九月二日彌敦道
深受越南的山水感動，重拾攝影的樂趣，八月中旬開始有計劃地去香港不同地方拍攝日落美景。去過太平山拍過日落和夜景後，突然興起再玩長時間曝光的念頭，於是跑去買了一塊減光鏡，配合自己那支 14-45/3.5-5.6 使用。
那天晚上下班後，跑去人來人往的尖沙嘴彌敦道，拿著相機拍下一條又一條的光之軌跡，親身以不動面對城市瞬息萬變的節奏。
長時間曝光的遊戲玩了一兩個月，接觸到 Contax 鏡頭後，立即賣了 14-45/3.5-5.6，享受 Carl Zeiss 的樂趣。
"The Adventures of Tintin" in 3D!
The 2011 story of “The Secret of the Unicorn” is based of 3 stories by Hergé during 1940 – 1943, “The Crab with the Golden Claws”, “The Secret of the Unicorn” and “Red Rackham’s Treasure”. I have had a feeling that the stories will be a cocktail of the series while watching the trailer and when watching it on the big screen earlier today, it just goes as I thought. Nevertheless, the blend is quite good I have to say, and new sparks are created in the reaction. (Spoilers Alert)
Tintin and Snowy in comics and cartoon
“Tintin” (2011) is a 3D movie, which means the small dotted eyes of Tintin and Snowy in comic and cartoon, as well the circle eyes of Captain Haddock are gone and replaced by an eye with eyelids, eyeballs, iris, and so on… Of course as a movie based on a famous series, director and producers of the movie pay tribute to the original – They started the movie first in 2D (which is fun to watch, the clip recapped all my childhood memory), then a street comic drawing scene with an artist drawing comic face for the 3D Tintin. One important thing is the artist is actually Hergé!
Herge's portrait in Tintin in Congo
The movie started just like the original comic, but unlike the original, Tintin and Captain Haddock do not know each other in the beginning, so the Unicorn which Tintin purchased in the junk market is something for himself instead of a present for the Captain. The other 2 men who fight for the model are just like the 2 guys in the comic book, yet they have been changed from the inside out. In the original story, Daniel Craig’s role- Mr. Sakharine is just a poor old sidekick who lost his model ship after being assaulted by the villains, but he turned into someone greater than he could have imagined. In order to focus on the characters, the producers deducted quite a number of people from the original including the bad, yet funny Bird brothers.
Mr. Sakharine：「I used to be a poor victim...」
For the part when Tintin is kidnapped and sail onboard with Karaboudjan until Tintin and Captain reached Bagghar, it is more or less the same as what happened in “The Crab with the Golden Claws”. Yet it mixes the Captain’s story of how his ancestor fought against the evil pirate – Red Rackham. The 3D animation, with the help of voiceover, music, and so on, make Sir Francis Haddock’s duel with Red Rackham a very exciting part of the movie.
Mr. Salaad
In “The Crab with The Golden Claws”, there is a character named “Omar Ben Salaad”, mastermind of the opium trafficker. Yet he is turned into a music lover and crafts collector, the one who own the third and last Unicorn in the movie. The brilliant team in Hollywood wrote and created the action scenes which take place in Bagghar, and I have to say the scenes are quite exciting and fun.
Yet, after Tintin and his friends go back to Europe, the mechanic war between Captain and Mr. Sakharine is simply too unrealistic to be “Tintin”. No doubt that Tintin, Captain and Snowy walked into dangers in their adventures in the comic books but the stories are realistic; The heavy machine battle is simply too Sci-fic to be true. No doubt the set is the climax of the movie, but I have to say it turned the movie from great to good.
下一集仍然是海底冒險嗎？
Originally I thought that the movie would end when the three scrolls overlap just like the original, it was simply not the case. The part where Captain and Tintin found Red Rackham’s treasure in Marlinspike Hall’s cellars was brought to “The Secret of the Unicorn”. So will there be no underwater adventure? Not really, as Tintin finds a map inside the globe and says more treasure are waiting for them ahead. It seems that the next episode will be Red Rackham’s Treasure anyway! Can’t wait to let Captain Haddock meets Professor Calculus, aka Mr. A-Little-Bit-Hard-of-Hearing.
