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Did anyone else notice the film swapped around both the historical personality and physical appearances of Beria and Krushchev? I mean, Krushchev was historically the kind of jolly, bullying fat guy that Beria was portrayed as. Beria was the kind of creep Buscemi just looks like and sometimes plays for other roles. I mean, just look at these-   Or was that the joke? That these guys are basically interchangeable when under the pressures of power and/or the threat of state execution?
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May 28, 2018 03:50
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I know little of the actual happenings in Moscow in '53, outside what a Soviet Historian mate ran me through after watching DoS, but I'm pretty sure that Beria photo is pre-fat bastard. Finding ones around 1950 is hard since he was apparently exceptionally zealous in making sure only his WW2 era pictures like what you posted were publicly available. Best I can find- https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detai...ure-id104406575 https://goo.gl/WzQD21
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May 28, 2018 07:49
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Corsec posted:Did anyone else notice the film swapped around both the historical personality and physical appearances of Beria and Krushchev? I mean, Krushchev was historically the kind of jolly, bullying fat guy that Beria was portrayed as. Beria was the kind of creep Buscemi just looks like and sometimes plays for other roles. Beria looks a lot like Armando Iannucci in that picture. I saw the movie this weekend and i loved it. It was exactly what I expected.
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May 28, 2018 08:19
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Corsec posted:Did anyone else notice the film swapped around both the historical personality and physical appearances of Beria and Krushchev? I mean, Krushchev was historically the kind of jolly, bullying fat guy that Beria was portrayed as. Beria was the kind of creep Buscemi just looks like and sometimes plays for other roles. I like to think that they modelled Beria after Dick Cheney.
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May 28, 2018 11:22
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Paingod556 posted:I know little of the actual happenings in Moscow in '53, outside what a Soviet Historian mate ran me through after watching DoS, but I'm pretty sure that Beria photo is pre-fat bastard. Finding ones around 1950 is hard since he was apparently exceptionally zealous in making sure only his WW2 era pictures like what you posted were publicly available. yeah, none of these guys were exactly the picture of health (although Molotov lived until the late 80s and loving Kaganovich missed outliving the USSR itself by a few months)
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May 28, 2018 13:45
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Oh also, Buscemi yelling "I will bury you" at Beria's burning corpse was cringe-worthy. Yeah! We know! Khruschev said that! In an entirely different context!
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May 28, 2018 17:37
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Mike N Eich posted:Oh also, Buscemi yelling "I will bury you" at Beria's burning corpse was cringe-worthy. Yeah! We know! Khruschev said that! In an entirely different context!
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May 28, 2018 18:07
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Corsec posted:Did anyone else notice the film swapped around both the historical personality and physical appearances of Beria and Krushchev? I mean, Krushchev was historically the kind of jolly, bullying fat guy that Beria was portrayed as. Beria was the kind of creep Buscemi just looks like and sometimes plays for other roles. Those photos are a bit cherrypicked age-wise. Krushchev was not a fat old man when Beria there was photographed.
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May 28, 2018 20:00
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Uh I've seen the extremely accurate documentary Enemy at the Gates and Khrushchev was fat and old in that, checkmate atheists.
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May 29, 2018 07:36
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Was the part about everyone taking part in the cleanup at stalins dacha being executed at all accurate
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Jun 2, 2018 11:05
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Alan Smithee posted:Was the part about everyone taking part in the cleanup at stalins dacha being executed at all accurate No, pretty sure it was just a bit. If everyone had been executed, we probably wouldn't know about it anyway.
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Jun 2, 2018 12:30
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I was extremely amused by this movie until the point where I felt bad for laughing. It felt like everyone else in the theatre had a similar reaction.
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Jun 4, 2018 09:32
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I loving loved this movie, and laughed several times. People probably will leave it feeling like they know more about Soviet history than they really do, because there are definitely some inaccuracies and things that are exaggerated or underplayed, but as a dark comedic movie using the Soviet Union as a backdrop, it was tremendous. Jason Isaacs did steal the show, but the surprise for me was how good I thought Tambor was as Malenkov.
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Jun 10, 2018 00:12
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Sinteres posted:I loving loved this movie, and laughed several times. People probably will leave it feeling like they know more about Soviet history than they really do, because there are definitely some inaccuracies and things that are exaggerated or underplayed, but as a dark comedic movie using the Soviet Union as a backdrop, it was tremendous. Jason Isaacs did steal the show, but the surprise for me was how good I thought Tambor was as Malenkov. Tambor is pretty consistently amazing, it's a real pity he's such a piece of poo poo.
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Jun 21, 2018 05:50
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Looks like this is for rent on Amazon now! I know what I'm watching this weekend!
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Jun 21, 2018 15:14
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Does anybody know if the Home Video release in the US has a commentary track?
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Jun 22, 2018 01:47
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HannibalBarca posted:Does anybody know if the Home Video release in the US has a commentary track? The DVD version doesn't. Don't know about the Blu Ray
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Jun 24, 2018 02:03
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The "sneeze in the wrong place and get shot" punishments shown in the film weren't historically accurate, but without those scenes you can't really get across just how hosed and paranoid everything was in Stalin's Russian in a way an audience of people unfamiliar with that era will comprehend.
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Finally got around to watching this. It owns.
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