# Why remake "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548 "2015-08-11T14:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/141 "2015-08-23T19:03:34Z")
McCallum did a walk on in some family comedy where he gave the father some matches on the street, and the kids became convinced that their father was a spy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/142 "2015-08-23T19:17:22Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Do not spies disguise themselves? Exactly! Solo was supposed to look like a suave international playboy, not one of JE Hoover’s minions. I’m trying to imagine Robert Vaughn in a buzz-cut, grey suit, skinny black tie, and wing-tips. Just can’t do it! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/143 "2015-08-23T19:30:20Z")
When I worked at the Library, a guy tried to sell dope inside. The cops sent in an undercover guy. He had a button down shirt, blue jeans that were pressed and had a crease, hair just over his collar, and brown dress shoes. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/144 "2015-08-23T19:40:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The cops sent in an undercover guy. He had a button down shirt, blue jeans that were pressed and had a crease, hair just over his collar, and brown dress shoes. Slightly different example: One of the professors at Middlebury was forced to buy a pair of Soviet shoes while in Moscow (his old pair had been stolen or something). When he tried to buy a ticket to the Bolshoi from scalpers on the street, none of them would give him the time of day. One scalper would size him up and tell the others “_Obuv’_!” (“Shoes!”) in the way of a warning, thinking he was some kind of undercover cop! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/145 "2015-08-27T02:58:59Z")
Question: in this movie, Napoleon sometimes refers to Illya by some other name or term – Dursel? Durzel? – something like that. I never got it clearly. Is this a nickname of some sort, perhaps in Russian? (Similar to Illya referring to Napoleon as “cowboy” perhaps?) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/146 "2015-08-27T06:10:42Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Question: in this movie, Napoleon sometimes refers to Illya by some other name or term – Dursel? Durzel? – something like that. I never got it clearly. > > Is this a nickname of some sort, perhaps in Russian? (Similar to Illya referring to Napoleon as “cowboy” perhaps?) Haven’t seen the movie, but he might have been saying _drug moi_—“my friend” in Russian. The plural of \*drug \*is _druz’ya_, but why he would say that, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/147 "2015-08-27T06:39:38Z")
I didn’t catch it properly, but that might have been it. Darn good excuse for me to see the movie again! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/148 "2015-08-27T09:43:09Z")
From context, was it positive or negative? _Osyol_ is an ass, as in “donkey”; \*durak \*is a fool or an idiot. Stress is on the second syllable in both. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/149 "2015-08-27T12:05:32Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Question: in this movie, Napoleon sometimes refers to Illya by some other name or term – Dursel? Durzel? – something like that. I never got it clearly. > > Is this a nickname of some sort, perhaps in Russian? (Similar to Illya referring to Napoleon as “cowboy” perhaps?) He calls him the “Red Peril” at one point and then “Peril” afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/150 "2015-08-27T12:43:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Your Mother gave it to Goodwill. > The art work reminds me of Mad Magazine. Which of course did its parody version, [The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.](http://www.200words.com/auntie.html), starring Napoleon Polo and Illya Nutcrackin. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/151 "2015-08-28T21:58:22Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Waverly did (one episode focused on his humidor), but I don’t think either Illya or Solo did. Would have set a bad example for all the kids watching! :mad: Sending Barbara Feldon, who translates Brazilian weather reports, out to get pipe tobacco. In a mix up she is given top secret information and pursued by Cesar Romero. So at the end she joins CONTROL and Romero puts on clown make up and a green wig to terrorize Gotham city. One other thing in the tv series they used darts to sedate enemy agents a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/152 "2015-08-28T22:56:56Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Sending Barbara Feldon, who translates Brazilian weather reports, out to get pipe tobacco. > In a mix up she is given top secret information and pursued by Cesar Romero. So at the end she joins CONTROL and Romero puts on clown make up and a green wig to terrorize Gotham city. Sounds like a Get Smart-Batman crossover. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548/153 "2015-08-29T02:21:40Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Sending Barbara Feldon, who translates Brazilian weather reports, out to get pipe tobacco. > In a mix up she is given top secret information and pursued by Cesar Romero. So at the end she joins CONTROL and Romero puts on clown make up and a green wig to terrorize Gotham city. > > One other thing in the tv series they used darts to sedate enemy agents a lot. I recall the episode, but not the actors. Waverly was very pissed off. “Mr. Solo _thinks he may have given_ my humidor to Miss…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-remake-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/727548.md?page=7)