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* LifeImitatesArt: In the 1980s the city administration did start to sell tickets at the entrance of Proval tunnel. And then closed it for a few years to clean the lake from debris and reinforce walls. Otherwise it could have collapsed by now.
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* ImpossibleThief: PlayedForLaugs. In the movie Alchen steals clothes from ''people on a painting''. No, he doesn't cut them out, he just steals them.
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* ImpossibleThief: PlayedForLaugs.PlayedForLaughs. In the movie Alchen steals clothes from ''people on a painting''. No, he doesn't cut them out, he just steals them.
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* ImpossibleThief: In the movie adaptation Alchen steals details from a ''painting''. No, he doesn't cut them out, he just steals them.
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* ImpossibleThief: PlayedForLaugs. In the movie adaptation Alchen steals details clothes from ''people on a ''painting''.painting''. No, he doesn't cut them out, he just steals them.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: There are some reasons to believe Bender is of Jewish descent. Also, his Odessa roots (a very Jewish city) and his claim of being the son of one Turkish subject (Jews often used foreign passports, especially readily available Turkish papers, as foreign nationality would change their ethnicity to Turk in legal documents).
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: There are some reasons to believe Bender is of Jewish descent. Also, his Odessa roots (a very Jewish city) and his claim of being the son of one Turkish subject (Jews often used foreign passports, especially readily available Turkish papers, as foreign nationality would change their ethnicity to Turk in legal documents).documents to avoid being forced to fight in the Civil War).
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The two "comrades" ''nearly'' get the prize at the auction, but because Kisa screwed up and squandered all their cash, the chairs are [[GottaCatchThemAll split up and sold individually]]. They are not alone in this quest, either: [[CorruptChurch Father Fyodor]] took advantage of the deathbed confession, and has also set off to recover the fortune. In this search for Mme Petukhova's treasure, he becomes Vorobyaninov's main rival. While in this enterprise Ostap is in his element, Vorobyaninov is not so happy. [[FaceHeelTurn He's steadily abandoning his principles and losing self-esteem]].
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The two "comrades" ''nearly'' get the prize at the auction, but because Kisa screwed up and squandered all their cash, the chairs are [[GottaCatchThemAll split up and sold individually]]. They are not alone in this quest, either: [[CorruptChurch Father Fyodor]] Fyodor Vostrikov]] took advantage of the deathbed confession, and has also set off to recover the fortune. In this search for Mme Petukhova's treasure, he becomes Vorobyaninov's main rival. While in this enterprise Ostap is in his element, Vorobyaninov is not so happy. [[FaceHeelTurn He's steadily abandoning his principles and losing self-esteem]].
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Creator/MelBrooks directed a well-liked adaptation in 1970, with a wonderfully [[LargeHam hammy]] Creator/RonMoody as Vorobyaninov, with Creator/DomDeLuise as Father Fyodor, Creator/FrankLangella as Ostap Bender, and Creator/MelBrooks as Tikon.
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Creator/MelBrooks directed a well-liked adaptation in 1970, with a wonderfully [[LargeHam hammy]] Creator/RonMoody as Vorobyaninov, with Creator/DomDeLuise as Father Fyodor, Creator/FrankLangella as Ostap Bender, and Creator/MelBrooks Brooks himself as Tikon.
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* AdaptationalBadass: By omission. The movie adaptations tend to leave out Bender's more humiliating moments, such as when he gets royally plastered and misses the chance to catch their prize (which is the only time he gets called out by Kisa and doesn't have a retort) or when he gets beaten up by some highlanders when he got caught cheating in cards.
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* AdaptationalBadass: By omission. The movie adaptations tend to leave out Bender's more humiliating moments, such as when he gets royally plastered and misses the chance to catch their prize (which is the only time he gets called out by Kisa and doesn't have a retort) or when he gets beaten up by some highlanders Caucasians (from the Caucasus Mountains) when he got caught cheating in cards.
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* HastilyHiddenMacGuffin: The entire plot is built on that. Madame Petukhova, an Imperial Russian noblewoman, hid her collection of jewelry in a chair during the Revolution of 1917, to prevent the revolutionaries from confiscating them. Years later, her son-in-law Ippolit Vorobyaninoff learns about that from Madame on her deathbed, and starts to look for that chair. As you can guess from the title, there are eleven more chairs looking exactly like that one.
