Tintin in the Land of Misanthropy

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!

A Tintin entry on Misanthropy Central?!

(This is for YOU, Nicko—don't take shit from nobody, you got that?)

Yes, Spielberg and Jackson are cooking up a trilogy of movies... and I have read several of Tintin's rascally adventures... but really, this was just an excuse to make the animated-GIF above. (I call it "NIN-TIN", thankyouverymuch!)

The New Yorker just published an article revisiting the history of the comic book series, but as you all know, I prefer to have all MY information fresh-filtered through Wikipedia. (It all sounds plausible enough to me!)

Tintin embodies a very specific sort of nostalgia. Wes Anderson movies remind me of the feel of Tintin, somehow.

His movies are whimsical. Lightly fanciful. I had mixed feelings about "The Life Aquatic" when I first saw it, but it's grown on me. Yeah, it loses steam/direction/purpose around the 3/4 mark, but there's so much that's good it's easy for me to overlook on repeat viewings.

Wes Anderson movies feel like a precocious little child envisioning what a serious adult story would be. I think he'd be a great choice to write+direct one of them Tintin movies. They need his childlike wonder.

I just hope they don't endeavor to modernize and sanitize the stories too much. They can't keep any of the charmingly racist elements of some of those old books, but I sincerely hope that Captain Haddock remains a drunk in the Spielberg/Jackson series. Disney let Depp do it with "Jack Sparrow"—they've even got drunk Captain Jack surrogates prancing around the Disney theme parks! I think the public's ready for a lovably alcoholic cartoon character...
Turned in my new draft Thursday afternoon. Managed to really eff up my sleep cycle the past week getting-R-done, but I pulled it off.

Well... we'll see if I pulled it off next week...

FLASH FORWARD:
"Uh... hey Malice? It's Joey Paramount. Read the new draft over the weekend and I've just got one question... ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS?!?"

Well, hey, I put everything into this. I did as much as I could do in the timeframe I had to work with. I could fine-tune the script for ages. Sometimes you've just got to let it go.

Also—to clarify: the executive I've been working with has been talking up the script to his boss. (I name-dropped the wrong "Brad" before. So crucify me, why don't you?)

"I believe in you, Malice," said the Gay Horse.

"Yeah, tanks, Gay Horse," said Malice. "Means a lot comin from you, it really fuckin does."

Memorial Day Shuffled 5:
1. "Glorified G", Pearl Jam
2. "Musicology", Prince
3. "Stand Together", Beastie Boys
4. "Wild Honey", U2
5. "Headache", Liz Phair
I-Really-Need-Some-New-Music Bonus:
"She's a Dog", The Geraldine Fibbers

TGIF Laugh Corner:
ANTHRAX Guitarist Trying to Play "Guitar Hero" Version of His Own Song!

"This is harder than really playing..."