1941

Incredibly, but the fact! Burlesque, crazy, and for someone simply the idiotic comedy of Stephen Spielberg (so far the only one in his film booking), which talks about the landing of the Japanese on December 13, 1941 from a submarine off the coast of California, near Los Angeles, is repelled from a truly case. Of course, the authors of the script Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gail, along with the director, were fantasized, added, and simply speaking-they lied for the sake of laughter in order to demonstrate the breathtaking panic of the Americans caught, as it was and six days earlier, at a military base in Pearl Harbor.

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Moreover, the ribbon “1941” was quite good in the film distribution, and for some reason critics shouted about the failure (probably, comparing with the super-Used of the previous paintings of Spielberg-“Jaws” and “Close Contacts of the Third Vid”) and scolded the director because he “spent $ 28 million on several jokes and many destruction” (at that time, a similar budget seemed very much like a similar budget. Big - now it could be $ 74 million). Leonard Montin, for example, called this film "Gargantuyan comedy, created in the film school" The more, the funnier. "

Nevertheless, critics overdo it, not wanting to thoughtlessly have fun on such a farce in the style of "what if ...". Stephen Spielberg, having tested in excessive number of special effects in the scenes of the attacks of Japanese bombers on Los Angeles and the manner of a rude military buffoonery, perhaps the benefit of creating a comic fantasy for himself. Having dosed the elements of such a spectacle in a more balanced and thoughtful form, he defeated on the spot two years later the first series of Indiana Jones - “Seekers of the Lost Ark”. Universal delight prevented the understanding of the origins of incredible success, lurking just in the half -away comedy “1941”.

Sergey Kudryavtsev. Military comedy of absurdity