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Can You Grout A Heated Floor
Vedma
's time to go back again in an obsessive-compulsive disorder on Viy the fantastic creature of folklore ukraino celebrated by Gogol in one of his novels. This time there are few shorts be made between films from different lands as I mentioned some time ago in my post, but rather must devote a few lines in this movie completely failed and flawed, even if it is strictly taxonomic most suitable material to a possible Russian Stracult rather than Ashiotronic. To your misfortune myself rarely turns away from its task of looking for interesting things in the most putrid swamps of cinema and because the poor Russians do not have their Marco Giusti here I am ready for action. That game is hard to face that I am ready to play and break the bones of course.
The film in question should be technically a true remake of the classic Russian which was the subject of my first publication, the inexplicable but is always around the corner in the world of cinema and probably more so than when the topic is supernatural witches and their friends. The fact is that the events of the story though formally retain their classical structure is completely eradicated, and move in an imaginary village in the hinterland American dall'improponibile name of Castle Town. Already the single change of the title says long pass from the initial "Вий: Во власти страха (Viy: the power of fear) to the final Vedma (Ведьма) not only denotes a fairly crude approach, but also will deliberately shift the focus on witch rather than the creature. While the original adaptation and the creature in the book itself was used as the final catalyst, a true deus ex machina, materialization of punishment for the mortal sin of the religious character, in this new version, the writer and director (Oleg Fesenko) decided to do not appear 1 .
also difficult to understand the management of co-production - Russian, Estonian and Finnish as I understand it - that was channeled to the neighboring Russian distributor Lizard Cinema Trade . Certainly the film was shot in Estonia in 2006 with a budget of 2 million and a half U.S. dollars spent, mostly in sixteen minutes of special effects, and apparently interpreted in English, why circulating in a mysterious dvd entitled Evil published in 2008 by the redoubtable Asylum for the United States. At first it seems even was not even intended to leave at home and this is why it was only with the bad dubbing English. What do you know so much about the move (commercial) to the genius Dario Argento by Russian authors and this can not help but inspire me in other human sympathy.
The most interesting thing about the film is precisely enter the immense cunning and shrewdness as a director and screenwriter who would cheat their customers with a foreign film from the plant Russian claiming to be a kind of Rural American horror. It looks like an operation of another era of cinemabis Italian, but is even more foolish than homegrown Homemade least that often showed good personality and creativity. Fesenko and co-writer Matushin tossed in. everything. So it is that the original film in this seminarian becomes a journalist who investigates strange happenings in Castle Town. It happens that there are classics in a rowdy redneck "Café" where we send our reporter. It happens that there meet a priest who carries around a cage with a chicken as if it did-exorcistic voodoo tradition. It happens in a riot of originality, as a narrative device that the torrential rain and a breakdown of the machine they do seek refuge in the isolated home of the witch. It happens that the journalist end up exchanging clothes with the priest for a series of events that I have absolutely no desire to tell. It happens that even throws in some little trace of the J-horror scenes of the permanence of the home so, just to add to the confusion. Then it was finally ready to move on to the classic story of the three nights of prayer in the church for the young girl killed by a stranger and this is bound to be a witch.
mean a detour of several light-years from the original story and then retrace their steps, and revive the strength of the classic '67. It also said it would seem an easy task, but the poor Fesenko is not the great Alexander Ptushko who had emphasized the great part of the previous adaptation. We should also say to his credit that is technical, but that seems to run dry as it was in Pascal Laugier Saint Ange. Dolly, crane and forklift circular infamy not save the lack of pace the film and this witch does not make us open your eyes wide in wonder as that played by Natalia Varley and even tries to seduce us as Branka Pujić reduction in Serbian . Not that this is a total failure because flights Yevgeniya Kryukov are beautiful and spectacular, just as they are sufficiently effective in the aforementioned special effects and some very nice choices of light, but the air we breathe is an opportunity failure. It looks like a film pulled away quickly, maybe even to anticipate the arrival of the three-part epic that will celebrate the creation of fantastic and Gogol in which it hopes will return the Viy monstrous in all its essence.
