The Temple of the Sun

the Temple of the Sun ( adventures of Tintin: The Temple of the Sun , Hergé, 1949) is the 14th album of Cartoon of the adventures of Tintin . It is the continuation of the album the Seven Crystal balls .

Synopsis

The adventure started in the Seven Crystal balls continues here. Arrived at the Peru, Tintin and the Capitaine Haddock seek the Professor Tournesol…

Tintin finds it aboard Pachacamac cargo liner, but the kidnappers succeed in escaping to him. Tintin learns however that Tournesol was removed because it made a sacrilege (it temporarily carried the bracelet of a mummy) and that it will have for that to be put at death. While following the traces of the kidnappers of Sunflower, Tintin and Haddock learn the existence from the temple of the Sun, last reprocesses civilization INCA. They thus undertake the voyage in company of Zorrino, a young Indian Quechua. After having crossed the the Andes and the Amazon forest, they lead finally to the temple, but in their turn are made captive by Incas. Condemned to be sacrificed, the three companions are saved thanks to the plays of the chance and of the eclipse S. They leave the temple while promising never to reveal the existence of it, after having obtained from the chief of Incas that it puts an end to the curse which fell down on the seven explorers in the album the Seven Crystal balls . Thus, each one of them leaves its lethargy finally.

Analyzes

The problem of the eclipse

Hergé made an error (voluntary or not?) by claiming that the INCA S were not able to envisage the eclipse S. This error is all the more incomprehensible as those which it describes are in contact with the rest of the world and could not thus be unaware of the event. It summarized the thing by a joke: “I recognize that it is a black spot in this business”. On the other hand, its illustrations of the temples and the costumes are extremely faithful, being inspired in particular by the work of the indigenous chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.
To envisage an eclipse to make fear with an old civilization became a Cliché of the accounts of adventure, popularized in the American Culture by the novel a Yankee at the court of the king Arthur of Mark Twain.

This stereotype goes back to a real adventure which arrived at no one other that Christophe Colomb: February 29th 1504, at the time of its fourth voyage to the New World, the navigator, who was in Jamaica in a desperate plight vis-a-vis hostile Indigène S, benefitted from his knowledge of a total imminent moon eclipse to make them the prediction which it would make disappear the moon from the sky if they did not collaborate. Terrorized by the eclipse, the natives agreed to come to him to assistance. See Colomb and the providential eclipse.
This stereotype is sometimes parodied in other works of fiction, where the hero realizes that people whom it tries to deceive know well the eclipses, or the eclipse puts too much time to come because it envisages it badly, and even the absence of an eclipse to come.

Some time after the publication of the Temple of the Sun , Hergé accepted a letter of a child informing to him that it had made an error at the time of the scene of the eclipse. Indeed, taking into account the fact that the characters were in the Southern hemisphere and not in the northern Hemisphere, the eclipse would have to proceed in the opposite direction with that shown in the album.

Origins

The intrigue of the Temple of the sun comes largely from the novel of Gaston Leroux the Wife of the sun .

Adaptation

A redrawn album

This account was the first with being entirely published in the newspaper Tintin . Hergé tested a new page layout with Italian there, with the result that at the time of the setting in album in 1949, certain sequences were removed, as that where the Captain finds gold, and certain redrawn boxes. Edgar Pierre Jacobs helped Hergé to carry out this album.

Feature film of animation

Having obtained a good business success with the production of seven cartoons for television, the company Belvision launched out in the production of two feature films for the cinema. For first film, going back to 1969, the choice was made on the Temple of the sun which seemed well to lend itself to the passage to the screen and the contents of the 7 crystal balls were condensed at the beginning of film (" présenté" by a character resembling Hergé). For Tintin and the temple of the Sun, important technical means were deployed and Jacques Brel especially wrote a song for this film. However, of important transformations were brought by Greg to the original screenplay of Hergé, such as for example the addition of the character of the girl of the chief of Incas. The second feature film of animation was Tintin and the lake with the sharks .

Musical comedy

the Seven Crystal balls and the Temple of the Sun were adapted in a musical comedy, Tintin - the Temple of the Sun .

Animated series

This album was adapted in the animated series of 1992

See

Temple of the Sun

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