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Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession
There a lot of great Soviet Union films, that are still loved in Russia by the current generation. I would get tired just to enumerate the best ones. So I've chosen one to describe, as I saw it on the TV just before the New Year.
"Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession" film scenario is an adaptation of science fiction piece of Mikhail Bulgakov. The film is directed by Leonid Gaidai, a famous soviet comedy director.
Engineer Shurik (Alexander) works on construction of the time machine. His experiments comsume a lot of electricity, resulting in light is switched of in the whole house. Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha, the house manager, comes to Shurik to swear him. Shurik explains that he constructs the time machine and shows his experiment once again. It opens a portal to the neighbour's apartment. At that time there just was a thief George there and he is being very surprised. Of course, he said he is a neighbour's friend. The next try opens portal to the mid 16th century, to the palace of a tzar (the title of a king in the ancient Russia) Ivan the Terrible. A great mess occurs, tzar goes to the future, Bunsha and George go to the past and portal closes. And there is a fact: Ivan Bunsha looks exactly like Ivan the Terrible, as if they were twins. So they take each other's place. Faint and silly Bunsha becomes the tzar and cruel and vicious Ivan the Terrible becomes a house manager. How do they return to their own time?
There is one more thing. The full name of Ivan the Terrible (or Ivan IV) is Ivan Vasilievich Ryurik. So, both of Ivan Vasilievich changes their profession.
The film is very funny and interesting. It gave birth to many popular catch phrases that are still actively used. If you haven't seen it, you should go and see it now. You may find it by title "Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future", as it issued in US. So have a happy viewing!
And what Russian or Soviet films do you know?
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Philip K. Dick
In order to improve my English, I decided to read raw English books, without adaptation for students. Long ago I've tried to read some classics like Galsworthy or Kipling. And I could understand just a little. So, I thought, science fiction is the better choice for me.
Philip Dick is an american science fiction writer of the middle of the 20th century. He is not good as a writer. His books are not like stories, but more similar to reports. For me this is more advantage, as I am not good at English and I looking for simplified and straight language.
But Philip's stronger part is inventing stories, where space, time and consciousness are deeply entangled. Thus, there are many films shoot by his stories. You see, for exciting sci-fi film it is important to have an unsual, unpredictable storylines. My favourite films are "A Scanner Darkly" and "Blade Runner". There are also famous films like "Total Recall" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Minority Report" of Stephen Spielberg, "Screamers" with Peter "robocop" Weller and others.
And there are no my favourite books still, as I've read only five for now. I liked most the "Time out of joint" which story is very close to film "The Truman's show" with Jim Carrey.
And can you write in Russian about Russian books you've read?
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Travelling to Belgium
In December, my girfriend and I had a travel to Belgium. You see, my girflriend (her name is Yana) already was in Belgium for one day during her tour over Europe. She liked Belgium much more than another countries. So we decided to visit it again, now for a week. We didn't get a tour. We just bough tickets to plane, made a booking in a hotel in Brussels and Schengen visas ourselves.
We arrived Brussels at 22th of December. Our goal was to meet Catholic Christmas in Europe (in Russia people are usually Orthodox). We spent 3 days in Brussels and then then visited Bruges, Ghent and Antverp. Towns in Belgium are nice. They are calm, quiet. The architechture is great. There are beautiful medieval cathedrals, buildings of modern and Art Nouveau. In Bruges most of houses are from medieval and Renaissance. I think, there you can shoot failry tale films.
We visited different museums. Also in Ghent we were in castle and in Anverp we visited a great zoo near the railway station. And of course, we bought a lot of gifts for our friends and relatives. Belgium is famous for its chocolate and waffles, so we ate them by ourselves and brought home a little.
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