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The following illustrations by artist Andrey Kuznetsov envision Hollywood blockbusters as Russian folk fairy tales. I was going to label them all, but thought, why not see how fast our readers can figure them out? To make things easier, we’ve numbered each illustration, so answer them in the comments accordingly.
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February 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I can’t tell what some of them are. Label them please.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
1. War Of The Worlds
4. Harry Potter
8. The Matrix
10. Spider-Man
12. Terminator
14. Star Wars (Episode IV or V)
February 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
LOL.
This is why I love being a Russian.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anaconda’s : Hunt for the blood Orchid
3. ?
4. Harry Potter
5. Karate Kid
6. Lord of the Rings
7. ?
8. The Matrix
9. ?
10. Spiderman
11. ?
12. The Terminator
13.
14. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
15. ?
February 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
hmmm… I see the Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Spiderman for sure and have a few guesses on some others: Fahrenheit 451 (not a “hollywood blockbuster” but a classic nonetheless)? Princess Bride? Terminator? Dances With Wolves?
LOL - this is fantastic, thanks for sharing!
February 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
How is anaconda search for the blood orchid a blockbuster? That makes no sense.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
1. War of the Worlds
4. Harry Potter
5. Fight Club?
8. the Matrix
9. Spider-Man
12. The Terminator
14. Star Wars saga
February 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
3. Fahrenheit 451
February 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
#6 is Lotr…
February 19th, 2008 at 11:34 am
15. Dances With Wolves
What the heck is 11… driving me nuts…
February 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
5. Fight club
February 19th, 2008 at 11:39 am
could 13 be one of the Jason Bourne movies? Notice the USB in his other hand like he’s going to steal info on the computer
February 19th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Isn’t 5 some Claude van Damme movie? Kickboxer? I remember him doing the chair thing there. I haven’t ever seen any of his movies though.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:46 am
1. War of the Worlds
2. Pirates of the Caribbean (could be wrong)
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry Potter
6. Lord of the Rings
8. The Matrix
10. Spiderman
12. Terminator 3
14. Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back
rest im not sure about
February 19th, 2008 at 11:56 am
11. Trainspotting
February 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
1 War of the Worlds
2 ?
3 Farenheight 451 or 951 (can’t remember the number lol)
4 Harry Potter
5 Blood Sport
6 Lord of the Rings
7 ?
8 The Matrix
9 ?
10 Spiderman
11 ?
12 Terminator (most likely part 2)
13 ?
14 Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
15 Beowulf
February 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
These all have years listed on them. It’s not older movies like Dances with Wolves or anything, they are all from 2003 or later. The star wars one has to be attack of the clones.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
This drawings were made in style of peoples printings from the 17th century, written in Old Russian. This style is called “Lubok”. (My girlfriend does also same paintings for money, she’s russian).
1- War of the Worlds
2- Anaconda?
3- Couldn’t identify, but, it’s about printing books with dirty contents. Over the grandma it’s written “holly simplicity” for someone with a lot of ingeniousness.
4- Harry Potter
5- Couldn’t guess, but it’s about Van Damme getting drunk and fighting against his own double. The erased part it’s about he doing the splits on two chairs, he plunges his (erased) Johnson into the earth, being pinned to it.
6- The Lord of the Rings
7- That’s Crocodile Gena a typical Russian puppet animation film character, it’s written that he’s wearing a German hut.
8- Matrix
9- That’s Tchiborashka, Crocodile Gena’s friend.
10- Spiderman
11- Couldn’t guess, but it’s written about someone who came to sell crap and stuff (drugs?) from oversee to the little town, but the people answered that they don’t need this, cause they are happy with their beer.
12 - The Terminator (2)
13 - Dunno, but it’s somehow written that he bought all this technical things and doesn’t know where to put the Memory Stick.
