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Tintin?

posted 18 years ago by esverdura
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Has anyone noticed the similtudes between Fritz Lang's "Woman on the moon" (1929) with Herge's "Explorers on the Moon"?

Some plot points are very similar... the hidden villian,problems with the oxygen supplies, etc...

[–] Theo87 18 years ago

just read a review of slant magazine and that's what the author has to say about it:

An unforgiving Nietzchean abyss, hidden in a gold-encrusted cave, appears to be the inspiration for a similar chasm in Explorers on the Moon, one of the Tintin adventures authored by the Belgian artist Hergé. Indeed, all of Lang's outer space imagery brought back the sense of childlike wonder I experienced when encountering Hergé's comic panels for the first time.

[–] HulotderSpeiler 15 years ago

true. As well as the goofy professor, and the extra people who wind up on the rocket, and even the idea of a crushing sensation as the rocket takes off.

black and white movies were better

[–] RbSnedlap 15 years ago

I always thought Tintin was based more on George Pal`s 1950 `Destination Moon` myself. Still, there are similarities with this one too but that just might be because this is the film that first uses all the incidents that become cliche`s in later space films.

"Any plan that involves loosing your hat is a BAD plan.""

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