Russian animation
Добавлено: 11 фев 2005, 10:43
Well. I think this topic might be interesting to our foreign friends.
Russia has very old traditions of classical animation; we've got a huge amount of animated cartoons - and several true masterpieces among them.
To start the talk, I'd like to mention "Mowgli". It was created in the late 60's - about the same time Disney was making "Jungle Book". Although both films were inspired by the same book by Kipling, they turned out to have little of common with each other.
I like Disney's "Jungle Book", too; but, in fact, it is very, very loosely based on Kipling's original story. Disney used only the main idea (a boy in the jungle), some names from the book and some basic situations (like Mowgli being stolen by monkeys); characters' personalities and events are completely different. No Law of the Jungle, no Tabaqui the Jackal, no Kaa's wisdom, no Bagheera's discernment, no Baloo's lessons for wolf cubs... and - oh my! - almost no wolves at all!
"Mowgli" is not an animated comedy, but rather an animated epic. It follows Kipling's plot more accurately - so you can see Pack Meeting and Council Rock, Kaa hipnotizing Bandar-logs ("Come all one pace nearer to me..."), Mowgli riding Rama the Bull, an episode with white cobra, etc. It catches the spirit of the book well and uses many of Kipling's concepts and ideas - like Master Words or Red Flower.
Here are some screenshots. I concider the style of drawing and coloring really charming - in some way it imitates the art of India. It looks great in motion. Bagheera sometimes resembles a swift shadow, sometimes a drop of darkness jumping through the screen, and sometimes a lazy house-cat. When wild dogs invade the jungle, they look like a brown torrent of dogs.
The music was written by a well-known composer - it's kind of strange (also imitates eastern music) but interesting and colorful. And the actors who made the voices did their best.
"We be of one blood, ye and I"!
Russia has very old traditions of classical animation; we've got a huge amount of animated cartoons - and several true masterpieces among them.
To start the talk, I'd like to mention "Mowgli". It was created in the late 60's - about the same time Disney was making "Jungle Book". Although both films were inspired by the same book by Kipling, they turned out to have little of common with each other.
I like Disney's "Jungle Book", too; but, in fact, it is very, very loosely based on Kipling's original story. Disney used only the main idea (a boy in the jungle), some names from the book and some basic situations (like Mowgli being stolen by monkeys); characters' personalities and events are completely different. No Law of the Jungle, no Tabaqui the Jackal, no Kaa's wisdom, no Bagheera's discernment, no Baloo's lessons for wolf cubs... and - oh my! - almost no wolves at all!
"Mowgli" is not an animated comedy, but rather an animated epic. It follows Kipling's plot more accurately - so you can see Pack Meeting and Council Rock, Kaa hipnotizing Bandar-logs ("Come all one pace nearer to me..."), Mowgli riding Rama the Bull, an episode with white cobra, etc. It catches the spirit of the book well and uses many of Kipling's concepts and ideas - like Master Words or Red Flower.
Here are some screenshots. I concider the style of drawing and coloring really charming - in some way it imitates the art of India. It looks great in motion. Bagheera sometimes resembles a swift shadow, sometimes a drop of darkness jumping through the screen, and sometimes a lazy house-cat. When wild dogs invade the jungle, they look like a brown torrent of dogs.
The music was written by a well-known composer - it's kind of strange (also imitates eastern music) but interesting and colorful. And the actors who made the voices did their best.
"We be of one blood, ye and I"!
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this movie about kitten named Wow and when puppie barked he thought than he call him