#goncharov patchka

[pasta-stuffed-possums]

Patchka the cat.

The scene (not sure from what version) where Patchka stands by Ice Pick Joe’s corpse, blood getting onto her fur, just breaks me. Such a loyal girl.

[its-blorbin-time]

so……….. I just watched Goncharov (1973) and NO ONE was gonna tell me that “kittypet” was a Goncharov reference (!???) and patchpelt’s character was created in honor of patchka and hawkfROSTS DEATH IS BLOW FOR BLOW PLAGIARIZED FROM ICE PICK JOE’S?????? my whole life was a lie I need to sit down

[quiddling]

doodles that made it to the goncharov discord but not here (aka al pacino with a gun)

[violetheart77]

. . .

PATCHKA OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY

Okay NOW the set’s complete!

[somethingpretentioussounding]

Everyone likes the really dramatic parts of Goncharov, but

When Ice Pick Joe is eating an ice cream cone and scratching Patchka’s neck as she licks the blood off of his ice pick, it’s just this unexpectedly lovely and quiet moment that more people should talk about.

[lunarhorrors]

patchka is the best character in the goncharov universe

[thathalloweengal]

The Epilogue is magnificent

Valery Michailov puffing on a fat blunt and playing with Patchka on a comfy sofa, while his little sister and her wife rebuild a clock together in their living room on Christmas Day is the absolute peak of cinema, and the perfect image to leave on before the credits roll.

[monotonouscigarette]

Just watched Goncharov for the first time and man, huh, that sure is a movie. I don‘t usually watch movies but it‘s pretty good, somehow made me feel nostalgic. Feel baited on the queer part, like it‘s really not THAT much, i still like that interpratation though.

Also Patchka is the greatest character ever created.

[its-blorbin-time]

was reading some old interviews and apparently they just didn’t give the cat playing patchka any lines or direction in the script and just let her improvise

[sirareyouthere]

(Goncharov spoilers! watch the movie first pls it's worth your time)

I don't know how much of an unpopular Goncharov opinion this is, but I think it's a fucking tragedy that they cut Felix Petrov from the 1973 movie. In the book, he's an old friend of Goncharov's and he adopts Patchka the cat after the death of Ice Pick Joe.

I admit that even in the original novel he was more of a background character and I understand you have to make some cuts, even for a movie that is longer than 3 hours. He did just exist to be a cat dad for Patchka, but... cat dad for Patchka

In a deeply philosophical story depicting an almost unbreakable cycle of violence, it was refreshing to see a character simply existing to take care of a fluffy animal.

[pantheracatluv1105]

Yall I have a new favourite film cat obviously you have the three kittens from the Aristocats movie...

And oliver from oliver and company

And of couse we cant forget live action cats like salem saberhagen

We also have my obscure personal fav jonsey from alien

And now I have one more catto to add to the gang patchka from the classic Goncharav. I only saw this movie a week ago but if anything happened to that cat I would have killed Goncharov myself Ice pick Joe had the right idea.

Look at her she is the just the cutest little thing.

[violetheart77]

@astrovoidy alerted me to an egregious omission that I hope you all can forgive me for not remedying sooner 😩

Also bonus Valery even though I’m not sure how much people actually talk about him since he’s the only one on the original poster that I haven’t done yet:

Realized after posting this one that I haven’t seen any Heart Locket gifs yet either smh what is this fandom even DOING

I wanna make one for Sofia too but haven’t had much luck finding good quality screencaps of her so if you’ve got any please feel free to share them!

[crazyw3irdo]

hello fellow tumblr users. i'm doing a 100 baby challenge in the sims 4 and naming every baby after tumblr related things. please give me some more ideas for future baby names

the founder of the challenge is david, named after david karp.

the children so far have been: crab, coppy, mop, plinko, eeby, deeby, ebony, dark'ness, dementia, raven, way, destiel, dashcon, ballpit

names i have planned: tumbeasts, superwholock, gold, plus, blaze, slug, goncharov, katya, andrey, ice pick joe, sofia, patchka, university, prom, island, georg, sharks, bus, sky, chocolate, hat, alexandria, genesis, silver, rabies, shoelaces, miku, binder, thomas, jefferson, officer, truffles and the last 13 babies will be the letters of kung pow penis + explosion

that is 59 names out of 100. anyone have any ideas for the other 41

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#5

For my own sanity

I'm trying to put together a list of the various versions of Goncharov (1973) screened throughout the last fifty years.

The four-and-a-half-hour film festival cut that even Scorsese felt was a rough draft

The US theatrical release in 1973

The 1973 European theatrical release with its extra half hour of footage

The 1973 Latin American dub with its extra half hour of different footage

The so-called Secret Reels that producer Domenico Procacci the Elder (not to be confused with the unrelated Italian filmmaker Domenic Procacci the Younger, who has only been active since the late 80s) used to screen at his fantastic, legendary drug-fueled parties in the 70s--these seem to be (at least one of) the source(s) of the deleted Goronchov/Andrey sex scene

The 1980 director's cut

The 1980s Soviet bootleg (which became so popular that it led to the 1993 re-envisioning)

Matteo's own controversial "Writer's Cut" (particularly complicated because apparently he never stopped editing and re-editing to fully achieve his personal vision--every time he screened the movie after 1975, privately or publicly, it had at least some minor differences and often incredibly large ones, with entire character arcs added or lost). At least one of these, my own personal favorite with the deleted second epilogue, was copied and got into general circulation on college campuses and whatnot

