Boing Boing » winnie the pooh http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Animated Russian "Winnie the Pooh" from 1972 is quite the Nietzschean bummer http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/animated-russian-winnie-the.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/animated-russian-winnie-the.html#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:36:21 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=161072 Video Link] SoyuzMultfilm's "Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," 1972, presents the iconic tale of Pooh and pals with a tone very different from more familiar adaptations.]]>

[Video Link] SoyuzMultfilm's "Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," 1972, presents the iconic tale of Pooh and pals with a tone very different from more familiar adaptations. For starters, Pooh is an annoying, aggressive hedgehog of a bear; Eeyore seems to be paraphrasing Nietzsche, and needs antidepressants even more badly than his English-speaking cousin. Here's another, and another, and another, and another. Update: As blogged on Boing Boing previously, in 2008! (thanks, Rusalka!)

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