14- Star Wars
15- Couldn’t guess, it’s about a Harley Davidson driver that bought a German helmet (Prussian style) and leather pants with silver buckles, and stole the wolfs tail. To calm the wolfs pain he gave him beer.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Bill, I think the year indicates when the piece of art was made, not necessarily the year of the film…
Beowulf is a good guess for 15, but I’m sticking with Dances With Wolves… LOL
February 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
to add onto my list from above… #9 Lilo and Stitch
February 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
yea lily I do think it’s more likely to be Dances with Wolves now but I’m gonna stick with my initial reaction lol
February 19th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anaconda
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry Potter
5. Double Impact (Twin Jean Claude Van Dammes)
6. Lord of the Rings
7. Jurassic Park???
8. The Matrix
9. Curious George???
10. Spiderman
11. Swingers???
12. Terminator 2
13. Hackers
14. Star Wars
15. Dances with Wolves
February 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anaconda
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry Potter
5. Fight Club or maybe Kick Boxer
6. LOTR
7. Lake Placid?
8. The Matrix
9. E.T.
10. Spider-man
11. Back to the Future
12. Terminator
13. Office Space
14. Star Wars
15. Dances with Wolves
February 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
That was fun give us the names already.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Some have said 5 is Double Impact but it’s about 50/50 for that or blood sport because he doesn’t do the chair thing in Double Impact
February 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
why would 11 be back to the future?
February 19th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Actualy, these drawnings were made from Russian MTV Movie Awards 2007 with Pamela Anderson as special guest.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I hope #11 is Weekend at Bernie’s.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
# 9 where the wild things are?
February 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
OMG this is genious! I WANT THEM
February 19th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Frodo is giving us the finger!! LOL!!
February 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Guys, 5th movie is Replicant (2001). I live in Ukraine, but even I know it :).
By the way, not all pictures are about movies. Horisontal ones are just about life in Russia:)
February 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
What Kiko says..
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
3. Fahrenheit 451?
4. Harry Potter
5. Double Impact (or Replicant)
6. Lord of the Rings
7. Crocodile Gena
8. The Matrix
9. Cheburashka
10. Spiderman
11. Korobeynik??
12. Terminator 2 (or 3)
13. Anikejka??
14. Star Wars
15. ?
February 19th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I’d say 13 is Mission Impossible.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Lovely art- is number 11 perhaps Weekend at Bernie’s?
February 19th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Looks like Harry Potter’s getting thwacked in the nuts with that broom, LOL
February 19th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Am I the only one that thinks #15 is “Brotherhood of the Wolf”?
February 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
#5 my vote is for Fight Club (after all, the main character “fights” himself)
could #7 be Aladdin? (that may be a lamp)
#9 King Kong? E.T.?
#13 Mission Impossible?
damn…we need someone who can read this!
February 20th, 2008 at 4:15 am
1. war of the worlds
2. anacondas hunt for the blood orchaid
3. ?
4. harry potter
5. probably fight club
6. lord of the rings
7. corcodile dundee or jurasic park
8. matrix
9. e.t or king kong
10. spider-man
11. trainspotting
12. terminator
13. mission impossible
14. star wars
15. dances with wolves
February 20th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Weekend at Bernie’s wasn’t really much of a blockbuster.
February 20th, 2008 at 7:52 am
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
3. Not movie
4. Harry Potter
5. Double Impact (”double Van Damme” in text)
6. Lord of the Rings
7. Crocodile Gena from Cheburashka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_Gena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201520/
8. The Matrix
9. Cheburashka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201520/
10. Spiderman
11. not movie
12. Terminator 2 (or 3)
13. not movie?
14. Star Wars
15. not movie? (probably “Harley Davidson and Marlboro Kid”)
February 20th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Andrey Kuznetsov - russian artist and animator
http://hiero.ru/Akuaku/Lubki
http://www.animator.ru/db/index.phtml?p=show_person&pid=157
http://www.artlebedev.ru/everything/illustrations/akuaku/
February 20th, 2008 at 10:58 am
1. War of the worlds
2. ?
3 Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry potter
5. Blood sport ?
6. Lord of the Rings
7. ?
8. Matrix
9. ?
10. Spiderman
11. ?
12. Terminator
13. ?
14. Star Wars
15. ?
