Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)

Tue Aug 3 01:52:44 UTC 2010

Obviously the old adage obtains: Ignorance is bliss.

> From: Josh Wilson <jwilson at SRAS.ORG>
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 00:30:05 +0400
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> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
> 
> Yes, I did indeed visit the site and find this - actually some months ago
> when I first fell on the site and first chuckled at it and wondered why they
> named it that. 
> 
> I understand that the name is not intentional and that the humor I perceive
> is the result of an unintended fluke in the transliteration of the name to a
> Latin keyset for the purposes of generating an URL.
> 
> But that doesn't stop the name from being ironic and funny...
> 
> 
> Josh Wilson
> Assistant Director
> The School of Russian and Asian Studies
> Editor in Chief
> Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
> SRAS.org 
> jwilson at sras.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Seifer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:01 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
> 
> Josh,  From the TRI-TE website:
> 
> О компании
> 
> ТРИТЭ - это творческо-производственное объединение, созданное известным
> русским кинорежиссером Никитой Михалковым и его единомышленниками в 1987
> году. Это независимость и самостоятельность. Независимость от
> государственных и общественно-политических структур. Самостоятельность в
> решении любых проблем ТРИТЭ и его партнеров. ТРИТЭ - это аббревиатура трех
> русских слов: ТВОРЧЕСТВО, ТОВАРИЩЕСТВО, ТРУД. Символ ТРИТЭ - русский
> медведь, держащий в лапах три буквы <Т>, слитых воедино.
> 
> Donna Seifer
> 
> 
>> From: Josh Wilson <jwilson at SRAS.ORG>
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>> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:49:09 +0400
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>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
>> 
>> A bit off topic, and maybe off-color... but is anyone else endlessly
> amused
>> that Mikhalkov's studio website is trite.ru? Of all the names to pick for
> an
>> art company with global scope... :)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Josh Wilson
>> Assistant Director
>> The School of Russian and Asian Studies
>> Editor in Chief
>> Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
>> SRAS.org 
>> jwilson at sras.org
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
>> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Seifer
>> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 7:58 PM
>> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
>> 
>> Answers to many of these questions may be found on Mikhalkov's  TRITE
> Studio
>> site: http://www.trite.ru/.
>> 
>> Donna Seifer
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at GMAIL.COM>
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>>> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:38:11 +0100
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>>> Subject: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
>>> 
>>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Burnt by the Sun 2 (movie)
>>> 
>>> This is a repost because apparently the seelangs list doesn't allow a
>> person
>>> to make more than three posts a day. :)
>>> 
>>> Tom - Wow, that's really cool! I love the original so much. I can see a
>> sort
>>> of historical progress that Mikhalkov might wish to make, but I'm
>>> intellectually having a lot of trouble with the retconning. It seems so
>>> un-Stalin for Kotov to magically survive (or Mitya, or any of the
>>> characters...except Nadya, who is the only character said to be alive at
>> the
>>> end of the original). I thought Mikhalkov was smarter than to attempt
> that
>>> sort of thing. I'm interested, though, to see what comes of Nadya's
>>> "rehabilitation" mentioned in the postscript.
>>> 
>>> OT: What exactly constituted rehabilitation in Stalinist times - post-
> and
>>> pre-mortem? Renouncing of all things anti-Stalin and pledging to make
> nice
>>> with the NKVD from then on, unto the seventh generation?
>>> 
>>> Anybody know why they have a different actress playing Marussya in the
>>> sequel?
>>> 
>>> Melissa - Luckily I have a multi-region DVD player and region decoder on
>> my
>>> computer. :) Useful because I am from Canada and have both North
> American,
>>> Russian and European region DVDs.
>>> 
>>> Another OT question - how does Mikhalkov's movie "12" compare with Sidney
>>> Lumet's "Twelve Angry Men"?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *****************************
>>> ~Stephanie D. (Sures) Briggs
>>> http://sdsures.blogspot.com/
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