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Respectfully, you are absolutely wrong about Tintin.

I would implore you to watch the first 10 or so minutes of this, as it shows just how important Tintin was to Spielburg, but also WHY it was such a big deal to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCIZ_jROYh4

I am biased, of course, it's a real favorite of mine, and I was shocked to hear how deep the well goes

Hope you take a look!

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Yeah, I've read up on it. And it's clear that Spielbs was, at some point, interested in Tintin. But ultimately the finished movie feels like it's so much more about the technology than the character.

In that respect, feels similar to AI, in that he felt like he had to "do justice" to someone else's project. Wanted to serve Herge right in the same way he wanted to serve Kubrick. So both films come out being not quite anyone's.

But I know that people love the Tintin movie! My Letterboxd tells me so! And it totally makes sense. It just never quite lands for me.

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Jan 11Liked by Ben Blacker

That's interesting. Though the video I sent meanders a great deal one of the points that it focuses on, which I appreciated, is that the movie itself is very different from the original source material, adapting, not just copying. I was also really surprised to learn that the indy films borrowed heavily straight from Tintin! But I get your take and am certainly not trying to change your opinion of the movie, your writing that he didn't have "an aim" with it seemed a bit assumptive given what I'd heard about how long he worked to be able to make it

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