Canon Budget/Transcript

The following is a transcript for the 2007 Dakona Studios animated film *Canon Budget*.

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**Twentieth Century Fox**

present

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**Dakona Studios**

production

**CANON BUGDET!**

## Part 1: Save the Escape

Bob: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.
Bob: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Bob: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Bob: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Bob: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

## Part 2: Safe Deposit!

Bob: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Carl: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Cark: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Bob: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Carl: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Carl: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Carl: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Carl: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Anton: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Bob: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Carl: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Carl: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Carl: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Bob: (off-screen) *[Rocket flying and the planet...]*

## Part 3: More Than Meets the Future!

Bob: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Bob: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Bob: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Bob: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Bob: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Carl: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Bob: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Carl: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Frank: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Carl: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Carl: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Bob: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Carl: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies
Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Carl: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

## Part 4: The Fresty Respective

Carl: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Carl: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Carl: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Bob: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Bob and Carl: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier!!!

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Carl: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Carl: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Bob: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Carl: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Bob: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Carl: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Bob: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Carl: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Carl: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Bob: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Carl: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Anton: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Bob: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Carl: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Carl: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

## Part 5: The Whole Than Of The Respect The District

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Carl: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Bob: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Bob: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Gillian: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Bob: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Bob: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Gillian: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Bob: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Gillian: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Carl: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Bob: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Carl: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Gillian: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Carl: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Anton: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Frank: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Ian: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Frank: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Carl: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

## Part 6: Prince This Is World War III

Carl: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Carl: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Carl: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Bob: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Carl: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Carl: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Bob: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Carl: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Bob: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Carl: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Ian: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Carl: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Carl: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Bob: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Gillian: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Anton: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Carl: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Frank: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Carl: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Bob: (off-screen) What are you doing, buddy?

Gillian: (off-screen) No! You can't do that!

Frank: (off-screen) The life that you get on this planet is the same you will ever have on earth. Enjoy it.

Nazz: That's a really nice question. I love to travel, but only when I have time. The world is a really scarry place and we need to have all the experience we can possibly get.

Gillian: (off-screen) I like french fries.

Bob and Gillian: (off-screen) **(**Wow, that's a lot of music) ♪ When can be, when can be, when can be, when can be ♪

Anton: Well, you're not going. Not one of you two lunatics or you either Pauly. That apartment complex is dangerous, nothing but death traps inside. Grown men go into that abandoned apartment and never see the light of day again. There are hallways that go in different directions on different floors. The walls are rotten, the staircases are cracked, the whole building could come collapsing down on you and kill you immediately, or keep you trapped in there so you would die a slow death. You know what it's like to suffocate? I'm not gonna sit here and let you kill yourself

Bob: (off-screen) What are those? Honkz!

## Part 7: Spies

Bob: (off-screen) No, man. That's the key for the universe.

Gillian: (off-screen) I am evil, and theres nothing you can do about it.

Bob: A new capture if they your future to save the universe.

Bob: (off-screen) Oh no!

Carl: (off-screen) I'm a boy!

Bob: (off-screen) The month of october has been really nice.

Frank: (off-screen) The new comedy for me.

Nora: (off-screen)

Bob: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Bob: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Gillian: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Nora: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Zack: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Bob: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Carl: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Bob: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Carl: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Nora: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Bob: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Nora: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Bob: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

## Part 8: Broken Alarm

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Carl: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Carl: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Nora: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Gillian: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Bob: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Carl: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Gillian: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Carl: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Bob: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Anton: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Gillian: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Nora: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Bob: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Carl: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

## Part 9: Black Carbon

Carl: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Bob: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Gillian: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Carl: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Carl: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Anton: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined

Ian: (off-screen) The novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Carl: (off-screen) Portions of an earlier version, titled *The Year 1805*,[4] were serialized in *The Russian Messenger* from 1865 to 1867, then the novel was published in its entirety in 1869.[5]

## Part 10: What's Eating Young?

Bob: (off-screen) Tolstoy said *War and Peace* is "not a novel, even less is it a poem

Carl: (off-screen) Large sections, especially the later chapters, are philosophical discussions rather than narrative.

Carl: (off-screen) olstoy also said that the best Russian literature does not conform to standards and hence hesitated to call *War and Peace* a novel. Instead, he regarded *Anna Karenina* as his first true novel.

Anton: (off-screen) Tolstoy began writing *War and Peace* in 1863, the year that he finally married and settled down at his country estate.

Carl: (off-screen) In September of that year, he wrote to Elizabeth Bers, his sister-in-law, asking

Bob: (off-screen) The first half of the book was written and named "1805".

Anton: (off-screen) During the writing of the second half, he read widely and acknowledged Schopenhauer as one of his main inspirations. Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Afanasy Fet that what he has written in *War and Peace* is also said by Schopenhauer in *The World as Will and Representation*. However, Tolstoy approaches "it from the other side."

Carl: (off-screen) The first draft of the novel was completed in 1863. In 1865, the periodical

Bob: (off-screen) The version that was published in *Russkiy Vestnik* had a very different ending from the version eventually published under the title *War and Peace* in 1869. Russians who had read the serialized version were eager to buy the complete novel, and it sold out almost immediately

Carl: (off-screen) He may have borrowed the title from the 18

Bob: (off-screen) English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish

Carl: (off-screen) The standard Russian text of *War and Peace* is divided into four books (comprising fifteen parts) and an

Bob: (off-screen) Russia in 1893 and has been since translated into English, German, French

## Part 11: Canon's The Last Stand

Zack: (off-screen) The novel is set 60 years before Tolstoy's day, but he had spoken with people who lived through the 1812 French invasion of Russia. He read all the standard histories available in Russian and French about the Napoleonic Wars and had read letters, journals, autobiographies and biographies

Carl: (off-screen) Tolstoy was critical of standard history, especially military history, in *War and Peace*. He explains at the start of the novel's third volume his own views on how history ought to be written. His aim was to blur the line between fiction and history, to get closer to the truth, as he states in Volume II.

Anton: (off-screen)  1805 to 1820. The era of Catherine the Great was still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine had made French the language of her royal court.[15] For the next 100 years, it became a social requirement for the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French

Bob: (off-screen) The novel tells the story of five families—the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys

Anton: (off-screen)Tolstoy also references the Great Comet of 1811 just before the French invasion of Russia.

Gillian: (off-screen) A cold, almost psychopathic officer, he ruins Nikolai Rostov by luring him into an outrageous gambling debt after unsuccessfully proposing to Sonya Rostova. He is also rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukhov and he provides for his poor mot

Bob: (off-screen) A poor but aristocratic young man driven by ambition, even at the expense of his friends and benefactors, who marries Julie Karagina for money and is rumored to have had an affair with Hélène Bezukov.

Ian: (off-screen) Prince Vasily Sergeyevich Kuragin: A ruthless man who is determined