The Adventures of Tintin
POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Saturday, June 4, 2011 23:41
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"AI" and "Eyes Wide Shut" were both finished after Kubrick was dead, this is all CGI.
I'm pretty sure "Eyes Wide Shut" was Kubrick's last film before he died, not after. "AI" was made from material Kubrick had and was told and shot in Kubrick's style by Spielberg as a tribute to Kubrick.
As for Tintin, it's probably CGI because Tintin was a comic book character from a classic comic strip, which was my point. I'm only speculating, but Spielberg probably didn't want to make a 'Dennis the Menace.'
Not to support whozit over haken, which you know I would never do for any reason other than that I thought he was right, but...
(All of this is from memory, that said)
IIRC, Kubrick died after filming but before editing was complete on Eyes, as for AI, Kubrick had actually shelved the project some time ago. Spielberg IIRC used Kubrick's script as far as it went, which was not all that far into the movie. I think the boy had run away from home and the audience had been introduced to the sexbot.
Also, IIRC, Spielberg also wrote and asked for additional material from Brian Aldiss for anything that would be able to extend Supertoys last all summer long into a feature length story, which was one of the major problems that had made Kubrick abandon the project. I recall he paid Aldiss one million dollars for the letter afterwords, though the letter was largely dismissing the idea that there was a film in the story, but did include a list of possibilities which he could think of, and I think spielberg only used one of them, which was
the boys quest for humanity takes him to the end of the world, and he finds the factory with all of the clones of himself. This story idea ends with him at the bottom of the sea.
The epilogue with the aliens is pure spielberg but anyone with even a shred of filmmaking instinct already figured that one out about 0.9 seconds after it started.
If I were to break this story down as content:
The first part, getting the replacement boy is really primarily Aldiss (plus Kubrick/Spielberg.) After the boy leaves and seas the wild world, it's Kubrick/Spielberg. Starting with the robot carnival it starts to be more heavily Spielberg, the story continues with a Kubrick's gigolo and the boy, and then the end scene is Aldiss' and the epilogue is Spielberg's.
Eyes Wide Shut is basically Kubrick, there have been a couple questions of editing choices, but the intent to leave you with the feeling that this world is real but you're supposed to believe it's not remains basically in tact. Someone I know from my little corner of nowhere was in that film.
About Tintin, it would seem a natural for animation, and if you wanted to do it live, it would cost a fortune. It will have a huge audience because it already has a huge following. Remember, like Asterix, this is a European comic, so while they may seem like comic geek stuff to us, it's not so fringe to the rest of the world.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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