The absence of the eponymous monster is really unforgivable. It has been said as to Gogol, who was a fine moralist, represent precisely the punishment for the fallacy of Khoma seminarian in the novel of 1835. The absurd thing is that despite what the film is silly moralistic and lose the opportunity to renew, maybe modernize the story according to the Russian town feel of modern times. Instead Ivan, a journalist disguised as a priest, is forced to find the faith to they can be saved from the clutches of the witch and raise the wall of flames that will save him during the night. It is clear that he does not have a prey to some kind of self-doubt about their beliefs and devastating as the good Father Merrin from The Exorcist after finding the supernatural, but Fesenko neatly ignores this possible in the text and throwing herself in a sort of choice of convenience. Faith and saves you enough. Just try it, to believe in order to survive. This can not be said that the director has not been able to finally bring his much fabled horror from the foolish American system. It almost seems like having to account to the writer and intellectual Dmitrii Bykov that talks about the impossibility of making horror films in Russia in 3 ' article inspired precisely by the vision of this film. But I honestly still believe in the great possibilities of the imagination of the East instead of the illustrious pen.
Returning claims are many players in Estonian, Latvian and a Russian right players including the beautiful star Yevgeniya Kryukov (born 1971), so as to become beautiful girl of the month centerfold in Playboy's Russian, but not enough to be able to undermine the myth of the beautiful Natalia Varley that had preceded it in the same role in 1967. The other actors Valery Nikolaev is much more famous as it is a fairly regular presence in American productions that require the existence of some from Russia. We must say that it is also quite good and expressive, perhaps also because of the fact that he was more prepared to play their scenes in English 3. It falls a bit 'too much into a character instead of the most celebrated actors Estonian (Lembit Ulfsak) who plays an important part of the father of the witch, and that this adaptation is also the sheriff of the dreaded "County Police" in Castle Town. There is a beautiful sticker printed in letterpress with Times New Roman, and attacked the Russian side of a sedan that informs us that What caused some hilarity in the arc of vision. If it were not already enough to make arch an eyebrow over the use of vulgar stereotypes about Americans countrymen, like the aforementioned hicks's Café and dinner at the big table in the village together passionately, and then just sharpen the view 4 to chuckle a bit '. We only hope that after this is passed to Oleg Fesenko fantasy of being able to Americanize something totally alien to those lands.
1. It could also have happened that way since the primitive creature's presence was anticipated, but that was cut during the construction budget for obvious reasons. Other title circulated in pre-production is "Последняя молитва" (The last prayer) which is instead the explicit reference to the moralizing and deliriously in the text the finale.
2. In fact, this theory that the author tries to prove with more reasons, including the fact that in Russia should be afraid of the current reality and degradation than the rest of the world, although it is respectable and shows an excellent knowledge of the cinema fear of foreign sounds more like a speech critical of their homeland. Above all it is not even new because the lack of dissemination of this type of film in Russia was due to the fact that it was deemed unnecessary by the experts during the Soviet period. In this regard you can read some details here .
3. Roles for him in other works Stracult category as The Saint of Noyce and U-Turn to Stone, but the likeable actor deserves respect as online biographies describe him as a former hockey player all-rounder who is able to do stunt (ouch!) and choreographer ( sigh!) in its action scenes on his training as a dancer (gulp!).
4. The 'epic fail total is above all by the appearance in the final adhesive Estonia behind the alleged police cars, as if it was not enough to see a sedan Russian pretend to be a Cadillac owned by the journalist.
