#The twelve Chairs

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

Andrei Mironov as Ostap Bender

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

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

[lesfleursdumal77]

12 chairs and the golden calf brainrot

[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 🫣💕

[coffeb-u-n-n-y]

[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

[it-was-rose]

I’m curious so (please) reblog and put in the tags what your top three Doctors are… I wanna see something

[quietwingsinthesky]

now that my friend pointed it out i cant stop thinking about the design of the tardis in the tv movie because 1) it was gorgeous but 2) that was a home. that was his home. he had a chair to lounge in and a record player. seeing the tardis in the tv show, that one huge console room, bigger on the inside and yeah, it’s impressive but it’s functional. (i’m assuming this is a budget thing, because it would probably be extremely impractical to have the kind of set they put together for the tv movie for every episode of an actual show lmao.)

there’s just something so. i think it’s the first time i’ve really looked at the doctor in the tardis and thought, right, he lives in there. rather than it just being his car. it is very funny to think of the doctor as a guy living out of his shitty van, but no, the tardis can be a home. it can be warm and comfy and full of knick-knacks.

[wilsonthemoose]

Well, as fate would have it, I adopted two boys, and they grew up great. They grew up heroes. Dean and Garth.

[tea-time-terrier]

Are there any fun coloured vests with pockets for the tools of dog training (12lbs of snacks)?

Multi-coloured cargo/utility vests that maybe hurt your vision?

[orangetintedglasses]

( okay but... the way he sits in this mount is literally perfect )

[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.

[coffeb-u-n-n-y]

[heliphantie]

El gran estratega.

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

[oceanwithinsblog]

THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF S9 OMG YOU GAYS WTH I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR ALL THIS GREATNESS AND ICONICITY (??)