"Our answer to Spielberg," or Should foreign films be banned - 2
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So, in this article I will not talk about films of foreign production. Instead, I would like to consider the production of our cinema on the example of one very symbolic picture.
What is this movie? I give hints:
* This is the most expensive movie in stories Russian cinema with a budget of more than 1,5 billion or order 55 million dollars.
* This is a film with the largest in the post-Soviet history of rolling circulation: the number of rolled copies of only the first part of the film compiled 1060 instances.
* This is the most popular film in the history of Russian cinema: it was advertised in the media, in banners, on the Internet and even in the State Duma...
* This is a movie with the biggest support in the story from power structures. Assistance, assistants, extras and equipment were provided by the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Emergencies Ministry and the Central Museum of Railway Transport of the Russian Federation.
* This is one of the longest-running films of a modern cinema-photographer. On the shooting took more 8 years.
* This is the only film that the Prime Minister of Russia managed to visit on the set. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (in May 2008 of the year) and then President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev (in August 2008 of the year).
* For the premiere of this picture was specially refitted State Kremlin Palace Russia's largest digital cinema hall
* The first part of this film immediately went to the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for "Golden palm branch".
* The second part of this film was immediately chosen by the Russian Oscar Committee as a candidate for the award. "Oscar" from Russia in the category "The best film in a foreign language". Later the nomination slowed down the head of ROCK Vladimir Menshov.
And also:
* This film before the premiere was advertised as "Great film about the Great War" and "Our answer to Spielberg" (another option is "Our answer to Ordinary Ryan").
* This is the most failure film in the history of Russian film distribution. The first and second parts collected respectively $ 7,46 million and $ 1,5 million, which in total amounted to less than 1 / 6 of the cost paintings.
* This is a movie left the largest number of negative reviews In Internet.
* To watch this movie forcibly drove schoolchildren a number of cities.
* This is a film that received the most diverse group of "ill-wishers": from schoolchildren and students to veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
So, we have the dulogy "Burnt by the Sun - 2. Imminence" and "Burnt by the Sun - 2. Citadel" from the great and unsinkable Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov.
How did this miracle come about? Let's give the floor to Mikhalkov himself:
Therefore, I wanted to make a picture that could arouse national immunity ... "
(http://trite.ru - Mikhalkov's personal film company site)
Further Nikita Sergeevich admits how hard the shooting was:
For example, at the very beginning of the war, one of the methods of psychological pressure of the German army on enemy troops in the occupied territory was the use of frightening dust masks worn on German cavalrymen and their horses, or huge canvases with swastikas that were mounted above the towers of the advancing line tanks. Or an example: German pilots threw our positions from the air with holey tin spoons with insulting inscriptions or empty iron barrels. Falling from the sky, they made such a piercing and shocking sound that our soldiers were saddled with horror and even lost their mind. "(From there)
Oh, those eternally closed Soviet secret archives ...
I do not want to review the content of this film footage. Especially since it was done a long time ago and done with high quality.
I advise you to look both for general development and for understanding the topic of discussion. Very interesting. Much more interesting and instructive than the film itself.
Here is a review of the first part ("Standing Up") from Evgeny Bazhenov:
Here is an overview of the second part ("The Citadel") from Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov.
Naturally, the film, or rather its both parts, had a deafening failure in film distribution. You see, well, did not want the "hamsters" to watch a movie, cutting the truth of the uterus, so to speak, to live and without anesthesia. And even our respected glossy film critics, who swallowed up with the ecstasy of "May Day's 4", turned away from the director genius of Nikita Sergeyevich.
Reviews for "Upcoming":
The irony in such a great cause is quite appropriate, especially since the author of this work has long since lost this vital feeling for any artist ... "(journalist and critic Xenia Larin)
The picture has nothing to do with Victory Day or the veterans ... "(network journalist Dmitry Puchkov" Goblin ")
Reviews for "Citadel":
Mikhalkov answers to criticism, so to speak.
Concerning the discontent of veterans:
Concerning Stalinism:
Concerning the failure at the box office:
He also suspected his opponents in a pre-planned campaign to slander his film:
Oh. And how well this film was promoted and advertised. Frequent flickering of the film crew in news news agencies. Nikita Sergeevich's frequent greetings in programs like "Good Morning", where he enthusiastically praised his future masterpiece. Unprecedented PR and advertising in all information streams: from TV and the Internet to banners and stickers. The universal support of the film by bureaucrats of various levels: from the future Ministry of Culture Medinsky, to local parliamentarians,
And people bought ... They hoped to see a good film about the Great War. Memory. Sorrow. Courage. Only for this, hire of the first part was 5 times higher than the second (7,42 million versus 1,5 million dollars). Nobody thought that he would see Mikhalkov’s naked boobs, the ass of a German pilot and an imbecile cadet trying to stab a tank with a bayonet.
By the way, Mikhalkov himself told about his film during the premiere in Japan:
You can certainly say that this is senile marasmus. But it is not. I'm afraid this is a system. System for desovetizatsii society. Etching certain settings and views on the history and replacement of others, "correct." Everything seems clear - it is necessary to show how beautiful the world is today and the past is miserable. And do not care about history. Only here “de-sovietization” in Mikhalkovskiy looks more like debilization. Show the stupidity and worthlessness of their ancestors? Degerize generals and officers, exposing them to drunkards and freaks? This is a very patriotic movie ...