The film in question should be technically a true remake of the classic Russian which was the subject of my first publication, the inexplicable but is always around the corner in the world of cinema and probably more so than when the topic is supernatural witches and their friends. The fact is that the events of the story though formally retain their classical structure is completely eradicated, and move in an imaginary village in the hinterland American dall'improponibile name of Castle Town. Already the single change of the title says long pass from the initial "Вий: Во власти страха (Viy: the power of fear) to the final Vedma (Ведьма) not only denotes a fairly crude approach, but also will deliberately shift the focus on witch rather than the creature. While the original adaptation and the creature in the book itself was used as the final catalyst, a true deus ex machina, materialization of punishment for the mortal sin of the religious character, in this new version, the writer and director (Oleg Fesenko) decided to do not appear 1 .
also difficult to understand the management of co-production - Russian, Estonian and Finnish as I understand it - that was channeled to the neighboring Russian distributor Lizard Cinema Trade . Certainly the film was shot in Estonia in 2006 with a budget of 2 million and a half U.S. dollars spent, mostly in sixteen minutes of special effects, and apparently interpreted in English, why circulating in a mysterious dvd entitled Evil published in 2008 by the redoubtable Asylum for the United States. At first it seems even was not even intended to leave at home and this is why it was only with the bad dubbing English. What do you know so much about the move (commercial) to the genius Dario Argento by Russian authors and this can not help but inspire me in other human sympathy.
The most interesting thing about the film is precisely enter the immense cunning and shrewdness as a director and screenwriter who would cheat their customers with a foreign film from the plant Russian claiming to be a kind of Rural American horror. It looks like an operation of another era of cinemabis Italian, but is even more foolish than homegrown Homemade least that often showed good personality and creativity. Fesenko and co-writer Matushin tossed in. everything. So it is that the original film in this seminarian becomes a journalist who investigates strange happenings in Castle Town. It happens that there are classics in a rowdy redneck "Café" where we send our reporter. It happens that there meet a priest who carries around a cage with a chicken as if it did-exorcistic voodoo tradition. It happens in a riot of originality, as a narrative device that the torrential rain and a breakdown of the machine they do seek refuge in the isolated home of the witch. It happens that the journalist end up exchanging clothes with the priest for a series of events that I have absolutely no desire to tell. It happens that even throws in some little trace of the J-horror scenes of the permanence of the home so, just to add to the confusion. Then it was finally ready to move on to the classic story of the three nights of prayer in the church for the young girl killed by a stranger and this is bound to be a witch.
mean a detour of several light-years from the original story and then retrace their steps, and revive the strength of the classic '67. It also said it would seem an easy task, but the poor Fesenko is not the great Alexander Ptushko who had emphasized the great part of the previous adaptation. We should also say to his credit that is technical, but that seems to run dry as it was in Pascal Laugier Saint Ange. Dolly, crane and forklift circular infamy not save the lack of pace the film and this witch does not make us open your eyes wide in wonder as that played by Natalia Varley and even tries to seduce us as Branka Pujić reduction in Serbian . Not that this is a total failure because flights Yevgeniya Kryukov are beautiful and spectacular, just as they are sufficiently effective in the aforementioned special effects and some very nice choices of light, but the air we breathe is an opportunity failure. It looks like a film pulled away quickly, maybe even to anticipate the arrival of the three-part epic that will celebrate the creation of fantastic and Gogol in which it hopes will return the Viy monstrous in all its essence.
The absence of the eponymous monster is really unforgivable. It has been said as to Gogol, who was a fine moralist, represent precisely the punishment for the fallacy of Khoma seminarian in the novel of 1835. The absurd thing is that despite what the film is silly moralistic and lose the opportunity to renew, maybe modernize the story according to the Russian town feel of modern times. Instead Ivan, a journalist disguised as a priest, is forced to find the faith to they can be saved from the clutches of the witch and raise the wall of flames that will save him during the night. It is clear that he does not have a prey to some kind of self-doubt about their beliefs and devastating as the good Father Merrin from The Exorcist after finding the supernatural, but Fesenko neatly ignores this possible in the text and throwing herself in a sort of choice of convenience. Faith and saves you enough. Just try it, to believe in order to survive. This can not be said that the director has not been able to finally bring his much fabled horror from the foolish American system. It almost seems like having to account to the writer and intellectual Dmitrii Bykov that talks about the impossibility of making horror films in Russia in 3 ' article inspired precisely by the vision of this film. But I honestly still believe in the great possibilities of the imagination of the East instead of the illustrious pen.
