10 unrequited questions to Mikhail Idov

Yesterday , the Less-2 Spirit, the continuation of the film adaptation of the same name by the Palp-Roman Sergey Minaev, was released . In the new film, the hero of Danila Kozlovsky turns from a downshift into a glamorous copy of Alexei Navalny, and from the direct sanction of the supreme power (read more about the film here ). One of the many scriptwriters of the sequel is Mikhail Idov, an American writer and journalist (in particular, worked as a New York Magazine and editor -in -chief of Russia!), The former chief of the Russian GQ, who left this post last May for the position of a creative director - that is, the head of the scenario group - in the company of Fedor Bondarchuk Art Pictures (recall that Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk is one of the most influential people in Russian film business, a member of United Russia, an active and charismatic supporter of V.V. Putin, who signed a letter from the culture of the Russian Federation in support of the presidential policy in the Crimea and Ukraine; however, two years earlier, Bondarchuk signed an open letter in support of Pussy Riot).

To our regret, Mikhail Idov fundamentally does not give an interview about his work on the “ Less-2 spirit”; The scriptwriter’s position was confirmed by the PR service of the UPI, which is engaged in distributing the picture. Despite this, we, unable to conceal painful questions in ourselves, decided to ask them aloud, “through the newspaper”, not too much, however, hoping that they would cease to be rhetorical.

“Once you wrote that it is unacceptable to“ turn from a journalist into an activist and vice versa by the wave of a press card. ” Do you leave your conditional party card from the Art Pictures office or is it always with you?

- The hero of Danila Kozlovsky leaves in a film from his native but difficult city to live a simple life in Bali. Your work in Art Pictures is also downshift?

- In the film, innovations, cuts and startups appear as signs of today. Doesn't it seem to you that this texture is outdated? If so, what do you think the actual signs of the present?

- The film also has many allusions on the big text of classical Russian literature ... And who is your favorite character in Dead Souls?

- The information described in the picture about the principles and methods of the work of law enforcement and state bodies - is this a fiction or the result of a journalistic investigation?

-"Duhless-2" is a political movie? If so - what does the epithet “political” in relation to the film mean to you?

-Once you wrote that "power can control everything, but not <...> drama of the moment." But in "Duhless-2" this happens exactly this: the authorities controls the dramaturgy of the moment-the lower anti-corruption movement. How long have you changed your opinion about the possibilities of power?

-The actual absence of the phenomenon of the movie star in Russia (Danila Kozlovsky is a rare exception) and the crisis of the Institute of Political Leaders in the country (the only exception is Vladimir Putin)-is there, in your opinion, a connection between these phenomena?

- In the film, the president has neither a face, no voice, no replicas. Does this mean that there is no president himself?

- How to saddle a wave, you know?