L to R: Jamie Bell as Tintin, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, producer Peter Jackson and director Steven Spielberg.
The press conference for THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN was held on Saturday, December 10th in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York's Columbus Circle, in a conference room offering a sweeping view of Central Park. On the panel sat director Steven Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy, special effects supervisor Joe Letteri, actor Jamie Bell (who plays the title character) and actor Nick Frost, who plays one of the two bumbling Thompson detectives.
There was an excitement in the air over the presence of one of — if not the — most influential directors of the last three decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. So while most questions were aimed at Spielberg, being the gracious man that he is, he would steer questions, attention and compliments to his co-panelists. (And the articulate and thoughtful director was so fascinating to listen to that I'm including many of his quotes in toto, with only a few snips here and there.)
The first question concerned the painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell. What inspired Spielberg's passion to collect his work, and how have his images inspired his films, especially TINTIN?
"Norman Rockwell has been one of my favorite artists over the years, and I was raised with [him], because when I was a kid we used to get the Saturday Evening Post… I realized the old cliché that one picture is worth a thousand words, which is really true with Rockwell. His images just spoke volumes about America, family, community, religion, faith… When I first started collecting art, the first art I collected was Rockwell. And [George Lucas and I] had a very successful exhibit at the Smithsonian. You probably are seeing images that remind you of Rockwell in TINTIN only because of… the color palette and because it's bright… Rockwell always painted very, very vivid paintings, and also because I will allow the camera sometimes in just a simple frame to say a lot about what’s going on inside the story."
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