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Is Tintin gay?

July 2, 2011 – 8:42 pm by Andrew Paul Wood

Every time I read a movie magazine Peter Jackson seems to be raping my childhood. Lord of the Rings was bad enough, and The Hobbit will be worse – but not Tintin, please leave me that much.
It was bad enough finding out that Tintin’s Belgian creator Herge might have been a Nazi collaborator [Goddin, Philippe (2008) Hergé. Levenslijnen. Biografie. Moulinsart. pp. 330] but now Sir Peter will ruin it further with pompous overripe Hollywood bloat and obtrusive self-indulgent fanboyism.
However, it may just be the gayest film this side of Brokeback Mountain. Consider the evidence. Tintin is a snappy dresser with a quiff. He lives alone in a chateau (“Marlinspike” for heaven’s sake) with a sailor. He has a little white dog (who in the original French utters particularly camp and bitchy asides compared with the translation), his best woman friend is an opera diva, and he seems to spend most of his time running around in third world countries with young boys.
Hmmm.

  1. 3 Responses to “Is Tintin gay?”

  2. I agree, peter jackson thinks hes the only one with a childhood. I wrote a song called ‘peter jackson is really really strange’ he should be run out of new zealand, new zealand already sucks enough without him using a whole country to launch himself

    By Quint Baker on Jul 4, 2011

  3. re blog-

    Was there anything dodgy about Captain Pugwash?

    Absolutely not, aside from the way that it put a rather favourable gloss on the whole “pirate” thing. In fact, at the beginning of the 1990s, the creator of Captain Pugwash, John Ryan, successfully sued two newspapers that had fallen for the urban myth that there was. In truth there was no Master Bates, no Seaman Staines, and the cabin boy was called Tom. There was a character called Pirate Willy, mind, but that was probably an oversight.

    By Blake. on Jul 4, 2011

  4. While I agree with your sentiments the obvious response to your primary issue (PJ raping your childhood, don’t see the movie, don’t read the reviews; keep the dream alive!

    By Spitfire on Oct 25, 2011

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