The winners are not judged

For the fourth day, delights are glowing about the opening of the Olympics. In the air, inflatable domes, caps and popularly honest creators of the ceremony, led by Konstantin Ernst, fly in the air. The glory of them in chorus is sung by federal television channels and social networks, the Echo radio station and the Sputnik and Pogr blog, supporters and criticism of the regime, the young cornet and the gray -haired general. The opening ceremony unexpectedly united everyone.

Maybe it's all out of habit? The TV, they say, no one is watching - but they watched the discovery. It was impossible to find a broadcast on the Internet, and everyone took out television receivers from somewhere and remembered how to control the remote control.

And here - a huge stadium, general expectation, banners, hymns, 12 thousand organizers are worried so that everything turns out, more than three billion people shall be put on the screen at the same time, all this acts physically - hits under the breath, breaks away tears. Live broadcast - for which TV, in general, is created and what other media cannot - unites.

And then, we need a little. To show the deputy Mizulin for a long time, and then entrust the Olympic fire to the deputies of Kabaeva and Rodnina. To repeat for a long time that Russia is Cossacks and bast products, and then remind you of ballet and Suprematism. To start Leps for a long time, and then bam - turn on the shnita. And not even so long, only a couple of years by a constant Mizulina - and your audience is almost ready to consider Julia and Lena from the Tattoos analogues Nadi and Masha from Pussy Rait.

But then we. The foreign viewer has the right to wait for more. The opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympics-80 once set the bar-pathos Olympic productions began with it. Previously, this was somehow easier, but the Brezhnev Olympics, boycotted by 65 countries, had to show something to the world. Since then, the arms race is growing, each country has been trying to surpass others. Winter Olympiads usually open more modestly, but the custom is not a decree for us-we again need to show something to the world. We did not hide that it was (cons. In Sochi-2014, this is more difficult than in Moscow-1980: then foreign guests were impressive by the very opportunity to look behind the iron curtain, to see the Soviet man close and discover that nothing human is alien to him. Now we need to demonstrate about the same thing, but at the same time - that a person is no longer Soviet.

Only a couple of years of permanent Mizulina - and your audience.

It was clear in advance that it was unlikely to be proud of a fresh repairs of the Motherland-not our horse, something is always not so with the toilets. We are more in terms of the images: the former volunteer at the Olympics-80, and now the main producer of his homeland, Konstantin Ernst, drew his homeland such that it was not ashamed. Rough, large, stadium stadiums - but majestically and touching, original, but not in Simely, guests are clear and the owners are flattering. He mounted a classic ballet with biomechanics, and the Stalinist anthem with a church choir and revived the international protocol.

For example, President Putin President President of MOK has, and who will you order at the ceremony if there is no first lady? The girl is Lyuba with the ball? Olympic bear? Sleeping Medvedev? It was necessary to come up with Irina Skvortsova to plant. Some of the spectators decided that it was a translator, part - that a daughter, but an understanding audience was happy and proud. There, a couple of messages were for an understanding public, despite the popular nature of the spectacle, and the audience is flattered.

The television workshop has its own professional holiday, an exhibition of achievements, a parade of athletes. The three-minute overture of the designer Anton Nenasheva “Russian alphabet”, the Intermedia directed by Dzhanik Fayziev about the historical path from Colchis to Sochi, the Fair of George Tsypin and the Ball, the revived designer-designer Anton Sakara, the grandiose director of the prisoner Andrei Boltenko.

What now to find fault with the mistake in the word “love” in the “Russian alphabet”, to an unfinished scenario course with a girl-person, to a protracted part with constellations, to a lack of self-irony? This is already catching fleas. Self-irony is British, and not our national sport, a girl in Sydney 2000 is inspired by the same “circus du salt” (not the worst source of inspiration and also the ally of Ernst in Sochi), but who did not have linings? And in Sydney they were in London and Beijing-despite the fact that they rehearsed there for years, and in Sochi, due to the perestroika of the stadium, they finished a lot in recent weeks. Russia spoke in its crown sport-to strain-and-order, all-for-waders. (“This resembles a military operation. You are in the war,” Tsypin admitted in an interview.) All gold in the personal and team standings at the Ernst team, we are the champions .

President Putin President President MOK has the right hand, and who will you order the ceremony at the ceremony if there is no first lady?

But in Ernst and to the least there were doubts after their work at Eurovision 2009 and the latest presidential inauguations. Ernst is known, perfectionist. For three years to build a roof in the open stadium - I wanted suspended scenery to fly and not crawl. Turn the floor into a screen. Make 88 delegations to get out of the ground in order to be more ambitious. Arrange a fireworks under the roof. Pull out specially designed 12-meter tractors and real retro cars into the arena. Mimic and breathing make Olympic Maskos: well, who is watching how they breathe? “But it is important for him to breathe.” He should always be the first, like his channel - his, and not the state -owned state compilation of the authorities calls for the power when it is important for her to look like Namba Van.

The Olympiad is a logical transition from European scope to planetary. Stand up with Danny Boyle and Zhang Imou and show the world a new Russia for him more in height than the Kremlin empty on the day of the inauguration. No matter how he himself was worried in front of the ceremony - few doubted the workshop in it. And if someone at the top doubted-such rumors went-then there are no questions now, they are not judged by the winners. The ceremony became the most difficult and high-tech in Olympic history, as we were explained on Sunday: it was the day of the triumph of Ernst, his great interview, the film about how the ceremony was prepared-in the prime time at the first-and the reinforcement of the BIS ceremony itself. It is clear that they are happy with Ernst at the top. And that his next achievement of his ill -wishers will not calm. And what if he had now left with TV to his own or someone else's will, he would have left the winner-it is only not clear where he would go after that.

It is embarrassed against this background to mutter about exorbitant costs, corruption and window dressing. And in general-for once, people have a holiday. Why are you spoiling a holiday for people, a bore?

It’s even more absurd to take the spectacle, to calculate where Malevich, Shagal and Sikorsky, named and died, were born and died, look for a national idea in Pantomime, Russia of Putin or Russia without Putin. If desired, you can see in the stadium action, if not the anthem of the “Putin’s modernization”, then the idea of ​​moving from archaic to progress - but this motive is completely general, in about this spirit any country of the world formulates its Nazide. There is also nothing new.

Why are you spoiling a holiday for people, a bore?

Why is everything so delight? Why did this “dream about Russia” turned out to be common to Putin’s officials and a skeptical public, who does not love in reality either Putin or Ernst?

And it's just cool, the audience answers. It is cool when it hits under the breath and knocked out tears. It is cool to be the birthplace of Malevich and giant tractors, and not small ones, somewhere there are blessed from their houses. It is cool to have a large national team - and make fun of the delegations of small countries live, as the commentators of the ceremonies did, or on the network over the dozing on the rostrum Medvedev. It is cool when those who are lower in growth are bend in front of you. Even cooler - so that those who are higher are bent. It is cool that the holiday. It is cool to be at the same time with the majority - even a skeptical public sometimes wants to - and speak with him in a general language.

We all have been learning for centuries for centuries, and any of us for years is not at home, so at school or in the yard. In this language, the majority speaks of the minority, the president - of a squeaky opposition. In this language, the main argument is power. On it, force is the same as law, beauty or greatness. To be afraid in this language means to respect, as much as they can - swallow so much, and the winners do not judge.