(Source: hoechlin)
Man From Uncle Credits Files Transcribed for Ease of Access
If you wanted anime level stat uselessness, here it is
Alexander Waverly- http://blinkstep.com/post/132193987935
Napoleon Solo- http://blinkstep.com/post/132194967380
Illya Kuryakin- http://blinkstep.com/post/132195633850
Gaby Teller- http://blinkstep.com/post/132196149455
(via blinkingkills)
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved (insp).
On Illya Kuryakin and the uses of violence
I cannot get away from thinking about that last scene with Illya, in which he is ordered to kill Napoleon because Napoleon has the disc.
Now, here’s the thing: this is some clever film-making. Because of course, Illya begins to have a psychosis reaction as soon as he gets this information, right? But which information? In other words, there are two important bits of information Illya is handed in that phone call: a) Solo has managed to snake the disc out from under him, and b) he has been ordered to kill Solo. So… which one is it? Is he freaking out because Solo got the better of him, or is he freaking out because he has to kill this man he has come to respect, to like, and to trust as he has very few, maybe, in his adult life? The film teases the viewer, and refuses to give us the answer directly.
The clue is this: every other time Illya has a psychosis reaction, it is in response to verbal or physical violence, threatened or otherwise. He does NOT have a psychosis reaction because someone has gotten the better of him, or because a strategy has not turned out the way he hoped, or because of a sudden plot twist. It is violence that he responds to, every time. Violence begets violence.
Illya has a psychosis reaction because he is being asked to kill. He knows it is unavoidable. He knows – or thinks he does, until Solo shows him the way out – that he has no choice. It is the imminent violence that is causing his reaction, and for the very FIRST TIME, he is having a psychosis reaction not because he is longing to kill, but because HE DOES NOT WANT TO KILL. This is huge. This is a character-defining moment for Illya. It is his first moment of powerful revulsion at violence, his first rejection of it.
Illya Kuryakin has a psychosis reaction because he does not want to kill; because something – someone – has become more important to him than his orders. I’m not trying to suggest that Illya at this point has a romantic attachment to Solo; I’m suggesting that their partnership, and loyalty to that partnership, has quietly become the single most important thing to him. If you doubt me, check out his foot pressing that pedal on the torturer’s electric chair, the torturer who caused Solo such unimaginable pain.
So this beautiful scene is doing double duty: it is showing us how deep, how powerful, is Illya’s connection to his partner, and it is showing us that maybe, just possibly, with a lot of help from that partner, he will be able one day to emerge from this horrible feedback loop his body is caught in, of pathological desire for violence.
tl;dr Illya loves Napoleon all other interpretations are WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Illya is briefed on his future
husbandpartner
The Woman From U.N.C.L.E.
“America teaming up with Russia. That doesn’t sound very friendly.”
Also filing under “fics I wish someone would write”: Genderbent TMFU Napollya. Please please PLEASE? :D
So that I won’t be tempted to write it myself.
This, is a Swiss built, Vort-bender, Landsmen, 7010 model. Still very difficult to open, but it’s not impossible. The people who designed this model are not very good at stealing things, I however, am.
Re-blogging because:
- My brain is clearly stuck on this scene right now;
- It is in any case a very good scene; and
- Finally (!!!!!), a reference for how the brand name of that safe is spelt. I still remember the frustration of trying to google it by how it sounded when I was writing that Napollya Modern Day Coffee Shop AU , before eventually just giving up. Ahahaha.
(Source: tony-starkesarchive)
ingu:
The Man From UNCLE // Where both spies are giant babies
I feel like saying, someone please write an AU where Napoleon tries to Illya how to crack a safe. Does he succeed? Does he fail? Does it all end in sexy fun times anyway?
ingu:
The Man From UNCLE // Illya touching Napoleon’s things
Ahahahaha this was my favourite detail from that scene in the film. Illya, always curious. ♡ (Like a proper spy should be? :D)
ingu:
The Innuendo from UNCLE
