Ok, before I go through the trouble of actually making these things available for folks to buy, would you for real purchase the Gonch shirt that I made for a laugh? Wouldja?
Designing and printing it was super fun. Saw some people tagging that they’d buy one. It might be a way for the shop to survive the lean months coming up.
Anyway, keep Gonching, Goncherinos.
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Happy 50th anniversary to the best film ever made
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the internet is so inescapably intolerable right now in such a deeply fasinating and amusing way. i log on here and only see goncharov posts, people creating art and whole music scores, character analysis and crossover posts. i log off and make the mistake of trying tikt*k and they have created their own fake currency over there called Dabloons. everyone is in debt and the dabloon economy has collapsed. the entire internet is so sick of reality they have turned to fabricating media and economics. its brilliant, im exhausted
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can someone help me find the highest quality version of this image?? I want to print it out and hang it on my wall but I'm going to pay for it to be printed professionally bc I want it to look like a real movie poster so I want the best quality picture I can find.
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girl your clock symbolism is so sexy today you look positively goncharovian
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The other day I showed my fiancé a Goncharov post and he was like "Oh, is everybody still on that? Isn't it time for Tumblr to move on?" And I was like ohhhoohoo my friend, you do NOT understand, Tumblr never moves on! Tumblr is physically incapable of letting things go.
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yall I can’t believe I found the music that plays during Goncharov’s dream sequence!! it’s not a great quality audio but that’s to be expected with an old movie like this...
ok so i had a lot of thoughts about this. The song that’s playing is “The Scows are Full of Mullet” by Mark Bernes (a Jewish-Odessan performer in the Soviet Union). This version of the song comes from a 1943 movie “Two Fighters”
anyway, I think Goncharov should be at least a little Jewish. Not because I'm projecting but bc it makes sense historically - a great deal of people who ran from the collapsing Soviet Union in our timeline were Jewish (among them my mom’s family).
Also, there’s a lot of talk about Goncharov’s theme being “loss of identity.” Odessa, in the former Soviet Union was a very Jewish place. It was also a port city (just like Naples)
The song is about a sailor who is known and beloved everywhere he goes. The opposite of “Lo Straniero”. It’s something like Irony?
Lyrics Translation:
“Are you an artist?”
“No, I’m from Odessa. When I hear good music, I see the port, the blue, blue sea, and I remember…”
The scows are full of mullet
Which Kostya brought back to Odessa.
And all the dockhands stood
When he entered the pub.
The sea is blue beyond the boulevard
Chestnuts bloom above the city
And Constantine takes up his guitar,
Singing in a soft voice:
“I can’t speak for all Odessa
Odessa is a very large place
But even Moldovanka and Peresyp
All adore Kostya the Sailor”
Once in May, the fisherwoman Sonya
Set her boat toward the shore.
She said to him, “Everyone knows you,
But I’m seeing you for the first time.”
In answer, opening a pack of Kazbeck,
Kostya answered coldly:
“You’re a strange and interesting girl,
But you see, the fact is,
I can’t speak for all Odessa
Odessa is a very large place
But even Moldovanka and Peresyp
All adore Kostya the Sailor”
The fountain was covered with bird-cherry,
The French Boulevard was blooming.
“It seems our Kostya has fallen in love!”
Call out the dock workers in the port
For a week, the fishermen noisily spread this news,
For the wedding, the dockhands
Put on their shoes with a terrible creaking
I can’t speak for all Odessa
Odessa is a very large place
All night and day all Peresyp spent
At the merry wedding of the sailor
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Something I feel strongly about in Goncharov: since this is an improv thing you’re not allowed to say “no” to someone’s version of the story.
There are no true or false versions of the story and it’s even somewhat disrespectful to tell someone their version of events is wrong because there is no objective truth of what happens in this movie. This is like a legend or mythology where there can be multiple endings or different details depending on your own personal belief system. So be mindful of that and stop it with the “Your depiction is inaccurate” mindset
The goal of this is not to set straight the lore and exact details of the plot. If you think that way, you’re stuck in the mindset of “things that happen or dont in a movie”. You should instead have the mindset of “we love to talk about and enjoy our favorite movie together”. Like, use more I statements and “I believe..”, lay off the focus on what’s canon or not fr
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