In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
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