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"Speaking agitation of the FSB"
On Channel One, a show of a new spy series dedicated to the confrontation of Russian and Western intelligence services began. In the series, not only good FSB shniks and bad CIA-shniks appear, but also opposition bloggers and the “fifth column”, which “sways the situation” paid by the Americans, in order to “take the people to the streets”-it is on these “hidden agents” that hints the name “sleeping”. "The action is in Moscow in June 2013 on the eve of large geopolitical events and shocks, which, as a result, will change the further life of the world," the official annotation reports to the series. The script for the Sleepers was written by Sergey Minaev, Fedor Bondarchuk acted as one of the producers, and Yuri Bykov, known to the Russian spectator from the films "The Major", as well as the series "Method", was the director.
The summary of the first series retells in his telegram channel Alexander Plyushchev :
Gades of the Cenchers did not conduct subversive activities against Russia as much as 15 years (apparently, because the puppet government had a puppet government in Russia), but they had "sleeping" agents. The situation worsens, and agents wake up, sending them SMS or even notes. The agents do unkind, including the main crime - the brutal murder of a lawyer and a fighter with corruption to dump everything on the FSB, which is just good. It is so good that, not hoping for the government, it itself concludes a secret contract for the sale of Russia to China. The FSB underfoot journalists from the fifth column - a mirror newspaper, whose chief editor looks like Berezovsky, but thumps Viskarek and is friendly with an investigative committee. In the head of the editor -in -chief - his pictures with Yeltsin and some other traitors. One journalist of this honest newspaper with honest labor earned a large beautiful house, but he himself is a bastard - he changes his wife with an alcoholic leading news on the federal channel. A piquant moment is the name of the actress playing the young presenter - Andreeva. Along the way, it turns out that the lawyer, frustrated in dust, was a giant cotton octopus during his lifetime. In any case, after an explosion of 12 kg of TNT under his car, there is no funnel left on the spot, but an ink spot of three floors forms on the wall of the house. Thank God there is a beautiful and honest colonel of the FSB, whose role is played by the only artist who plays at least something. He from the pot is in love with the wife of a traitor -journalist, and she in him even earlier and more. But he has no time - he catches the sewn and internal agents who are trying to arrange an orange revolution and do not stop at anything.
This is the content of the first episode of the series "Sleeping", the scenarios of which obviously affects the elimination of the FSKN.
The author of the review on the Kinopoisk website compares “sleeping” with the American series “Homeland” (Homeland) - and puts the first 1 point out of the possible 10:
It is wrong to judge the whole series by two episodes, but here is still the wrong case. Here, after the first series, everything is clear. For whom all this is done and for what purpose.
About a year ago, Sergey Minaev interviewed Fyodor Bondarchuk, where in the end he asked him: when will Netflix appear in Russia? And Minaev himself had a hand in the creation of HM ... a spy series, which is like “Homeland”, but ours, Orthodox (I know that Homeland is not Netflix).
How to distinguish the Russian series from non -Russian, even if no one has started talking in it yet? Very simple - abundant use of the slope. It is strange that our creators of movie series products still cannot come to terms with that. that Sloumo is not cool to use about 1999.
The soundtrack is simply brazenly licked from the screensaver of the "Motherland". They are also used in the same style of the piano and the saxophone. It’s simply impossible not to notice. But the truth is sometimes played by music, which would be more suitable for the late Soviet erotic film such as “Naked in a hat” or “Wheel of love”.
Absolutely caricature Americans, very intelligent, and very confused. They even move and talk in the way caricature Americans should move.
A little about the plot. Whether the plot will be especially incomprehensible, but they are trying to convince us that the gas contract is so confidential and cool that it needs to be hidden. So that no American reptile has fucked anything about him. Fear of disclosure is absolutely not clear. Now, if the Americans sniffing this contract, then what? Will they tear it? And when Russia begins to build this gas pipeline. then the Americans also do not know about it? What is so terrible about this contract? Or does Minaev thinks that the gas pipeline will work immediately after signing the contract? Some kind of game. Yes, and those experts who criticize the project, which, in their opinion, is considered unprofitable - these are the CIA hires. That's right. Do you think that building an expensive gas pipeline that will have only one buyer is a bad idea? Congratulations, you work for the CIA.
At the beginning of the film, they write to us that all the heroes of the series are fictional and all coincidences are random. But Putin’s portrait on the wall certainly hangs, even in the series Putin is our president. They also did not forget about Yanukovych, mentioning how they put pressure on him, so that he was moving away from Russia (everything happens in May 2013). This is done so that the viewer who has just watched the release “Time will tell” - the TEFI winner for the best current of the show, and then the Time program, and did not forget about Ukraine during the watching the series.
