16 year old Zhenya Danylyuk shares his favorite movies, authors, musicians and books. He also explains how Robert Downey Jr. turned a real english gentleman into a drinker, bully and narcistic bastard. What is a modern Bible in the face of a sixteen year old, and how a hooligan (in the Soviet Union) became an author of a classic literature.
Movies:
Pulp Fiction - Why Pulp Fiction? Cause it’s Quentin Tarantino. It’s a very unusual chronology of scenes, amazing cast of actors, and many details that people don’t usually even notice (cigarettes “Red Apple”, that he uses in each film, or Big Kahuna burgers, that appear from time to time). But mainly, what makes A Tarantino The Tarantino – he is a bit mad and in love with Uma Thurman’s feet (jokingly), which by the way are eastern european 42nd (damn serious).
Pulp Fiction - Why Pulp Fiction? Cause it’s Quentin Tarantino. It’s a very unusual chronology of scenes, amazing cast of actors, and many details that people don’t usually even notice (cigarettes “Red Apple”, that he uses in each film, or Big Kahuna burgers, that appear from time to time). But mainly, what makes A Tarantino The Tarantino – he is a bit mad and in love with Uma Thurman’s feet (jokingly), which by the way are eastern european 42nd (damn serious).
Snatch & Rock'n'Rolla – Guy Richi has an incredible sence of humor. His movies are very true-life, but full of irregular coincidences.
21 – I'm mathematician. I study at a mathematical school. So for me this movie is more a mix of curiousity and new aproach to the use of mathematical calculations.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – the Soviet version was officially admited the best one made. Vasily Livanov (as Sherlock Holmes) and Vitaly Solomin (as Dr. Watson) were honored a medal from Queen Elizabeth II for the great screen adaptation of the great English classic. So what was Robert Downey Jr. thinking when he turned an english gentleman into a drinker, bully and narcistic bastard? What he’s done to the character is unforgivable.
The Bucket List – the great remake of the «Knockin' on Heavan's Door». Two fellas living their dream, trying to achive something, and than been buried in the coffee cans on the Everest Mountain. Who can boast of doing the same?
Authors and book:
Chuck Palahniuk – he is honest, truthful and frank spit in the face of our generation. His “Fight Club”, “Invisible Monsters” and “Choke” are like the modern Bible for sixteen years old.
О. Henry – with all the shit that he's been through, with irony and sometimes naked sorcasm, he makes you smile through tears. His «The last leaf» is a short masterpiece.
N. Gogol «The Inspektor-General» - is a great exemple of greediness and duality of people.
S. Yesenin – i like his bravery, honesty, his anti-hero. I like that in a very conservative Soviet Union the hooligan and the drinker became the most well-known Russian poet of the 20th century. And even after he wrote «It's noisy and dirty and drunken, But nobody there drinks alone – The bartenders buy me a vodka, And the hookers cry at my poem» he still managed to get into all the school books of russian classics.
Music:
The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Nirvana, Arctic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Don’t ask me why, you can’t explain music, you can only enjoy it.
I find the phrase "Intelligence is sexy" very actual nowadays
ReplyDeleteit contains not only wisdom and morality in itself, but it makes youngsters meditate about "stupid blonds and so on"
As once Oscar Wilde said: "Intelligence ends where the beauty begins"...this is a striking feature of today's generation, which became "a must have"
But we will never survive if we live according to this motto!
Your explanations were quite up to the mark, but the main question "why" was not answered(
So what makes Holmes a hooligan and a junky in a newly created movie about Sherlock himself?And why has he got this very emploi?
I am a great fan of Vasily Livanov. He is my favorite Sherlock Holmes :)
ReplyDeleteCheck out my tribute to Livanov.
Cheers!