#Ostap Bender

[destalva25]

Happy Birthday one of the greatest Soviet actor, Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov🥳🎉

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

Andrei Mironov as Ostap Bender

'The Twelve Chairs' (1976), dir. Mark Zakharov

[eng. sub.: episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4]

[welldonekhushi]

I was re-watching "The Twelve Chairs" directed by Leonid Gaidai with my classmate and for some reason I got to admit..

Ostap Bender is kinda..

*blushes and hides my face away* I CAN'T-- HE'S TOO FINE 🫣💕

[mugbearerscorner]

I was yesterday years old when I learned that Mel Brooks adapted one of my favorite Soviet satirical books, Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov. I found it, downloaded it, watched it, and it's very on par with Russian adaptations I've seen!

A 1 hr 40 mins movie of course cannot contain the entirety of the book's story, so Brooks had to carefully choose which parts of Ostap Bender's adventures made it to the screen, and I think he did his best and came out on the top.

The acting is superb, and Frank Langella feels like a fresh take on Ostap's whole image (the Soviet Ostap had a bunch of costume staples that migrated from one director to the next like peaked cap, striped jacket and a white scarf).

Ron Moody's Vorobyaninov seems to be about the same in both acting and costume, though his behavior grows more manic the further down the list of chairs they go.

Also, loved the alternative ending. Details under the cut.

Both endings see Vorobyaninov losing last grains of his dignity as he lashes out at Ostap, but originally he does so with a knife. Bender's fate is left intentionally dubious, especially given that he appears in the sequel novel called The Little Golden Calf.

In Brooks's version, Vorobyaninov also loses all his dignity but instead of attacking Ostap with a weapon, he resorts to the epileptic seizure trick Bender taught him in Yalta, which in turn draws Bender back in, reinvigorating their partnership.

I wish there was a second movie based on the sequel book, but Brooks never produced it and, since Vorobyaninov is nowhere to be seen in the original, it wouldn't mesh with the movie's ending.

[alysonsmandwes]

✨Recién me hice de unos marcadores de acrílico y, junto con mis colores, me dibujé un Ostap Bender de la vieja película Soviética "llamada Las 12 sillas" ✨

[heliphantie]

"Interplanetary chess tournament will culminate with total victory of Earthlings!"

(What Bruno, probably, would've spinning when he was getting pestered with demands of vague "futuristic prognoses" by village people.)

(February-March 2023.)

...I've put too much dedication into this arbitrary mash-up joke.

And that's the end of my personal Top-10 of the year of drawing from April 2022 to March 2023. You can see the rest under phantie first year top ten tag.

[lmaowh-at]

I feel like I have to post all of this here now

[baba-the-yagaa]

rip Ostap Bender, you would've loved ABBA

[rookswhirlwind]

read the actual book recently so i made them cats 👍 it works since one of them is nicknamed for one. funniest part of the book was just how intent these strangers were on going on a terrible adventure

[kolibrispacestation]

Hellooo I want to draw Bender but idk like in what setting/pose/context any requests?

draw him painting his nails while he’s sitting on one of Them Chairs

[baba-the-yagaa]

Of course you have blue ribbons and pronouns

a decorated general wearing dozens of medals and ribbons but when you go closer you realise that every single one is a pronoun pin

[lesfleursdumal77]

12 chairs and the golden calf brainrot

[suppenzeit]

I raise my white sail, forever so lonely,

against vessels of steel

[tashaaaa]

This sketch is open to everyone, because I love this movie and Ostap Bender

[luluxa]

Hi! May I ask for number 11 in the ask game?

I always love reading some international literature^^

11. favourite native writer/poet?

I'm very fond of Ilf and Petrov and their Ostap Bender novels

And as for the poet - and it causes a lot of nose wrinkling from other russians cos he's considered to be super basic school course kinda literature - but Sergei Yesenin . And when you read some of his easier, nature-themed poems at school, sure, he can come across blah, but then you read something like The Black Man (it's an english translation) as an adult - a poem about depression, alcoholism, self-hatred, suicide - and it really changes your perspective. Also, he sounds so melodic and beautiful in Russian, I just love the general flow of his poetic language.

[heliphantie]

El gran estratega.

The profession of soothsayer fits into category of relatively legal ways to make the population part with their money.