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* PoopingWhereYouShouldnt: Implied with the fat devil. After John defeats the devil's minions of demons and witches, the devil notices some souls escaping from his cauldron and he goes into a panic. At first he tries to cover the cauldron with his arms and stomach and when that does not work, he sits down on the cauldron with his naked butt. What follows immediately afterwards is a farting noise along with a strained looks on the Devil's face. It's ambiguous as to whether he did it to torment the souls in the cauldron, or out of fear of John, or a little bit of both.
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* SwallowedWhole: Happens to John when he gets devoured by a giant fire salamander. As he lost his sword moments earlier, John decides to kill the salamander and escape it's body by locating it's heart and squeezing it tight with his arms, inducing a heart attack that kills the salamander.
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* BigRedDevil: The film's version of the devil is not only depicted as a typical devil with red skin but he is also depicted as an obese six-eyed beast.
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'''''János vitéz''''' (''Johnny Corncob'') is a 1973 animated musical adventure epic directed by Creator/MarcellJankovics, and the first ever Hungarian animated feature. One of the many adaptations of Sándor Petőfi's 1845 epic poem of the same name (known as ''Literature/JohnTheValiant'' in English), it was produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. Fittingly, all of the dialogue is written [[RhymesOnADime in verse]].
The story follows the titular Kukorica Jancsi (Johnny Corncob or Johnny Grain o'Corn in the poem), an orphan shepherd banished from his home and separated from his sweetheart Iluska (Nelly). With nothing to live for, he joins the hussar cavalry on a campaign across [[ArtisticLicenseGeography bizarre version of]] Europe to liberate France from the Turks. He returns home [[spoiler:only to find Nelly dead]], which prompts him to set off into magical lands and face miraculous challenges [[spoiler:to reunite with her beyond the End of the World]].
The story follows the titular Kukorica Jancsi (Johnny Corncob or Johnny Grain o'Corn in the poem), an orphan shepherd banished from his home and separated from his sweetheart Iluska (Nelly). With nothing to live for, he joins the hussar cavalry on a campaign across [[ArtisticLicenseGeography bizarre version of]] Europe to liberate France from the Turks. He returns home [[spoiler:only to find Nelly dead]], which prompts him to set off into magical lands and face miraculous challenges [[spoiler:to reunite with her beyond the End of the World]].
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The story follows the titular Kukorica Jancsi (Johnny Corncob or Johnny Grain o'Corn in the poem), an orphan shepherd banished from his home and separated from his sweetheart Iluska (Nelly). With nothing to live for, he joins the hussar cavalry on a campaign across [[ArtisticLicenseGeography bizarre version of]] Europe to liberate France from the Turks. He returns home
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'''''János vitéz''''' (''Johnny Corncob'') is a 1973 animated musical adventure epic directed by Creator/MarcellJankovics, and the first ever Hungarian animated feature. One of the many adaptations of Sándor Petőfi's 1845 epic poem of the same name (known as ''John the Valiant'' ''Literature/JohnTheValiant'' in English), it was produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. Fittingly, all of the dialogue is written [[RhymesOnADime in verse]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The little cherubs constantly carrying the French king's crown are naked.
** The nude demons and witches flash lots of mighty buttocks and saggy breasts at John.
** A Turkish invader rapes a Frenchwoman for what appears to be at least a full day.
** The French princess has a tendency to show off her nipples.
** The little cherubs constantly carrying the French king's crown are naked.
** The nude demons and witches flash lots of mighty buttocks and saggy breasts at John.
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'''''János vitéz''''' (''Johnny Corncob'') is a 1973 animated musical adventure epic directed by Marcell Jankovics, Creator/MarcellJankovics, and the first ever Hungarian animated feature. One of the many adaptations of Sándor Petőfi's 1845 epic poem of the same name (known as ''John the Valiant'' in English), it was produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. Fittingly, all of the dialogue is written [[RhymesOnADime in verse]].
