"But we decided that if there's any reality to Tintin at all, it's that the dog doesn't talk." "I think sometimes Tintin makes a great sidekick to Snowy, rather than the other way around," Spielberg remarks of the much-loved character. Though Hergé often ascribed thought bubbles to Tintin's canine friend, Spielberg felt they could bring Snowy to life in a richly expressive way without that textual effect. Cornish calls Snowy "almost an embodiment of Tintin's subconscious" and the trick was animating the character to be both that and just a smart, funny little dog. Snowy, of course, is Tintin's trusty terrier and sometimes savior. But sometimes he's wrong and that's when he has to trust in Snowy." He will get to the bottom of things no matter what. "Tintin is a very driven character, a very moral character, and I admire that. "When you see a young person who is so fearless and so adventurous the way Tintin is, it's everything you want to be yourself," he says. You feel like anyone can aspire to be Tintin because all you need is the knowledge, the interest and the pureness of heart that takes him through these adventures."įor Bell, this aspirational quality was the way into the character, taking him far beyond the forelock quiff in his hair that is his trademark. "He can do amazing things, yet he maintains an innocence and an insatiable curiosity about the world, a sense that he's looking for a way to do the right thing in any situation. "To me, he's like a child's idea of what it's like to be a teenager," Cornish says. Screenwriter Joe Cornish says that Bell captures Tintin in the mold of the classic Spielberg Everyman - an ordinary kid who finds how extraordinary he can be when life demands it. But now, he had the chance to imprint the character with tangible, human emotions and that thrilled him. "There's something about Hergé's art that leaves an imprint on you. Growing up in England, Bell had been a Tintin fan since childhood.
"Peter and I both thought he had all the right qualities for Tintin."
"Jamie's performance in Billy Elliot was astonishing to me, not just the subtlety of his acting, but the tremendous physical performance he gave," Spielberg notes. To play the iconic role of the intrepid, boyish reporter who has mirrored countless dreams of adventure, the filmmakers chose Jamie Bell. A major part of the lure for the actors chosen for the film was Hergé's inimitable characters, each with their own memorable quirks and foibles that had never been so deeply inhabited before. Behind each of the carefully crafted images is an inspired and skilled performance.
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