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How did the image of "bad Russians" in American cinema change?

It so happened that the American film industry does not always present Russia to the present. More often, the image of the country is very different from the real one, and Russian heroes are completely villains. Although if you look at Russian movie screens, you can understand: this picture is quite mutual. How the images of enemies and friends on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean look, the journalist understood Rtvi Harry Knyagnitsky.

Hollywood reloads the famous film confrontation of the USSR and the USA in the boxing ring, which happened back in the year 1985 in the movie “Rocky-4”.

In the new version of “Rocky”, the sons of the captain of the Soviet Army, Ivan Drago, and the American boxer Apollo Creed, who was killed by him, will converge. And the new James Bond will once again have a Russian anti-hero.

Two servings of gin, one - vodka, half a portion of French aperitif and lemon peel: shake, but not mix. They promise that the favorite cocktail agent 007 in the new "Bond" will remain the same. And the enemy will be well forgotten old — a calculating, charismatic and cold-blooded Russian spy.

Already in 2013, in the TV series “Americans”, Russian spies appeared not as caricatured and grotesque as they used to be portrayed during the Cold War. They even spoke without an accent, and there were no questions to the requisite. In contrast to the "Bourne Identity", where the Russian passport was issued in the name of "Aschf Lshshfum". Or the “Phantom Protocol”: in the FSINov documents both “arrest” and “suspect in international affairs” are written, and the prisoner is called a prisoner.

For example, more than 40 consultants in Russia were involved in the “House of Cards” series, which is why it looks reliable. But on the TV series "Homeland" obviously saved. The result was almost a comedy: the storming of buildings, the wars of various power structures, and then the conclusion of the main character in the wards. All that is lacking is drunken polar bears with an accordion.

Sergei Nagorny, who starred in “Americans”, says that there has always been a demand for Russian antagonists. It’s just that in 90 they took off their shoulder straps and turned into gangsters (like Boris Razor in the Big Kush), who became oligarchs (like Yuri Omovich in Rock and Rolls). There were, of course, attempts to show positive Russians: for example, in the heroic drama about K-19 submariners. But it is rather an exception. A good guy from across the ocean is either a thug in the performance of Schwarzenegger, or a drunken astronaut in a hat with a sledge hammer.

Today, the Russians are again being killed, and to the melody of the famous “Kalinka”. In the third season of the Fargo series, the main villain, who has a portrait of Stalin hanging on the wall, breeds charming demagogy about truth, law and justice, about the fury of money and that power is in truth. Not without reasoning about Putin.

But Russia is not silent: the series “The Sleepers” is a new response to Hollywood. This is the quintessence of the fears of the authorities about the Orange Revolution: the liberal opposition sells its homeland to Western intelligence agencies, who have installed spies everywhere. Yury Bykov, who shot the first season on the fourth day after the premiere, publicly condemned his work and announced that he was leaving the profession.

About what to shoot and how to be with censorship, discussed in the framework of the week of Russian cinema in New York, on public talk RTVI.

Dmitry Nagiyev, actor: “The position of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Minister of Culture, again as an organization that gives money, and also writes scripts, every scenario should be filled in at the Ministry of Culture. After all, right from there, some scripts come down. ”

But they are paid for. And in America, the state does not finance cinema. True, its censorship in the form of political correctness is in the Hollywood regional committee.

Oleg Sulkin, American film critic: “Let's say, African-American directors joke about African-Americans. If the white director did this, then he would simply not be allowed to do it. ”

Sergey Nagorny, American actor: “After Weinstein, there are no strange jokes on the set. Nobody pulls you, I do not know, for a pigtail or for other household items. Now people are watching. ”

It’s safe to film something like Ocean's 8 or another comic remake. In Russia, this was a niche movie about the success of Soviet sports. And the movie itself turns out to be successful: “Moving upward” broke all rolled records.

“You can't be fooled by people if they pay money for it,” says Anton Dolin. The patriotic card was played out. But Hollywood is also exploiting the love for its star-striped homeland. And if in the Oscar-winning film Damien Chazelle, Gagarin and the first Soviet spacewalk about the landing on the moon are shown, then the picture is carried to pieces on top American television channels. And the most interesting thing is that viewers do not go to it, the fees are small.

Oleg Sulkin, American film critic: "There is no frame there, which, of course, would unite all patriots in quotes and without quotes: there is no frame of the installation of the American flag on the Moon."

“It is absent because it is not a blockbuster or a report on the US victory in space, but a deep psychological drama,” Russian actor Danila Kozlovsky shares in public talk RTVI. He and the Russian "Legend 17" says the same thing. Although some critics took the story of hockey player Valery Kharlamov as a patriotic film.

33 a year ago, the Rocky-4 also went well. A film about the triumph of an American over a Soviet officer for more than two decades was the highest-grossing film about sports. But the fact of the matter is that he was perceived as a drama with an obligatory set of elements: from the death of a friend and the inability to resist circumstances to triumph over the enemy. And the fact that this opponent is Russian is quite logical both for Reagan's America 80 and for Tramp America. Then they were afraid of nuclear war, now they are interfering in the elections with real Russian spies.

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