Translated material
Sergey Kuznetsov. NasNet: issue 36
Sergey Kuznetsov
Publication date: March 2, 2001
Project: nineties
(Game conditions - here )
There is little left to remember - and more and more historical events or things loosely connected with the 90s. Let's start with historical events.
Getting your money is easy
Key words: October 1993, money
October 1993. Philologist Zolotov and his friend businessman Utkin are sitting in the kitchen and watching TV. Just yesterday evening they were listening to the radio, where a voice that had recently been called “the enemy” was broadcasting the latest news: “On such and such a channel - nothing, on such and such - nothing, but on Moscow they are broadcasting a report from CNN... so, Now we will tell you what we see..."
So, now they were watching that same historical report, which became the first live broadcast in the history of Russia from the sites of historical events of such a scale.
Suddenly Utkin perked up:
“Look,” he shouted, “all the windows in the city hall are broken!”
- So what? - asked Zolotov.
- So this is my site! This means that my guys will install glass there and wash everything! Let's earn money!
At that time, Utkin was engaged in industrial mountaineering, leading a team that performed high-altitude work.
And then Zolotov realized that some new era had arrived. However, he was mistaken: she arrived a little earlier, he just, as a philologist, did not notice it.
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The general idea of ending the decade met with support from readers. Maksimka writes:
In the film "Moscow" I noticed one frame that told me more about what is happening now, and not about the 90s. But still - on topic. This shot is when Olga (Drubich) is being driven around Moscow by her “lover” on a motor ship. And she sits at the stern on this red (orange?) wooden bench. At the same time, the angle is almost the same as in the film “Assa” by Solovyov, where, as you remember, the same Drubich also sailed on a motor ship. I don’t know if this is on purpose or not :) But the film “Assa” in many ways began the 90s, and the film “Moscow” in many ways summed them up.
I propose that the release of the film “Moscow” be considered a symbolic end of a wonderful era.
I invite readers who want to remember something else about the past decade to remember how they first realized that it was ending.
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Events
Yesterday we were awarded the Intel Prize. As the reader already knows, Yandex received six awards. I was happy for my colleagues, calling them the “Titanic” of the Russian Internet,” referring, of course, to the famous film by James Cameron, which collected a record harvest of Oscars. But I was not happy for long - until someone asked: “Is that what you mean - Whoever is destined to go broke will not drown ?
There are spiteful critics in the world!
On the other hand, this is what it means to break away from the people... I only have a movie on my mind, but people think about steamships.
In fact, congratulations to the winners, of course.
Impression
German W. Kotyatko sent a completely artistic text “Love Letter #3”, which I am happy to publish:
If you always do what you've always done,
you will always have what you've always had.You may ask why I didn’t come to dance that evening. You know, I somehow thought that since you’re like that, well, remember you said that I don’t give a damn and that if I want to fuck, we’ll fuck or not, and in general then, I thought that, damn, how can you do this after that night of ours and Here.
I just called Oleg and he just called me to the dacha and I just needed to think, you know, think about unwinding. Oleg, he’s generally funny, but don’t think that I had anything with him, I just like him, I like him drop dead, but I don’t want him.
He’s kind of strange, and if he drinks, he’s out of control. But I don’t want everything about him, but in fact I want to confess to you that I will not forget our that night; I felt so good with you, my dear ********. I felt so good with you, but the morning came quickly and you became completely different, as if you were already tired of me and even then I cried when you were sleeping because I thought that this was the last time for us, my *******, but I remember your *****, your ****** ******* again and I don’t want this to be the last time because maybe you don’t understand how much I understood that night of ours, and You may have some other girl, but I don’t want to think about it because I also had a lot of guys before you.
But I had the best time with you, my dear *********. When Oleg and I slept at his dacha, just don’t think about it, we had nothing, he only had 1 bed and he wanted to put it on the floor first, but I didn’t allow it because it was already August and he was in August you know what nights. Oleg said that his classmate (you don’t know) got pregnant from Sashka, and he himself went to Turkey, but she doesn’t know with whom, but I know. This classmate also wanted to go to Oleg’s dacha that day, but he told her not to because he loved her and it would be painful for him to hear that she got pregnant. Sashka himself went to Turkey with Marinka.
You know her, she’s from the restaurant where you and I were that evening.
You were still looking at her and I was terribly jealous because I thought that you wanted her, and I thought that we would go to you later, but thank God you just looked and I cried like a fool in the toilet, you then went for cigarettes and didn’t see. Because I love you and I keep thinking how good it was for me to be with you like [nobody], but now you probably don’t even remember me. I so want to see you and kiss you like that night, and when I saw you, I immediately realized that I love you and Oleg thinks so too.
