#seven years in tibet

[lupinmoonlights]

Everyone watching Seven Years in Tibet because of Brad Pitt but I watched it because of David. Fun fact: this movie also had David banned from China.

[goblinpuppy35]

David Thewlis

Seven Years in Tibet - 1997

(Part 12/4)

[snathark]

My familiar bay where I can rest in this chaotic everything is the Seven Years in Tibet movie.

I wanted to make a couple of sketches when watched it recently.

[randomlittleimp]

Watching Seven Years in Tibet. Never actually seen it before

[milllewska]

[kalbe-masalsi-bir-dokunus]

Eğer savaşacak kadar güçlü değilsen, düşmanı kucaklamalısın. Her iki kolu da sana sarılı iken, silahını sana doğrultamaz.

[skulsakz]

seven years in tibet, 1997

[themoonismelting]

Seven Years in Tibet (1997), USA - set in Tibet

[marcospevensie2]

[guerrilla-operator]

David Bowie // Seven Years in Tibet

I praise to you Nothing ever goes away

[xxx109bradpittfanxxx109]

Seven Years In Tibet Time Baby WOOOO!

To go with my baguette, I wanted to try Tibetan butter tea, just like Brad drinks in Seven Years in Tibet, and I found a recipe that has the traditional recipe and the recipe for outside of Tibet so that everyone can be just like Brad.

[goblinpuppy35]

David Thewlis

Seven Years in Tibet - 1997

(Part 11/4)

[pampin-oscar]

Seven Years in Tibet

Siete años en el Tíbet

[rastronomicals]

7:51 PM EDT April 11, 2024:

David Bowie - "Seven Years In Tibet (Mandarin Version)" From the album Earthling (February 3, 1997)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[bowieography]

Seven Years In Tibet (1997)

[aboardthescheherazade]

The Tintin Timeline

So the Tintin canon continuity is, uh, a mess. It's a "floating timeline" specifically, which is a literary term for when serialized media takes place during the present of whenever it's being worked on. However, nobody seems to have taken a look at the exact timeline within the canon, and exactly how long the stories take place within Tintin's life. All of the following data is approximate, with most of it taken from the setting boxes (i.e. "Two days later") and by studying how many nights pass within each story.

A quick note: Certain spans of time in the book are designated with vague quantifiers, such as “several” or “a few”. However, 7 days is always designated with “a week”. I explain my estimation where necessary, but I usually see the former spans as being within 3-5 days. Again, these are all approximations and I am not claiming any sort of canon declaration; these are presented for entertainment purposes.

Land of the Soviets: 9 days

Congo: 22 days (Tintin spends at least 17 days in the Congo, while his journey there on the boat is said to take “several days”. Given the mode of transport and the distance, I have estimated it as being about 5 days.)

America: approx. 3 weeks (20-23 days)

Cigars: approx. 2 weeks (15-18 days)

Blue Lotus: approx. 4 weeks (25-30 days)

The Broken Ear: approx. 6 weeks (39-42 days)

Black Island: 7 days

Ottokar: approx. 2 weeks (14-15 days)

Crab: approx. 2 weeks (13-14 days)

Shooting Star: approx. 5 weeks (the main story elapses over 20 days; the last page has a scene “some weeks” later, which I interpreted as a fortnight)

Unicorn: approx. 10 days

Rackham: approx. 48 days (The main story seems to elapse over 45 days, and the last page seems to happen some days later)

Seven Crystal Balls: 9 days

Prisoners of the Sun: at least 41 (there are three unaccounted-for periods, when 1. Tintin’s group is climbing the mountains [“days go by” until “one morning”, which I interpreted as being at least 3 days], 2. when they trek through the jungle [”the days go by”, again 3 days], and 3. at the end of the book [”several days later”, interpreted as 6 days])

Black Gold: approx. 27 days (13 days + “some weeks” estimated as a fortnight. The ensuing album opens with Haddock and Tintin returning home, where they hear Calculus has been gone since three weeks before)

Destination Moon: approx. 144 days (This one has the larges jumps in time. The first 36 pages happen over 41 days, then “some months” pass, estimated at 3)

Explorers: 10 days

Calculus Affair: 11 days

Red Sea Sharks: 30 days

Tibet: 33 days

Castafiore Emerald: at least 21 days (there are 18 accounted-for days, and then a period indicated just with “The days go by”. Given how most time lapses in the book are spans of 3 days, this period was at least three days long as well)

Flight 714 to Sydney: 1 day + 7 days (main story; pages 60-62 take place about a week later)

Picaros: 15 days

Total: The events of the The Adventures of Tintin take place over approximately 613 days.

But is it a linear timeline? We have no word on how much time passes between each album, but we’ll add at least one week between each one - except for America/Cigars/Lotus, Destination/Explorers, Crystal/Prisoners, and Unicorn/Rackham - just to give each album’s settings enough time to transition into a new story. This gives us an additional 17 weeks (17 x 7 days). With all of this calculated together, the series happens over the course of approximately 2 years, 2 days...at least, according to a bored fan who likes to count (ง ื▿ ื)ว