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In Reply to: Hey Victor, a question about Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky". posted by TAFKA Steve on August 4, 1999 at 15:34:21:
My memory would have to go back at least 30 years or so, but I always must have seen it ten or mote times. The joke the old man tells Alexander is about a fox and a hare. The hare managed to catch the fox in the fork of a tree and then proceeded to molest her (you should know that in Russian by default the fox is most definitely feminine and the hare masculine). We only hear the last part of the joke.That gives Alexander the idea on how to catch the Germans in pincers and then destroy them from, you guessed it, behind.
In the Soviet movies any story like that one had to be told VERY carefully - no three, four letter or longer bad words (bad words in Russian come in different sizes) were even considered and any hint at sexuality was severely frowned upon. The joke was not cut probably because it had direct relation to the action later in the movie.
A good movie.
Victor.
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Follow Ups
- That was a hare.. - Victor Khomenko 16:19:26 08/04/99 (4)
- Thanks for the explanation, and the cultural insight! - TAFKA Steve 19:49:16 08/04/99 (3)
- How many students can fit in one WEGA? - Victor Khomenko 10:15:57 08/05/99 (2)
- Re: How many students can fit in one WEGA? - TAFKA Steve 16:29:10 08/05/99 (1)
- Not too many in Samsung - Victor Khomenko 07:57:11 08/06/99 (0)
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