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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.

Context Animation / IcarusAndWisemen