TINTIN ET MOI -documentary

[Miss.K]

This list reads like a political correct Hera defamation and seems just to improve his case. It's been too long since I read the series, to remember the characters clearly myself and I have no investment in Hera having been shady or not, but the above makes me want to read those colourful adventures again, even more.

I think similar.


The drawings of Africans in Tintin in the Congo, are racist, but it should be considered that this was the way Africans was drawn in Europe at the time, and that he was young and a faithful Catholic, and his priest and boss was Wallez, who yes was a racist and shady character (Nazi supporter)

Hergé was very concerned with right and wrong, and for a religious person with a conscience, it is a part of the deal to sometimes have to go against what one feels, to do right by religion, -like when people who have been vegetarians here and later become animal eaters, there is a time where it feels wrong to kill animals for food, but the feeling is overcome in an effort to do right (or getting rid of programs of any kind)

So if one has a pathological religious leader, one can be let terribly astray due to the pathological religious leader abusing that willingness.

7) As well as alleged racism, Tintin in the Congo has come under fire for its graphic portrayal of animal slaughter. Animal welfare campaigners argue that the book reinforces notions of animal cruelty, insensitivity and violence. In one scene, Tintin shoots at an antelope, believing it is still alive after taking a bullet, and finds out that he has killed the entire herd.

I remember vaguely this from reading it as a child, as I remember it wasn't a scene of animal cruelty, but about Tintin making a terrible mistake and feeling terrible about it. Sounds a little like animal activists going overboard.

8) The lack of women in Hera's comics has led to allegations of sexism. The only female character of any importance is Bianca Castro, who appears in The Calculus Affair, but is portrayed as foolish and unaware of others' reactions to her behaviour. Critics have accused the comics of being misogynistic, a claim Hera strongly denied.

Also here it seems to me that it is feminists going overboard. There are a lot of foolish characters in his universe, perhaps people who wear bowler hats could accuse him of portraying them as stupid, or sailors for being portrayed as alcoholics.
The lack of women are common in adventure books at the time, and I think that he didn't know many women (he worked all the time and was married to Wallies secretary who was from the film seemingly a devotee of Wallez) and normally people write and draw what they know. He does admit that Bianca Castro maybe is a caricature of his wife in the interviews. (it is not until he divorces her that after going through a big crisis for having broken his word, and having to realize he isn't perfect, that he starts being happy in life)

-I always found Bianca Castro hilarious and have never been feminist defended, there are foolish self absorbent women in the world..

 

[Miss.K]

In 1927 the young journalist Georges Remi started working for Le Vingtième Siècle. A year later, Remi became editor-in-chief of Le Petit Vingtième. In 1929, Remi began publishing Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first of The Adventures of Tintin, in the eleventh issue of Le Petit Vingtième, under the name Hergé. Wallez was crucial in the choice of the top three destinations of Tintin: Soviet Russia, Belgian Congo and United States. He also facilitated Remi's marriage in 1932 to Germaine Kieckens, who was Wallez's secretary.[1] Hergé's comic series Quick & Flupke also began in Le Vingtième Siècle, in 1930.

Yes the first Tintin was anti Russian propaganda, he says in the interview something like that that was wrong, but that he had the blessing of the pope and his priest,
so again I think this was the being a religious person believing his religious leaders. (and he was very young at the time)

During Nazi occupation when he was pressed to turn Tintin into Nazi propaganda (Tintin featured in some Nazi paper, or Nazis had taken over the paper he worked for, I don't remember exactly), was when Tintin stopped being political at all, and became about treasure hunts, and the Shooting star album that are about the end of the world, where it before had been Tintin fighting tyrants) so if he had been so bad, he wouldn't have changed the stories to be unpolitical just then I would think.

Anyways still highly recommend watching first then judging :)