Vegetarian Scene from Everything is Illuminated

[xxxTatts]

So much better when you can actually understand the Russian XD

[Stellaacee]

this was my favorite moment in the book!

[TheRilesFiles]

Um, I would make an exception for Eugene's sausage.

[mayflyforyou]

I laughed sooo hard at this part. Welcome to Ukraine.

[FaruzLyte]

I'm Ukrainian and a Vegan and I found this to be the funniest thing ever.

[llieske]

Borsch can be made without meat...

[domarco22]

Two vegetarians don't like the movie.

[ginna8]

Anyone know the band in this clip?

[Wyhmiis]

@ginna8 It's Leningrad. "Malen'kiy Mal'chick". (:

[deadeyejac]

It would be funny if after he says Steak? The guy is like oh well duh, of course steak.

[mabonuob]

As a vegetarian I have felt like that quite a few times here in Mexico. :)

[Mandarink0]

the whole scene is complete exaggeration and just set of stereotypes. Nobody in Ukraine would be surprised about somebody being a vegetarian and in fact people DO NOT eat that much meat beacuse it is expensive.

But to eat bread from the floor is the "greatest" scene, I suppose, the director is just not able for more "creativity" than pure mockery.

[electrokittie]

@Mandarink0 someone is missing the joke....

[Mandarink0]

@electrokittie oh really? I think I understand it too good to laugh at it. Many people in Ukraine are not eating meat not because they are vegeterians but because they cannot afford it. At least regularly. For them eating meat may be a sign of wealthy and good life. Germans for example are eating three times more meat than Ukrainians. But nobody would dare to show them as fat narrow-minded morons. Sorry.

[electrokittie]

@Mandarink0 Yeah, that's not really the POINT of the joke is it though? It's a FILM , of course its exaggerated. Its exaggerated to get laughs. Do you really think that the entirety of the US perceive Ukrainians as weird guys with poor English skills who WANT to be American?

The point is, it makes Jonathan look strange and foreign because to the characters of Alex and his grandfather HE is the awkward middle class Jewish American stereotype. So erm, really it has nothing to do with meat. at all

[Mandarink0]

@electrokittie If there are steretypes about Jewish Americans, they are much more harmless than the ones about Ukrainians. Meat was just an example, like eating potato from the floor and so on. The art of the humor is though in its universality,if it is insulting someone, it is not an irony anymore. And btw I do know much more about my own country and i do find it very insulting. I do not know ANY Ukrainian who find this movie funny. So I DO get the point, even too much of it.

[electrokittie]

@Mandarink0 well all I can say is welcome to hollywood cinema - WORLD of borderline offensive stereotypes. see 'representations of black culture' for reference.

[LauraMcNaughton]

@Mandarink0 Have you read the book?

[LauraMcNaughton]

@Mandarink0 Also, you could replace "Ukrainian" with ANY Non-American part of the world, be it Eastern or Western Europe, Australia, Africa or Asia, and that joke would still work, because they are not laughing at Ukrainians, they are poking fun at the odd little man who is out of his comfort zone. You could even replace "Ukrainian" with certain states in America.

Let me assure you, it wont alter the world-view of Ukraine in any large measure, it's just entertainment.

[Elisjevian]

@Mandarink0 Oh common, it's funny! Have you seen Eurotrip? My Slovakian friends found the jokes about Slovakian culture (when the characters ended up in Bratislava) extremely funny. I don't mind when Belgians are being made fun of. How is a novelist/filmmaker to express confrontations between different cultures if stereotyping is not allowed? Sometimes it is very useful to deal with serious topics through humor. And pleaaaase don't tell me Germans are not stereotyped as narrow-minded :D

[Proletariunitevi]

@Mandarink0 I don't see it as "insulting", maybe a little simplified. I'm Italian so i'm used to stereotypes, particularly in american cinema. Stereotypes can bring someone to laugh, but they also bring to think about cultural differences.

And I don't think it is insulting the thing about meat or eating something "from" the floor (it has just touched it!), it showes that eating isn't a thing to take for granted, and that not all the world is U.S.A.

[Proletariunitevi]

@Proletariunitevi Clearly everything is "in my humble opinion", and eventually sorry for the bad english! :)

[Proletariunitevi]

@Mandarink0 The film just show what you said. In some countries there's no room for this stupid things, there are real problems. And this is positive for a film.

[protonman7]

@electrokittie Poor English skills? The fact is, the english Alex is using is more "proper", and more exact. The words chosen can be understood, like "proximal", it's just that Americans don't speak "proper" English anymore, and haven't for a long time.

[electrokittie]

@protonman7 People who study language know that there is no such thing as 'proper English' anyay. I was trying to explain the point that the director/novelist is trying to make and pointing out that nobody in reality thinks that the people of Ukraine talk or behave this way.

[khatool]

The person who disliked this is a deranged American.

[RomeroFanboy]

Fucking epic scene from an truly epic movie.

[ROFLITSCHRIS]

2:00

wat

[edonquijote24]

The book is 3748384723984732894374893x better than the movie. The acting in the movie is well played.

[friginawsome1]

good movie, but no scenes with Brod. That's deranged.

[dinamekh]

super movie. Shob ya tak zhil!



