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'Striking cinema': what an American thinks about Soviet comedies

We often watch Hollywood films and discuss them, but we rarely think about what Americans think about Soviet films, which most of us know almost by heart. Author Actor’s Way Blog on Yandex.Zen showed a friend of the American Joseph several Soviet comedies and asked his opinion.

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I met him during my business trip 5 years ago. Joseph is a very sympathetic, kind, reliable person, he also loves cinema and understands it better than anyone else I know. While sitting in isolation, we came up with the idea to create a new project in which I would show him Soviet films, and he would evaluate them. I do not doubt his criticism, but I asked him to be fairly objective in this matter.

The first film I sent him was "Caucasian captive". Unfortunately, he does not have American voice acting, but there are subtitles.

Joseph looked at him completely. In his opinion, the film deserves a rating of 8 on a ten-point scale.

“I really liked this film. I had watched a couple of Soviet films before, but this one exceeded all expectations. I was especially surprised by the ease with which the characters play their roles; the style is radically different from ours, and this is noticeable at first glance,” Joseph said. — The humor is at its best, I laughed loudly and long. True, some jokes were not entirely clear; I really wanted to learn the language so I could watch them in the original. I liked the actor with an unusual appearance (Yuri Nikulin), he reminded me very much of Charlie Chaplin. I wouldn’t be surprised if he copied his style because the facial expressions and movements are almost identical.”

I was indignant at this comment. I am also quite familiar with the work of Chaplin, and did not notice any similarities with Nikulin.

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I asked him why he thinks so? To which he said that he “just feels it.”

I decided to sort this out. I watched Nikulin's performances in the circus. Joseph was right. Nikulin's circus performances are really very similar to Charlie Chaplin's performances.

They have an identical manner of movement, facial expressions, and gestures. It is not surprising that Nikulin could adopt some techniques from a more famous personality to more effectively “manage” the public.

In addition, Joseph said that he was delighted with Soviet actresses; they had an attractive, “unspoiled” appearance. This is a very big problem in Hollywood; beauty is created artificially.

When the time has come choose a second movie, I started thinking about what kind of film could really surprise an American. I wasn't wrong with my choice - "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession", Of course, with American subtitles.

“This film was very easy for me, I even called my children and watched it in one go. The cherry was the storyline, there were definitely no such films in the USA, I can’t even remember anything similar. The Soviet directors clearly did their best, there is not a single plot hole, the whole picture works as clearly as a Swiss watch,” Joseph shared his impressions. — I was surprised by the quality of humor; there were practically no jokes based on insult or humiliation. This is very rare in the US."

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“I liked the actor in the role of the Tsar (Yuri Yakovlev), especially his performance. His speech is understandable even for an American; he is not joking. Well-placed diction, commanding tone. At one point, even I felt uneasy. If I had such a king at home, I would run and perform in exactly the same way. It’s amazing how Shurik found a common language with him,” said the American.

Joseph asked me if every Russian can speak in such a tone. To which I replied that almost everyone could not only infants but dumb ones.

“Now I will definitely never go into conflict with the Russians. By the way, the two who went back in time really reminded me of the characters from Dumb and Dumber, they were the ones who made this film a comedy,” Joseph said. — An amazing movie, I have never seen anything like it. I think it's worthy of a 9,5 on a scale of ten. I give 4 points to the actor who played the king - a real professional.”

The original column is published in Actor’s Way Blog on Yandex.Zen

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