#olsen banden

[vintagegeekculture]

One of the cleverest and most practical use of Lego in movies would be in the Danish comedic crime series, the "Olsen Gang" movies. A group of hapless thieves led by Egon Olsen, the Olsen Gang never use weapons or violence, and often use everyday items in clever ways in their robberies, like lego or balloons.

In "Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig" (1979), the Olsen Gang create a Lego device that is able to go up stairs and even open a door from the other side, created by the production team entirely out of real Lego toy parts, with no movie trickery whatsoever. The entire sequence is worth watching in its entirety.

Perhaps because of this astonishing sequence, and also because the Olsen Gang movies come from Denmark, home of Lego (and share Lego's whimsical and nonviolent ethos), the Lego community has a strange affection for the Olsen Gang films, often producing custom kits and figures of Egon Olsen, Benny, Kjeld, and Yvonne, along with his 1959 Chevrolet, and recreate entire scenes from the 14 movies in the series.

[shrubberiesaremytrade]

Here's the thing. I love Leverage. I really like The Scheherazade Job. I still think a comparatively low budget, grainy Danish comedy from the 70's pulled off the concept of a break in set to music way better.

Olsen Banden is about a gang of small time criminals who always end up stealing from the rich and powerful, and this sequence is one of the most famous from the 13 (I think?) film franchise. They are staging a heist during a performance of Elverhøj, a famous Danish piece, and the bit where all the posh people stand is Kong Christian stod ved højen mast, known as the royal anthem (the version with lyrics references a king bashing in the helmet and brains of Swedes. It's great).

See for yourself

[sekretesspad]

I've done absolutely nothing in october so as a treat here is the other obscure thing that is occupying my brain....... Benny my stupid cretin <3

another babygirl study, this time from the 9th olsenbande movie.. I dunno why I specifically love that one scene, he is just very silly :)

[eskilddood]

I sometimes think about this scene from "Olsen-Banden Over Alle Bjerge" (1981), where Egon disguises himself in this outfit and a surprisingly progressive joke (For the 80's) ensues

[europeanshowdown]

[applesins]

they tried to get rid of Egon Olsen in that place

[conallcurach]

Some sketches inspired by the movies Olsen-banden. They show some characters which I heavily stylized and took some outfit liberties on.

[tilbageidanmark]

MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK (#196):

4 UNUSUAL DOCUMENTARIES:

🍿 KEDI (2016) is a love song for a beautiful city and its wonderful stray animals. Istanbul is known for its millions of street cats who peacefully co-exist with the humans who manage to feed and care for them. [With one glaring negative: There's no mention of any attempts for spaying and neutering the huge population!]. (TRAILER ABOVE).

It's a very simple film, basically shot after shot of different people petting a lot of different cats. So it's charming and calming. 7/10. [*Female Director*]

🍿 JOE HISAISHI IN BUDOKAN, 25TH ANNIVERSARY STUDIO GHIBLI CONCERT, was unexpectedly my happiest movie experience of the week. It is my second real-life affair from Sunada Mami (After her other Ghibli bio-pic, 'The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness'). A magnificent 2008 concert with full orchestra and 2 large choruses, (with as many as 400+ musicians). They played for 2 hours bits from the many scores which Hisaishi had composed for the films of his friend Hayao Miyazaki. Simply magical. 9/10. [*Female Director*]

🍿 BALLYMANUS (2022) is an Irish documentary about a German sea mine that exploded on a remote beach in 1943 and which killed 19 youngsters of its small community. It's interesting mostly for the feel of the rustic village and its people, gently-told.

🍿 YOOPER CREOLES: FINNISH MUSIC IN MICHIGAN'S COPPER COUNTRY (2019) is about old traditions of folk music, which were developed by the many ethnic communities in the upper peninsula in Michigan. Part and continuation of the Alan Lomax archivist projects.

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SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (1948) was voted the best Chinese film of all time by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. It was made during the Chinese Civil War, but was a surprisingly modern, feminist tale of an unrequited love in a village setting. It's a love triangle with an obedient but unhappy wife, a bed ridden husband, and his doctor friend who comes for a first unplanned visit in 10 years. It's a small lyrical and intimate miracle, worth discovering. It reminded me very much of David Lean's simultaneous story 'Brief Encounter'.

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CONTINUING MY OCCUPATION WITH ISABELLE HUPPERT X 2:

🍿 My second film by Jean-Paul Salomé (after last week's 'Mama Weed'), THE SITTING DUCK (2022). Based on a true story, it's a feminist corporate thriller about a steel-willed top executive whistleblower, who was viciously attacked for her steadfastness. It's basically Huppert's movie. 7/10.