《丁丁歷險記》
《丁丁歷險記－獨角獸的秘密》改編自 Hergé 於 1940 － 1943 期間繪畫的三個故事－《金螯蟹》、《獨角獸的秘密》和《紅魔鬼的寶藏》，在預告片段播放時，我已經覺得故事與原著相比，有翻天覆地的改變，今天去戲院一看果然如是，但三個獨立的故事融合一起卻出現新的化合作用，為《丁丁》系列帶來新感覺。
卡通、漫畫版的丁丁
《丁丁》（2011）電影版以電腦擬真模擬演出，漫畫、卡通中丁丁、米魯（Milou／Snowy，我還是接受不了雪雪這個譯名）經典的豆豉眼及哈迪船長的圈圈眼，統統變得有眼有珠。不過電影開始以非常巧妙的手法，向原作致敬－由平面丁丁與米魯的追逐，過渡至立體的擬人繪畫面，從漫畫的肖像把鏡頭轉移至 3D 模型！一般欣賞者可能忽略的，是開始時為丁丁畫像的街頭畫家，正是原作者 Hergé。
原作者在 Tintin in Congo 中的自畫像（人群右四）
電影開始的情節與《獨角獸的秘密》相似，不過由於電影中丁丁與船長並未相識，因此那艘模型船是丁丁自用，而非送禮。與丁丁爭奪模型的兩人也沒有分別，不過角色定位卻在暗地裡有所改變－Daniel Craig 飾演的 Mr. Sakharine 在原著中只是龍套，被人襲擊而失去模型船的受害人，電影中搖身一變成為了大壞蛋。導演和編劇團為了減省角色，把原著中的 Bird 兄弟這對歹角的戲份完全被刪掉。
Mr. Sakharine：「我本來只是可憐的被害者…」
丁丁被拐去的情節，則接了去《金螯蟹》與哈迪船長相遇的情節，船長發酒瘋、兩人被水上飛機追殺等情節，直至到達虛構的摩洛哥港口城鎮 Bagghar 前的故事都與原作大致相同，不過故事中間穿插著有關獨角獸的情節。船長憶述先人往事的地點從自己的家中改了去沙漠軍營，內容與漫畫一樣，不過動畫化再加上配音、配樂等輔助，令法蘭西 ‧ 哈迪與紅魔鬼之間的戰鬥更為緊張。
不能吃的沙律先生
原著中的中東鴉片販子 Mr. Salaad（電影字幕中譯為沙律先生）不再是歹角，而成為了音樂愛好者和工藝品收藏家，擁有第三艘獨角獸號的人。電影中所有發生在 Bagghar 的事情都是荷李活精英編寫的，卷軸爭奪戰、汽車追逐、飛簷走壁等緊湊的動作鏡頭一幕接一幕，叫人應接不暇。可惜，結尾部分回到歐洲城市港口那段得情節脫離了《丁丁》的精神。丁丁和船長的歷險故事，不乏遇上有生命危險的情況，但總不至脫離現實；電影壓軸戰的重型機械格鬥場面固然精彩，鋼條、鐵枝等倒下來卻壓不到主角卻實在太神奇，脫離了原作的精神。那個結尾可以說是電影的最高潮，亦可以說是整套電影的敗筆。
下一集仍然是海底冒險嗎？
本來以為電影會和原作一樣在三張卷軸重疊時完結，怎知還提前將原著中紅魔鬼的寶藏揭露出來（機關和原作一模一樣，不過位置則選擇得更巧妙），但他們仍為原著《Red Rackham’s Treasure》的故事留下一條尾巴，看來續集仍然是深海歷險記，我們亦可以期待看見「大聲公」船長遇上「聾耳陳」教授的有趣情節。
說字幕翻譯
中文字幕翻譯採用了相當口語化的翻譯，沒有細閱字幕因此不作批評。
我較為覺得可惜的是片中的小狗 Snowy（法：Milou）被翻譯為「雪雪」，用疊字為愛犬命名不是問題，但通常名字都要響亮才好聽，「雪雪」這個入聲疊字其實好難讀，而且用來呼喚狗兒一點也不好聽。
我認為既然《The Adventures of Tintin》中的 Tintin 採用了法語讀音「丁丁」，人名方面其實可與法文原著中的 Milou 看齊，譯為「米魯」，「魯」字以響音作結，說出來也比「雪雪」響亮！而且「雪雪」比較像小便的「噓噓」或燙傷後吹著手指發出的聲音，聯想實在不太好。
另外，Omar Ben Salaad 這位收藏家的名字以為「沙律」實在太惡搞了！翻譯能以廣東話口語翻譯字幕，應該不會不知道「沙律」在香港就是大陸所謂的「沙拉」！如果要避開這些搞笑的聯想，其實可以考慮翻譯為「沙勒」或「沙樂」。
