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1. ANSWERS: 1) Scooby Doo, 2) Freak Friday (That’s Jamie Lee Curtis on the right), 3)Just Married (with Aston Kutcher on the left), 4) Bridget Jones’s Diary, 5) Shallow Hal, 6) 50 First Dates

   posted by Mangesh on 5-9-2007 at 7:46 am

2. Why do they all kind of look like they could be posters for ‘Thelma and Louise’?

   posted by Ransom on 5-9-2007 at 7:55 am

3. ha! maybe only because it killed at the Belarus box office? I guess it’s a formula, but it works… posters in India don’t look too different. I remember seeing one for Anaconda, and wondering why someone had drawn such an ugly dog.

   posted by Mangesh on 5-9-2007 at 8:05 am

4. My russian is terrible after years of non-use, but does the Shallow Hal poster say that love is evil?

   posted by Bill T. on 5-9-2007 at 8:44 am

5. heh… no idea!

   posted by Mangesh on 5-9-2007 at 8:46 am

6. I knew Ashton Kutcher was a girl!!! I just knew it.

   posted by patti on 5-9-2007 at 8:55 am

7. Thank gawd I’m not the only person who kept thinking “Thelma and Louise?”

   posted by Roger on 5-9-2007 at 9:29 am

8. The one for “Freaky Friday” looks kind of like Jody Foster and Susan Sarandon; if the artist saw them both as being really ugly and kind of man-ish. And Drew Barrymore looks really terrified of Adam Sandler for some reason.

   posted by Ernie on 5-9-2007 at 9:31 am

9. Thats funny because Jody Foster was in the orginial Freaky Friday

   posted by ac on 5-9-2007 at 10:17 am

10. The Scooby Doo poster is phonetically something like Skubi Du. The Just Married poster translates to Young Wife — I had to look at the stars to figure that one out. Ditto Shallow Hal with Dzhek Blek. (The title is Lyubov Zla, which translates to something like Love Evil.)

    posted by Loomis on 5-9-2007 at 11:44 am

11. Why do the people in the Freaky Friday poster look like they are on some kind of mind-altering drugs?

    posted by greenstrawberries on 5-9-2007 at 9:50 pm

12. I am just tossing this out there I don’t really know…

    All the posters are paintings, not actual photographs. They all sort-of resemble the actual characters, but aren’t wearing clothes that those characters wore (i don’t think). Maybe the Belorussian government has a law saying movie posters (or American movie posters) must be painted to reduce the effects of Americanization. The movies are the same obviously, but maybe they are just trying to prevent it in public ads because you are more people will see the ad than the movie.
    If not that then my guess is still along the lines of changing the way the characters look.

    It wouldn’t be that strange of a law. Canada has a law reducing the amount of American TV broadcasted over the air by any one Canadian station.

    posted by Sish on 5-9-2007 at 11:59 pm

13. The ‘50 First Dates’ poster is scary. Her eyes aren’t even on the same level!

    They all look like variations on ‘Night of the Living Dead’

    posted by Daniel Kim on 5-10-2007 at 3:24 am

14. These are actually pretty cool. Bizarre, but cool.

    posted by JT on 5-13-2007 at 11:07 am

15. No way- I kept thinking Thelma and Louise-I was trying to figure out which one it would actually be! The 50 Forst Dates was pretty obvious, but the rest- wow!

    posted by Leslie on 7-30-2007 at 1:15 pm

16. Well, I’m glad someone else has attempted to transliterate these posters. I’m not fluent in Russian but can somewhat enunciate the Cyrillic characters.

    I have worked with employees from Belaruss. It used to be called White Russia by Europeans.

    knho (with “backwards “n”) means cinema as in movie.

    Yes, the Thelma and Louise thing seems to permeate these posters. Is this in the eyes of the beholders … or the artists??!!

    I’d like to see posters for Reservoir Dogs or Sin City or Secretary, something not so benign. Of course, maybe those never made it across the borders into Belaruss!

    posted by Rex Bovee on 11-1-2008 at 12:17 am

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