This is what Vladimir Medinsky wrote on 28 on April 2010 on the United Russia website (at that time he was not yet a minister
“Burnt by the Sun-2. Forthcoming "- ideologically significant and exclusively necessary for the country today, the right movie. I will let the cinema experts from VGIK judge professional details. But in my opinion every senior student, every soldier should see this film. Need free sessions for veterans. It is necessary to promote this film with state support for rental abroad - especially in the near abroad. To remember. About our common tragedy. And a common victory.
If you want such a film in your life to be, run to watch. And I'll take my parents to the USC-2 at the weekend. "
The call Medina immediately understood the local officials of several cities. This kind of material has been splashed on the Internet:
Vladivostok schoolchildren were forced to watch the movie "Burnt by the Sun-2" instead of studying. The corresponding order was given by the officials of the local mayor's office to the principals of the city’s schools, the head teacher of one of the educational institutions said:
“Our school received calls from the department of general and supplementary education of the Vladivostok administration and said that high school students must watch the new film of Nikita Mikhalkov for patriotic education. We had to write a note to parents asking them to give their children money for a ticket, and on the day of viewing to cancel lessons, including in graduation classes. Together with us, the film was also watched by students from other schools, including pupils from deaf-and-dumb children. There was no sign language translation for them, "she said.
Similar was observed also in Moscow and the Moscow region.
Especially for this, when renting, in the law N 436-FZ "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development", the film was not given the age restriction class. Although the naked female breasts, mats, vulgarity and a sea of violence, they seemed to call for this. Let me remind you that the law obliged to introduce an age class for any kind of film production.
Here is one of Mikhalkov's remarks after the failure of the film:
“Anticipation” and “Citadel” are long-running projects. Movies for future generations».
A poem appeared on the web on this topic.
"SS Armored Division" Leybshtandart Nikita Mikhalkov "is dedicated to:
(on the motive of "Brigantine", of course)
Tired of bad alcohol
Pour tired eyes!
Only you blow it - right in the open field.
Pantservaffe raises the sail.
Shturmbannführer, leaning on a rail,
Gave an order to add Marseille,
Because on the speer burner
Sorry for the state ruble!
He said, do not whine, do not itch
Do not drive the Fuhrer into longing,
And go better grab
Oil fields of Baku.
Let it now stumble, an infection!
Creaked out captive.
On Moscow ready vdarit at once
Göpner, Goth and Heinz Guderian!
A storm will break out - we will argue with a storm
In dead calm - we crawl on oars!
And in the distant Barents Sea
Krigsmarine truck knead black soil ...
And again in verse:
***
On the field, the tanks rumbled under the canopy of scarlet sails
Komdiv Sergey Petrovich Kotov their mother from under a mustache.
and at that moment in Berlin, Hitler invited the minions to himself
and there was Goering, there was Goebbels, and Goering Goebbels asked:
Goering:
- Why sails on tanks, they slow down
and cause inevitable fuel overrun
but if the head wind comes, it will be turned by natural force,
He can overturn the tanks, or put them upright!
besides the Luftwaffe eagles increase non-combat losses
15 best aces are no longer listed
seeing caravans of tanks afloat
paralyzed with laughter, they did not come out of the dive.
Goebbels:
- Then, that is so gothic, as if a Viking canoe
on the rod threateningly float up, the Teutonic knights are full,
they have golden shoulder straps, the captain has flared trousers,
you will not go round them on a dog, you will not take a naked hand.
Everything is purely true Aryan, everything is multi-layered and glamorous -
the Bolsheviks, seeing this, will go crazy, they will become ill
in the struggle of ideas are not important tanks, not airplanes, and PR
PR! PR and propaganda - that's a crushing blow!
PS: Communist MP Nikolai Ryabov addressed 19 on May 2010 of the year with a protocol commission to the Duma Committee on Culture in connection with the possible waste of public funds spent on the project “Burnt by the Sun-2: Upcoming”. However, Mikhalkov himself said that "the words of the people's representatives did not concern him." 21 May 2010, the State Duma of the Russian Federation refused to send a request to the Ministry of Culture about how much budget was spent on making the film.
PSS: 19 September 2011, it became known that the Russian Oscar Committee chose Mikhalkov's tape as the candidate for the Oscar from Russia in the category “Best film in a foreign language”. However, director Vladimir Menshov, who heads the Russian Oscar Committee, eventually refused to sign the protocol of the selection committee, finding the decision unfair and adding the following:
PSSS: Of course, we can say that a separate creation does not characterize the national cinema as a whole. But after all here only the lazy one does not see the system: “Penalty” - “Bastards” - “US-2” - “4 of the day in May”. Films, made with the money of the Ministry of Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation. Ministries, whose goals include the support and development of the national identity of the people, their culture and respect for history! Yes, there are good films. But this does not remove the main question: why and for whom were these films made, gentlemen ministers? ...
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