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* HastilyHiddenMacGuffin: The entire plot is built on that. Madame Petukhova, an Imperial Russian noblewoman, hid her collection of jewelry in a chair during the Revolution of 1917, to prevent the revolutionaries from confiscating them. Years later, her son-in-law Ippolit Vorobyaninoff Vorobyaninov learns about that from Madame on her deathbed, and starts to look for that chair. As you can guess from the title, there are eleven more chairs looking exactly like that one.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Poet Lapis-Trubetskoy is notorious for that in-universe. No, Lapis, jackals are not "snake-shaped"! And peignoir is not a ball gown! And sea waves don't fall like a lifting winch.
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Two other Russian adaptations have created a bit of a BrokenBase amongst the Russian viewers. The main point of contention is whether [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Mironov Andrei Mironov's]] interpretation of Bender as less of a LovableRogue and more of a VillainProtagonist works.
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Two other Russian adaptations have created a bit of a BrokenBase amongst the Russian viewers. The main point of contention is whether [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Mironov org/wiki/Andrei_Mironov_(actor) Andrei Mironov's]] interpretation of Bender as less of a LovableRogue and more of a VillainProtagonist works.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: One CatchPhrase of Ostap's is "This is congenial". Apparently, he thinks the word "congenial" comes from "genius" and means "very clever".
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: After Father Fyodor gets lost in a village and goes insane, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender to keep the loot for himself, only to discover that someone else already found the jewels and used them to build a new public recreation center, Vorobyaninov loses his sanity.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: After Father Fyodor gets lost in a village and goes insane, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender to keep the loot for himself, only to discover that someone else already found the jewels and used them to build a new public recreation center, Vorobyaninov loses his sanity.
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* UnknownRival: Turned UpToEleven with Ellochka Schukina and her ridiculous "rivalry" with Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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* UnknownRival: Turned UpToEleven Exaggerated with Ellochka Schukina and her ridiculous "rivalry" with Consuelo Vanderbilt.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Ippolit's former serf calls him a good master who rarely hit him. He also seems unhappy under the Communist regime and is happy to see Ippolit return to his old estate.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Ippolit's former serf calls him a good master who rarely hit him. He also seems unhappy under the Communist regime, and is happy to see Ippolit return to his old estate.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Ippolit's former serf calls him a good master who rarely hit him. He also seems unhappy under the Communist regime, regime and is happy to see Ippolit return to his old estate.
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* HappinessInSlavery: Ippolit's former serf calls him a good master who rarely hit him. He also seems unhappy under the Communist regime, and is happy to see Ippolit return to his old estate.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: One CatchPhrase of Ostap's is "This is congenial". Apparently, he thinks the word "congenial" comes from "genius" and means "very clever".
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** In the 1971 Soviet adaptation the same role was played by Yuriy Nikulin, arguably, the biggest star in the cast. He is also often credited on the front cover right after the actors playing Bender and Vorobyaninov.
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The book was also loosely adapted into ''Film/KeepYourSeatsPlease'', a 1936 comedy from Creator/EalingStudios.
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* ReplacedWithReplica: Both the protagonists and their rival Father Feodor are looking for a set of chairs with a treasure hidden inside. Ostap manages to locate documents which detail where the chairs are. Father Feodor is after these documents, too, but he is late, and the archivist is angry that Ostap fooled him. So the archivist gives Feodor documents on another, identical set of chairs with no treasure inside.
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Creator/MelBrooks directed a well-liked adaptation in 1970, with a wonderfully [[LargeHam hammy]] Creator/RonMoody as Vorobyaninov.
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* DrivenToMadness: Father Fyodor. [[spoiler:Probably Vorobyaninov too.]]
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* DrivenToMadness: Father Fyodor. [[spoiler:Probably Fyodor [[spoiler:and Vorobyaninov too.after someone else finds the jewels.]]
* LifeImitatesArt: In the 1980s the city administration did start to sell tickets at the entrance of Proval tunnel. And then closed it for a few years to clean the lake from debris and reinforce walls. Otherwise it could have collapsed by now.
* LighterAndSofter: Downplayed with the 1970 Mel Brooks film, where [[spoiler: Bender doesn't get killed, and after Vorobyaninov goes insane, Bender urges the crowd to help his broken partner, and they reconcile as partners in crime]].
* LighterAndSofter: Downplayed with the 1970 Mel Brooks film, where [[spoiler: Bender doesn't get killed, and after Vorobyaninov goes insane, Bender urges the crowd to help his broken partner, and they reconcile as partners in crime]].
