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.
5 Responses to “Is Tintin gay?”
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
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
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
Dear Mr. Andrew Paul Wood,
Did you also know that it is highly possible that Herge was bisexual and had a homosexual experience back in 1947? So who the hell cares if Tintin and Haddock are lovers, you sound like a parent whose a shamed of child who turned out to be gay. To you and Mr. Quint, you guys sound like nothing more than homophobic bigots.
By Gaydefender on Dec 16, 2012
Mr GayDefender with your outrageous pretensions to being some sort of sanctimonious superhero in your own lunchtime (I will assume it’s the attractions of the swishy cape). I fail to see how I can be considered homophobic in any shape or form given that I am openly and publicly a member of the brotherhood of the limp wrist, a homosexualist, a brown hatter, pillow biter and all around gentleman sodomite around town. I can only assume that your mother had your sense of humour surgically removed at birth. Presumably you are an American, yes? In which case the complete absence of irony or mordantly dry wit in your make up is likely genetic and not entirely your fault. Perhaps you might consider some sort of meditation retreat in order to work on this hopeless inadequacy of yours.
By Andrew Paul Wood on Dec 16, 2012