I don’t know why but I’m so fixated with the British/Arab fusion in adventure movies. Maybe it’s because of the failed and romanticized League of Nations and the British imperial rush of Africa, or because I grew up watching Lawrence of Arabia… but more so because of the exhilarating adventure one feels feel you’re inches to uncovering something—which is uhh pretty much sums up the work of a historian. The Tintin comics started appearing on print in 1929 in France, thanks to the work of the Belgian ligne claire artist Georges Remi. The sketches and color schemes are so simple yet so full of depth. Every comic book in the series have such unique plots with its own inserted notable facts that any reader would have unconsciously learned something while being taken by the adventure of the intrepid journalist and his dog. I used to have my Tintin collection of comics until it got lost as we changed houses time and time again, so while I was watching the film, it felt sooo nostalgic. And you know how historians are when they’re nostalgic—heaven. Good thing technology is always there. I downloaded the entire collection of Tintin comics (with those I haven’t even read yet) so yeah I’m feeling a sudden wild glee right now. So I guess this recently released animated Tintin takes a slot in my favorite imaginary British adventurers in desert dunes, namely Indiana Jones, The Mummy-The Mummy Returns, and Lawrence of Arabia. Highly recommended: The Adventures of Tintin
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I don’t know why but I’m so fixated with the British/Arab fusion in adventure movies. Maybe it’s because of the failed and romanticized League of Nations and the British imperial rush of Africa, or because I grew up watching Lawrence of Arabia… but more so because of the exhilarating adventure one feels feel you’re inches to uncovering something—which is uhh pretty much sums up the work of a historian. The Tintin comics started appearing on print in 1929 in France, thanks to the work of the Belgian ligne claire artist Georges Remi. The sketches and color schemes are so simple yet so full of depth. Every comic book in the series have such unique plots with its own inserted notable facts that any reader would have unconsciously learned something while being taken by the adventure of the intrepid journalist and his dog.

I used to have my Tintin collection of comics until it got lost as we changed houses time and time again, so while I was watching the film, it felt sooo nostalgic. And you know how historians are when they’re nostalgic—heaven. Good thing technology is always there. I downloaded the entire collection of Tintin comics (with those I haven’t even read yet) so yeah I’m feeling a sudden wild glee right now.

So I guess this recently released animated Tintin takes a slot in my favorite imaginary British adventurers in desert dunes, namely Indiana Jones, The Mummy-The Mummy Returns, and Lawrence of Arabia.

Highly recommended: The Adventures of Tintin

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