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intertribal) wrote2009-04-13 04:01 pm
intertribal) wrote2009-04-13 04:01 pm
and russia's like, "AAAH MOTHERLAND."
Oh, jeebus:
Taras Bulba, the 15th-century Cossack immortalized in Nikolai Gogol’s novel by that name, disdains peace talks as “womanish” and awes his men with speeches about the Russian soul. When Polish soldiers finally burn him at the stake, he roars out his faith in the Russian czar even as flames lick at his mustache.
OMG, according to this guy the Russian trailer says this: "Coming April 22 to all the theaters of our undefeatable country."
I don't think this is that trailer, but the movie looks pretty bad in my opinion.
Taras Bulba, the 15th-century Cossack immortalized in Nikolai Gogol’s novel by that name, disdains peace talks as “womanish” and awes his men with speeches about the Russian soul. When Polish soldiers finally burn him at the stake, he roars out his faith in the Russian czar even as flames lick at his mustache.
A lush $20 million film adaptation of the book was rolled out at a jam-packed premiere in Moscow on April 1, complete with rows of faux Cossacks on horseback. Vladimir V. Bortko’s movie, financed in part by the Russian Ministry of Culture, is a work of sword-rattling patriotism that moved some viewers in Moscow to tears.
At the heart of the film is great Russia. In the opening scene, Bulba, played by the extraordinary Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka, rallies his soldiers with a speech that was committed to memory by generations of Soviet schoolchildren: “No, brothers, to love as the Russian soul loves is to love not with the mind or anything else, but with all that God has given, all that is within you.”
Russians showed no such restraint. The premiere inspired viewers in Krasnodar to shave their heads into Cossack haircuts, and early this month Russian Fashion Week devoted an afternoon to a collection called Cossacks in the City.
At the film premiere in Moscow’s Kinoteatr Oktyabr, which seats 3,000, the audience applauded at Bulba’s “Russian soul” speech, and then again when the Cossacks thundered through western Ukraine, holding torches, to drive out the Poles. Among those who felt exaltation was an ultranationalist politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
“It’s better than a hundred books and a hundred lessons,” he told Vesti-TV after the premiere. “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”
All I can say to this is the obligatory "Personal Jesus"-North Korea video.“It’s better than a hundred books and a hundred lessons,” he told Vesti-TV after the premiere. “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”
OMG, according to this guy the Russian trailer says this: "Coming April 22 to all the theaters of our undefeatable country."
I don't think this is that trailer, but the movie looks pretty bad in my opinion.
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also, LOL: “No, brothers, to love as the Russian soul loves is to love not with the mind or anything else, but with all that God has given, all that is within you.”
and no wonder the Poles blame everything bad that happens on the Russians.
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seriously though. but I guess it's like 300 was to the Persians.
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i think the 300 comment went over my head...
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300 = movie about the heroic spartans holding off ancient persian empire (but not really, they just all died in the process). portrayed persians very badly - except in 300's case, it wasn't made by greeks. lots of CGI, comic-book-style.