Ctrashnaya tale of Konchalovsky

[Тютчев]

Ctrashnaya tale of Konchalovsky

"The Nutcracker": failure in America, confusion in Russia

Larissa Yusipova

In the metropolitan New Opera "was held on the Russian premiere of" The Nutcracker and the Rat King of 3D ". Output pattern in the rental is scheduled for January 1, 2011.

The beautiful city of Vienna, who like and make up not particularly need to shoot events ninety years ago (but still shot in Budapest), carriage rides. In her - an elderly disheveled man. Looking straight into the camera, he with a distinct accent Zhmerinka reports that somewhere terribly late. It soon becomes clear, where: in a beautiful mansion where they live girl Mary (El Fanning), a boy Max (Aaron Drozin), their respectable parents, and heavy drinkers maid.

The Man from Uncle Albert is Zhmerinka (Nathan Lane), and since, barely entered the house, he sings a song about the theory of relativity, the surname is not too secret. True, her ears had not pronounce, unlike the names of another era hero - Dr. Freud, whose father of the family (Richard Grant) finds a charlatan, a mother (Julia Vysotsky) idolizes.

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Hastily acquainting children with the most popular theory in the twentieth century, Uncle Albert gives them a toy house, which is inhabited by puppets, headed by a wooden Nutcracker. However, for viewers who are familiar with Tales of Hoffman or Tchaikovsky's ballet, this is not news. News is that the enemies of the Nutcracker (in the movie he is called Al C - seemingly from the Nutcracker, but in Russia it gives rise to associations with Nikita Sergeyevich) - do not click, and krysolyudi, much like the Wehrmacht. Reich headed rat king-Infante with the appearance and habits of Andy Warhol (John Turturro, in the Russian dubbing - Philip) and his witch-mother (Frances De La Tour, in the Russian dubbing - Alla Pugacheva). The old witch has imposed spell on the boy-prince, turning him into a wooden doll. Like Einstein, some of their main concerns expressed by singing rats.

Angry rodent opposes heroic, but a scattered dissident underground. With the help of Mary's Nutcracker is transformed back into a prince, defeats the rats free subjects, and during this time the girl's parents, apparently still have time to go to the reception to the "charlatan" because it no longer accuse Mary of lies and are willing to listen to her story about exciting adventures in alternative worlds. That's the whole story, narrated in the film great detail and with some sort of chore-heavy tone.

The main question that arises after viewing: whom all this is addressed? Children of primary school age? But why should they, for the most part, thank God, are still poorly represent what fascism is, that, in the words of one of the Americans, "Christmas Holocaust"?

Adults know about fascism on sources far more convincing. Besides, surely, to think: what relation to the totalitarian mind is Andy Warhol, in particular, and pop culture in general - that there is a culture that was born just a democratization of all aspects of life? I fear, by the way that the dead shark in an aquarium at the residence of the king rat in the majority of viewers will not association with the hated director Damien Hirst, but with recent events in Egypt.

In an interview with Izvestia, Andrei Konchalovsky said that all these intellectual speculations of his care in the least. The main thing that the film evokes emotions. But any emotion here, unfortunately, gags hard and hopeless dreariness. In addition, it is difficult to feel any sense in a situation where the director tells the long and tedious that it in this life do not like, and no hint there that still cute. Even a symbol of good Snow Fairy (again Vysotsky) somehow make up and her hair exactly how to play "Dead Man's Bluff," the waitress Renata Litvinova, and much more reminiscent of a worker service sector than the sorceress.

Of course, the picture appears when Konchalovsky was first conceived this scenario, some totalitarian allusions would be enough to film in the USSR or put on a shelf, or acquired cult status. But since the last forty years. Soviet Union no longer exists. "The Nutcracker ..." filmed in English and, therefore, is addressed and people living outside the sixth of the planet.

The reaction of American audiences was sharp and extremely nekomplimentarnoy. "The Nutcracker and the Rat King 3D" could easily qualify as the most ridiculous idea in the history of cinema - wrote one of the most influential film critics Roger Ebert of the world. - There was only one opportunity to make this movie even worse - to release the picture in 3D. And the authors do not neglect it. "Fees in the U.S. totaled 159.5 thousand dollars (roughly collects arthouse film in Russian). For painting with a budget of 90 million is tragically small.

