Big ups to Seventh Soldier for turning us on to some amazing Russian folk art. The fact that it depicts a few of our favorite superstars in the modern mythological pop culture stew is gravy.
Spiderman gropes!
The robot scene, however, is a mystery. Could it be the shiny purple Sentinels that warm the cockles of my heart? A boy can dream…
Hit that Russian madness and see if you can figure out who the legends are. Then run back here to the blog and translate for me. I will award my final copy of Parallax to the first person with a full list. Thanks.
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February 20, 2008 at 1:34 pm
1.)
2.) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3.) The Matrix
4.) Lord Of The Rings
5.)
6.) Spider-Man
7.) Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
8.) Harry Potter
9.) Swordfish
10.) Trainspotting
11.)
12.) Anaconda
13.) War of The Worlds
I honestly can’t figure out the other three, the first one just reminds me of the bear from Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ adverts.
February 20, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Trainspotting? Are you serious? That’s just crazy. I love it!
February 20, 2008 at 1:41 pm
11.) Farenheit 451
I’m 100% on that one. The other two missing ones I’d almost say 1 is King Kong, and 5 is a ploy to throw us off.
February 20, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Ahh…forgot they made a film of Fahrenheit 451.
No. 1, I would have expected something to show the scale of King Kong, instead of what looks like a carrot, which has led to me try and think of any movies where kids have turned into a bear or somesuch.
No. 5, could always be some crazy Russian film we’ve never seen.
February 20, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Okay, No.1 is Brother Bear, by Disney.
February 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm
The original source is here: http://hiero.ru/Akuaku/Lubki
If you feed that to Babelfish, you’ll get some further hints. “Анаконда” gets translated as “Anaconda”, obviously—but “Пластилин овец” (which seems to be Lord of the Rings) gets translated as “Plasticine of the Sheep”.
February 20, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Oh man, we need a card of that.
Plasticine of the Sheep for the win!
February 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Apparently, the crocodile one is ‘Sabantuy’. So I’m just going to go with ‘Crocodile Dundee’, thereby completing my list.
(Also, I figured Trainspotting due to the drinking and drugs involved, and the fact that one of the characters, Begbie, had an impressive moustache.)
February 20, 2008 at 3:44 pm
And here’s the completed list, 1 and 5 are both an obscure Russian TV show (links attached):
1.) Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=1523236) Watch for a bit and the man in the bear suit appears, and he’s really small.
2.) Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3.) The Matrix
4.) Lord Of The Rings
5.) Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena (http://www.truveo.com/Cheburashka-and-Crocodile-Gena/id/3841919538)
6.) Spider-Man
7.) Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
8.) Harry Potter
9.) Swordfish
10.) Trainspotting
11.) Farenheit 451
12.) Anaconda
13.) War of The Worlds
February 20, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Work won’t let me view such a “malicious” website. I so wanted to play. Oh well. It seems incredible from what I have read.
February 21, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I just found your site. That’s really cool stuff!
February 22, 2008 at 1:33 am
I suppose we should ask who wins the card?
I did get a large number of the films, but I would personally say TXC deserves it for finding out about that obscure Russian show.
February 23, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, I think Terminexchet gets the Parallax. But you will receive the Runner Up Surprise Pack.
And… I just changed the links to properly credit the artist. The list may be off now, and we have three more to find!!!