The Adventures of Tintin (film): Difference between revisions

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* [[A Boy and His X]]: Tintin and his dog Snowy.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Thompson and Thomson ([[Simon Pegg]] and Nick Frost) remark that being a police contains a lot of paperwork, in reference to ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', where paperwork was a running gag.

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: In the videogame adaptation of the film Thomson and Thompson have an attack where they spin their canes fast enough to deflect fireballs at enemies.

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Ivan Sakharine is a much more malevolent character than he was in the comics, in which he is more annoying than malicious, and, ironically, is one of the only characters who Tintin accuses mistakenly of being a villain. Also unlike his movie counterpart, he doesn't seem to have any particular grudge against {{spoiler|Captain Haddock}}.

** Inverted with Barnaby. In the comic, he works for the villains and, while he turns on them, it's out of a petty grievance rather than remorse. In the film, he is an Interpol member who is shot by goons working for Sakharine. Interestingly, this is a reversal of the comic, in which Sakharine is attacked by Barnaby, who wants the scroll in his ''Unicorn'' model.

** Also inverted with {{spoiler|Omar Ben Salaad}}, who's an innocent extra in this movie and a drug smuggling boss in the comic.

** Interestingly and very surprisingly, the [[Licensed Game]] based on the movie actually uses the Bird brothers from the comic as the villains instead of Sakharine.

* [[~~Added Alliterative Appeal~~]]: Haddock's [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] tend to grow into this when he's particularly excited. This is something carried over from the comics.

* [[Alliteration]]: Haddock's [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] tend to grow into this when he's particularly excited. This is something carried over from the comics.

{{quote|"Billions of blistering blue barnacles!"

"Ten thousand thundering typhoons!" }}

* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Tintin, mixed with an [[Intrepid Reporter]].

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Captain Haddock. [[Played for Laughs]] ''and'' [[Played for Drama]]!

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The date of the movie is somewhat difficult to determine; no matter what, the use of the term "third world" is definitely out of place (see "[[Artistic License History]]") and the cars just complicate matters (see "[[The Thirties]]"), as do most of the guns.

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: The film ends with {{spoiler|Tintin and Haddock discovering a clue to the location of the Unicorn, where the rest of Rackham's treasue would be hidden}}.

* [[Animated Credits Opening]]: Similar to Spielberg's previous film ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', with multiple references to the other Tintin books.

** A fan created [http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=23191 his own] Animated Opening Credits for the film and posted it online just for fun, and when Spielberg saw it he was so impressed that he flew the guy to the U.K. Premiere and [[Promoted Fanboy|offered him a paid position on his next movie]].

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** Barnaby is a composite of Barnaby from ''Secret of the Unicorn'' and Dawes from ''The Crab With the Golden Claws''. He even combines their names.

* [[Cool Boat]]: The Unicorn. ''"Finest ship that ever sailed the seven seas!"''

* [[Creator Cameo]]: A particularly heartwarming one at that. The late Hergé appears at the beginning of the film as a caricaturist who Tintin pays to draw his likeness, while drawing him Hergé comments that Tintin looks familiar and then reveals his finished work: a portrait of the [[Tintin|comic book version of Tintin]].

** One of the pirates in Red Rackham's ship looks similar to Hergé as well.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Captain Haddock seems to often cause more trouble for Tintin than he solves, but it's obvious he can more than handle himself in any given situation.

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* [[Foreshadowing]]: ''When you hit a wall, you push through it.''

** {{spoiler|Notice what color Sahkarine wears throughout the entire movie. And his character design just screams Rasputin, with a very [[Star Trek|Alternate Universe Spock-esque]] beard.}}

* [[Friends Rent Control]]: Tintin owns a surprisingly upscale apartment for someone who works as a reporter.

* [[Funny Background Event]]: Snowy, often; particularly in the desert, when he appears in the background with a giant bone from ''nowhere''.

** Right after Thomson and Thompson pull the pickpocket out from the [[Circling Birdies]] moment, the old lady whom the pickpocket crashed into strikes a man with her cane whom she seems to think was groping her.

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** [[Squick|He's holding a rat in that scene.]]

** The official artbook has a concept painting of the inside of the ''Karaboudjan'' where a mermaid masthead from another ship has been tied to one of the support beams. There have been [[Visual Pun|lamps installed on her breasts]]...[[Don't Explain the Joke|so, she has nice headlights]].

** It's also implied that Sahkarine slept with Bianca Castafiore to {{spoiler|be her escort into Morocco.}} Bianca's quote sums it up quite nicely: "He's been very...''passionate'' in his support."

* [[Glass-Shattering Sound]]: Castafiore's voice. At first, Tintin doesn't know what Haddock and Snowy are complaining about. Then she hits a really high note and shatters not only everyone but Sahkarine's glasses but also {{spoiler|the bulletproof case holding the third model ship.}} Oh, and the chandeliers and crystalware too.

* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress]]: During the motorcycle scene, Captain Haddock collides with a clothesline and spends the rest of the chase wearing a pink dress.

* [[Had the Silly Thing In Reverse]]: Captain Haddock takes aim at the villain with a bazooka ... and promptly takes out the dam behind them.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Nestor}}.

* [[Hereditary Curse]]

* [[Heroic Dog]]: Snowy.

* [[Hostage for Macguffin]]: Both Sahkarine {{spoiler|and his ancestor}} seem fond of this trope.

* [[Identical Grandson]]: As in the comic, Haddock looks and acts exactly like his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. In addition, {{spoiler|Red Rackham}} is given an Identical Descendant in the form of {{spoiler|Sakharine}} and one of Sir Francis's crew members looks exactly like Nestor, which probably isn't a coincidence. Unlike the comic, the film makes an attempt to justify this by bringing up the possibility of the characters being the literal ''reincarnations'' of their ancestors.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Tintin. He hits the lever on a searchlight while running and later brings down a plane with a single pistol shot.

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** ''Tintin in America'': The newspaper clipping about him rounding up a gang. Sakharine's [[Sword Cane]] resembles that used by the unnamed [[Bald of Evil|bald villain]] in this album as well.

** ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment.

** ''The Blue Lotus'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, as well as a vase similar to the one Tintin hid in at one point in the album.

** ''The Broken Ear'': A bigger version of the statue is in Omar Ben Salaad's palace. The statue also hits someone's head in the opening credits.

** ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'': A newspaper clipping in his apartment, and a sign outside a building with Syldavia's Coat of Arms.

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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Spielberg, Jackson, Moffat, Wright, Bell, [[Simon Pegg|Pegg]], Cary Elwes... yeah, it was pretty much a prerequisite to be a Tintin fan if you wanted to be involved in this movie.

* [[Qurac]]: The Sultanate of Bagghar.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Haddock and Sakharine.

** Almost [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]] but it's reversed. Haddock who always wears blue is wild and prone to anger while the cool and collected Sakharine is {{spoiler|descended from ''Red'' Rackham}}.

* [[Say My Name Trailer]]

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* [[Sword Cane]]: Sakharine has one, which he threatens Tintin with on board the ''Karaboudjan''.

* [[Sword Fight]]: Both Red Rackham and Sir Francis, and {{spoiler|their two descendants}}.

* [[Tap on the Head]]: Nestor to Tintin, among others.

* [[Tall Tale]]: Haddock's story of the taking of the Unicorn.

* [[Television Geography]]: The film is set in a country whose currency is the pound and had a historical King Charles II, but several shops have French signs and cars drive on the right side of the road. (This is carried over from the English translation of the comic, which was originally set in Belgium and used francs and Louis XIV.)