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my humble resentment of hollyweed's war in shit over the years
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part Six: Old Prince Bolkonsky
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part Five: Helene
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part Four: Sonya
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part Three: Andrei
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part Two: Natasha
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (left), Dementy Smarinov (right)
War and Peace Characters in Great Comet compared to their illustrations
Part One: Pierre
Illustrators: Andrei Nikolaev (top), Dementy Smarinov (bottom)
Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, illustrated by Dementy Shmarinov.
Tolstoy in this photo from 1861 looks like Josh Groban as Pierre and you cannot tell me otherwise
VERY ALERT VERA ALERT IT’S VERA IT’S VERA ROSTOVA SHE’S IN AN ADAPTATION FWMHGFQKEU
Cursed War and Peace epilogue adaptation, tagging @officialleotolstoy in particular haha
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of adaptations of Russian Literature
[THE FOLLOWING IS ENTIRELY MY OPINION]
The Good (Good both on their own and as adaptations):
Resurrection (1960)
War and Peace (1967)
Anna Karenina (1967)
Crime and Punishment (1970)
L’Argent (1983)
A Dog’s Heart (1988)
The Master and Margarita (2005)
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The Bad (Bad both on their own and as adaptations):
War and Peace (1956)
The Idiot (1958)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Anna Karenina (1977)
War and Peace (2016) [Fight me]
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The Ugly (Good on their own, bad as adaptations):
Anna Karenina (1935)
Eugene Onegin (1958)
Love and Death (1975)
Anna Karenina (2012)
Somewhere along the way someone decided Andrei was a jock and taller than Pierre…. and every adaption of him has given me heartburn ever since
What REALLY frustrates me about this is that it’s probably at least partly the translations’ fault. For some reason, when every translator sees Andrei described as of “небольшого роста” they see that “небольшого” (which means something in between “short” and “average”) has no direct translation and just round up to “medium”.
Hey wanna take this quiz I was enabled into making by the discord? Yeah, yeah you do
https://uquiz.com/quiz/7HzCQJ/which-abstract-concept-from-war-and-peace-are-you
This is a 100% serious quiz please take it with care I am a licensed psychiatrist
My top two were the philosophy and The Sky rip
Okay so I found this photograph from the 1967 adaptation of War and Peace, which seems to show Helene convincing Natasha to come to the ball, so presumably they filmed this scene. The problem is this scene isn’t in either the Criterion version or the one on Mosfilm’s youtube channel. Does anyone know if and where I can find it?
Hi, what are some of your favourite and least favourite things about W&P?
Sorry this answer is late, I’m an overachiever with brainrot so I wanted to answer this for every adaptation I’ve seen. Also disclaimer these are completely subjective and off the top of my head
The Book
Favorite:
Pierre and Andrei’s relationship 🥺
The Bolkonsky family as a whole (excluding Old Prince B of course)
The cop/bear/river story
The scene where Nikolai sees the Tsar the second time (I have it bookmarked sjjajs)
The duel and it’s surrounding circumstances
The scene where Andrei forgives Anatole
Pretty much just all the characters and how interesting and realistic they are!
Honorable mention to Dolokhov
Least Favorite:
The rampant misogyny
The insane age gaps in almost every relationship
The frequency of incest
The. Epilogue.
The amount of war history and redundant philosophy
BBC W&P (2016)
Favorite:
Pierre talking to the Rostov’s pigs
Jack Lowden as Nikolai
The Dolokhov/Nikolai implications
Tuppence Middleton 🥰 Not Hélène’s character but. Her.
The silly hats
Least Favorite:
Dolokhov, Anatole, and Hélène’s characters
The rampant sexualization of everyone and everything
None of the kids are played by kids except Petya and Nikolushka
Romanticization of the epilogue
The Ball scene with Anatole and Natasha!!!!!!!!
Great Comet
Favorite:
Every song is a banger
I believe in Comet canon Pierre and Sonya supremacy
Dust! And! Ashes!
I genuinely think a musical is the best medium for W&P adaptations since it allows for internal monologues to show character much more than any other medium
Nick Belton’s voice
It was my introduction to the source material and I will never not love it
The Dolokhov/Anatole kiss and Hélène/Katya kiss
Least Favorite:
Hélène and Dolokhov characterization is really off (don’t get me wrong, I love Comet Dolokhov and Amber Gray is insanely talented, it just doesn’t mesh well with canon)
“but now I like it very much indeed” this line delivery makes my skin crawl every. Time.
The ball scene again makes me so uncomfortable I tend to skip it even though it slaps
Ingrid Michaelson’s characterization of Sonya 😬
It’s closed :(
1956 War and Peace*
*I never saw the last 50 minutes or so cause they took it off Amazon Prime :/
Favorite:
The scene where Dolokhov drinks the vodka in the window
Idk how accurate it is but Andrei smiling to himself while he listens to Natasha talk about him in the window with Sonya was kind of adorable
The opera scene where Natasha and Anatole meet. It’s so innacurate but it is HILARIOUS
I think Audrey Hepburn is a great actress and she does some sides of Natasha very well (I just wish we had gotten more depth to her character)
Every Balaga should look like that
Least Favorite:
It’s nowhere near accurate to the book and actually made me appreciate BBC W&P a little for that
Too much Napoleon RPF not enough Nikolai or Marya content
The battle scenes and the duel were so boring
Acting like Hélène and Pierre were in love while also highlighting that they were cousins
Their Andrei is terrible. You could replace him with a cardboard cutout and it wouldn’t change anything
OMG please watch the 1967 adaptation. It’s the most book-accurate version and definitely the most good *looking* version out there, and is on youtube with english subtitles so long as you have a VPN to place you in Luxembourg or any of the Baltics or Balkans