February 20th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
so are you ever planning on revealing what they really are? lol
February 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
1) The War Of The World
2) Anaconda
3) Fahrenheit 9/11
4) Harry Potter
5) Double Impact
6) Lord Of The Rings
7) Crocodile Dundee
8) The Matrix
9) The Jungle Book
10) Spider-Man
11) Trainspotting
12) The Terminator
13) Hackers
14) Star Wars
15) Dances With Wolves
February 20th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
#2 is definitely Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid. That’s an orchid in the guy’s hand and the lead female was blonde. Yes, not a LOTR-size blockbuster, but there it is.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I think the 15 is Wild Hogs
February 21st, 2008 at 3:43 am
I think:
3. Equilibrium
February 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I like the idea of #5 as Fight Club.
Remember…
Police Officer: “You said that if anyone ever interferes with Project Mayhem, even you, we gotta get his balls.”
Just a thought.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
1. War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise version)
2. Anaconda - Blood Orchid
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry Potter (not enough info for which movie)
5. Double Impact or Replicant
6. Lord of the Rings - Two Towers
7. Crocodile Dundee
8. The Matrix
9. E.T.
10 Spiderman
11. Weekend at Bernie’s or Trainspotting
12. The Terminator
13. Mission Impossible
14. Star Wars - Empire Strikes back (why Luke and Chewie)
15. Dances with Wolves
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I think #9 is Planet of the Apes! :-o
February 26th, 2008 at 1:23 am
All this Orchid talks make me think that #2 is Adaptation.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:59 am
This is all too easy if you know Russian culture, but did you know that Tchiborashka “#9″ was the inspiration for Pokemon. And what about all the other Russian fairy tales like Buratino (Russian Pinocchio) and the Russian version of Winnie Pooh and Carlson and Nu Pogodi and Chipolino (which was also the inspiration for VeggieTales) and the classics like Ruslan and Ludmila and The Snow Maiden and Swan Lake and The Nut Cracker. God….The list can go on forever, Russia is the King of fairy tales, the United States can’t even compare.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:44 am
1. War of the Worlds
2. Anaconda
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Harry Potter
5. Fight Club
6. Lord of the Rings
7. Jurassic Park
8. The Matrix
9. E.T.
10 Spiderman
11. Trainspotting
12. The Terminator
13. Mission Impossible
14. Star Wars
15. Easy Rider
February 26th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
5. Bloodsport, he does that leg thing loads in the film
February 26th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Also they’re all Hollywood Blockbusters. He might have used Russian Characters, for example 9, but the answer is still gonna be a Hollywood Blockbuster, Like King Kong rather than Tchiborashka
February 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
15 is definitly pinocchio. They turn into asses, theres the alchohol and a pool table, I don’t see a cricket, but oh well.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I agreed with most of the suggestions (though didn’t see dances with wolves, king kong or ET)
11) Lorenzo’s Oil?
13) Johnny Mnemonic?
Fucking post the real answers already!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
OK, my two kopeks:
1) War of the Worlds
2) Anaconda
3) Farrenheit 451
4) Harry Potter and the [Insert Back End of Title Here]
5) Double Impact
6) LOTR
7) Crock Dundee
8) Matrix
9) Stuart Little (OK, I’m desperate here…)
10) Spider-Man
11) Trainspotting
12) Terminator
13) Sneakers
14) Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
15) Dances With Wolves
Frustrating yet fun? DA!
February 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
11. Could also be Cannonball Run (there’s a crazy doctor that like to administer drugs and there is also a butt-load of drunk people in the move)
February 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am
9. blair witch
February 29th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Where are the “correct” answers??
February 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
If anybody can translate Archaic Russian
the answers are here:
http://www.hiero.ru/Akuaku/Lubki?gallery
http://www.hiero.ru/Akuaku/Lubki/gallery
February 29th, 2008 at 11:22 am
the problem is that answers are translated to russian movie titles.. which might not be a direct translation. Plus, some of these movies can be russian as well.
I can read russian but still cant make out many of these.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Can you please either give a link for the answers or post the answers?
thanks
June 14th, 2008 at 6:57 am
#5 = Drunken Master, the Jackie Chan movie?