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Why are the russians all nuts?

posted 15 years ago by JaxSnyder
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I mean, the director had them all shouting for no reason (e.g. at the beginning when they were looking for the bathroom and that lady started yelling or when Jessie was knocking on the bathroom door to look for Roy) and their reaction is absurd - just because they are supposedly Russians, doesn't mean they're idiots too... wtf, I was really pissed at the way they had them behave... doesn't make any f sense! That's just another cretinous stereotype gone overboard...

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[–] Frostrose 14 years ago

I know. Americans seem incapable of having foreigners in movies without making them appear like morons, criminals or evil. It's a lot of stereotypes in the movie, but it was good anyhow.

[–] itsmymailaccount 14 years ago

Er, wasn't this a Spanish movie?

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[–] Wuchak (8100) 5 years ago

Americans seem incapable of having foreigners in movies without making them appear like morons, criminals or evil.

Except that it's not an American film. The credits clearly say that it's a joint UK/German/Spain/Lithuanian production.

[–] russellsolomon 14 years ago

Haha. I noticed this too.

When I was in Moscow, no one yelled at me like the Russians portrayed in this movie.

They did almost confiscate my camera at a train station in St. Petersburg, though. However, I guess I deserved it- I was being super touristy and snapping photos at everything.

I apologized, and the militsia officer gave me back my camera after thumbing through my photos on my digital screen! I guess he saw all the photos were touristy and I was not trying to steal top secret space plans or something like that....

[–] PVarjak 14 years ago

Actually, when I was in Russia, some of the guards etc. WERE like that. A friend taking a picture of a tower in Red Square angered a uniformed guard, who ran at us yelling. It was actually like something from a movie and somewhat comical. I mean there were lots of tourists taking pictures in one of Moscow's most touristy spots!

[–] russellsolomon 14 years ago

That's crazy!

Well, I forgot to mention. I was taking some pictures in the street, and a Russian policeman saw me from a two story window and opened the window and told me to stop...

[–] Tolsdorff 14 years ago

I'm surprised that the Hitman didn't react to the dab of Heroin that he tasted
when the Mother dolls containing dope were turned over to the two Narco Detectives.
Assuming it was being smuggled it was conceivably pure and probably very potent.
The Detective cracks open the tourist doll and dabs his finger into the brown powder and licks it, without any appreciable effect.

[–] chiponmashoulda 14 years ago

Heroin is most potent when sniffed, smoked or injected(highest potency as it goes directly into the blood stream). Ingestion takes a much much higher dose to get the desired affect. I hope that answers the question as to why a tiny amount of heroin on a man's pointing finger had no significant affects on his mental state.

[–] andrea-kathleen 14 years ago

I was in the westernized, modern part of Russia and I still got some of the random yelling that was depicted in the movie. Not much, mind you, but some. Usually, I don't think they were even really that pissed they just kind of yell. Like they'd be passionately shouting and seeming really angry, and then a few moments later after I tried to explain something in broken Russian, they'd be laughing and smiling and trying to help, then shouting again a few moments later.

I really don't think the movie was too overboard in that respect.

[–] jediknight67ii 14 years ago

Was Kolzak a perve? Did anyone catch a glipse of him sniffing Jessie's undies while he searching their luggage? What was his deal?

[–] Tchoutoye 14 years ago

The Russians are all nuts because the director is American.

Likewise, if a Russian director makes a movie situated in the US, like Aleksei Balabanov's Brat 2, the country is solely inhabited by prostitutes, black pimps and Russian speaking Slav immigrants.

[–] nutsberryfarm 12 years ago

vodka.

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