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Hydrozagadka
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Hydrozagadka is a surreal Polish movie, released in 1970. During a heat wave in Warsaw everyone is drowning in sweat, and, to make matters worse, all the water in the city starts to disappear mysteriously. Professor Milczarek asks As, the intrepid superhero, to help him investigate.Can be watched here on YouTube. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Two of these trying to steal all the Warsaw water. The horror! | |
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Cartoonish Supervillainy | |
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Cartoonish Supervillainy: Befitting a wonderfully silly movie, the villains plan involves stealing all the water in Warsaw to sell it to a Third World country. Also involves a crocodile. | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React: As is only contacted after the water shortage (caused by villains) stumps both Milczarek and his computer. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Jurek. His "sophisticated" and "worldly" phrases are immediately followed with "Take off your hat" spoken in a noticeably crude, yokel way. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: The story (intentionally) makes little sense, the acting is weird, the montage sloppy. The director himself says that he was aiming for "wonderfully silly", but... | |
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Public Service Announcement | |
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Public Service Announcement: Many of the ridiculous lines As recites (with full, hammy sincerity) are actually health and safety slogans from the time. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: The opening credits are spoken by the singer Iga Cembrzyńska (who was the director's girlfriend at the time and also played a minor role - a waitress in league with doctor Plama), in a strange, sultry way. Apparently this is because the movie had a very tight budget and they couldn't afford to make the credits like normal, but the end result adds to the surrealism. | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: The villains bring one with them. A rocket-powered German alligator. Named Hermann. He only understands commands in German. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Jurek is trying (with As's Love Interest!) but she's unimpressed. | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: As's civilian identity is Jan Walczak, a mild-mannered draughtsmannote that is, a guy who makes and corrects technical drawings - a job now made obsolete by CAD software, but oddly common among the protagonists in Polish popular fiction in The '70s. He does not conceal his face in any way, doesn't even wear a Domino Mask, although he does wear glasses, just like Clark Kent. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Both straight and a meta-example, since the directors' explicit goal was to make as wonderfully silly movie as possible at the time movies were considered Serious Business. As especially delivers completely ridiculous lines without as much as a twitch of his facial muscles, but he's not an exception. | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Doktor Plama's justification of his henchman's (who is pretending to be a child) rude behavior towards the Maharaja: | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Maharaja of Kabur (wherever this is) and doctor Plama. | |
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The Professor | |
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The Professor: Milczarek, the nice scientist who solicits our hero's help when the electronic brain proves unable to find out where all the water goes. | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" | |
Hydrozagadka / int_9d1a935f | comment |
Brought To You By The Letter A: As's costume has an A on the chest, as evidenced in the page picture. | |
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Brand Names Are Better | |
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Brand Names Are Better: Parodied Trope, both in regard to Western brands (understandable since the movie was made under the communist regime): | |
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Take That! | |
Hydrozagadka / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Underneath the Affectionate Parody of superhero stuff, there's also a less affectionate parody of both Public Service Announcement material and contemporary crime novels and films which were always deadly serious, tended to have foreigners, traitors and western-styled playboys as villains and seemingly naive, but flawless heroes. | |
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MakesAsMuchSenseInContext | |
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Makes As Much Sense In Context: That's what makes it funny. | |
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Superheroes Wear Tights | |
Hydrozagadka / int_c255cc72 | comment |
Superheroes Wear Tights: Although just how As would have been able to get hold of a classical superhero costume goes unexplained (like a lot of other things, to be fair). He's not wearing a cape, though. | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor: The bad guys get several people drunk to keep them from interfering with their Evil Plan. One apparently keeled over just from having a bottle held up to his nose. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The William Shakespeare quotation is delivered rather hammily. | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Doctor Plama is one of the villains, although we never learn what he's a doctor of. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: The anti-alcohol messages are parodying the real anti-alcohol campaigns from the time. | |
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The Cape | |
Hydrozagadka / int_e2415f | comment |
The Cape: As, the perfect paragon of goodness, which he's always ready to remind us about. Though, he doesn't wear a literal cape. Also, The Ace - it's his name! | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: The baddies attempt this on As, but the "orange pop" is drank by someone else. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: The baddies plan is: turn all water in Warsaw into steam. When clouds form over Kabur (don't ask how), send fridges with baloons attached to collect it and sell it to the locals. Profit! | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" / int_56909663 | |
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Clark Kenting / int_56909663 | |
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Credits Gag / int_56909663 | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context / int_56909663 | |
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Missing Steps Plan / int_56909663 |
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