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Racing report, TAR 19, Episode 12 is on page 2
apskip:
This was deleted because I inadvertently duplicated it below.
apskip:
Kiki:
to be polite, I think not. The website www.tintin.com has been created by Moulinsart and Studios Herge. I obtain the information on Thompson and Tompson from Under www.tintin.com/meet-the-characters/. Please note that neither Johnson and Jonson or Dupont and Dupond are listed at all there, so they could not be very important. Here is the info on Moulinsart:
Moulinsart is the company which has been set up to protect and promote the work of Hergé. The body of art that Hergé created is of such importance and universal significance that it gives the impression of belonging to the public domain. This is not the case: national and international copyright laws govern the rights to Hergé’s work. Moulinsart ensures that the laws relating to Hergé and his work are respected.
In the spirit of promotion, Moulinsart plays a creative and active role in organizing a broad range of events. A prime example of this activity is the organization of a biannual Tintin Festival, which has so far been held in Brussels (2005), Lausanne (2007) and Namur (2009).
Moulinsart is also determined to anchor Hergé’s characters and creations firmly in the twenty-first century through the development of the website www.tintin.com.
Moulinsart takes care to keep international media informed about all aspects of the world of Hergé by providing exclusive information.
These activities are set to increase as we look forward to the upcoming film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. The movie, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, is due to premiere in December 2011 (note-website says October but the premiere is now Dec. 21).
maf:
--- Quote from: apskip on December 10, 2011, 03:07:13 PM ---to be polite, I think not. The website www.tintin.com has been created by Moulinsart and Studios Herge. I obtain the information on Thompson and Tompson from Under www.tintin.com/meet-the-characters/. Please note that neither Johnson and Jonson or Dupont and Dupond are listed at all there, so they could not be very important. Here is the info on Moulinsart:
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I beg to differ. I think that site has been set up to promote the film for an American audience, and it would therefore promote the American version. And the release date you saw there could refer to the European release (where it has been running for some time).
I know for a fact that the detectives are called Dupond & Dupont in all the albums here in Sweden (I have read them all). The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_and_Thompson agrees that Dupond & Dupont was the original French names, and even includes a list of what they were called in the different translations.
And as an aside I would like to point out that the Names are spelled Dupond & Dupont, alternatively Jonson & Johnson or Thomson & Thompson. I.e. they do differ slightly. I noticed that they got this detail right when they subtitled the part of the episode where the names were spoken:)
apskip:
Actually, it turns out that there is a French version of the website (where Dupont and Dupont are the names), a Dutch version (where it's Jansen and Janssen) and a Japanese version which I can't read. I guess the names of those detectives vary with the country of publication for the TinTin books.
However, my original statement holds- In the American Amazing Race 19 version, the distribution of the detective names was:
Thompson & Tompson - two teams
Dupont and Dupond - one team
Johnson & Jonson - one team
maf:
--- Quote from: apskip on December 10, 2011, 04:16:21 PM ---However, my original statement holds- In the American Amazing Race 19 version, the distribution of the detective names was:
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I will trust you on this, I did not count which teams used which names. And I think we have reached consensus on the name issue:)
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