And another non -thought character - former US Ambassador Michael McFol, who is sitting directly at the embassy and conducts talk about how to arrange a revolution, what happened in Egypt, and it will turn out in Russia. And in response to him - the fictional character answers - it will not work - after all, this is Russia. Because Russia is a great country that even enemies respect.
I’ll summarize: this series is not an attempt to do something at the level of Western TV shows, like a “card house” or a black list, at all. This is an attempt by Russian propaganda television channels to diversify ways to get this propaganda to the Russian viewer. Suppose the viewer is tired of the eternal political show on Channel One or Russia 1 NTV and the rest, and then he will turn on the series and receive the dose of propaganda.
Trash, and it is very sad that in Russia it is impossible to shoot a series that can criticize its own state and its leaders. We have to scold strangers.
Many of those who managed to watch the first episodes have no doubt that “sleeping” is another example of the propaganda products of Channel One. Most of the claims on this subject are presented to Sergey Minaev, the author of not only the script, but also the ideas of the series.
Gorgeous cinema on the first - "sleeping". It was necessary to order a cinema script for the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution Minaev. Then no Motild would have happened and Poklonsky without hype and the State Duma aside. Well, the audience is good.
As a series, it is made very well, genre - also excellent. Well, with an ideological context there is already hard. The malicious Cencers are so angry and insidious, and the FSBSHIKS are so bold, beautiful and noble that you are simply stunned sometimes :). In - Minaevski in general)
But between these two clans there are also halftones. But I look with interest. He holds, including this political filling of propaganda, it will be interesting where. And so there was a lot, although the action takes place in 2013
"Crimea" is already suck.
Here are the "sleeping" on the first - about noble Chekists, corrupt journalists, vile human rights defenders, ubiquitous American spies - a real masterpiece of socialist realism. Modern artistic interpretation of imperishable CIA against the USSR.
However, most “sleepers” are not compared with the “Crimea”, but with the espionage hit of the USSR, to which Sergey Minaev, according to him , was guided by the creation of the series.
From your posts, I realized that "sleeping" is such a new "TASS is authorized to declare." That is, you definitely need to watch.
Comrades of the road, Sorry Veri Mach, but with all due respect to Sergey Minaev, what they began to show on TV yesterday, has never been a modern version of Tass. Because TASS is authorized to declare - this is Julian Semenov, as well as Solomin, Kikabidze, Tikhonov, Petrenko, Kuravlev, Yumatov, Klyuyev and a lot of excellent actors in the second roles. Everything is interesting in Tassa, from the storyline to dialogs, because the series was made by the masters of their craft. Sleeping ... honestly, I watched to the middle, then it became uninteresting. But perhaps someone went and liked it, because all the felt-tip pens are different for taste and color. Therefore, to those to whom this series has entered, Enjoy The Movie. And I will probably review TASS on the flaws.
Now the creators will begin to say that this, they say, is a postmodern game on the stamps and only advanced will see the second bottom in this, but in fact, the opportunity to speak some things, like Semenov in TASS, where, in addition to detective history, he devoted many pages to reasoning about Soviet life and not only. But, in my opinion, the main problem is that these "sleeping" really euthanize, despite all the action, this is a very predictable and boring movie.
At the same time, the series so accurately reflects the spirit of time that all its shortcomings against this background lose their meaning, says Stanislav Kucher :
Everyone urgently watch the series "Sleeping"! Everything is incomparable there - an idea, a script, dialogs, an acting ensemble. But the main thing is that the topic that is most relevant for Russia is brilliantly disclosed there - the struggle against external and internal enemies.
The main external enemy of Russia - every schoolboy knows this - throughout our thousand -year history, the United States of America is. Do not believe, ask students, and do not cling to chronology, the truth does not depend on the facts. I suspect, the series will soon be shot (if not, I give an idea) that will enlighten you that the Khazars, and the Pechenegs, and the Tatar-Mongols, and the other Swedeemacepolyaks were nothing more than American puppets who woke up and activated from the Langley call (if you are not yet in the know, the CIA's headquarters existed Long before the swimming of Columbus, just before it was disguised as Indian Wigwam).
In a review published on the Kommersant FM website, the coachman develops his thought:
I had been waiting for a long time when, finally, this will happen. A couple of years ago, we even discussed a similar plot in the country with a friend-journalist. They made barbecue, and a series in the living room was in the living room along one of the satellite channels, in which valiant Russian special forces saved the world at different points from the insidious machinations of foreign politicians and thugs. The vile foreigners chewed chewing gum, spoke English and very much resembled caricature Americans from Soviet "masterpieces" such as "single swimming".
