Master affairs director Vladimir Bortko won the hearts of the audience, making an unrivaled setting 'Heart of a Dog' Bulgakov. For this he was willing to forgive everything, even the infinite (by the standards of Bulgakov's prose) TV mini-series 'The Master and Margarita'. After all, Mikhail Bulgakov - is 'our all XX century'. But the reception of literal repetition can go with the original screen version of the novel of the times not so far, . living witnesses who have, . perhaps, . tread on this land, . but not with the story, . written in the middle of the XIX century about the fifteenth century. Who of the current visitors cinemas, . least in the school curriculum tell of 'Republic of two nations' (Rzeczpospolita), . and the reasons, . caused Cossack revolts and the siege of cities in Poland? To explain the situation enough to say narrative, . that Bulba was stubborn, . and seminary Andrei demonstrate excellent lady his valiant prowess, . the coach stopped for the wheel,
. 'Taras Bulba' - a story about the conflict between fathers and sons, . of betrayal and redemption, . difference of worldviews provincial Cossacks, . traveled from martial cases from the Zaporizhzhya Sich home, . and their sons, . let the market women and stole bread from hunger, . but habituated to secular life,
. Came out the same way, . that the words of Gogol, . who remained behind the scenes 'literal' transcriptions, . were important enough to justify the behavior of the characters and causes them to zealously defending the Orthodox faith (which was, . largely, . Only an aggressive reaction to forcibly implanted Catholic faith), . that without them, history has become something senseless and ruthless, . as a Russian rebellion. In an attempt to concentrate on the remainder of the text content of the story, . Bortko forgot about the form,
. Scale, . by the standards of modern cinema, . extras (thousand, . which were driven to the set, . in other cinematic powers draw on computers, . because it is simpler and, . cheaper and can be correct) on the screen does not look that way: the impressive battle turned into a television show - a change of operator optics, . Use crane, . whether installation of a little more aggressive - and the picture would have struck up quite different colors, what happens on the screen instead of a demonstration-scale, . healthy pathos and patriotism? bloody mess of a fifteen-minute battle with their stomachs ripped open, . slash his throat and planted on spears Cossacks,
. All - close-up detail: a perverted fantasies might envy myself Eli Roth. But the cinematic language differs from the literary language, scenes of violence that arise in the reader's head, and are more or less cruel to the extent of his imagination. If before the director is not the task of disgust the viewer, all that follows the stabbing, must take place already in mind of the beholder. And a knife or ax, or any other tool - it is only a guide. No wonder, perhaps the most terrifying scenes in cinema for many years considered to be the murder scene in 'Psycho', moreover, that the frame not being shown the blood and any injury. The same applies to the use fleshbekov that Bortko enjoys the right and left. Where did the scene, which opens the picture? What is full, which leads Taras in his memoirs? Any deviation from the storyline hangs in the air and, as a rule, does not receive any further development. All guns are hanging on the walls, but none of them shot. However, the director manage to disgust not only visual, but also the literary language. What is reiterated by a dozen times during a single battle phrase: 'Well, the Cossacks, there is still powder in your flasks? Stand up for Mother Russia! ", And each going to die, welcomed the audience by saying his love for the Orthodox Russia. One could forgive such an approach in the picture, . removed to promote and lift the patriotic spirit of the population during any World War II, . but not in the tape, . claiming the title of the most ambitious historical epic of modern Russia,
. Instead of lifting the patriotic spirit of such words begin to bring back stronger than from eating gruel in kindergarten. Amid all described, only one scene can cause some kind of sympathy and recognition. This screening paintings 'Letter to the Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan' Ilya Repin. Reception, it's not just tested in modern cinema (take 'Turkish Gambit', woven from visual references to the paintings Vereshchagin). But what has the Turkish sultan and the Poles? This issue (except for occasions to demonstrate the ability to inflict Bulba rebellion and change the chieftain at his request) remains in the picture without an answer. Film, . a patchwork, . crop up in unexpected places, . does not warm the soul, . does not warm the body, . has no narrative logic, and looks workpiece, . garnered from the, . that was, . but forgot to process a file,
. It is possible that the removal of three years of material will be sufficient to create dvenadtsatiseriynogo television movie, the ability to which Bortko have long been known for his love and. But then the picture should cut out all the bloodletting, and then the most terrible scene in the film will be the execution of the Cossacks in the square. For a good producer of one of the scenes should be enough to shock the audience (for example, to screen adaptation of Stephen King's novel 'Misery' in the formulation of Rob Reiner). But it's all a dream. The reality of it is irrelevant. Unfortunately.