satire of Kira Bulycheva in serial format
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The series “Obvious Incredible” based on the “guslyar cycle” by Kir Bulychev was released on Okko. Far from ideal as a film adaptation, Alexander Voitinsky’s fantasy sitcom is cute in its own right.
In a glorious ancient city, where it’s impossible to take a step without stumbling upon some anomaly, where wish-fulfilling goldfish can be “thrown away” at the end of a block in a pet store, crashed aliens come to bow to the city authorities, and almost every citizen on occasion, he can either switch bodies with a neighbor, or go back in time in a time machine – in a word, in Veliky Guslyar – a new mayor has been appointed, Eduard Belinsky (Maxim Lagashkin), who, although he is a local native, is clearly not familiar enough with the city’s anomalous specifics . Therefore, it is not surprising that the most active part of the Guslyar residents, led by the head of city construction Timofey Molodtsov (Artem Bystrov), a childhood friend of the newly-minted mayor, is doing everything to pacify the mayor’s initiatives and at least not turn Great Guslyar into a tourist Mecca.
The Great Guslyar was first mentioned by Kir Bulychev in 1967 in the fantastic humoresque “Connections of a Personal Character” he wrote on occasion for the Bulgarian magazine “Cosmos”. Its prototype was Veliky Ustyug, which had not yet become the official residence of Father Frost, and on the literary map Veliky Guslyar was located somewhere between Solovets, in which, by the will of the Strugatsky brothers, NIICHAVO is located, and the regional center of Kolokolamsk, invented by Ilf and Petrov, where he lived, among others the direct ancestor of the Guslar inventor Sani Grubin, the tireless inventor Babsky. Until the end of the millennium, the Great Guslyar served as the setting for nearly a hundred novels and short stories, which eventually made up the “Guslyar cycle.” At some point, filmmakers also paid attention to the miracle city: over the past forty years, the Guslyar filmography has included half a dozen nice cartoons, several good short films and the very non-trivial “Chance” (1984) by Alexander Mayorov, the script for which is based on one of the most famous Guslyar films. stories, “The Martian Potion,” were written by Bulychev himself. With all the merits of this product, it was absolutely obvious that the universe of the Great Guslyar deserves a worthy screen embodiment, even if not on the epic scale of Harry Potter or the Avengers, but in the form of a high-quality fantasy sitcom – completely.
In this regard, the experience of the creators of “Obviously Incredible” can be considered a success. However, one can’t help but feel that the original source (a truly iconic work) could have been handled more carefully. Despite the fact that most of the shocking plot moves, albeit adapted to the present time, remained unchanged, with regard to the unique atmosphere that was loved by several generations of readers, there were some discouraging surprises. Many honored Guslyar residents, without whom the city cannot be imagined, dropped out of the story without a trace, some appeared from time to time in other characters. And those who did remain, for completely inexplicable reasons, lost their names, which were well known to fans and, for the most part, had some kind of history behind them. Thus, Cornelia Udalov, whose last name Bulychev once found in the address book of the city of Vologda for 1913, was renamed Molodtsov (I would like to believe that at least in honor of the hero Leonid Kuravlev from Gaidaev’s “Danger to Life”; however, for the role of “real “Udalova Kuravlev would really fit like a glove). About Professor Lev Khristoforovich Mints (copied from the absolutely real Lev Mironovich Mints, a world-famous ethnographer, who, by the way, once asked Bulychev to “insert this very name into the book”), in full accordance with Dovlatov’s story, “they only remembered that he Jew,” so he exists on screen as a vaguely collective Katz. And it’s absolutely impossible to explain the transformation of Nikolai Beloselsky into Eduard Belinsky. It’s even strange that in this situation, the Great Guslyar himself did not turn into some kind of Lower Spooner or Crystal Snotter. The only thing that comes to mind is that the authors firmly believe that everything that happened in Great Guslyar is the pure truth, and therefore the names of the participants in the events must be changed.
However, if we ignore purely fan complaints, then “Obviously Incredible” is a simple, but cozy spectacle. Moreover, it is unexpectedly witty and timely in form: in everything that happens, in the way the inhabitants of the Great Guslyar look and dress, in the way its streets, administrative buildings, historical landmarks and notorious “anomalies” look, something is clearly visible cartoon, toy and even doll – which immediately refers to the main Hollywood hit of last year, and if we add that the closest attention in “Obviously Incredible” is paid to scientists and scientific experiments, there is a real “Barbigamer” of the Guslyar spill. Well, when space aliens come to the fore, the Great Guslyar becomes completely indistinguishable from Asteroid City from the Wes Anderson film. However, and this is especially gratifying, in this case the source of inspiration was clearly not only the latest trends in world film fashion, but also something much more cherished. Namely, the inimitable style of Soviet non-heroic fiction, a world in which, as in the cartoon in the institute wall newspaper or in the film “This Merry Planet,” a robot gives a laboratory assistant a wire carnation on March 8, and aliens from distant universes are forced to participate in amateur performances.
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