“Maybe that's enough for us to be half pregnant?” - Aloud fantasized a friend. - Why are all these halftones? Is it time for federal TV to swing to Julian of our Semenov and create a normal remake “TASS is authorized to declare”, with specific CIA agents, traitors of the Motherland, in a word, a complete propaganda set? However, alas, such a trash is only on a satellite and cable and is possible. In addition, we have enough kisele, nightingale and other talk shows where you can “wet” the Americans, lifting and lowering the degree when necessary ...
I bow to a political instinct, an entrepreneurial vein, and, first of all, a degree of patriotism in the blood of the author of the script “Sleeping” Sergey Minaev and producer Fedor Bondarchuk: while we were fantasized - they did. Moreover, they did as it never dreamed at the height of the Cold War to Julian Semenov, Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Suslov combined. That is why, I am sure, now they will go down in the history of the symptographer, not so much as the authors of “Duhless” and “9th company”, but as artists of the state scale, who finally spoke about the main thing in October 2017.
Oleg Kashin ( paid section of Republic ) also believes that the creators of the series set the creative task by themselves, without instructions “from above” - and this is one of his cardinal differences from the Soviet counterpart:
A comparison with Soviet analogues of the TASS format is authorized to declare, but the Chekist cinema in the Soviet Union was shot under the direct dictation of the Andropov department and did not allow itself anything beyond what was written in the real notes of TASS, and the “sleepers” were more similar to the scandalous novel of 1969 “What do you want?” Vsevolod Kochetov - contemporaries also thought that this was the order of the Kremlin or the KGB, but, judging by the subsequent devastating reviews and the lack of reprints, the ultraloyalist Kochetov acted himself. In his novel in the sixties of Moscow, almost like in Master and Margarita, a group of mysterious guests was snapped as part of an Other SS, white emigrant, prostitutes and an American special forces. They were sent by the CIA for ideological sabotage, and they quickly found in Moscow many not called by names, but easily recognizable allies, from Slavophila Soloukhin to Liberal Okudzhava. Neither Suslov nor Andropov ordered Kochetov such a novel, but this did not matter - the collective unconscious of the Soviet conservatives the author “What do you want?”, Being convinced by the Soviet patriot, described in detail and terribly.
“Sleeping” also does not need a direct order - the world in which the action of the series unfolds was created not by Minaev and not Bondarchuk, but by the political block of the Kremlin and federal television channels. They created this world for many years. In this world, Islamist terrorist attacks in the Middle East necessarily stands the CIA, political murders in Russia are organized by him for the purpose of destabilization that goes into the Maidan, if the officials are studying for children abroad, he risks being recruited, the liberal press is habitually stirring up water, and popular bloggers are scribbled by the dictation of political technologists hired by the Americans. This world has long existed in the news of the federal channels, and its expansion into the entertaining mass culture was a matter of time - it is even strange that the movie "About Navalny" was shot only now.
The involvement in the project of director Yuri Bykov, whose social drama of 2014, “fool”, the audience compared with the “Leviathan” Andrei Zvyagintsev, unpleasantly surprised many.
In. Yuri Bykov shot a sickening series. According to the script of Minaev. And it's very sad
He looked at the first two episodes of "sleeping" on the first channel. It would be better if I had never seen it and did not know about the existence of this film. It is terribly sad what happens to people.
It is very joyful for the once good director Yuri Bykov, especially if he was worthy of paid for this hellish trash, removed approximately as shot in the 90s.
Poychev’s post launched a discussion about the moral and creative qualities of the creator of the "fool".
Poyshchev writes that director Bykov was once good. And it seems to me that he was completely monstrous and I hope that his series about the FSB and the Mirror newspaper is still a step forward. The film "Fool" is just a disaster, very bad, just very, very, very
The director Bykov still had the cop “Major”, which I once downloaded, but never looked.
Poyshchev writes about the “once good director Bykov”, and why was he good - because he knew how to build a frame or understood about installation there? No, the director Bykov was good, because he had an ideologically correct housing and communal services “fool”. When people are ready to consider the director good for ideological correctness, this is SAD.
In this sense, it is easier for me, I wrote in a review of the film “Fool” - “What other TV shows were shooting Bykov?” And now the answer arrived.
Oleg turns on analytics even when you can simply ask, as a result, a very cute conspiracyology is obtained. Bykov has a great film "Major" (he was in my fellow travelers about him) and a very good Russian Dexter - the series "Method" with Khabensky and the same Paulina Andreeva. Bykov’s views are well known and even outlined on Wikipedia, they give a shit all of them while he makes a good movie.
Bykov’s debut film “Living” was really interesting, and he, apparently, has exhausted his creative potential on it - all subsequent works were much weaker. Well, the series on the espionage theme is [rubbish] by default., Only the series about the Second World War can be more disgusting.