Also probably based on one of Matteo's cuts, the "Underground" cuts that were the basis of the Queer improv parties dating back at least to 1982

The first VHS release

The rare Betamax release with the extra Patchka scene

The post-Soviet edit 1993 "modernization" re-envisioning Gonchorov/Katya's backstory that was most Millennials' introduction to the movie

The butchered 90s broadcast TV airings (both of which cut vital plot points--such as Ice Pick Joe's lobotomy backstory--and were likely the reason an entire generation lost interest in the film)

The 1998 25th-anniversary director's cut (the one that The New Yorker famously panned with "It seems that Scorsese has forgotten his own movie")

The 40th-anniversary DVD release with six hours of additional footage

The recent gorgeously digitized Blu-ray release that included the nine-hour supercut and "Making Of" documentary (and probably inspired the Gonchorov renaissance)

The eagerly awaited upcoming 50th-anniversary Criterion edition that's rumored to incorporate the "Lost Reels" that Matteo, Scorsese, Al Pacino, and second assistant editor Mariana Lyudmila Manuali had kept private, as well as the distinct four hours of Patchka footage that the cinematographer filmed whenever he got bored.

And, of course, the crowdsourced Internet project to recover the "definitive" Gonchorov, incorporating most of the known footage as well as new home-filmed snippets from the private collections of minor players like Lynda Carter (in her first screen role as Dancer #2) and Henry Winkler (the busboy)--currently running twelve hours

Am I missing anything?

(Note: This list intentionally excludes the probably apocryphal student project that reframed the entire film from Valery's point of view--even if it actually exists and uses original footage, it can only be considered an homage to the full film and not an actual variant.)

292 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

#4

Well, this may be controversial but

I don't care if Chris Rock knew that Jada Pinkett Smith was struggling with alopecia. I don't care if he didn't know his joke was ableist.

Maybe we shouldn't be making fun of how people look even if they don't have a medical reason? Maybe it's bad if you're in a seventh-grade cafeteria, or in a comedy club with a hundred people, or kind of especially in the middle of a huge glamorous production airing live to millions (or even hundreds of millions) of people.

Maybe it's not funny ever to single someone out and try to humiliate them for how they look.

Maybe you deserve a slap for that.

433 notes - Posted March 28, 2022

#3

In the last two weeks alone, Trump's Supreme Court has:

Overturned Roe v. Wade.

Severely limited Miranda protections by ruling that citizens can't sue the cops who don't read them their Constitutional rights.

Expanded gun rights less than two months after schoolchildren were slaughtered and weeks after a racist shooting in a community supermarket, by striking down sensible New York gun control laws.

And now eviscerated the power of the EPA to do its job and try to protect against climate change by ruling it can't regulate emissions from power plants.

These "justices" are not only legislating from the bench and making decisions that are stripping human rights and WILL CAUSE DEATHS in opposition to decades of precedent (50 years for Roe, 60 for Miranda, 110 for the NY gun laws):

Many of them are unfit to serve.

Clarence Thomas's wife is an insurrectionist and election denier who is refusing to cooperate with the January 6 committee. Thomas has also not recused himself from decisions regarding the January 6 committee. He is married to a literal traitor to this country and has blatant conflict of interest. He MUST resign or be impeached and removed.

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the bench was rammed through the Senate despite credible accusations that he is a rapist (as well as possibly guilty of financial misconduct or crimes). Investigators refused to consider evidence. This investigation must be reopened, and if more evidence is presented (as I suspect it will be), he should be impeached, removed, and prosecuted.

Neil Gorsuch perjured himself in his Senate confirmation hearings about Roe. He said he recognized and respected it as the law of the land, yet last week he cosigned Alito's reactionary brief that claimed not only that Roe was not law, but that it never had been. Thus Gorsuch should be impeached, removed, and if possible prosecuted for lying under oath.

While I don't know of evidence that Amy Coney Barrett is legally unfit to serve (despite being a far-right-wing reactionary), her appointment was illegitimate under the Republicans' own arbitrary rules: they refused to even consider Obama's candidate for the Court after Scalia's death because it was "in an election year" although that was MARCH, then forced through Barrett's a WEEK before the election (and less than a month after RBG's death). Senate Republicans need to acknowledge that either her appointment or Gorsuch's was illegitimate (and McConnell should be censured for it).

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#2

It’s the day after an election, it’s still not clear who won, and Misha Collins is trending at number 1 on Tumblr.

What year is it again?

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[thathalloweengal]

Patchka Lives

Since this seems to be a trend now where we all explain what our favorite Goncharov moments are, I feel I have to bring up the fact that even with everyone in this movie who dies, and there is a lot, from Goncharov himself to Sister Theodora, despite all of this carnage and death, Patchka is alive and well and living with Sofia and Katya at the end, playing with a ball of string that one of them bought her as a little kitty Christmas present. My heart just explodes every time I watch the sapphic cut of the movie. This cat has seen terrible things, has been a party to acts of suffering and misery but now, like her new owners, she can retire from that life.

It does make me wonder about the rumor that in the director’s cut this might just be the last fantasy of Sofia as she dies but thankfully I will never have to know for certain because Scorsese is so insistant that none of his films have director’s cuts, even the ones that obviously do.