Land of Black Gold: Difference between revisions

In the original versions, Tintin arrived at [[Haifa]] in [[Mandatory Palestine|British-occupied Palestine]], where he was arrested by British police before being captured by members of the [[Zionism|Zionist]] terrorist organization the [[Irgun]], who mistake him for one of their own agents (named "Finkelstein" in the first version, "Salomon Goldstein" in the second), before being abducted by a henchman of Bab El Ehr. In this revised version, Tintin arrives at Khemkhah in Khemed, where he is arrested by the Arab military police before being captured and taken directly to Bab El Ehr.{{sfnm|1a1=Farr|1y=2001|1p=129|2a1=Lofficier|2a2=Lofficier|2y=2002|2p=62}} The inclusion of forces from the British Palestinian Mandate and the Irgun were no longer seen as relevant and thus were removed from the story, including the characters of the British officers Commandant [''[[sic]]''] Thorpe and Lieutenant Edwards (respectively responsible for the Thompsons' detainment and release, and the arresting of the Irgun agents who kidnapped Tintin).{{sfn|Farr|2001|p=130}}{{sfn|Lofficier|Lofficier|2002|p=60}} These changes were also applied to a scene which a [[Supermarine Spitfire]] drops propaganda leaflets on Bab El Ehr's camp: in the earlier versions, the plane is British and Bab El Ehr threatens to shoot anyone who reads the leaflets; in the revised scene, the plane is from an unidentified rival Arabic nation and Bab El Ehr laughs off the bombardment as his men are illiterate.<ref name=versions>{{cite web|url=http://dardel.info/tintin/variantesE.html|title=Tintin: Variations|publisher=Tintin's cars|accessdateaccess-date=2020-01-26}}</ref> As a result of the truncation of Tintin's kidnapping, which now occurs two pages earlier than in the second version, the Thompsons' crash into a palm tree in the desert now takes place after the aforementioned scene.{{sfn|Farr|2001|p=130}} Background details was changed accordingly, with Jewish shop fronts with Hebrew signage being removed,{{sfn|Farr|2001|p=129}} and the nonsensical pseudo-Arabic script from the earlier versions was replaced with real Arabic text.{{sfn|Farr|2001|p=130}} The political rivalry between Britain and Germany that was present in the earlier versions was also toned down.{{sfn|Farr|2001|p=130}}

* {{cite book |title=The Metamorphoses of Tintin, or Tintin for Adults |last=Apostolidès |first=Jean-Marie |author-link=Jean-Marie Apostolidès |others=Jocelyn Hoy (translator) |year=2010 |origyearorig-year=2006 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |isbn=978-0-8047-6031-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GiktoScv17oC }}

* {{cite book |title=Hergé, the Man Who Created Tintin |last=Assouline |first=Pierre |author-link=Pierre Assouline |others=Charles Ruas (translator) |year=2009 |origyearorig-year=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford and New York |isbn=978-0-19-539759-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsyEMjvdYJgC }}

* {{cite book |title=Land of Black Gold |last=Hergé |author-link=Hergé |year=1972 |origyearorig-year=1950 |others=Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner (translators) |publisher=Egmont |location=London |isbn=978-1-4052-0814-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0JCPgAACAAJ }}

* {{cite book |title=The Pocket Essential Tintin |last1=Lofficier |first1=Jean-Marc |last2=Lofficier |first2=Randy |authorlink1author-link1=Jean-Marc Lofficier |year=2002 |publisher=Pocket Essentials |location=Harpenden, Hertfordshire |isbn=978-1-904048-17-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kburngEACAAJ }}

* {{cite book |title=Hergé: Son of Tintin |last=Peeters |first=Benoît |author-link=Benoît Peeters |others=Tina A. Kover (translator) |year=2012 |origyearorig-year=2002 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, Maryland |isbn=978-1-4214-0454-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eS5v-F04AoQC }}