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"Ice" opens like a crime thriller, with three familiar contemporary Russian characters: the student-slacker, the prostitute and the businessman.
As he filled in the character's details, he made the player Russian because "I just kind of liked the pompous Russian characters I have met," he said.
He introduced Russian characters into the barracks – in particular, a young partisan (the first prisoners to be gassed in Auschwitz were Russian).
Here Magallanes and Tallchief are the only non-Russian-speakers; we quickly understand when the Russian characters are speaking English to them, because then and only then do they acquire Russian accents.
With extraordinary and lyrical brevity, Fitzgerald creates a whole world, but from the inside out, so that all her English and Russian characters become united and universal in a shared humanity.
While we wait for the core cast to be reduced to the requisite breeding pair, we have time to ponder the pointlessness of the Moscow setting, chosen primarily to allow the filmmakers access to stock Russian characters — like the crazy inventor and the band of armed-to-the-teeth partisans — and exotic architecture.
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SKABLYAN: The Russian character is founded on contradictions.
The Russian character Souvarine urges the miners to violent action.
"It feels like that's a part of the Russian character".
The other is dimly Russian but without any real Russian character, except for the sets, which aren't great.
"But the first blood has been spilled, and knowing the Russian character, the situation will now be unpredictable".
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