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2 | Soviet 1976 animated short by Fyodor Khitruk. |
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4 | In a community where most of the citizens are serious, thoughtful wise men there is a strange man who dreams of flying. He makes himself pair of wings but he falls. Then he invents a series of devices but they all fare just as bad. But Icarus never gives up and tries something new every day. |
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6 | Wise men observe Icarus's fruitless efforts and make him an example of stupid and unacceptable behavior for youth and conjure numerous thoughtful and deep latinisms like "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quod_licet_Iovi,_non_licet_bovi quod licet iovi, non licet bovi]]" or "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente Festina lente]]"... until one day Icarus doesn't fail. |
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8 | Apart from the character of Icarus, this cartoon has nothing to do with epynomial [[Myth/GreekMythology greek myth]]. The original gave us an aesop about Icarus who boldly wanted to reach the sun and burned his wings trying, while this short tells a story about so-called 'wise men' preying on visionaries. |
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10 | Can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yk1mz23YFA on Youtube with subtitles]]. |
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13 | !!''Icarus And Wisemen'' provides examples of: |
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15 | * BitterSweetEnding: Icarus died, but one of the kids is prepared to take up where he left off. |
16 | * BlitheSpirit: Icarus |
17 | * ChirpingCrickets: "croaking frog" sound effect is used to show that without [[BlitheSpirit Icarus]] the place qiuckly turned into a intellectually bare swamp. |
18 | * DeadArtistsAreBetter: Alive, Icarus was made fun of. Dead, he gets all the glory: the wisemen made a monument at his grave, altogether mourned him at the funeral and started giving tours to his memorial. |
19 | * {{Determinator}}: Icarus |
20 | * GratuitousLatin |
21 | * TakeUpMySword: With wings. |
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