| The popular film continued with a militaristic concert Danila Bagrov is multiplying and multiplying. Simultaneously with the celluloid, cinematic Danila, the vinyl Danila was released - a soundtrack that sells very well. Electronic Danila - a computer game - will be released soon. A paper Danila could also appear - a book. And on Saturday, fans saw Danila in the flesh - Sergei Bodrov. The “Brother-2” concert took place live at the Olimpiysky.
Critics have long argued about the ethics of the film: who is Danila - a chauvinist with a pistol or Robin Hood? There is no answer, but the concert made it clear that the hero is wildly popular. Despite the fact that the fire at Ostankino deprived the concert of television advertising, the Olimpiysky was full. The hall greeted Bodrov better than other rock stars.
The concert department of Real Records (soundtrack publisher) has only recently existed, but it has experience - a magnificent concert by Zemfira. This time everything was not organized so brilliantly. Despite the revolving stage, there were long pauses between performances, and the audience whistled and stomped on the stands. The writing on the screen appeared ahead of schedule, and in excerpts from the film it was impossible to make out the words. The “theatrical show with shocking elements” declared by the director, alas, was not such. The actors played the roles of showmen (Viktor Sukhorukov - successfully) and excited the audience with populist slogans. In the scenery - if you had the imagination - you could see New York skyscrapers, but they just stood there. There were no stuntmen. “Theatricality” apparently meant two cars that delivered Sukhorukov to the stage. Out of the blue, a show ballet appeared on stage, but its appearance was in no way tied to the fabric of the concert.
All this did not give the impression of a coherent (plot and conceptual) show. Separate numbers of musicians, separate speeches of actors, light separately from sound, etc. The most interesting was the performance of the soundtrack producer Mikhail Kozyrev, but the director, alas, was not him, but Andrei Sychev.
The musicians did not sing anything that the audience did not know by heart. "Chicherina", "Bi-2", Nike Borzov, "Aquarium" and so on. performed proven hits. The sound was, in general, not bad. The best of all was "Meaning Hallucinations", whose sound seemed to come from everywhere. The loudest applause came from the children's choir, which sang "Goodbye America."
According to the laws of rhetoric, slogans thrown at an excited crowd must be simple and intelligible. This is how the toastmaster of the evening, Sukhorukov, acted. The words “motherland”, “brothers”, “invincible”, “together” and even an excerpt from the poem “Where the Motherland Begins” were heard. At times the actor was carried away from patriotism to cosmopolitanism - the audience reacted with the same delight. Cosmopolitanism was, however, condescending, vividly reminiscent of Mikhail Zadornov with his attitude towards foreigners. What pleased the audience the most was the obscene word.
The key phrase of the film - “Russians do not abandon their own in war” - was not spoken from the stage, but it was often shouted from the audience. There was generally enough “war”: Bodrov spoke about the battle on Lake Peipus, the show ballet danced in military uniform. They showed all the scenes of the film with the heroes shooting back. The people reacted with joyful howls. “Together we are invincible,” shouted Sukhorukov. But we, it seems, are not at war with anyone... “We just can’t get used to living without war,” sang Vladimir Shakhrin. And he was right. War, among other things, is one of the means of uniting a nation. The show's organizers said it would be "patriotic." Once again, patriotism merged with the spirit of war and opposition to the whole world.
It seems that many guests of the Olympic live with a war in their heads: with Chechens, Americans, moneybags or neighbors - it doesn’t matter. The greatness of the Russian spirit is perceived by them through the glorious victories of Russian weapons: in a street shootout with bandits or on the lists. At the same time, they do not mean harm: when the conductor of the children's choir wished his charges never to know war, the audience applauded. But these are children, and for the public the time of peace has not come. "We stand for the cause of peace, we are preparing for war." It seems that two opposing complexes are to blame for all this: the complex of a strong, but now humiliated power, and the complex of the peaceful people themselves. It's old, but, alas, it works.
For Real Records this is a business. From a business point of view, they did everything right - all over the world the life of a popular movie character continues in soundtracks, TV series, concerts, on T-shirts and on computers. If the show had been better directed, there would be no complaints about Real.
The spectators splashed out their aggression, yelled, danced and, tired, went home. Maybe such shows really promote unity and cohesion, and the rest is intellectual grumbling? I wish it were so. Svyatoslav BIRYULIN |
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