I want to tell you the story of the famous journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Pozner, but rather the story that is associated with the film.
"The film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" influenced my life in the most radical way. You could say changed my life.
For many years I was forbidden to leave the territory of the Soviet Union. In the end, the chairman of the State Television and Radio of the USSR Sergei G. Lapin, powerful and powerful personality, unpleasant, true, but, nevertheless, a very clever man, decided that I should still be released. The KGB was against it, but he kind of vouched for me. But all the same, I was sent not to a real foreign country, but to a country of socialism. This was the order: first you must go to the socialist camp, and only then into an almost capitalist country, such as Finland or Yugoslavia. If you were on this trip behaved as it should, then you could hope that you will go to a real abroad.
In short, I was included in the delegation to the telefestival, which took place in a small town on the shore of Lake Balaton. I did not work on TV then, and there was absolutely nothing to do. The delegation was headed by Alexander Kaverznev, an outstanding political commentator who, of course, said what everyone is saying, but said so that you understood that he meant something different, and this is a great skill. I asked him: "Can I go to Budapest?" He replied: "Well, come on, just ... you understand." I understood everything.
I went to Budapest, a pretty town like this, especially the beautiful houses along the Danube. I go, I go and suddenly I see a movie theater. The poster reads "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in English. With Jack Nicholson. I did not even know who Jack Nicholson was. Yes, it was also written "with Hungarian subtitles". Well, I think finally I can see the movie in English.
I entered this cinema, one man, and left completely different. This film turned my life around. I could talk about it for a long time, but I will not. Milos Foreman is a brilliant director, he made a brilliant film. And the fact that Nicholson is doing there is simply ... The word "ingeniously" should be used rarely, but it's just genius simply for real.
I did not read the novel by the time I watched the movie. And this is probably the only such case. I always read the book before I watch a movie that was shot on it. Always. Because I want to imagine for myself how these people look, how they walk, how they dress, how they behave ... This is important for me, it awakens the imagination. Therefore, categorically, for example, I object to the fact that children first saw a movie on a famous work in the TV, and then they were given a book. As soon as the child (and the adult too, but the child - especially) was shown a picture, showed how the hero looks, everything ends, the imagination is turned off. Thus, the child is deprived of the opportunity to compose, fantasize. But we digress. Then I, of course, read Kizi - a strong novel, strong.
But in this case, for me the film is stronger than the book. I do not know what would happen if I first read it, I just do not know. But it's unlikely that he would have influenced me so emotionally, because there the acting game completely shocked me."
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