Based on "The Barefoot Gene"
Frame from the cartoon "Barefoot Gen". Nuclear explosion over Hiroshima. Moreover, such explosions today can be drawn with the help of computer graphics literally over any city on the planet.
so you must firmly remember
that of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us.”
V.I. Lenin
Good PR in action. Back in the days of the USSR, we talked a lot about the fact that "we are fighting for peace." And, it must be admitted that we are really fighting for peace in the sense that we understand it, of course. Because someone else puts a different meaning into this concept. Whether we should respect this other meaning, different from ours, is another question. But today we are interested in the practical side of the "struggle", since it is directly related to the process of influencing the public consciousness. And we, of course, influence him - both by example and through diplomacy. But is it always effective to the maximum? The answer is more likely to be no than yes.
And if so, then maybe it is worth looking at, so to speak, hidden reserves in this important area for us?
And it happened that in Japan (of which we often say that they have forgotten who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) back in 1973-1974. Keiji Nakazawa's manga Barefoot Gen was released. It showed the life of the boy Gena and his family before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
The plot is largely autobiographical in nature, connected with the life of Nakazawa himself, who witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima as a child. Based on it in 1976-1980. Three more feature films were made, and their animated adaptations were released in 1983 and 1986. In 2007, it was filmed again on Fuji TV as a two-part feature film.
Frame from the cartoon "Barefoot Gen". The identification mark is clearly visible on the wing of the B-29 aircraft aviation USA!
In 1985, "Barefoot Gene" was shown in the USSR, and entire school classes were taken to view it. But the psyche of Soviet children was not quite ready for the too naturalistic scenes of the nuclear apocalypse, so many children left the cinema with tears in their eyes. Which, incidentally, speaks of the skill of the screenwriter and director. And, again, in Japan, attempts to ban this film did not succeed, and it is still watched there, even in schools.
But this is a frame from the same, but only the actual Japanese film. On board the aircraft, its name is very well read ...
And this is where the idea arises to shoot about the same animated film dedicated to ... a probable nuclear war on the European continent, between the NATO bloc and Russia. And to begin with, it should be shown to all ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of European states (by inviting them to an official viewing as part of cultural “cooperation”), and then by hook or by crook it should be pushed through for display in Europe. Let them look and ... tremble with fear!
The script of the film is very simple, and is designed solely for entertainment. Guests are invited, they sit down, the journalists accompanying them take out dictaphones, and then a sharp metallic voice-over sounds (in each case in the native language of this or that ambassador, who will listen to the voice acting through headphones), and the following inscription appears on the screen:
There was no time to think. The Russian representative in Brussels addressed the NATO leadership with a statement that in these conditions Russia has no choice but to apply nuclear weapon, and demanded to immediately return the soldiers to the barracks, and the tanks to the hangars.
But he did not receive a response to his note.
Then he directly contacted the Kremlin (the corresponding picture appears on the screen, first of the Kremlin, then the face of the Russian representative in Brussels, after which the face of the President of Russia, who looks a bit like Putin, but still not quite): “There is no answer from Europe!” he says.
President of Russia: “Then I will ask you to do something that you probably already guessed. I ask you with a light heart to die for your country.”
"Yes!" - answers the representative of Russia.
And the name of the anime movie flashes on the screen: "The Day Europe Disappeared".
Further footage follows: MiG-31 and Tu-95 aircraft with various types of missiles suspended under them take off into the air. Rockets break off the pylons and go into the sky. There are launches of Topol and Caliber missiles. Hundreds of different kinds fly in the sky drones of various types.
City of Budapest. This species is recognized as a world cultural heritage. And it will be very impressive how the missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces fly over this city in the sky, leaving behind white trails. And people stand on the streets and look at the sky ... Photo by the author
A man's hand picks up the phone from a bright red phone.
