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Slepnir — TV Characters: Illya Kuryakin

Published: 2010-10-06 02:23:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 987; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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Description And here is my favourite Russian agent played by David McCallum from the 60's TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
I've been watching the series a lot lately and it's great. McCallum and Robert Vaughn have good chemistry and so on.

It's a little puzzling how McCallum's character always get's beaten up or shot etc. while Vaughn's character might get punched here and there but I can't recall him ever having any visible injuries. Well okay, he had his hand in a cast once and I guess he had at one point a broken leg. And that one time when they both blew themselves up they got into a hospital but it doesn't count because Illya was in a worse shape.

I guess the writers were going for sympathy points. If Napoleon was the ladies' man of the show, they had to give Illya some advantage. Although I've read Illya was by far the more popular of the two with the ladies.
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mrsvasiliev [2012-03-23 06:11:28 +0000 UTC]

very Illya in a stylized way.

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AKmars [2011-04-24 20:59:33 +0000 UTC]

Very nice! You capture David McCallum's broodiness as Illya extremely well!

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Slepnir In reply to AKmars [2011-04-24 21:26:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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