🍿 LOUDER THAN BOMBS, my 3rd uninspired drama by Joachim Trier, his first outside of his native Norway. It's a family drama about widower Gabriel Byrne, and his two sons, who are trying to come to grips with the suicide-by-car death of Isabelle Huppert, playing here a scarred war zone photographer. Unfocused alienation, dislocation, and miscommunication, it's about the difficult dynamics of feeling lost. 5/10.

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"A doctor?... The boy is drunk!...

YOU ARE NOT ALONE was a landmark coming-of-age story about 2 boys who fall in love at a Danish boarding school in 1978. It was controversial in that the relationship between the 12 and 16 year old boys were shown honestly and naturally in a Scandinavian style (nudity, kisses, genuine affection - but no explicit sex). Olsen Banden's Ove Sprogøe plays the strict 'bad guy' headmaster.

It gave me a shot of sentimental nostalgia for that exact time and place. Even though I was 12-15 older than the boys, it rang so true: I remember the clothing, hair styles, cars, roads and ice cream shops, the Kim Larsen songs, the moods and attitudes of that time. It's like re-living it again. Wow! 7/10.

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SORRY WE MISSED YOU (2019), my 6th (and probably last!) powerful gut-punch by British socialist Ken Loach. A fantastic piece of Neo-realist social drama, but one which is so-so depressing that it took me about a week to sit through it. I doubt I'll be able to follow up with more of the same. A working class family struggles mightily to stay floating above water, and is constantly defeated. Since the Reagan-Thatcher Axis of Evil, the infrastructure in England had been degraded as thoroughly as the one in the US, and the only option left for the ordinary poor is to go and fuck off. It's a dreary, anxiety-inducing nightmare of train-wrack coming toward us, unstoppable, merciless and uncaring. 8/10.

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2 FROM BRAZIL:

🍿 THE END OF MAN (1971) is an unusual and bizarro Brazilian low-budget religious fairy tale. A naked stranger with very long fingernails emerges out of the sea, 'Messiah'-like, to influence everybody he meets. It's made by a pioneer of Brazilian horror genre, in the local B-movies style called 'Mouth of Garbage Cinema'. It's like an early Jodorowsky but without the drugs and the philosophy and also without Alejandro's considerably-mad talents. 3/10.

🍿 ELETRODOMÉSTICA (2005), my 3rd by Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (After 'Bacurau' and 'Neighboring Sounds'). A stay at home housewife is going about her day, taking care of her 2 kids, cleaning and cooking, while also finding time to toke a hit of 'Mota' and to ride the spinning cycle of the washing machine for a quick release.... It's easy to recognize the same town as his first feature. Cute.

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First watch: Sam Packinpah's 1974 neo-Western BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA. A rough, desperate treasure hunter and his prostitute lover driving a beat-up jalopy to look for the head of a dead gigolo. Dirty Mexican mise-en-scène. Kris Kristofferson plays a raping biker-thug. 3/10

RIP, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON!

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“I love you with all my love...”

Grandiose genius Coppola directed my all-time favorite film ('The Conversation'), as well as my all-time favorite trilogy, so I was looking forward to finally see MEGALOPOLIS, his new end-of-life Opus Magnum. But this bloated, didactic, "operatic" epic about Shakespearean "Great men" like Cicero and Howard Roark and Cesar Catilina passed over my head until boredom come. The bullshit metaphors about the fall of the Roman Empire were indulgent and excessive. I can't see where did all the money go. I liked that Talia Shire played again the power-hungry matriarch, and I liked that Dinah Washington started singing 'What a different a day make' at a certain point, but otherwise, I had a hard time just finishing it.

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Stanley Kubrick directed only 12 features and 4 shorts during his 50-year career. FLYING PADRE (1951) was his second film. A documentary about a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico who flies his own Piper Cub plane to administer to his flock. It's told in voice-over, without actual sound.

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2 CANADIAN SHORTS:

🍿 PEEP SHOW, an early short (1981) by Canadian Atom Egoyan. A man at a photo booth tries to take some snapshots, but the photo booth misbehaves...

🍿 THE RIDE (1963), a Buster Keaton inspired joke of a chauffeur dreaming about a toboggan ride, while waiting for his employer. 4/10.

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My 2nd or 3rd re-watch of the very last episode of 'Succession'. With Open eyes, which is recognized now on some lists as the 'greatest TV episode of all time'. It's brutal all right, and proves to show that shoulder-slouching Kendall Roy was indeed a loser all along, a permanent Don Jr. Noted: It's interesting how the opening credit scene had been expanded from season to now. Also, how fluid and jerky was the camera work, full of "unfocused" blocking and cinéma vérité tricks. ♻️.

