MFU 30-Day Meme: Day 23

[carabele]

Day 23 – Defining character moment - Illya Kuryakin: The conversation with Napoleon in the car outside the country club shindig in THE LOVE AFFAIR

This one was a tough one for me to answer because honestly I just don't see as many defining moments in the series for the character of Illya as I do for the character of Napoleon. DMC's ultimate idea to keep the character of Kuryakin enigmatic kind of precluded those, in my opinion. And this moment I did pick, which I definitely see as character defining for Illya as a Soviet with very Soviet ideas, doesn't really hold up for what Illya evolved into later in the series (when his Russian-ness more and more disappeared beneath a British veneer).

Still, this conversation where Illya complains about the decadent rich captalists, obviously frustrated and somewhat flustered, really forwards Illya as a man of a very different social background, a Communist background. And I do think that was, at least initially, the very essence of the character.

Comments

[carabele.livejournal.com]

That's a good character defining moment for Illya (with Soviet-ness intact) as well, I agree.