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Even vintage Eastern European movies have misleading vintage Eastern European posters. [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121431/mediaviewer/rm1655135232 This one]] by artist István Bakos would pass for artwork made for the original poem more than the film, as none of the characters look like their animated counterparts and the winged serpent is an AdvertisedExtra at best.
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* GravityScrew: The challenge of scaling the mountain of India isn't the fact that it's vertical, as the horses keep marching uninterruptedly. It's the temperature.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: [[spoiler:In the poem, John unwittingly brings Nelly back to life by throwing a rose from her grave into Fairyland's HealingSpring. In the movie, she is already the Queen of Fairyland with no real explanation, other than that Fairyland could be {{Heaven}} itself.]]
* AdaptationalModesty: Inverted, the film is stuffed with way more nudity and sexuality than the more straightforwardly romantic (and of course non-visual) poem.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the poem, the sultan dies fighting and it's his cowardly son that flees with the princess in tow. Here, the sultan's the one who tries to ride away, only to be dealt a more comical end.
* AdaptedOut: Superfluous characters who deliver exposition, like the farmer and old fisherman, were removed to streamline the story, as were repetitive adversaries like the giants' sentry and the three bears and three lions guarding Fairyland. The Saracen king who's on good terms with the Hungarians and stops the Tartars from killing the hussars and the sultan's son that John doesn't deem worth killing are also left out.
* AdaptationalModesty: Inverted, the film is stuffed with way more nudity and sexuality than the more straightforwardly romantic (and of course non-visual) poem.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the poem, the sultan dies fighting and it's his cowardly son that flees with the princess in tow. Here, the sultan's the one who tries to ride away, only to be dealt a more comical end.
* AdaptedOut: Superfluous characters who deliver exposition, like the farmer and old fisherman, were removed to streamline the story, as were repetitive adversaries like the giants' sentry and the three bears and three lions guarding Fairyland. The Saracen king who's on good terms with the Hungarians and stops the Tartars from killing the hussars and the sultan's son that John doesn't deem worth killing are also left out.
* CanonForeigner: The devil trapping souls in his cauldron and the non-witch ghouls celebrating him. In the original story, there's just witches and no evil ritual.
* CompositeCharacter: The sultan and his son were combined into one.
* DeliciousDistraction: The hussars escape the Tartar dog people by throwing bones at them.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: A classic example, John and Nel are forced apart by their cruel stepparents, war and even [[spoiler:death]], but through love, perseverance and magic helpers, John eventually finds happiness.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: A classic example, John and Nel Nell are forced apart by their cruel stepparents, war and even [[spoiler:death]], but through love, perseverance and magic helpers, John eventually finds happiness.happiness.
* FlatWorld: Alluded to, with Fairyland explicitly stated to be at the end of the world where the sea stops.
* FlatWorld: Alluded to, with Fairyland explicitly stated to be at the end of the world where the sea stops.
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* {{Heaven}}: Fairyland is basically this.
* IAmAHumanitarian: The giants threaten to crush John and use him to spice their rock food.
* IAmAHumanitarian: The giants threaten to crush John and use him to spice their rock food.
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* OurGiantsAreBigger: The inhabitants of the Land of the Giants, who take on the forms of mountains and weather phenomena when inactive.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Some of the poem's scenes were combined or dropped for the better flow, though at times things like logic and continuity went with them. Mainly, John's somewhat aimless, multi-year long wanderings were shortened and given clear direction by following a trail of ghosts heading to the afterlife.
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* UnholyGround: The Country of Darkness. Ghosts also spook and attempt to kill John as he nears the end of the world in the original story, but the movie places the scene into a regular cemetery.
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* BackwardsFiringGun: A seriously hungover bandit tries to shoot John, unaware he has his pistol pointed at his own face.
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* KillItWithFire: The only way for John to escape the bandits is to set their bushy coats aflame.
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* PatrioticFervor: The first major animated event film of its country, based on the highly nationalistic work and commemorating the life of a poet often romanticized as the "greatest Hungarian", featuring patriotic hussars battling vile Turkish stereotypes? The scene of the two clashing armies merging to form the Hungarian flag was even deemed controversial for its blatant nationalism, something the Soviet censorship was not happy about. Yet, despite all this, the movie subverts the trope in the end, as [[spoiler:John leaves his home to find happiness in the land of fairies]].