Once he climbed into the post of Yuri Bykova, where there was a discussion of his desire to retrain from the director to Showranner. To my question why, he answered something like "any person tends to look for his place in the world.")
Why am I?
To the fact that if you are looking for your place in the system, you will definitely find it. But .. on the course will have to accept part of the picture of the world, which the system extends to its subjects.
Yes, everything is clear. For the first, freedom can be sold most expensive. True, money is delayed as in a movie about the plant, but recognition, demand. So they rush between dancing and adaptations. The mortgage period of creativity will be held someday.
The slogan "Sleeping": "Wake up!"
He is addressed not only to the characters, but also to the masters of culture, who still do not know with whom they are?
“Wake up!,” Mr. Minaev demands, “and pour oils into the fire of spyanomania, otherwise the brothers of Kiselev, Solovyov and the rest were tired.
As we noticed, Ernst (famous) Bondarchuk, Yuri Bykov had already woken up and vividly set to work. Who are the following?
Телеканал "Дождь" опубликовал интервью , в котором Юрий Быков без обиняков объясняет Павлу Лобкову, почему он согласился снимать "Спящих":
Скажем так, после событий на Украине, которые произошли, как известно я не сильно либеральных взглядов человек, у меня был некий шлейф эмоциональный. Особенно после Дома профсоюзов. И я, честно говоря, хотел высказаться на тему явления оранжевой революции. И были какие-то у меня личные изыскания в этом смысле. Я сам был на многих митингах ночами — на Триумфальной, на Болотной. Потом стал потихонечку разбираться, что там за архитектура. И в общем возникло ощущение, что нужно на эту тему как-то высказаться. Первый заход был с Донбассом, но я, честно говоря, отказался от этой идеи впоследствии. Фильм про Донбасс. "Волонтеры" назывался проект. Какое-то время висел на Кинопоиске, но потом я решил этот проект оставить. А когда появился сценарий Сережи Минаева... С одной стороны, это такая жанровая история, с другой стороны — это, по большому счету, такой художественный вымысел во многих аспектах, я имею в виду персонажей, драматургию и так далее. Мне показалось, что там смысловая и зрительская нагрузка и в общем приблизительно отображает мои взгляды и я за это взялся
Основатель "Дождя" Наталья Синдеева , ссылаясь на это интервью, упоминает о книге, написанной от лица офицера СС, который в ходе повествования постепенно превращается из обычного человека в палача:
Обязательно посмотрите Пашин разговор с режисером Юрием Быковым о сериале Спящие. Прям боль... нет разочарования, есть попытка понять режисера и всех, кто принял участие в этом проекте. И почему-то приходит в голову книга Джонатана Литтелла Благоволительницы.
Режиссер удалил из Facebook свою учетную запись - многие предполагают, что он сделал это в качестве реакции на обсуждение, но есть и версия, что Быков сейчас слишком занят на съемках нового фильма "Завод" и не хочет отвлекаться на споры в соцсетях.
Скажите, а Юрий Быков уже сбежал из фейсбука?
Да, он анонсировал уход: пока не разберётся, как относиться к политической реальности и типа на чьей он стороне .
Двумя днями позже на странице Юрия Быкова вКонтакте появилась следующая запись от его имени:
Небольшое обращение к вам, мои дорогие зрители.
Хочу попросить прощения, что прежде, чем стать взрослым, разумным человеком, привлёк к себе такое внимание и заставил думать, что я - ориентир. This is far from the case. Я слабый, сомневающийся человек, чья мягкость и дезориентированность в моменте привела к тому, что лучшие умы страны от меня окончательно отвернулись. Я не могу сказать, что я не понимал, на что иду, но, видимо, до конца не осознавал, насколько непростительно быть недостаточно точным, честным и аккуратным с темой в сериале "Спящие" Сотни честных людей пострадали от режима и произвола власти, которую я пытался защитить в этом сериале. Желание внести свой вклад против оранжевой революции в стране, основанное на патриотизме, - цель похвальная, но напрочь архаичная. Люди всё-таки должны протестовать и требовать справедливости, иначе не будет перемен, а я предал всё прогрессивное поколение, которое что-то хотело изменить в этой стране.
I'm afraid that after the perfect I can no longer be a public figure and object of following. I will have to leave for a long time in the shadow and not even in order for my crimes to forget, but in order not to annoy the surrounding world, and all the more not to confuse people who really want to believe that something can be changed.
I ask you to understand me correctly. The painting "Plant" (since this is the project that has begun and there are business obligations) will be completed, but it will probably be my last picture. Я, как говорится , всё просрал из-за собственной глупости и трусости. Мои искренние соболезнования всем поклонникам предыдущих картин.
All the best to you. Меняйте мир и смотрите только вперёд.
Юрий Быков.