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Only Hollywood can make watchable movies.

galoisgirl 6y ago
For you, maybe. Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes. For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.
- d3ckard 6y ago
  I seriously doubt censors missed that. I think they were playing the game as well. Seksmisja quote is a good example of that.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    The entire premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing is that people who seek power (and hence rise in bureaucracies) take themselves way too seriously. So maybe all a censor had to do was to make sure the jibes were cerebral enough that uncultured people would automatically take the opposite[1] Poe's Law interpretation... [1] for polyvalence, cue the Stalin/moustache joke (Based on Boyarskiy's stage personality, I'm guessing the following had some ambiguity: Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку Красавице и кубку, счастливому клинку despite being the theme song for a kid's show. Or am I overinterpreting?)
    - rimliu 6y ago
      Wait, that song was a theme song for a kids show? I only knew if as a song from the soviet interpretation of "The Three Musketeers".
      - 082349872349872 6y ago
        That's what I was thinking of (most recently seen by me in a Rule 63 quartet complete with costume horses for New Year's carnival). Sorry if it wasn't a kids' show; I had assumed so from the all the YouTube comments when I discovered it to the effect of "cool, I totally remember watching this at my grandmother's." But maybe that says more about how old current internauts were in 1978 than what the target audience really had been?
- tartoran 6y ago
  Yes, artists were getting very creative with censorship during communism. A lot of those movies are masterpieces
- pndy 6y ago
  I wonder if critics would have issues with Seksmisja today - especially the ending shot.
tartoran 6y ago
It’s interesting, at least for me, I couldn’t watch most recent hollywood movies, they’re too predictible and barren of essence. Older hollywood movies are a different story but what’s been coming out lately I find highly unwatchable.

For you, maybe. Communism came with heavy censorship. You had to be sly to pass some jokes. For instance, Seksmisja features a scene where two guys end up in the middle of nowhere. One says "let's go east, there must be civilization there". The east if of course a dab at the Soviet Union. There were jokes that 99% of the population would understand, and yet the censors would miss them.

d3ckard 6y ago
I seriously doubt censors missed that. I think they were playing the game as well. Seksmisja quote is a good example of that.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  The entire premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing is that people who seek power (and hence rise in bureaucracies) take themselves way too seriously. So maybe all a censor had to do was to make sure the jibes were cerebral enough that uncultured people would automatically take the opposite[1] Poe's Law interpretation... [1] for polyvalence, cue the Stalin/moustache joke (Based on Boyarskiy's stage personality, I'm guessing the following had some ambiguity: Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку Красавице и кубку, счастливому клинку despite being the theme song for a kid's show. Or am I overinterpreting?)
  - rimliu 6y ago
    Wait, that song was a theme song for a kids show? I only knew if as a song from the soviet interpretation of "The Three Musketeers".
    - 082349872349872 6y ago
      That's what I was thinking of (most recently seen by me in a Rule 63 quartet complete with costume horses for New Year's carnival). Sorry if it wasn't a kids' show; I had assumed so from the all the YouTube comments when I discovered it to the effect of "cool, I totally remember watching this at my grandmother's." But maybe that says more about how old current internauts were in 1978 than what the target audience really had been?
tartoran 6y ago
Yes, artists were getting very creative with censorship during communism. A lot of those movies are masterpieces
pndy 6y ago
I wonder if critics would have issues with Seksmisja today - especially the ending shot.

tartoran 6y ago

It’s interesting, at least for me, I couldn’t watch most recent hollywood movies, they’re too predictible and barren of essence. Older hollywood movies are a different story but what’s been coming out lately I find highly unwatchable.