History Film / IlyaMuromets

* DubNameChange: From the original title to ''The Sword and the Dragon'' (or ''The Epic Hero and the Beast'' for those in the UK). Many of the character names are also changed to sound less Russian (except, oddly, for Ilya Muromets himself); Vassilisa becomes Vilya, Prince Vladimir is Prince Vanda, Dobrynia and Alyosha are Durbar and Alexei, Svyatogor becomes Invincor, and so on.

* MilesGloriosus: Mishatychka, the traitorous noble who convinces the Prince to exile Ilya. His introduction sees him claiming that he defeated an entire enemy army by himself (in the original film, he's first seen defeated by that army and buying his life at the cost of swearing allegiance to Kalin - seen by Vassilisa and later told to Ilya), and a powerful wind demon as well. This serves to set up Ilya's introduction to the Prince, as Ilya is able to prove the lying noble wrong due to being the one who actually defeated the wind demon.

* HaveAGayOldTime: The battle between Ilya and his son does seem to have a possible FoeRomanceSubtext [[{{Squick}} implication]] for a modern Russian.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: The dub script moves some scenes around and drops others entirely, leading to a number of plot holes. For example, ''Ilya Muromets'' opens with the pilgrims talking to Svyatogor, followed by Vassilisa being abducted while Ilya watches helplessly, and then Mishatychka offering the Tugars his services as a double agent. ''The Sword and the Dragon'' opens with Vilya (as she is re-named) already a captive as Mishatychka (who is unnamed in the dub) offers to turn traitor, and then the pilgrims talk to Invincor (as he is re-named). When Ilya rescues Vilya later in the film, it is the first time they have met in the dub script, so his passion for her seems to come out of nowhere.

* HaveAGayOldTime: The battle between Ilya and his son does seem to have a possible FoeYay [[{{Squick}} implication]] for a modern Russian.

* UnfortunateNames: Invincor. In the original, his name was Svyatogor, which sounds pretty cool.

* TooImportantToWalk: Kalin is shown to have a throne set upon human backs. Another group of Tugars is carrying a golden disk upon which his Fanservice dancer performs.

* BreathWeapon: Zmey Gorynich breaths fire. Sources vary on whether it had [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]] installed in its heads, or there were actual soldiers sitting there.

* MillionMookMarch: World record for extras.

* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Falcon grows to adulthood (mightiest among the Tugar warriors even) while his father is in prison. In the bylinas, he was imprisoned for three years, but the movie changed it to ten, with people remarking about the fast aging.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The original sources usually have Ilya killing his son.

* {{Ambadassador}}: Dobrynya is introduced returning from negotiations in Constantinople, while Ilya spends a few days later wasting the enemy time with pointless talks until the reserves arrive.

* DubNameChange: From the original title to ''The Sword and the Dragon'' (or ''The Epic Hero and the Beast'' for those in the UK). Many of the character names are also changed to sound less Russian (except, oddly, for Ilya Muromets himself).
* EasilyCondemned: Ilya has proven himself a great warrior and man of honor, to the point that he was adopted as Prince Vladimir's blood brother, yet when he's accused of abandoning the kingdom the Prince instantly believes the accusation and orders that Ilya be exiled from the kingdom forever. This in spite of the fact that the nobleman making the accusation has already been exposed as a liar with a grudge against Ilya (he previously claimed to have defeated a wind demon that Ilya actually defeated), plus the noble has absolutely no proof of Ilya's betrayal and nobody to back up his claim. Of course, Ilya losing his cool and threatening the Prince when he found out didn't exactly help his case.

* MilesGloriosus: Mishatychka, the traitorous noble who convinces the Prince to exile Ilya. His introduction sees him claiming that he defeated an entire enemy army by himself (in the original film, he's first seen defeated by that army and buying his life at the cost of swearing allegiance to Kalin - seen by Vasilisa and later told to Ilya), and a powerful wind demon as well. This serves to set up Ilya's introduction to the Prince, as Ilya is able to prove the lying noble wrong due to being the one who actually defeated the wind demon.

Kievan Rus, led by Prince Vladimir the Great (Andrei Abrikosov), is under siege from the Tugar army, led by Tsar Kalin (Shukur Burkhanov). The giant knight Svyatogor bequeathes his sword to a group of pilgrims, telling them to find a young hero worthy of it; a few days later, they find Ilya Muromets (Boris Andreyev), who is immensely strong but has been paralysed since birth, and so could only watch when the Tugars abducted his crush, Vassilisa (Ninel Myshkova). His PatrioticFervor makes the pilgrims decide he is worthy of Svyatogor's sword, so they cure him of his paralysis and give him the sword, and he rides out to join the fight against the Tugars. After defeating the gale-blowing demon Nightingale the Robber, he heads for Kiev to present his opponent to Prince Vladimir. The prince makes Ilya a knight in his service, in which capacity he meets fellow heroes Dobrynia Nikitich (Gyorgy Dyomin) and Alyosha Popovich (Sergei Stolyarov). A mission to the frontiers brings him into contact with the Tugars who abducted Vassilisa, and he frees and later marries her.