[dinamekh]

super movie. Shob ya tak zhil!

[ElusiveWolf33]

I read the book and haven't rented this yet, is Trachimbrod in this at all? My favorite chapter has Brod in it and I just wanna' know D:

[purplecrayon22]

@ElusiveWolf33 keep watching it! haha yes Trachimbrod is a really big part of this... you'll see :)

[purplecrayon22]

@ElusiveWolf33 keep watching it! haha yes Trachimbrod is a really big part of this... you'll see :) although my teacher did say that the book has a lot of differences... i haven't read it so idk, you might be disappointed

[wintergirl1971]

What a fantastic movie. Definitely one of my favorites :)

[crossfireterminator]

your a what?

[mylooxcankill]

I hate how this video makes Ukrainians look uncivilized are dimwitted. Ukraine is nothing close to what is portrayed here. This is like a second Borat.

[skanpararas]

@mylooxcankill , no its true, i was on ukraine and i saw the same country like on the film

[mylooxcankill]

@skanpararas, the thing is, the landscape is the same and such, if that's what you mean, but the people are different. This is a good movie but it's really exaggerated. It's just that people know little about this country and therefore will most likely base their views on it based on what they see in this movie.

[verykawaiimew]

@mylooxcankill some ukrainians are, and i don't actually feel anything negative about how this movie shows them. there are good people and bad people in every country

[veotumuerte]

*WARNING* dragonsder is a grotesque stalking retard, who enjoys harrasing others (with many fake names) and even goes through your comment history in order to stalk you! He clearly has no life whatsoever and has a hissy when you either IGNORE, or RESPOND to him. HE is beyond help, and I pray he is posting from some VERY secure establishment for the mentally insane. He is a danger to his local community. DO NOT GET INTO A CONVERASTION WITH THIS CREEP!

[zombifiedrat]

god damn Hutz looks weird without a mustache. YOUNGER too

[XMusicFreakX]

Even without that mustache, I'd recognize Hütz anywhere!

"Welcome to Ukraine"

[JoshGrobansLady]

Elijah Wood + Russian accents = heaven. I am in my happy place right now. ^^

[melfaery]

1:41 lol

[Haishinlu]

Sascha is like, the best! :)))

[huka0104]

I love this movie!

[mikegarr1972]

please this american is deranged.

[sebastianflyte07]

LOL i'd been watching this scene in a version without the subtitles and that was funny enough because you could imagine how they were getting annoyed... but now i know what they were actually saying hahaha ... 'please, this american is deranged' lol, and how they're all like 'what is wrong with him?' :D

[dragonsder]

Wait, why does the grandpa cut up the potato?

[veotumuerte]

Oh, you like the song..oh goody!!

[dragonsder]

@veotumuerte

Why are you following me everywhere? This video is completely irrelevant.

[veotumuerte]

@dragonsder Well, whatever you say is totally

untrustworthy, unreliable and absurd! Why? well,

because for no other reason than YOU said it!

You don't refute the fact that you "boast" you

masterbate to 9/11 footage though. I mean, you protest

all the other accusations against you, but remain silent on

this issue. Now that's interesting.

[dragonsder]

@veotumuerte

Well I guess that's proof that you don't know how to read. I have consistently explained that you made a fake account called Dragensder to post the comment, but then you removed it because I caught you. You don't care though. You wont even be able to read this comment. You'll just cover your ears and shout at the top of your lungs and then claim victory. Because that's how pathetic losers like you work.

[veotumuerte]

@dragonsder

What's wrong with you now bozo?

Could you only manage just a few messages in my

inbox this morning? Did matron finally get wise to your little scheme and limit your internet priviledges?

Either way, I see others have also cottoned on

to what an incompetent bumbling nutjob you are!

[veotumuerte]

@parkplace, Yeah, thanks for your support on this issue.

Some fag from Orange County admitted saying the same thing

only lastweek. Something about cruising in a pink mustang with

heavily tinted windows, and an over priced stereo.

Know what I mean?

[dragonsder]

definitely one of the best parts of the movies, great song too.

[kakaze]

why does the old guy just nick it though...

[Berkeleyization]

For Yana

[Aathron]

2:21 kills me every time the way the happy music stops suddenly

[JoshGrobansLady]

This scene is absolutely priceless. It cracks me up every time.

"Please, this American is deranged."

[leannebridgewater]

well we can't tell you what's wrng with him, but we can tell you what's right about him... and that's he has respects and knows there's better things to eat than a bit of fleshly made corpse :)

[Spaghettaboutit]

Please, this American is deranged

[pogolover13]

i dont get it... what are all the songs from the first part of the movie? i get their leningrad... but what are they called

[andina18]

hey, it's a mix of Gogol Bordello (Eugene Hutz's band)

and also yep, Leningrad (this song in particular is called Malen'kiy Mal'chik)

plus other traditional Russian songs

hope this helps!! ;-)

[slyspockthefox]

And what about the sausage?

[MeWinona]

My favourite movie, Hutz and Wood perfect ;)

[joaopedroleitao]

haha wonderful.

[Kakiharaswife]

me too! :D

[xxSweetiiSiimonexx]

I love this scene xD