The more I look at the advertising for the upcoming
Adventures of Tintin animated film, the more it looks like the film will provide for a few hours of pleasant entertainment. There is still one major question lurking in the back of my mind...How much more exciting would all of this be if it were a live action film?
The stunts look unbelievably exciting, check out the motorcycle stunt toward the end of the trailer, but I keep asking myself "what if Jackie Chan did the stunt coordination for a live action film?" I understand that there are limits to what the human body can do, and there are very good safety reasons to use digital effects to supplement stunts, but this film seems so action packed and exciting that I want to see it as "real" and not animated. It seems that the film makers would be pushing more of the medium's boundaries if they attempted to recreate some of these fight scenes and stunts with real people.
I hate video game to movie comparisons as much as the next guy, but isn't one of the major reasons people attend a
Tomb Raider film, or desire to watch an
Uncharted movie, specifically because they want to see exciting digital experiences translated into live action.
Isn't the fight scene between Donnie Yen and Collin Chou in
Flashpoint so amazing because it has real people and you can imagine the real physical effort required to create the action sequence?
But the new Tintin film uses "motion capture" so the actors are physically engaged you say? Some stunts can only be created digitally? I don't buy it, and can easily imagine Jackie Chan, Harold Lloyd, or Buster Keaton doing that final motorcycle stunt.
None of this takes away from the fact that the Tintin movie looks engaging and entertaining, I'm looking forward to it. I'm just saying that it looks like it would be "AMAZING" if it were live action.
2 comments:
I grew up reading Tin Tin in the comic form so I personally prefer an animation version. I think that was why they went with the animation over life-action.
But I agree, I prefer "stunts" being done by real life people. If a stunt or action scene can't be done by a real person then it likely is too over the top to be believable.
I can not imagine the characters of Tintin or other in the Tintin game are played by me, I think it would rush through the signs. I can imagine them as cartoon characters or either. Tintin comics is as close as you can possibly go to the Tintin comics.
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