ”
This is not the western perspective of wishful thinking about exoticism, but stems from Hergé's genuine transnational friendship with his Chinese friend Zhang Chongren.
After taking Tintin through the Soviet Union, congo, and South America, Hergé set his sights on mysterious China. Because of the profundity of Chinese civilization, Hergé was well aware of his limitations, and through the recommendation of a friend, the then 27-year-old Hergé met Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student of the same age who was studying in the oil painting department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Hergé and Zhang Chongren
As soon as the two saw each other, just as Tintin's friends were willing to help Tintin, Zhang Chongren helped Hergé to understand China's customs and customs. For several weeks, Zhang Chongren told Hergé in detail about China's history, literature, politics, art, and even customs and customs.
The wonderful oriental story breaks Hergé's original stereotype of Chinese still dragging long braids, and gradually changes the subconscious Western perspective on other civilizations, becoming more tolerant and open. This greatly influenced his later creations to some extent, and in addition to adventure, he also made freedom and peace as eternal themes.
In 1932, when the painter began to create the story of Tintin's trip to the East, he drew a map of Asia for the readers of the Little Twentieth Century Newspaper
Hergé's creative rigor is not only content to listen to stories in a curious way. After writing the next pen, zhang Chongren first gave Zhang Chongren a draft of the story, and then converted it to a pencil draft after confirmation, and Zhang Chongren modified the streets, character images, and Chinese character plaques.
Details in The Adventures of Tintin
In the course of their interaction, Zhang Chongren gave Hergé a copy of the Mustard Garden Painting And taught him the traditional Chinese technique of single-line white painting. Hergé used it in his own comics, and his style changed dramatically, pioneering the Ligne Claire drawing method in European comics.
I have to say that this is really the highest realm of the benign development of friendship, in the creation of "Blue Lotus", the two cooperated intimately, and the friendship deepened day by day, becoming a lifelong close friend.
Many of the plots of "Blue Lotus" directly refer to the development of the friendship between the two, and Zhang Chongren also has his own unique image in the book, which is well known by the majority of Western readers - Tintin's Chinese good friend: Zhang.
Tintin and Zhang
In the comics, Hergé euphemistically expresses the feeling of re-understanding China in a small story - the detective Thomson brothers came to China in the thirties wearing flower-winged belts and robes and horses, thinking that they were "dressed up" like Chinese, only to be watched and ridiculed by everyone.
Hergé would not have imagined that nearly half a century later, there would still be many people in the Western world like the Thomson brothers, with limited imagination, arrogant and arrogant, and take twisted stereotypes as Asian, and be complacent about it. Perhaps they should also be like Hergé and Tintin, broadening their horizons and actively embracing this globalized world.
This year marks the 92nd anniversary of Tintin's birth, and in the comic book world, Tintin's image has not changed in the slightest, and he is always fiery and energetic, and there are always magical encounters with Snow White and a group of friends.
It's been almost a century, and the children who have watched Tintin grow up are getting old, but the spirit conveyed by Tintin has not faded. Vive le Tintin，Vive Friendship！