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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some viewers find it very strange that a German character is called Eliseus Bomelius. However, he is a HistoricalDomainCharacter (see Website/TheOtherWiki for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliseus_Bomelius details]]) and he really came from modern-day Germany.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Lev Mey's play is only remembered nowadays as Rimsky-Korsakov's source of inspiration.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik who killed so many people is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to be kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
** And in some stagings, in the ending he goes all PapaWolf, beating or even killing either Gryaznoi, Bomelius, or both. Granted, it might also be because they have committed high treason [[EvenEvilHasStandards which is unforgivable in Malyuta’a eyes]], but it’s often shown that it’s after Lyubasha’s final monologue and death that he grows mad with rage.
** And in some stagings, in the ending he goes all PapaWolf, beating or even killing either Gryaznoi, Bomelius, or both. Granted, it might also be because they have committed high treason [[EvenEvilHasStandards which is unforgivable in Malyuta’a eyes]], but it’s often shown that it’s after Lyubasha’s final monologue and death that he grows mad with rage.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik who killed so many people is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to be kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
** And in some stagings, in the ending he goes all PapaWolf, beating or even killing either Gryaznoi, Bomelius, or both. Granted, it might also be because they have committed high treason [[EvenEvilHasStandards which is unforgivable in Malyuta’a eyes]], but it’s often shown that it’s after Lyubasha’s final monologue and death that he grows mad withrage.rage.
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** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].
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** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic [[FridgeBrilliance that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to be kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik who killed so many people is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to be kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.death.
** And in some stagings, in the ending he goes all PapaWolf, beating or even killing either Gryaznoi, Bomelius, or both. Granted, it might also be because they have committed high treason [[EvenEvilHasStandards which is unforgivable in Malyuta’a eyes]], but it’s often shown that it’s after Lyubasha’s final monologue and death that he grows mad with rage.
** And in some stagings, in the ending he goes all PapaWolf, beating or even killing either Gryaznoi, Bomelius, or both. Granted, it might also be because they have committed high treason [[EvenEvilHasStandards which is unforgivable in Malyuta’a eyes]], but it’s often shown that it’s after Lyubasha’s final monologue and death that he grows mad with rage.
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* Had Lyubasha’s feelings for Gryaznoi appeared due to StockholmSyndrome, or had there been some more adequate relationship development?
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to he kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
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* Had Lyubasha’s feelings for Gryaznoi appeared due to StockholmSyndrome, or had there been some more adequate relationship development?
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care tohe be kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to
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** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].
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** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].stress]].
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to he kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In many productions, including the 1965 opera film, the entire relationship of Malyuta Skuratov and Lyubasha. It’s both that and a TearJerker moment when you realize that a hardened cynical oprichnik is the only one who even remembers she’s there without being reminded, takes care to he kind to her, inquires about her health and in the end mourns her death.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** Malyuta Skuratov is either a very cheerful AffablyEvil guy, honestly devoted to the Tsar and to his friends and the only person who really cares about poor Lyubasha’s well-being, or someone whose world is limited to drinking, girls, and beating others up.
** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].
** Malyuta Skuratov is either a very cheerful AffablyEvil guy, honestly devoted to the Tsar and to his friends and the only person who really cares about poor Lyubasha’s well-being, or someone whose world is limited to drinking, girls, and beating others up.
** Either Bomelius really [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane can do a bit of magic]], is honest in his own way and keeps his end of any bargain, or he is just a charlatan who swindles his way through life. There is the point that Lyubasha asked him for a poison that wouldn’t really kill but would only destroy one’s beauty, and then Marfa died. However, it might be [[FridgeLogic that she was killed because of the cumulative effect of the poison and the stress]].
