Allow me to recommend the Soviet production of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube. As an index of its vibe, this is how it depicts a man who has just arrived from Canada.
@vruba Seems fairly accurate WRT expectations, TBS.
I have that exact same coat!
@vruba is... is that the fur coat that gerald ford gave to leonid brezhnev?
@airshipper @vruba it's very similar, but probably not: it doesn't have a hood
@vruba must've been summer, he doesn't have a hockey stick
@vruba the idea that RUSSIA would be like "Canada that's the cold place right" like they don't have siberia
@vruba Canadian here: That's about right.
@vruba Yeah, that's Gord. Everyone knows Gord.
@vruba it doubles as a bear rug.
@vruba That would be EASTERN Canada. If he was from BC he'd have a fistful of daffodils.
@vruba Does he have snow on his boots?
@vruba In fairness, that is what us Canadian men look like.
@vruba where has he arrived? Because if he has come to a location where it is above 10° C surely he would be going about in short sleeves and quite possibly shorts.
@vruba How does one find this marvel???
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a few explanations from RU for the uninitiated:
1. the photo shows Nikita Mikhalkov, an Oscar winner and the son of the author of the Russian national anthem
2. Sherlock Holmes in the Soviet version was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the Queen
3. Jules Verne, Dumas, Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie were very popular in the USSR
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Unfortunately, very few people in the USSR knew the original Winnie-the-Pooh. We had Boris Zakhoder's adaptation, and the cartoons based on it.
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Not bad, yeah, but kinda different
@vruba I'm Canadian and that is how I dress all the time
@vruba how does one find this
@Tim_Eagon @marimo The ones I’ve watched so far seem to understand the genre fiction spirit of the originals better than most adaptations do, and have some very enjoyable touches. If I wanted to pick them apart, I could, but I don’t want to.
@vruba Thanks for the recommendation!
@vruba That mirrors depictions of Russia in US movies where there's always snow.
@vruba Still better than BBC Sherlock.