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** LifeImitatesArt: In the 1980s the city administration did start to sell tickets at the entrance of Proval tunnel. And then closed it for a few years to clean the lake from debris and reinforce walls. Otherwise it could have collapsed by now.
* MundaneSolution\\MugglesDoItBetter: When Bender visits a newspaper, there's a brief episode about the employees discussing their own enrichment scheme: buy government bonds, win a large sum and purchase several cars to go to a Caucasian resort for vacation. Months later, when Bender happens to be at said resort, [[BrickJoke he meets the same people who did exactly that and succeeded]], without any of the hardships Bender endured in his pursuit. He ends up begging money from them.
* MundaneSolution\\MugglesDoItBetter: When Bender visits a newspaper, there's a brief episode about the employees discussing their own enrichment scheme: buy government bonds, win a large sum and purchase several cars to go to a Caucasian resort for vacation. Months later, when Bender happens to be at said resort, [[BrickJoke he meets the same people who did exactly that and succeeded]], without any of the hardships Bender endured in his pursuit. He ends up begging money from them.
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* OpportunisticBastard: Vorobyanninov, who kills Ostap Bender after Father Fyodor goes mad, so he can get all the jewels for himself.
* PyrrhicVillainy: After Father Fyodor gets lost in a village and goes insane, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender to keep the loot for himself, only to discover that someone else already found the jewels and used them to build a new public recreation center, Vorobyaninov loses his sanity.
* PyrrhicVillainy: After Father Fyodor gets lost in a village and goes insane, Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender to keep the loot for himself, only to discover that someone else already found the jewels and used them to build a new public recreation center, Vorobyaninov loses his sanity.
* SanitySlippage: In the book, after Vorobyaninov murders Ostap Bender, he finds the last chair, only to discover that the jewels have already been found and used to build the new recreation center where the chair was found, and goes insane.
** After following a bad lead, Father Fyodor ends up losing his sanity on a mountaintop.
** After following a bad lead, Father Fyodor ends up losing his sanity on a mountaintop.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Ostap Bender in Mel Brooks' 1970 film, as contrasted with the novel where he gets killed.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the 1970 Mel Brooks film, Vorobyaninov and Bender have rehearsed a routine where Vorobyaninov falls to the ground and fakes an epileptic seizure to win the crowd's sympathy.
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* HastilyHiddenMacGuffin: The entire plot is built on that. Madame Petukhova, an Imperial Russian noblewoman, hid her collection of jewelry in a chair during the Revolution of 1917, to prevent the revolutionaries from confiscating them. Years later, her son-in-law Ippolit Vorobyaninoff learns about that from Madame on her deathbed, and starts to look for that chair. As you can guess from the title, there are eleven more chairs looking exactly like that one.
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In post-civil war Soviet Russia, [[ImpoverishedPatrician a former member of nobility]], Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. [[MacGuffin Those chairs]], along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government [[RedOctober during the Civil War]]. He becomes a treasure hunter, and after the [[ManipulativeBastard smooth operator]] and ConMan [[MagnificentBastard Ostap Bender]] forces Kisa ("Kitty", Vorobyaninov's [[EmbarrassingNickname funny childhood nickname]], which Bender prefers to long "Ippolit") to partner with him, they set off to track down the chairs. This ultimately helps Kisa, who doesn't possess [[LoveableRogue Bender's charm]] and is not as street-smart.
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In post-civil war Soviet Russia, [[ImpoverishedPatrician a former member of nobility]], Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set. [[MacGuffin Those chairs]], along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government [[RedOctober [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober during the Civil War]]. He becomes a treasure hunter, and after the [[ManipulativeBastard smooth operator]] and ConMan [[MagnificentBastard Ostap Bender]] forces Kisa ("Kitty", Vorobyaninov's [[EmbarrassingNickname funny childhood nickname]], which Bender prefers to long "Ippolit") to partner with him, they set off to track down the chairs. This ultimately helps Kisa, who doesn't possess [[LoveableRogue Bender's charm]] and is not as street-smart.
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* InternalHomage: Due to time constraints, the Mell Brooks film cuts out all the WackyWaysideTribe scenes, including the iconic chess tournament. To compensate, one of the final scenes takes place in a chess room of the new railroad club.
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Twodifferent other Russian adaptations have created a bit of a BrokenBase amongst the Russian viewers. The main point of contention is whether [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Mironov Andrei Mironov's]] interpretation of Bender as less of a LovableRogue and more of a VillainProtagonist works.
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