This week on Totally Tintin, Sneaky Dragon’s Ian Boothby and David Dedrick take a look at Hergé’s third book Tintin In America. Finally, a book they can really get behind.
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This week on Totally Tintin, Sneaky Dragon’s Ian Boothby and David Dedrick take a look at Hergé’s third book Tintin In America. Finally, a book they can really get behind.
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I listened to the first 4 in one sitting… what’s with all the James Bond references?
No one should listen to that many podcasts in one sitting.
And three possibilities for the James Bond references. One, we were inspired by the podcast James Bonding which is reviewing all the Bond films. It was one of the driving forces for us doing Compleatly Beatles. Ironically we finished that, took a break and started Totally Tintin and they still haven’t finished their show.
I’m currently writing a live James Bond comedy show.
And both Bond and Tintin had a travelogue element mixed in with cliffhangers. Learn about another part of the world while it tries to kill you. Tintin I’m sure ended each of his adventures with less STDs and liver damage.
This one really reminds me of Buster Keaton, in particular “Paleface”.
Oops, I had just finished writing that and you mention “The General”. Great minds and all that…
Thank you, Catherine. I’m enjoying your journey through the shows.
Keaton’s “The Paleface” or “Go West” are also good calls. A lot of Tintin in America feels closer to the movies than to actual American history.
I guess Hergé was very much an armchair traveller and that shows a little in the albums. Great accurate detail in the buildings, vehicles and so on, but the real atmosphere can be somewhat missing at times and it does feel a little 2 dimensional (well, I suppose it has to be in a way). So glad to have found these podcasts, many happy hours were spent in childhood reading these, losing myself so much that one day, when someone had left a tap on in the bathroom, and I was sitting on the bedroom floor reading Tintin, I failed to notice I was sitting in about 1cm of water…
Uptown Sinclair, not Sinclair Lewis, wrote The Jungle.