History Film / IvanVasilievichChangesProfession

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** Somewhat explained on the play, as Bunsha is mentioned to be the son of a prince (although he denies it with a passion)

* SerialSpouse: Shurik's wife claims to have gotten divorced three or four times already. While the whole thing ends up as AllJustADream, it's implied that it's still true.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The residents of the Soviet Union show their discby the liberal application of execution practised by Tsar Ivan, as well as his contemporaries, and how lightly he boasts about it.

** In ''Operation "Y"'', another Leonid Gaidai film, one of the robbers pretends to be a mannequin standing between two actual mannequins. It works.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Operation "Y"'' and ''Film/KidnappingCaucasianStyle''

* NamesTheSame: Technically, Shurik is not the same person as Shurik from ''Operation "Y"'' and ''Film/KidnappingCaucasianStyle''. But it may be averted since both roles are played by the same person.
** Except ''that'' Shurik isn't an inventor and doesn't show any scientific inclinations. In fact, in ''Kidnapping, Caucasian Style'', his aims in life appear to be literary in nature.
** In ''Operation "Y" and Other Adventures'' he ''is'' a physics student. Maybe collecting folklore tales was his hobby.

* {{Adorkable}}: Shurik

** TruthInTelevision: RealLife Ivan IV ''did'' view public executions as a form of entertainment — [[ValuesDissonance as were a lot of his contemporaries]]. What's interesting, however, is that this notion was much less widespread in Russia than in the Western Europe, which was one of the reasons of his grisly reputation with his subjects.

* CelebrityParadox: Yakin initially thinks Ivan IV is an actor, and in the film, makes guesses at his identity -- naming three real Soviet actors of that time, but not the one who actually played him.
** [[DevelopmentGag Those actors were tried for the roles of Ivans Vasilieviches before director chose Yuri Yakovlev.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: See the entry under BlackComedy.

* [[EternalEnglish Eternal Russian]]: Bunsha and Miloslavsky have no problems communicating with 16th-century Russians, save for a few archaic words thrown in for no good reason. They also have no problem ''writing'' in Old Russian, which used a somewhat different Cyrillic script, the Old Church Slavonic, and a different system of spelling. By the same token, most people understand Ivan IV in the 20th century. Even his use of [[GratuitousRussian Gratiutous Old Russian]] is just treated as a quirk.

* [[GratuitousRussian Gratuitous Old Russian]]: Ivan IV tends to switch between modern and 16th-century Russian. When he finds out the truth, Yakin tries to use archaic Russian words (which most modern Russian would never understand) but gives up quickly. He also uses them incorrectly, which infuriates Ivan[[note]]He says "zhitiye moye" (archaic Russian for "my life"), except the word "zhitiye" is reserved only for the life of a tsar or a saint, not a commoner like Yakin. The correct word would've been "zhivot" (currently means abdomen but used to mean life as well).[[/note]].

* LovableRogue: Miloslavsky.

* [[GratuitousRussian Gratuitous Old Russian]]: Ivan IV tends to switch between modern and 16th-century Russian. When he finds out the truth, Yakin tries to use archaic Russian words (which most modern Russian would never understand) but gives up quickly. He also uses them incorrectly, which infuriates Ivan[[note]]He says "zhitiye moye" (archaic Russian for "my life"), except the word "zhitiye" is reserved only for the life of a tsar or a saint, not a commoner like Yakin. The correct word would've been "zhivot" (currently means abdomen but used to mean life as well).[[/note]]

* [[GratuitousRussian Gratuitous Old Russian]]: Ivan IV tends to switch between modern and 16th-century Russian. When he finds out the truth, Yakin tries to use archaic Russian words (which most modern Russian would never understand) but gives up quickly.

** Deacon Theophan hands the faux-tsar Bunsha a decree to sign. However, tradition forbade Russian royalty from using quill and ink, and the tsar would usually only apply his seal.

* KnightsArmorHideout: Miloslavsky gets into a suit of armor to hide.

* NobodyHereButUsStatues

In the end, it is revealed that the it was AllJustADream. Zinaida returns to Timofeyev, saying that she didn't even have a director named Yakin, and while the time machine didn't work in reality, the two reconcile. In the play, it further turns out that Shpak was robbed in reality, not just in the dream.

** Granted, all that can be handwaved as [[AllJustADream Shurik's subconsciousness]] basically painting him a ThemeParkVersion of UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible's Russia.

* WhatAnIdiot: When signing the decree to send troops against the Crimean Tatars, Bunsha reluctantly puts down "acting tsar". No wonder they quickly figured out he was a fake.

A Soviet comedy movie released in 1973, and still immensely popular in TheNewRussia -- like most Leonid Gaidai movies from that era. Based on a 1935 play by [[UsefulNotes/RussianReading Mikhail Bulgakov]], with a setting update -- moving the "present day" action from the 1930s to the 1970s -- but generally staying faithful to the original, with most of the funny lines taken directly from the play. One of the most promiment changes in the film was the merge of the Timofeyev character with the protagonist of two of Gaidai's previous films to form the so-called "Shurik trilogy".

** The eggplant caviar that's shown before the fest has actually been brought to Russia from Iran in the seventeenth century, that is, the next century prior to the events of the movie.[[note]]Even better, the caviar shown on the table is actually made of zucchini.[[/note]] Same can be said about the sceptre Bunsha holds while he's on the throne.

A Soviet comedy movie released in 1973, and still immensely popular in TheNewRussia -- like most Leonid Gaidai movies from that era. Based on a 1935 play by [[RussianReading Mikhail Bulgakov]], with a setting update -- moving the "present day" action from the 1930s to the 1970s -- but generally staying faithful to the original, with most of the funny lines taken directly from the play. One of the most promiment changes in the film was the merge of the Timofeyev character with the protagonist of two of Gaidai's previous films to form the so-called "Shurik trilogy".

** {{Justified}} by Russian being a very slowly changing language. Aside from somewhat different style and changing vocabulary, the 16th century Russian is entirely understandable for the modern speaker and vice versa, unlike, say, the [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe 16th century]] ''[[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe English]]''.[[note]]TheBard, in fact, ''was'' an Ivan The Terrible's contemporary, and modern editions of Shakesperean plays sometimes go so far as to include ''translations'' from the English of the time.[[/note]]

** Granted, all that can be handwaved as [[AllJustADream Shurik's subconsciousness]] basically painting him a ThemeParkVersion of IvanTheTerrible's Russia.

** Historically, IvanTheTerrible had been married ''seven'' times (although, the last few weren't authorized by the Church).