Captain Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock is a fictional character from the Adventures of Tintin comic book series, created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Captain Haddock became known in The Crab with the Golden Claws and little by little he gained prominence in the adventures of the reporter as Tintin's best friend. In his first appearance he was the captain of the ship Karabudjan , later becoming a wealthy landowner, after finding the Red Rackham treasure and becoming the owner of Moulinsart castle.
Characterization
After his initial appearance, Haddock gradually gained prominence throughout the albums. Hergé stated that the character was inspired by Edgar Pierre Jacobs, although the captain was created before these two men met.[<citation needed] Indeed, the This character's richness of traits can be compared to figures typical of novels: one of his characteristics is to act as a counterweight to Tintin thanks to his crude sarcasm, at times when the protagonist becomes too "idealistic".
The character's first name was not revealed to readers until the last album Hergé published, Tintin and the 'Rogues'; here the captain is introduced as Archibaldo (Archibald in the original version).
The captain is a descendant of another famous seaman, the knight Francis (François) de Hadoque, a sailor in the service of the King of France and a great enemy of the pirate Red Rackham.
Haddock tends to present a vocation for an old-fashioned gentleman, as opposed to a man of European high society,[citation needed] especially after the discovery of the treasure of his ancestors and his establishment in the castle of Moulinsart. Indeed, a whiskey and a good pipe near the fireplace seem to represent his deepest ideals of life.
Idealistic and with solid monarchical convictions, he represents the archetype of the knight of the sea.
Another of the characteristics of this character is his taste for alcohol (especially whiskey), although here we must differentiate between two clearly different stages of his life: before his encounter with Tintin, the sailor was a drunk worthy of pity, roughed up by his lieutenant Allan Thompson. After meeting the reporter, things change (although not immediately) for the captain, even if he doesn't always live up to his title of President of the Anti-Alcoholic Seamen's League.
However, it is his language that has made this character famous, especially the outbursts he launches in moments of anger: "troglodyte", "ectoplasm", &# 34;parasite", "carnival pirate" are just a few examples.
Surname and given name
In 1931, Hergé saw the film Captain Caddok, and in 1935, he decided to create a companion character to Tintin, although the author had already created the policemen Hernández and Fernández. In a conversation with his wife, Hergé inquired about what he had for dinner, and his wife said that a type of English fish called Haddock . He took until Tintin and the Rogues to have a name, Archibald , and in the Spanish translation, Archibald . Said name was mentioned again in the unfinished Tintin and the Art-Alpha.
Explosives
At the time of Captain Haddock's introduction to the series in 1940, the characterization of the character presented a problem for Hergé. As a rough sailor, Haddock needed to have an adequate vocabulary, but Hergé could not use thick words, since he knew that part of his reading public included children. The solution came when Hergé recalled around 1933, shortly after the Four Power Pact was signed, hearing a merchant use the expression "four power pact" like an insult. Struck by this use of an "irrelevant insult", Hergé had the captain use strange or esoteric words that were not really offensive, but which he would project with great anger, as if they were very serious insults. These words spanned a variety of areas, often related to specific terms from fields of scientific study.
The idea quickly took shape; the first appearance of the slang "Haddockian" It was in The Crab with the Golden Claws, when the captain confronts a band of Berber horsemen shouting expressions like "troglodyte" and "ectoplasm". This use of motley and original expletives proved to be successful and was a mainstay in future books. Consequently, Hergé began collecting such words to use in Haddock's outbursts, sometimes even looking in dictionaries for inspiration. As a result, Captain Haddock's insults began to include "bachi-bazuk", "visigodos", "kleptomaniac", "anacoluto", & #34;parasites", "vegetarians" and "ectomorph", among many others, but none can properly be considered an insult.
At one point, this scheme seemed to backfire. It was when Hergé made the captain yell the word "pneumothorax"; (a medical emergency caused by a collapsed lung). A week after the scene appeared in the Tintin magazine, Hergé received a letter from a father whose son was a huge Tintin fan and who had tuberculosis and had suffered a collapsed lung. According to the letter, the boy was devastated that his favorite comic made fun of his own condition. Hergé wrote an apology and removed the word from the comic. The letter was later discovered to be a forgery, written and sent by Hergé's friend and collaborator Jacques Van Melkebeke.[citation needed]
In addition to his famous insults, Captain Haddock's most famous utterances consist of various permutations of two phrases: A billion thousand thousand devils! and A billion lightning bolts and lightning! (or lightning and thunder). Haddock uses these expressions so much that Abdallah refers to him as A thousand thunderbolts.
Other appearances
- In The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn (2011), the character is played by Andy Serkis.
- Tintin and Haddock made an appearance in the tenth chapter of the 21st season The Simpsons: Once upon a time in Springfield. In the chapter he embraces his friend crying, when Princess Penelope sings in a restaurant in Paris.
- It also comes out in the book The tears of Shiva of César Mallorquí.
- A real-size resin statue of Captain Haddock was exhibited at the San Diego International Comic Convention in 2012.
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