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* WeirdMoon: The crescent Moon takes on the shape of whatever's nagging Johnny, be it the French princess he cannot bring himself to love or Nelly's evil stepmother.
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* AcidTripDimension: The Country of Darkness, home of witches, demons and the Devil. A precursor to the style later used throughout ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse''.
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* AcidTripDimension: The Country of Darkness, home of witches, demons and the Devil. A precursor to the style later used throughout ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse''. Also a divergence from the source poem: there, the place is merely a realm ruled and kept shrouded in darkness by witches, while in the movie it's an analog to TheUnderworld.
* BanditClan: John joins one, only to steal their loot.
* BeastMan: The dog-headed Tartar people.
* BeastMan: The dog-headed Tartar people.
* CatFolk: Italian [[StealthPun litters]] are carried by giant anthropomorphic cats on ice skates.
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* DerangedAnimation: Like ''Yellow Submarine'' with a ''smidge'' more down-to-earth plot and actual symbolism tying the visuals together.
* ForcedPerspective: Heroic characters are constantly drawn with the giant-legged designs of ''Yellow Submarine'''s [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]], making them appear to tower over others.
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* DavidVersusGoliath: John kills the Giant King by smashing his face with a rock.
* DerangedAnimation:Like Imagine ''Yellow Submarine'' with a ''smidge'' more down-to-earth plot plot, a more earthly color palette, and actual symbolism tying the visuals together.
* DirtyCoward: The Turkish Sultan.
* TheDragonslayer: John becomes one by the end.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: A classic example, John and Nel are forced apart by their cruel stepparents, war and even [[spoiler:death]], but through love, perseverance and magic helpers, John eventually finds happiness.
* FlyingBroomstick: Standard mode of transport for witches.
* ForcedPerspective: Heroic characters areconstantly always drawn with the giant-legged designs of ''Yellow Submarine'''s [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]], making them appear to tower over others.others.
* GRatedSex: The love-making scene between John and Nelly in the beginning, which becomes a cavalcade of folk art, pastoral scenes and amorous birds.
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* DirtyCoward: The Turkish Sultan.
* TheDragonslayer: John becomes one by the end.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: A classic example, John and Nel are forced apart by their cruel stepparents, war and even [[spoiler:death]], but through love, perseverance and magic helpers, John eventually finds happiness.
* FlyingBroomstick: Standard mode of transport for witches.
* ForcedPerspective: Heroic characters are
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* GiantEqualsInvincible: Averted, John kills the king of the [[RockMonster stone giants]] with a well-directed stone to the head.
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* GiantEqualsInvincible: Averted, John kills the king of the [[RockMonster stone rock giants]] with a well-directed stone to the head.head.
* GoodIsNotSoft: The gentle lover John has to learn to be vicious and calculating with his adversaries.
* GoodIsNotSoft: The gentle lover John has to learn to be vicious and calculating with his adversaries.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: John, at least by the end.
* LandOfFaerie: John's ultimate destination [[spoiler:where he and Nelly become fairies and live happily ever after]].
* MagicalLand: Not that the setting was ever realistic, but the story's last part after the twist takes John to purely fantastical lands, like the Country of Darkness, the Land of the Giants, the mythical Operencian Sea and Fairyland.
* MeaningfulName: John was found, orphaned, in a field of corn, hence his moniker.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The battling hordes of Turks and Hungarian hussars literally merge with their steeds.
* LandOfFaerie: John's ultimate destination [[spoiler:where he and Nelly become fairies and live happily ever after]].
* MagicalLand: Not that the setting was ever realistic, but the story's last part after the twist takes John to purely fantastical lands, like the Country of Darkness, the Land of the Giants, the mythical Operencian Sea and Fairyland.
* MeaningfulName: John was found, orphaned, in a field of corn, hence his moniker.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The battling hordes of Turks and Hungarian hussars literally merge with their steeds.
