#kin dza dza

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Kin-dza-dza! [Кин-дза-дза!] (1986), dir. Georgiy Daneliya

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imagine you're going for bread and some crazy homeless guy tells you he's an alien and five seconds later you and a georgian student are teleported in a desert and a giant flying rusty bucket comes down and guy in a cage and his friend start making bird noises at you

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Koo!

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I recently went to Bristol to the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival to see a whole host of 70s, 80s, and 90s cult classics - like Speed, Stargate, Nikita, Outland, Timecop, Foxy Brown, and many more - on an IMAX-sized screen! Let's talk about all that and more!

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Chiquita, chiquita, chiquita, chiquita-CHA!

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Kin-dza-dza! (1986) dir. Georgiy Daneliya

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I can't fully prove it yet, but the universes of Half Life and the 1986 Soviet sci-fi movie "Kin-Dza-Dza" are connected.

Barney and Uef will drink together and be friends (at first)

You'll all see...

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do you think they've explored each other's bodies

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dersu uzala, akira kurosawa 1975

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what's your favourite music video with sci-fi vibes (or, if that's too specific, your favourite sci-fi movie)? and also what's your favourite character dynamic on lower decks? feel free to elaborate and/or pick more than one if you can't decide 😌

!!tysm for the ask:))

i don't have a favorite per se, but i'll link two sci fi productions that i think are really worth a watch, Mystery Of The Third Planet & Kin-Dza-Dza. Both are fully on youtube with english subtitles:)

this one is a comedy, but there is also some interesting social commentary going on, with how the protags are a Russian and a Georgian man. I've watched the first part, going to watch the second one soon, alltogether it's like 2 hours.

here i absolutely love the art and the soundtrack, it's a fun and short watch!

lower decks character dynamics

the dynamic between captain freeman and mariner. the complexity of their mother-daughter dynamic is sooooo

also rly love shax's and rutherford's interactions with basically everyone lmao!

thank youuu again

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Kin-Dza-Dza! (1986)

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film reviews: Kin-dza-dza!

Synopsis: A 1986 Soviet science fiction dystopian black comedy film about two earthlings who get transported to a post-apocalyptic desert planet named Pluk in the Kin-dza-dza Galaxy, who must survive among the strange inhabitants while trying to get home. The planet is inhabited by Patzaks and Chatlanians, two species physically identical to humans who can communicate telepathically, and the only words they say out loud are “Koo”, which refers to all things good, and “Kyu”, which is a socially-acceptable expletive. Pluk is a Chatlanian planet, which means the Chatlanians are in charge and the Patzaks are socially inferior to them and must pay obeisance through strange rituals, but there are other planets in the system which are Patzak planets, where the social order is reversed. The two Earthlings, a Russian named Vladimir and a Georgian nicknamed The Fiddler (he is carrying someone else’s violin and cannot actually play it) team up with a Chatlanian/Patzak duo to try to raise the money necessary to buy a component needed to enable their flying ship for interplanetary travel in order to get back to Earth, and a sense of camaraderie develops between the four despite the Pluk duo abandoning the Earthlings and leaving them for dead multiple times.

Review: The Soviets were great at writing compelling serious films, but not so great at writing comedies. This movie is funnier than other Soviet comedies I’ve seen, in that it’s mildly funny while the others aren’t funny at all (perhaps Russian humor is very bleak and I just don’t get it?) but I wouldn’t watch this movie expecting laughs. It’s funny at the beginning, when the Earth duo first meet the Pluk duo in a hilariously weird first encounter, but the film soon loses its humor and takes a more serious bent as it shows the wasteland of the planet and the various inhabitants who live in hovels and eek out a living there. There are scenes where the Earth duo play the violin and sing, both very badly, in order to earn money, which are supposed to be funny, but they’re not funny. There’s also a scene where a Little Person walks through a crowd wearing yellow pants, which is a sign of social prestige on the planet, and everyone pays him respect. I think this is supposed to be funny because the idea of a Little Person receiving obeisance is seen as ridiculous, which is of course offensive. The last chunk of the movie loses the attempts at humor entirely and turns more into an action film as the Earth duo stage an insurrection to break the Pluk duo out of prison not once but twice, and they fly away to another planet for a respite whose population and atmosphere were both completely destroyed. I also thought it was uneven that the Pluk duo spend the first half of the movie abandoning the Earthlings three or four different times and otherwise helping them only reluctantly, and the Earthling duo spends the second half of the movie repeatedly trying to save them from eternal imprisonment despite their clear selfishness. The moral discrepancy is an odd choice from a writing standpoint and I would’ve liked the Pluk duo to “earn” their salvation in some small way at least, as they never abandon their selfish, mercantile ways for a moment.

From all the movies I’ve seen, a good general rule of thumb seems to be that the Soviets write better dramas, but the West writes better comedies. I don’t know, maybe watch the film if it sounds like an interesting science fiction film to you, but don’t watch it if you want a comedy, because it’s really a serious film and there’s very little that’s funny in it. It’s on YouTube, and you can watch it here.

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Kyu

I watched the cartoon "Koo! Kin-dza-dza " and GOD IT'S BEAUTIFUL. This is the gold of Russian animation, the cartoon was released relatively recently in 2013 and looks very good, I will not describe it, look for yourself, you will not regret it. I drew my favorite characters Bi and Uef, well, of course I liked Bi more (*^^*)