GROUPE DE LECTURE #1
TINTIN LES BIJOUX DE LA CASTAFIORE HERGÉ
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18ib14_les-aventures-de- tintin-90-s-show-les-bijoux-de-la-castafiore_tv The author: HERGÉ
George Rémi
22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983
He chose his artist’s name after signing his first illustrations with his initials: RG
1928: he became the editor of Le Petit Vingtieme (the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle)
1929: first apparition of Tintin and Milou in Le Petit Vingtieme
1946: release of the first Tintin magazine Les Aventures de Tintin LES BIJOUX DE LA CASTAFIORE Why it is different from the other stories
21st volume of Les Aventures de Tintin
Conceived as a narrative exercise, Hergé wanted to see if he could maintain suspense throughout sixty-two pages of story with no villains, exotic locations, guns or danger, and with a clearly deceptive solution.
This is the only Tintin story in which the characters remain at their home at Marlinspike Hall and do not venture to another part of the world. Bianca Castafiore, the famous Milanese opera diva and scourge of the Captain, decides to invite herself to Marlinspike for a holiday. Upon hearing of Bianca's impending visit, Haddock rushes to pack for a trip away from Marlinspike, figuring now would be a good time to visit Milan (which he had never done, precisely to avoid Bianca). In his haste, Haddock misses the step, which, just moments before, he had been sanctimoniously warning the others about. He sprains his ankle as a result. The doctor arrives, examines the Captain, and insists upon putting the foot and ankle in a cast while imposing a minimum of a fortnight's bed rest. The broken step becomes a running gag for the rest of the comic, and every character, with the exception of Castafiore, slips and falls down the step at least one time. That funny moment when the Castafiore announces Capitaine Haddock that she has to leave…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmCSWAchPI Castafiore's most prized emerald goes missing. In a deliberately anti- climactic dénouement, the culprit turns out to have been a magpie, in reference to Rossini's opera The Thieving Magpie. As soon as the emerald is found, it is (temporarily) lost once again by the detectives Thomson and Thompson, only to be found again a few frames later by Snowy, who calls it a "brandyball".