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I remember an interview from Soviet cinema director Georgii Daneliya, mentioning that to make their movie pass the approval committee intact (what you'd call "c
by culebron21 3y ago
I remember an interview from Soviet cinema director Georgii Daneliya, mentioning that to make their movie pass the approval committee intact (what you'd call "censorship"), they'd make absurd and provocative "sacrifice" episodes (like "sacrifice bolts"). The episodes were fought over and finally seceded to the committee, but the rest of the film went into the theaters.
(Movies had to pass two such committees: one before production, approving the scenario, and the other one approving the final cut.)
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoI think by scenario you mean “script” (that’s the typical way to say it in English).
- ethanwillis 3y agoI don't know if that's necessarily what was meant. But I could easily envision needing to even get the idea (scenario) approved before even being allowed to actually write a full script. Keep in mind, just producing certain written works was justification enough to be killed.
- culebron21 3y agoThat was the script. Russian word for script is "scenariy", which is why I got confused.
- culebron21 3y agooh, yes, script. False friends in translation.