Kievan Rus, led by Prince Vladimir the Great (Andrei Abrikosov), is under siege from the Tugar army, led by Tsar Kalin (Shukur Burkhanov). The giant knight Svyatogor bequeathes his sword to a group of pilgrims, telling them to find a young hero worthy of it; a few days later, they find Ilya Muromets (Boris Andreyev), who is immensely strong but has been paralysed since birth, and so could only watch when the Tugars abducted his crush, Vassilisa (Ninel Myshkova). His PatrioticFervor makes the pilgrims decide he is worth of Svyatogor's sword, so they cure him of his paralysis, and he rides out. After defeating the gale-blowing demon Nightingale the Robber, he heads for Kiev to present his opponent to Prince Vladimir. The prince makes Ilya a knight in his service, in which capacity he meets fellow heroes Dobrynia Nikitich (Gyorgy Dyomin) and Alyosha Popovich (Sergei Stolyarov). A mission to the frontiers brings him into contact with the Tugars who abducted Vassilisa, and he frees and later marries her.

* SparedByAdaptation: The original sources usually have Ilya killing his son.

''Ilya Muromets'' is a fantasy movie based upon the [[Myth/RussianMythologyAndTales epic poems]] about a Russian epic hero. Released in 1956, the movie was a literal epic for the Russian film industry, with [[MillionMookMarch tens of thousands of extras and thousands of horses]] used in some of the battle scenes. Then Creator/RogerCorman got his hands on the movie for a release in the early 1960s. While little was generally changed, the "epic" feel of the original is felt to have been lost rather tragically in the conversion. The movie is also known as ''The Sword and the Dragon'' in America, while ''The Epic Hero and the Beast'' is the UK name. Both are drastically changed versions when compared to the original, of course. A copy of the full version with English subtitles can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopfqauEz64 here]] (4K quality as of March 2021).

* MilesGloriosus: The traitorous noble who convinces the Prince to exile Ilya. His introduction sees him claiming that he defeated an entire enemy army by himself (in the original film, he's first seen defeated by that army and buying his life at the cost of swearing allegiance to Kalin - seen by Vasilisa and later told to Ilya), and a powerful wind demon as well. This serves to set up Ilya's introduction to the Prince, as Ilya is able to prove the lying noble wrong due to being the one who actually defeated the wind demon.

** The scene where Ilya gives Dobrynya and Alexei their instructions for the climactic battle is posed like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Die_drei_Bogatyr.jpg a famous painting of the same three characters]] by Victor Vasnetsov.

* {{Fanservice}}: Well, you can try to argue that the An Son Hi's minute long dance at 1:05 was intended as something else...

* MilesGloriosus: The traitorous noble who convinces the Prince to exile Ilya. His introduction sees him claiming that he defeated an entire enemy army by himself, and a powerful wind demon as well. This serves to set up Ilya's introduction to the Prince, as Ilya is able to prove the lying noble wrong due to being the one who actually defeated the wind demon.

* ActionGirl: Ilya's wife managed to take down a few Tugars with a bow before she's finally captured at the beginning of the film. While she doesn't do much more of the sort the rest of the film, there's some good reasons.[[note]][[spoiler:She's preggers the second time she's attacked and captured, and spends her first few years in captivity having to take care of her young son. When Little Falcon is soon taken away to be raised by the Kali, by the time we see her again she's slipped into a HeroicBSOD. Once that passes she makes her way home through enemy territory only slightly behind her son, which would not have been that easym]][[/note]]

** The scene where Ilya gives Durbar and Alexei their instructions for the climactic battle is posed like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Die_drei_Bogatyr.jpg a famous painting of the same three characters]] by Victor Vasnetsov.

''Ilya Muromets'' is a fantasy movie based upon the [[Myth/RussianMythologyAndTales epic poems]] about a Russian epic hero. Released in 1956, the movie was a literal epic for the Russian film industry, with [[MillionMookMarch tens of thousands of extras and thousands of horses]] used in some of the battle scenes. Then Creator/RogerCorman got his hands on the movie for a release in the early 1960s. While little was generally changed, the "epic" feel of the original is felt to have been lost rather tragically in the conversion. The movie is also known as ''The Sword and the Dragon'' in America, while ''The Epic Hero and the Beast'' is the UK name. Both are drastically changed versions when compared to the original, of course. A copy of the full version with English subtitles can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hooaKxdXbfM here.]]

Fun fact: the three-headed dragon? One of the creatures [[Characters/GodzillaTheGhidorahs King Ghidorah]] was based upon.

* EasilyCondemned: Ilya has proven himself a great warrior and man of honor, to the point that he was adopted as Prince Vladimir's blood brother, yet when he's accused of abandoning the kingdom the Prince instantly believes the accusation and orders that Ilya be exiled from the kingdom forever. This in spite of the fact that the nobleman making the accusation has already been repeatedly exposed as a liar (he previously claimed to have defeated a wind demon that Ilya actually defeated), and the noble has absolutely no proof and nobody to back up his claim. Of course, Ilya losing his cool and threatening the Prince when he found out didn't exactly help his case.