Аннотация: The Fairy Tale about the Screenplay and about the Large Public Money
The Fairy Tale about the Screenplay and about the Large Public Money
The advanced training courses for screenwriters at the international Film Festival have opened.
In the room of the five-star hotel, the screenwriter, who studied at the courses, was suffering from the heat.
"Why so uncomfortable? Air conditioning works! The room temperature is normal."
He felt sleepy.
He remembered up the today's assigned task by the chief of the courses:
"Let's say you have received a good money! "You" - in a broad sense! That is, the film producer - have received money ..."
Apparently, the screenwriter fell into a dream.
Eyes of the chief of courses came nearer, became closer and closer. They looked directly in the soul.
"You not for YouTube are capturing the video with the the mobile phone device! Many professionals will be employed! You will have nо possibility to shoot the bad film.
What is "bad"?
This concept expresses the summed personal, subjective points of view.
The art critics and the famous people won't pronounce this word ... They will pronounce other words - a positive ..." Eyes became closer and closer, they entered the screenwriter ...
"But under the main condition", - the screenwriter has continued a thought of the chief of courses by voice of the chief of courses, - "under the condition of the good the film scenario".
"After all, what is a historical episode with mass riots and the shooting of civilians?" - the screenwriter continued to reflect. - "This is, admittedly, a fact, repeatedly occurred in the history ..." "In this or that option we can find such fact in the history of any country ..."
"Listen," - the screenwriter has addressed the chief of courses, - " why you are looking at me so closely. I understand: it is responsible project ... But it is not only such sad facts in one or another variant repeated in history. And a shootings of all sorts of movies are repeated... scenarios in some form are repeated... What is the remakes, in the end? Why are you looking at me like that? Like a boa on a rabbit. I am not a rabbit!'
"You don't understand!" - the chief of courses has indignantly growled. - "You do the scenario not for some a movie! But for the film, which will be created with public money! There shouldn't be mass actions with a collective reading texts by chorus! There shouldn't be nefarious hints about a permission to use himself ..." "Have you understood?!"
The screenwriter passed out completely of own confusion. "Statuette!- Statuette!- Statuette" - he began to tune himself by the repeating the code word...
"There is no stability in the world... " "He's Sasha, he's Sanya, he's Alexander... " - the words in his memory appeared.
"Ugh!"- thought the screenwriter. - 'Not this!" "They will get attached: where the money ... The words "was used " will appear ... They will discover some contracts...'
"The hero of the civil war ...", - the words appeared in the memory.
The screenwriter focused his attention.
"He is at his country house with his family... The Staff of punitive structures are preparing for terrible things... First - the love affair... The lawbreaker rejected once by the wife of the hero, entered the service of the punitive structures... The lawbreaker comes to the hero and his wife... the tension increases...'
The screenwriter has grabbed sheets of paper began to write down convulsively ...
"Here and black car. The hero of civil war is taken and put into car between agents. The hero is indignant! He tries to resist. The car moves ... Agents use force ... Resistance of the hero of civil war is broken ... The car arrives to the square ... The excited crowd of civilians holds in hand pies with a liver. The tanks, arms. Troops. Generals. Machineguns. Everything froze... The generals recall the reception at the Supreme Commander, the toast said by him ... They don't give the necessary order!.."
"Command"! - agents demand from the brought hero. - "People know you. You're the hero, all known!"
The hero, morally destructed by the violence, commanded: "Fire!"
Shots sound ...
Balloons appear above the square. Enormous portraits of the Leader of Peoples are attached to them.
"That's good!" - the tender voice of the chief of courses was heard.
"Nonsense!"- the screenwriter thought. - "How did the chief of the course get here in the room?"I'll go to the pool, freshen up!'
The screenwriter put in a folder the scribbled sheets of paper and went into the corridor. Here's the pool. The screenwriter undressed and jumped into the water.
At the time of the jump, he suddenly heard the words: "The state money! And not a little!'
The screenwriter was plunging into the water deeper and deeper. The eyes of the chief of the courses were approaching him.
In the sleep the screenwriter has heard the knock at a door of the hotel room.
May 27, 2018 21:49
Translation from Russian into English: May 29, 2018 06:19.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сказка о киносценарии и крупных государственных деньгах'.