The main character of the New Year is a tank

The most box office of the New Year holidays is “T-34” by Alexei Sidorov

The adventure action in six days managed to become a ruble billionaire for fees. The total revenue of the T-34 is gradually approaching one and a half billion rubles. If we take into account that during these holidays the last series of the many-year-old confetti-almanac “Christmas trees” (the film is called “The Last Christmas tree”), then the “T-34” initiative can become the beginning of the New Year's tank franchise. Popures of the heroes of the Irony of Fate, soon the Russian viewer will say: “Every year on December 31, we go to watch“ Tanks ”.

Alexei Sidorov specializes in social action with a criminal tint. He shot the bandit series "Brigade", the fighter "Fight with the Shadow." In fact, the T-34 is also a peppy adventure action movie. Authors are of little interest in the truth of the characters, the truth of events. The film has enough dramatic blunders. Yes, and the scene is like a vegetarian concentration camp, from which the heroes are escaping on the tank -dressed and equipped with fascists. Or elegant streets of European cities, holding their breath at the sight of a Soviet combat vehicle. All this is just a decoration for spectacular computer action. Jealous of Dolbi-Dynamics, beating with armor-piercing shells (which for some reason the Germans themselves supplied our fighters) in the ears (during the filming for more drive, the actors put a column with Rammstein's hollowing music). Operating mercilessly reception of Slow Motion with a collision of shells in flight.

“T-34” in the film is the star “Police from Rublevka”-another film of the New Year’s rental champion-Alexander Petrov, who today replaced from the screen Bezrukov and is busy in almost all the flagship films of Russian cinema from Gogol to “Attraction” and “Streltsov”.

Films, who wisely clearing the New Year's screen from the Western “fakes” for the sake of our records “Police from Rublevka” and “T-34”, will report to the top of the cosmically increased share of Russian cinema (according to the results of the New Year holidays, it made up unprecedented 72.9% of the country's total vision).

And we will think about the role of tanks in modern domestic film industry.

The armor is strong

Well, true, why is the tanks in the mass order inspire filmmakers? The television “indestructible” from the producer and the leading first channel of Alexei Pimanov has just passed. Pimanov feels the relevance of the topic. In 2017, he produced Crimea about the operation of “polite people”. At the heart of the “indestructible” story of the crew of the Soviet Tank KV-1 under the command of Semyon Konovalov. For military personnel of the Taman and Kantemirovsky divisions, a pre -premiere show was organized.

The creators of “28 Panfilovites” made a movie under the working name “See Stalin”, released it under the name “Tanks”. And they told us about the titanic run through the country of two experimental T-34 Mikhail Koshkin in order to demonstrate their power.

The heroic Epic “Tanks” is ideal from the point of view of the Ministry of Culture of the Cinema: Propaganda blockbuster. The film was created on the initiative of the minister. But it was still a rehearsal for success.

Sidorov took into account the shortcomings of tank experiments of colleagues. In his picture, propaganda itching is partly tamed by uncomplicated adventures and energetic battles, seasoned with humor, and a love of love is filed. However, more than chaste - a film with a rating of 12+ is addressed primarily to the young viewer.

But in fact, all the ribbons, which, to one degree or another, work on the fuel of the patriotic blockbuster, inherit the most popular world of World of Tanks-the best simulator of tank battles, its audience is calculated almost a hundred millions of players.

How does the new Russian "tank cinema" from Soviet military cinema differ in essence? The same thaw “lark”, invited to the Cannes Film Festival, based on which the “T-34” was shot, or the tragicomedy “in the war as in the war” of Viktor Tregubovich with her purely civilian hero Sanya Maleshkin, the young commander of the Su-100 self-propelled gun? That film was shot from the novel by the front -line soldier Viktor Kurochkin, who considered himself a "plenipotentiary representative of those who did not return from the war."

Why, under the Soviet regime, there were so many diverse copyright, human films on a military theme: from the “cranes” of Kalatozov to the “ballad about the soldier” Chukhrai, from “Ivanov’s childhood” Tarkovsky to the “mir incoming” Alova and Naumov, from the “soldiers” of Ivanov to the “checks on the roads” of Hermann, from the Khutsievsky “was the month of May” to the “gunpowder” to the “gunpowder” to the “gunpowder” to the “gunpowder” to the “gunpowder” to the “gunpowder” to Aristov?

In case of fierce censorship, certain tolerances were allowed about the war about the war. Their authors were extremely honest with the audience on the most acute and at the same time timeless topics. For example, about how, with a total attack on individuality, the possibility of this personality arose to reveal at the front. In those films, the Falknera idea was beating with a live pulse: from the war it is impossible to come the winner. They had an awareness of a global catastrophe, which was the second world for our people. Spiritual proximity with the works of Grossman, Nekrasov, Kondratyev, Astafyev, Bykov. Military films became not only the pinnacle of domestic cinema, but were recognized and glorified in the world.

In the latest Russian film, you can not find an author’s point of view.

Instead of addressing myth - mythologization of history. Instead of an anti -war spirit - the motto “We can repeat!”, A call for a feat. Instead of a cruel smart enemy, there are solid idiots.

The romanticization of war, the feeling of lightness of victory covers the screen, beckons to itself new generations of spectators.

Alexey German said about the infantilization of the audience with bitterness. By the way, who dreamed of making a picture about the designer Koshkin with Konstantin Simonov. But not an adventure action, but a hard black and white movie, in which the author would not have shook the theme of the tragic ending of the fate of a talented mechanic. But who would watch this picture today? Attractive cartoons of the Ranzar, filling the network. Tankomult works under two million views.

“War,” Thomas Mann believed, “just a cowardly flight from the problems of peacetime.” There are more and more problems, including for the New Year. And the screen distracts from the mutity of reality by a magic flame of valiant military adventures. Learning to fight and die for the homeland.

And reality itself is increasingly reminiscent of military fantasy. On New Year's Eve, Russia received a gift. From Laos, the “country of a million umbrellas and the White Elephant”, three dozen legendary thirty -thirts returned to us, until recently, who were in service with the Lao army. Tanks came by sea to Vladivostok. Apparently now they go to the Moscow Region on railway platforms. The returned "symbols of patriotism" will not only participate in the Victory parades. It is already promised to shoot them in the cinema. So there will be new state orders. Well this is how many more tank movie series are hidden!