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TIM WALZ IS WALKING HIS RESCUE DOG and being interviewed by the guy from 'We rate dogs'. 17 wholesome minutes of a guy who's not weird. Cute!

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

[undeadvinyls]

please tell me there are any danish crk fans because i need to tell yall that calamari and his crew are literally olsen banden/the olsen gang in terms of vibes and all (they r pirate goofballs who cant do shit)

[sagasolejma]

this is going to sound mildly insane but you're danish, right? have you ever of the littlebelt bridge or the Olsen Gang. I think this isnt mildly insane anymore

Yes and yes?

Admittedly though I've only been over Lillebælt like, twice in my entire life and I've only ever watched 3 Olsen Banden movies cause honestly I kinda don't like them lmao

[hapalopus]

Benny fra Olsen-Banden var sådan lidt queer coded

[bareendnuenpige]

Jeg er ved at gro mit hår ud og det er efterhånden nået til under ørerne, så det begynder at ligne en kort page. Men er pludselig blevet ramt af en frygt for at komme til at ligne Børge fra Olsen Banden....

[sekretesspad]

one of prolly a few drawings I'll make that are basically studies but awesome because I just redraw screenshots of my babygirls... I hate studying oh but if you put jack mooney death in paradise in it you won me over. like a delicious piece of cheese in a mousetrap

chose this scene (from s07e07!) in particular because. why is he so radiant. so tranquil. he can be your angle... and my angle he is ❤

[ringetonerpro]

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[europeanshowdown]

WELCOME TO THE EUROPEAN SHOWDOWN ROUND ONE!!

yesss, it is finally time for the showdown to commence! i will be post 32 randomised matchups and i will be posting the first 8 at some point today!! i decided not to do the minor/major bracket since it was so much effort and my ass is still in school and i would rather do one big bracket.

ANYWAY, HERE ARE THE MATCHUPS:

red corner

1. Lukas Landmann (Check Please!) VS Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun)

2. Nina Markova (The Huntress) VS Mischa Bachinski (Ride the Cyclone)

3. Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s) VS Egon Olsen (Olsen Banden)

4. Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Tamaki Suoh (Ouran High School Host Club)

5. Francesca Caviglia (Violetta) VS Swedish Chef (The Muppets)

6. Adam Schürk (Tatort: Saarbrücken) VS Ton (Postcards from No Man’s Land)

7. Sasha Nein (Psychonauts) VS Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin)

8. Demoman (Team Fortress 2) VS Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)

blue corner

1. Kratos (God of War) VS Dracula (Dracula)

2. D'Artagnan (The Musketeers) VS Keigan Nicholas Keogh (Identity V)

3. Medic (Team Fortress 2) VS Wilhelm (Young Royals)

4. Hercule Poirot (Hercule Poirot novels) VS Stella Bremer (Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse)

5. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) VS The Bored Witch (Les Tres Bessones)

6. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) VS Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

7. Das Sandmännchen (Das Sandmännchen) VS Guido Mista (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

8. Jake English (Homestuck) VS Sanji (One Piece)

orange corner

1. Klaus Hoffmann (Das Boot) VS Hamlet (Hamlet)

2. The Narrator (Spongebob Squarepants) VS Sasha Waybright (Amphibia)

3. Cala Maria (Cuphead) VS Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

4. Victor Nikiforov (Yuri!!! On Ice) VS Sadie Kane (Kane Chronicles)

5. Glass Joe (Punch-Out!!) VS Snufkin (Moomin)

6. Reze (Chainsaw Man) VS Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives)

7. Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney) VS Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson)

8. Maria Tachibana (Sakura Wars) VS Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales)

green corner

1. Jean-Pierre Polnareff (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Liesel Meminger (The Book Theif)

2. Spy (Team Fortress 2) VS Boris (Woe.Begone)

3. Captain Georg von Trapp (The Sound of Music) VS Artemis Fowl II (Artemis Fowl)

4. Astérix (Astérix) VS Dancing Worms (Learn to Count in French Youtube Videos)

5. Kumohira Tobari ”Toby” Durandal (Nabari No Ou) VS Toki Wartooth (Metalocalypse)

6. Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking) VS Luca Balsa (Identity V)

7. Archibald Asparagus (Veggietales) VS Die Maus (Die Maus)

8. Caesar Zeppeli (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Madicken (Madicken)

with all that out of the way,, let the games begin!!

[fragglez]

i don't want to post pictures of people BUT i will let you know i saw the honorary queer icon herself Yvonne fra Olsen Banden 👒