Voice behind the scene: "As long as we refrain from striking the American continent. But remember: ten "Poseidons" guard your east coast and the same number - the west. And more than a dozen missiles are aimed at the Yellowstone Caldera, a strike on which will end your country forever. Therefore, it would be better for you to show prudence in this situation.
"And it is!" agrees the voice on the other end of the wire, while the screen shows a view of the White House in the United States.
Meanwhile, our missiles flying towards the target flash on the film. Among them, explosions of anti-aircraft missiles are visible, but they do not shoot down anything. Ours throw false targets and traps and successfully overcome the enemy's anti-missile defense line.
And now the first goal has been achieved. This Warsaw! She is being followed Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Rome and London... And also several military bases.
This very square in our cartoon is flooded with a blinding flash of an atomic explosion ... Photo by the author
Nuclear mushroom explosion grows in the photo of these houses. Author's photo
The figure of a mermaid, familiar to everyone, is white-hot, and her saber turns into drops of hot metal ... Photo by the author
The figurine of a girl participating in the September Uprising is also sagging from the heat! Author's photo
In Barefoot Gene, an old castle in Hiroshima collapses very spectacularly ...
And you can show in the same way how this very building, built in Warsaw as a gift to Poland from the Soviet people and with Soviet money, is collapsing ...
This bridge, by the way, is also collapsing, but first, cars passing over it burn like matches!
Poor animals are always sorry. Moreover, many feel sorry for them even more than people, because they do not choose their fate. Well, in our anime, you can also insert something similar to this frame from "Barefoot Gene"
Golden Prague... She will also get it in our film, and how. Author's photo
All these towers and turrets - all this collapses and burns in an atomic fire. You can add a few creepy shots from the Prague Zoo - "the faint of heart, women and children are asked not to look." Diplomats - you can and should!
Then there are shots from the arms factory in Brno. The production line with which the weapon comes in a string. Well, accordingly, it also flies there ...
And the nuclear mushroom rises behind the spiers of this cathedral! Author's photo
The bronze she-wolf in Rome - a well-known symbol - also melts and spreads like a puddle of molten metal!
Berlin! Columns break and fall...
Statues melt...
The Brandenburg Gate is crumbling...
Well, this pillar breaks completely, like a match! Author's photo
But especially spectacular shots can be made on the basis of museum expositions in buildings on the Museum Island. There, the famous Ishtar gate collapses, the Pergamon altar dies, and the shock wave throws the bust of Nefertiti out of the hall into the street, where it falls apart and turns into dust from hitting the stones! The world culture is dying!
In Paris, the Eiffel Tower cracks and collapses in the same way. Author's photo
Not far from it, an explosion catches these Asians. Author's photo
And the same thing happens to them that was shown in The Barefoot Gene, only a little ... more interesting. Although it depends on whose view ... Photo by the author
The Paris Ferris wheel flashes, burns, spins and also falls! Author's photo
By the way, the explosion over Paris can be shown so that it becomes the backdrop for the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. So that then it would be blown away by a shock wave to the very foundation. Author's photo
Another candidate for a spectacular fall to the ground is the Vendome column on Place Vendome. Author's photo
There are no photographs that would allow one to imagine London under attack. But you can show some imagination and visualize the explosion of two Poseidons near the coast of Great Britain: in the North Sea closer to Denmark, and in the strait between England and Ireland closer to Cornwall. In this case, both giant waves will collide with each other in the English Channel, somewhere in the London area, and then it will simply be washed off the face of the earth.
It is clear that Brussels will also certainly get it, and in such a way that the famous NATO emblem would certainly crash on the ground ...
Well, the end of the film should be appropriate: such that it would tear to the very liver!
After watching such a film, Western diplomats, of course, would begin to resent.
But to this they could be told that the Japanese could have made their cartoon "Barefoot Gene" in 1983 to prevent this from happening again, and we shot our own version of it, so to speak, "based on" to this would not happen in the future.
What can be said to this? Never mind!
It's just that this is how we fight for peace and the prevention of a nuclear catastrophe, after which Europe will not!
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