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The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. Image File history File links Tintin_cover_-_The_Castafiore_Emerald. ...
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Storyline
Captain Haddock and Tintin are walking through the countryside when they come across a Roma community camped in a garbage dump. They investigate and upon learning that the community chose that site on account of being forbidden by the police to use any other location, the Captain invites them to his grounds of his estate, Marlinspike, over the objections of his butler Nestor. Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
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Shortly afterwards, Bianca Castafiore, famous opera Diva and scourge of the Captain decides to invite herself to Marlinspike for a holiday. All manner of mayhem ensues. For some time, one of the marble steps leading to the foyer in Marlinspike Hall has had a plate-sized chip that Nestor has kept replacing while waiting for the repairman, who has been fobbing the Captain off. Upon hearing of Bianca's impending visit, Haddock rushes to pack for a trip to Italy, figuring that now would be a good time to visit that country, which he had always avoided precisely to avoid Bianca. In his haste Haddock misses the step, which, just moments before, he had been sanctimoniously warning Nestor and the others about. He sprains his ankle as a result. The doctor arrives, examines the Captain, and insists upon putting the foot and ankle in plaster (i.e., in a cast) while imposing a minimum of a fortnight's bedrest. Consequently, the Captain remains confined to a wheelchair for all but the last couple of pages. The Adventures of Tintin has several minor characters: General Alcazar General of the army of San Theodoros, Alcazar switches with comedic frequency between being president of the country and leading a rebellion to battle the government led by his arch-rival General Tapioca. ...
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Bianca arrives, bringing her entourage and a parrot for the Captain. The bird instantly takes a disliking to him, and its behaviour borders on the homicidal. Not unlike the parrots featured in Red Rackham's Treasure, the creature manages to pick up some of the Haddockian argot, much to the Captain's annoyance. He narrowly averts having to share his study with Bianca and her piano, managing to convince her to locate the instrument, along with her somewhat rebellious pianist Wagner, in the maritime gallery. Wagner, it turns out, indulges a penchant for gambling by making furtive runs into the local village to place bets. To add to the insult, two over-zealous reporters concoct a story in which Haddock and Castafiore intend to get married, and an avalanche of congratulations from friends from all over the world keep pouring in for several days.
A bit later, thanks to some careless talk and misunderstandings, Captain Haddock discovers to his horror that rumours that he is engaged to Castafiore have spread to the tabloids when two reporters turn up on his door. Then Castafiore's most prized jewel goes missing, and all eyes turn to the gypsies. But they are vindicated when, in a deliberately anti-climactic denouement, the culprit turns out to have been a magpie. As soon as the emerald is found, it is (temporarily) lost once again by the Thompson twins, only to be found again a few frames later by Snowy and called a "rock", underlining the fact that the emerald is merely a McGuffin for the whole story to happen, and is in itself meaningless. Beyond the opening with the initial encounter with the Roma at the landfill, the action never leaves the confines of the Marlinspike estate - all the adventures are decidedly domestic. The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ...
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Notes - ^ Tintinophile (French)
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