Returning claims are many players in Estonian, Latvian and a Russian right players including the beautiful star Yevgeniya Kryukov (born 1971), so as to become beautiful girl of the month centerfold in Playboy's Russian, but not enough to be able to undermine the myth of the beautiful Natalia Varley that had preceded it in the same role in 1967. The other actors Valery Nikolaev is much more famous as it is a fairly regular presence in American productions that require the existence of some from Russia. We must say that it is also quite good and expressive, perhaps also because of the fact that he was more prepared to play their scenes in English 3. It falls a bit 'too much into a character instead of the most celebrated actors Estonian (Lembit Ulfsak) who plays an important part of the father of the witch, and that this adaptation is also the sheriff of the dreaded "County Police" in Castle Town. There is a beautiful sticker printed in letterpress with Times New Roman, and attacked the Russian side of a sedan that informs us that What caused some hilarity in the arc of vision. If it were not already enough to make arch an eyebrow over the use of vulgar stereotypes about Americans countrymen, like the aforementioned hicks's Café and dinner at the big table in the village together passionately, and then just sharpen the view 4 to chuckle a bit '. We only hope that after this is passed to Oleg Fesenko fantasy of being able to Americanize something totally alien to those lands.
Technical
Vedma
Year: 2006
Director: Oleg Fesenko
Subject: Nikolai Gogol
Screenplay: Oleg Fesenko, Igor Matushin
Cast: Lembit
Ulfsak - Police
Valery Nikolaev - Ivan Kryukov
Yevgeniya - Meryl witch
Ita Ever - Witch elderly
Juhan Ulfsak - deputy
Arnis Litsitis
Jaan Rekkor
Tõnu Kark
1. It could also have happened that way since the primitive creature's presence was anticipated, but that was cut during the construction budget for obvious reasons. Other title circulated in pre-production is "Последняя молитва" (The last prayer) which is instead the explicit reference to the moralizing and deliriously in the text the finale.
2. In fact, this theory that the author tries to prove with more reasons, including the fact that in Russia should be afraid of the current reality and degradation than the rest of the world, although it is respectable and shows an excellent knowledge of the cinema fear of foreign sounds more like a speech critical of their homeland. Above all it is not even new because the lack of dissemination of this type of film in Russia was due to the fact that it was deemed unnecessary by the experts during the Soviet period. In this regard you can read some details here .
3. Roles for him in other works Stracult category as The Saint of Noyce and U-Turn to Stone, but the likeable actor deserves respect as online biographies describe him as a former hockey player all-rounder who is able to do stunt (ouch!) and choreographer ( sigh!) in its action scenes on his training as a dancer (gulp!).
4. The 'epic fail total is above all by the appearance in the final adhesive Estonia behind the alleged police cars, as if it was not enough to see a sedan Russian pretend to be a Cadillac owned by the journalist.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Pepto Mismol And Reyes
Murciélagos
In the Yucatan Peninsula there are many species of bats, the most notably perhaps is the fisherman, able to "pick up" fish from the water. Typically the prey are Astyanax or Poecilia, abundant surface and presence. The photos were taken from the water and I assure you that it is not easy to hold the camera by bicycle, avoiding splashing divers from a local and a half pounds and American tourists that use their fins as windmills.
In the Yucatan Peninsula there are many species of bats, the most notably perhaps is the fisherman, able to "pick up" fish from the water. Typically the prey are Astyanax or Poecilia, abundant surface and presence. The photos were taken from the water and I assure you that it is not easy to hold the camera by bicycle, avoiding splashing divers from a local and a half pounds and American tourists that use their fins as windmills.
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