In which Alex gets violent about her childhood obsessions.

[stoopbeck]

So. Tintin movie. Tintin was my first real fandom. When I was in preschool and kindergarten, my parents would buy me the books as rewards for things. At one time I had the entire set in English, but moving and having a younger brother has lost me about eight of the twenty-one books available in the US. About Tintin: he is a Belgian newspaper reporter/sleuth/boy genius/MacGyver-type who travels around the world and stops drug-runners and gun-runners and various other criminal types in various places (the moon, made-up countries, Scotland, the bottom of the ocean) with the help of his friends and his dog.

When I heard Spielberg was making this movie, I was torn. The Tintin books Spielberg read as a child were the reason he made movies like Indiana Jones. Herge, Tintin's creator, had given Spielberg his blessing before he died in 1983. So there was a definite passing of the torch and I can't really argue with that, even with my serious Spielberg hate.

But. Peter Jackson? Peter Effing Jackson?!! Computer animation?!! THE HELL YOU SAY. PETER JACKSON GET YOUR FINGERS OUT OF MY CHILDHOOD LEST I SHOOT YOU. All they need now is for George Lucas to join up, and the world will end.

The only good thing to come out of all of this is that Stephen Moffet is apparently writing the script. STEPHEN MOFFET PLEASE GOD DON'T MAKE ME COME AFTER YOU.

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[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

I really hope they won't screw it up. I will cry.

I like the rewarding system your parents had. I got the German children adventure bookseries about the hedgehog Mecki.

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

So will I. :[

Dude, cool! What sort of adventures did Mecki go on?

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

Mecki and his friends (7 hamsters, 1 penguin (who later gets a girlfriend) and sometimes a duck and/or a cat) travelled all around the world (and once to the moon even and through several fairytales) and usually help out the people they meet there in some way (or to work themselves out of trouble).

The first book is called Mecki im Schlaraffenland (Mecki at Cockaige (if that is correct, the land of plenty or the land of milk and honey or however that is called. Do you know what I mean?)



The second one is Mecki bei den 7 Zwergen (Mecki and the 7 Dwarfs).



The third is Mecki bei den Eskimos.



The fourth Mecki bei den Chinesen



The fifths is Mecki bei den Indianern (Oh, right. Yes, yes. Um, always behind on the terms. Still trying not to refer to you lot as "bloody colonials.") ;)



The sixth ones is called Mecki bei den Negerlein (this is so politically incorrect even here, but these books are from the 50s).



The seventh book is Mecki bei Prinz Aladin



The eights book is called Mecki auf dem Mond



The nineth is Mecki und die 40 Räuber (Mecki and the 40 thiefs (the Ali Baba story?)



The tenth book is Mecki bei Harun al Raschid. He would be the King of Bagdad.



The eleventh book is Mecki bei Sindbad (Sinbad? The sailor guy from the Arabian Nights)



The twelves book is Mecki bei Zwerg Nase (Dwarf Nose ???)



And the last one is Mecki bei Frau Holle (Mother Hulda, if I googled that correctly. Which was hard.)

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

THAT IS SO COOL. And the artwork looks beautiful!

Yeah, political correctness wasn't all that important in the 50's. :] Tintin suffered a little from that, too.

Some of these stories are familiar to me, but some I've drawn a complete blank on. What were Mecki bei Zwerg Nase and Mecki bei Frau Holle about?

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

I thought you might not know these.

They are German fairytales. I will recap later. If I don't forget. ;)

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

*grins*

*huggles*

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

*pets*

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I really don't need to be getting this upset about it, I know.