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* RitualMagic: The demons and witches of the Country of Darkness conduct a dance to trap deceased spirits in the Devil's cauldron.
* ScalingTheSummit: The hussars have to climb the vertical, sun-seared mountains of India to reach the bordering France.
* ScalingTheSummit: The hussars have to climb the vertical, sun-seared mountains of India to reach the bordering France.
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* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Italy, where it's always winter.
* VisualInnuendo: The lengthy love scene between John and Nelly, featuring rising hills, blooming flowers and to drive the point fully home, mating pigeons.
* WickedStepmother: Nelly is cursed with one, a "heartless old bitch" as the poem tells us.
* WitchClassic: The denizens of the Country of Darkness, specifically of the WickedWitch variety ([[spoiler:especially Nelly's evil stepmother]]).
* VisualInnuendo: The lengthy love scene between John and Nelly, featuring rising hills, blooming flowers and to drive the point fully home, mating pigeons.
* WickedStepmother: Nelly is cursed with one, a "heartless old bitch" as the poem tells us.
* WitchClassic: The denizens of the Country of Darkness, specifically of the WickedWitch variety ([[spoiler:especially Nelly's evil stepmother]]).
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'''''János vitéz''''' (''Johnny Corncob'') is a 1973 animated musical adventure epic directed by Marcell Jankovics, and the first ever Hungarian animated feature. One of the many adaptations of Sándor Petőfi's 1845 epic poem of the same name (known as ''John the Valiant'' in English), it was produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. Fittingly, all of the dialogue is written [[RhymesOnADime in verse]].
The story follows the titular Kukorica Jancsi (Johnny Corncob or Johnny Grain o'Corn in the poem), an orphan shepherd banished from his home and separated from his sweetheart Iluska (Nelly). With nothing to live for, he joins the hussar cavalry on a campaign across [[ArtisticLicenseGeography bizarre version of]] Europe to liberate France from the Turks. He returns home [[spoiler:only to find Nelly dead]], which prompts him to set off into magical lands and face miraculous challenges [[spoiler:to reunite with her beyond the End of the World]].
Much like the director's later and more internationally famous ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse'', the film displays [[DerangedAnimation bright, creative and oftentimes very abstract animation]], loads of symbolism and some suggestive content. Though this time there's an added pop-art flair, as the visual style is a direct copy of the CultClassic ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', right down to the distinctive character designs. The traditional folk-music inspired soundtrack features songs by Hungarian-Greek singer Gjon Delhusa, with lyrics by famous playwright and rhyme-master József Romhányi.
Partially due to its significance, popular source material and political backing, the film was an enormous success in its home country, though it remains little-known elsewhere.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The Country of Darkness, home of witches, demons and the Devil. A precursor to the style later used throughout ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse''.
* AntiquatedLinguistics
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The farther John journeys from Hungary, the more fictionalized the places get. Traveling west, the hussars cross portions of what is now Russia, Poland, the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld frozen-over Venice]], the boiling hot mountains of India, then France. Petőfi famously did not care about accuracy as long as he could tell a fancy story with imaginative settings. The plot's second half therefor explicitly takes place in a MagicalLand.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Nelly at the end, though she's no human anymore.]]
* BadBoss: Nelly's stepmother, [[spoiler:who works her to death in John's absence. It later turns out she's a genuine witch, hence why John has no qualms about killing her.]]
* BlackComedyRape: Happens to one poor Frenchwoman when the Turks take over France. She's all smiles once it's over.
* BloodlessCarnage: The hussars dismember the Turks in all kinds of ways, but it's all played for laughs and nationalism.
* TheCavalry: John joins the hussar army on an assault to liberate France.
* DamselInDistress: The French princess kidnapped by the Turks.
* DerangedAnimation: Like ''Yellow Submarine'' with ''smidge'' a more down-to-earth plot and actual symbolism tying the visuals together.
* ForcedPerspective: Heroic characters are constantly drawn with the giant-legged designs of ''Yellow Submarine'''s [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]], making them appear to tower over others.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The little cherubs constantly carrying the French king's crown are naked.