Powerful budget Nutcracker ...", most of whom were injection Vnesheconombank, added fuel to the fire a long-standing debate: Is it worth spending so much money, if the Russian market is not technically fit like colossi digest (ie, "beat off" costs). The question is really relevant. But should nevertheless bear in mind that regardless of the artistic result of large Russian projects, firstly, create jobs, and secondly, upload Staged workshop objectives that put our film industry to a higher level. "The Nutcracker ..." - Completely foreign production. Consequently, considerable millions went on to develop a strange industry. And pre-movie title that Russia represents a production of Great Britain and Hungary, certainly can be qualified as the most bizarre in the history of cinema.

http://www.izvestia.ru/culture/article3149705/

[Сергей Дородный]

Very correct title: "Confusion in Russia".

The film - an alloy of two important for "cultural" Russians order - Nutcracker and the "war against the Germans."

Look and runs in frustration (ie dureesh from neponyatok ") - such as visually understand everything about anything, but the meaning of what is happening inexorably slipping away, is divided into separate fragments ( and-ho-ho, and that's a favorite phrase of sports commentators, when they comment on a game of Russian national football team! Freud would have cried!).

I would like to make out the film to pieces, but today "the day of heavy".
And it is not necessary for us to start a separate topic - for cinematography?

ps. For the first time looked 3d. It's always such a nightmare?

[Pavel]

Сообщение от Sergei burly, 1464691

Very correct title: "Confusion in Russia".

The film - an alloy of two important for "cultural" Russians order - Nutcracker and the "war against the Germans."

Look and runs in frustration (ie dureesh from neponyatok ") - such as visually understand everything about anything, but the meaning of what is happening inexorably slipping away, is divided into separate fragments ( and-ho-ho, and that's a favorite phrase of sports commentators, when they comment on a game of Russian national football team! Freud would have cried!).

I would like to make out the film to pieces, but today "the day of heavy".
And it is not necessary for us to start a separate topic - for cinematography?

ps. For the first time looked 3d. It's always such a nightmare?

There is one very precise Russian word, mediocrity.

[Ika-Ika]

But the movie (picture) "Alice in Wonderland" with Johnny Depp, who showed on January 2, too, has deep meaning and unclean, which, thanks to directors, went on to the author of this tale. Unearth possible, but not very desirable, even today, and not a "bad day". This movie is obviously not filmed as a New Year gift for the children ... And maybe, just and naoborot.Deti because our future.

[Сергей Дородный]

Сообщение от Pavel

There is one very precise Russian word, mediocrity.

Well, I do not think so. In my opinion, a wonderful director.
Perhaps the idea of "overtime" - 40 years (?) He wanted to withdraw the Nutcracker?
The director is more complicated than the artist. We have you not get a picture -
plotted and all. A director in any case, the place of execution goes. So that the (proposed) "somehow myahshe need, such as intelligent."

[Tana]

Сообщение от Sergei burly, 1465141

Well, I do not think so. In my opinion, a wonderful director.
Perhaps the idea of "overtime" - 40 years (?) He wanted to withdraw the Nutcracker?
The director is more complicated than the artist. We have you not get a picture -
plotted and all. A director in any case, the place of execution goes. So that the (proposed) "somehow myahshe need, such as intelligent".

Well, not free as is the director of such flour (along with his wife), especially when a film with such a budget, and a sense of responsibility to those who have so much money invested in this film, too, because someone's investment expectations, and another thing, if Had he made the film his own money ... whatever Konchalovsky very ambitious, do not feel sorry for him, feel sorry for investors ...

[Сергей Дородный]

Сообщение от Ika-Ika

And after the movie (picture) "Alice in Wonderland" with Johnny Depp, who showed on January 2, too, has deep meaning and unclean, which, thanks to directors, went on to the author of this tale. Unearth possible, but not very desirable, even today, and not a "bad day". This movie is obviously not filmed as a New Year gift for the children ... And maybe, just and naoborot.Deti because our future.

Worn a fine actor in the chocolate factory and the Caribbean Sea.
Facebook look like Robert De Niro, the case comes before the Fockers.

[Ухтомский]

Сообщение от Tana

Well, not free as is the director of such flour (along with his wife), especially when a film with such a budget, and a sense of responsibility to those who have so much money invested in this film, too, because someone's investment , hope, and another thing if he made the film his own money ... whatever Konchalovsky very ambitious, do not feel sorry for him, sorry investors ...

Nobody was sorry.

Konchalovsky has Decade no good shoots.

These investors are Konchalovsky.

[Seriy]

Well, if the VTB, it means that investors we r e taxpayers.

[I-V]

Konchalovsky took great movies: "Tango and Cash," "Runaway Train," "The Odyssey" ... in its own way, of course. So why, pray tell, an unsurpassed master of comic take on the genre, the psychological portrait of the child or graphic? When this happens, and there is something awkward, unwieldy. So is the case with Konchalovsky, unfortunately, happened. Had he done just what he good at it - the price he had been was not!