He immediately told me that I fell in love or got pregnant, but I laughed and said that I fell in love and how do you know. And he just laughed and said, “je ne sais pas pourquoi.” ******* my dear *******, I love you very much, I’m sorry that I didn’t come then, I just had a lot to think about. Just don’t think that I went to Oleg on purpose, there was nothing between us.
I really liked it when you read your poems to me, you are so unusual, no one has ever read poetry to me. Everyone is usually the same and immediately says let’s go fuck, but they can only do it once, and then they fall asleep and I’m crying like a fool, it’s my own fault. There will be no more like this, I swear to you.
I sat all day and thought that you were offended that I didn’t come and went with some other girl or do you think that I’m a slut, but I’m not a slut, I love you very much and I’ve never felt so good with anyone because you’re not like that as everybody. I remember how you read poems to me and I also want to write you a poem because I don’t know how to say what I feel after that night of ours.
I will never go to the moon -
This kind of slap in the face hurts more.
But I will see your beauty with my own eyes,
When you rise on an August night.
When the clouds are sailing like a ship,
You will follow the wind recklessly.
Just think how scary I will be
Lips to the incomparable vessel!I found this poem in one of Oleg’s books. I really liked these poems and I want you to read them too and remember me, and I always think about you when I’m even sleeping and I can’t even sleep because I feel very bad when you’re not next to me or you’re with some other girl[ e]nka. When you probably find this letter, I will wait for your call and always love you, ********** with that true love that, like an Angel of Light, sweeps over fallen humanity, scattering millions of sparks around itself, each of which - compassion, blindness, passion, lights a fire in us, giving us the strength to meet a new day and live it, remembering the amazing metamorphoses that this great feeling, love, does to us.
Excellent text. I look forward to more like this from you.
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Contest
It's time to sum up the results of the competition about Aliens. First place goes to someone named NonGrata for the following synopsis.
So, for example, Terry Gilliam. In Aliens 5, Lieutenant Ripley begins to have nightmares. Then it seems to her that there will be no “alien-5”, because all the creatures, it turns out, have been exterminated. Then it seems to her that she can scrape some cell of scales from the glass and clone her beloved son, whom she sees every night on a horse and in a red cloak. Guilliam's budget is small, there is nothing to clone. In addition, Sigourney Weaver injured her spine or knee. Then the director decides to come up with a new drug, abandoned to Earth by Aliens back in the days when they were ordinary boys who dreamed of enslaving the Universe, and found by the daughter of Bruce Willis’s character in the attic, no, in the basement of a two-story American house. A new (and very cheap) drug called, say, C-5 allows anyone, including Sigourney Weaver, to virtually participate in the movie Alien 5 and even Alien 6. Problems begin with the seventh, because in attempts to see him, many overdosed and died. In particular, little Tiffany, the daughter of Bruce Willis' character. And then, driven by grief, the father decides to rid the world of this infection.
At the end, Bruce Willis ends up in the bedroom, where 50-year-old Sigourney Weaver, exhausted by drugs, is watching “Alien 5.” The moment he lifts her eyelids, the end credits begin.
I ask him/her to contact me if he/she is interested in receiving the prize.
Two incentive prizes go to Kim Belov , as well as Elena Kostyleva together with Ekaterina Kadieva for a jointly written script.
So, here is Belov, who came up with the script for Tykver:
When Weaver and Ryder arrive on Earth (see the finale of the fourth part), it is already completely captured by Aliens. Well, of course, there is some kind of stronghold of resistance there. Sigourney and Winona are joined by Franka Potente, and the three of them set off on a Doom Generation-style journey to the center of Alien territory to negotiate with the queen about the peaceful coexistence of Aliens and humans. No, of course, they are not traveling in threes, but in a large brigade. There should also be an android guy (some European actor, Kassel is best). As a result, in general, no peace is achieved, the earthlings come up with weapons to completely exterminate all the aliens, everyone dies except for two androids (Kassel and maybe Rider, or you can take someone else instead), who continue to live on the planet .
But Kostyleva/Kadieva, who, by the way, composed their synopsis even before the competition was announced:
Weaver developed complications after cloning and became an idiot. She babysits Aliens and takes them to her bed, and if someone makes an attempt, he shoots without warning. And her son was also cloned, but let’s say he was blind, but he learned to sing songs.
In the end, Weaver asks God for her son to win the Grammy for best song. He receives, but ceases to be an Alien and becomes an ordinary American. The earth is saved, the heroine is unhappy.