** The nude demons and witches flash lots of mighty buttocks and saggy breasts at John.
** A Turkish invader rapes a Frenchwoman for what appears to be at least a full day.
* GiantEqualsInvincible: Averted, John kills the king of the [[RockMonster stone giants]] with a well-directed stone to the head.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Numerous Turkish soldiers are cut into two or more pieces, [[spoiler:including the Sultan, whose terrified halves react by hopping away in opposite directions]].
* RhymesOnADime: Everyone, given that the script was lifted straight from the original poem.
* ShoutOut:
** The art style itself is a huge tip of the hat to ''Yellow Submarine''.
** A tiny snippet of ''Music/NightOnBaldMountain'' can be heard as the Devil reveals himself, watching the dance of witches and lost souls.
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The story follows the titular Kukorica Jancsi (Johnny Corncob or Johnny Grain o'Corn in the poem), an orphan shepherd banished from his home and separated from his sweetheart Iluska (Nelly). With nothing to live for, he joins the hussar cavalry on a campaign across [[ArtisticLicenseGeography bizarre version of]] Europe to liberate France from the Turks. He returns home [[spoiler:only to find Nelly dead]], which prompts him to set off into magical lands and face miraculous challenges [[spoiler:to reunite with her beyond the End of the World]].
Much like the director's later and more internationally famous ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse'', the film displays [[DerangedAnimation bright, creative and oftentimes very abstract animation]], loads of symbolism and some suggestive content. Though this time there's an added pop-art flair, as the visual style is a direct copy of the CultClassic ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', right down to the distinctive character designs. The traditional folk-music inspired soundtrack features songs by Hungarian-Greek singer Gjon Delhusa, with lyrics by famous playwright and rhyme-master József Romhányi.
Partially due to its significance, popular source material and political backing, the film was an enormous success in its home country, though it remains little-known elsewhere.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The Country of Darkness, home of witches, demons and the Devil. A precursor to the style later used throughout ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse''.
* AntiquatedLinguistics
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The farther John journeys from Hungary, the more fictionalized the places get. Traveling west, the hussars cross portions of what is now Russia, Poland, the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld frozen-over Venice]], the boiling hot mountains of India, then France. Petőfi famously did not care about accuracy as long as he could tell a fancy story with imaginative settings. The plot's second half therefor explicitly takes place in a MagicalLand.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Nelly at the end, though she's no human anymore.]]
* BadBoss: Nelly's stepmother, [[spoiler:who works her to death in John's absence. It later turns out she's a genuine witch, hence why John has no qualms about killing her.]]
* BlackComedyRape: Happens to one poor Frenchwoman when the Turks take over France. She's all smiles once it's over.
* BloodlessCarnage: The hussars dismember the Turks in all kinds of ways, but it's all played for laughs and nationalism.
* TheCavalry: John joins the hussar army on an assault to liberate France.
* DamselInDistress: The French princess kidnapped by the Turks.
* DerangedAnimation: Like ''Yellow Submarine'' with ''smidge'' a more down-to-earth plot and actual symbolism tying the visuals together.
* ForcedPerspective: Heroic characters are constantly drawn with the giant-legged designs of ''Yellow Submarine'''s [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]], making them appear to tower over others.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The little cherubs constantly carrying the French king's crown are naked.
** The nude demons and witches flash lots of mighty buttocks and saggy breasts at John.
** A Turkish invader rapes a Frenchwoman for what appears to be at least a full day.
* GiantEqualsInvincible: Averted, John kills the king of the [[RockMonster stone giants]] with a well-directed stone to the head.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Numerous Turkish soldiers are cut into two or more pieces, [[spoiler:including the Sultan, whose terrified halves react by hopping away in opposite directions]].
* RhymesOnADime: Everyone, given that the script was lifted straight from the original poem.
* ShoutOut:
** The art style itself is a huge tip of the hat to ''Yellow Submarine''.
** A tiny snippet of ''Music/NightOnBaldMountain'' can be heard as the Devil reveals himself, watching the dance of witches and lost souls.
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