Children's horror story or urban legend of the peakA lady is familiar to every compatriot. To build a horror film on its basis is a potentially winning attempt, it is strange that no one thought of this to Podgayevsky. The film "Queen of Spades" received mixed reviews. But the opinion of most critics is the same: this is a standard film project that uses proven plot twists, canonically genre cliches. The spectrum of associations caused by watching the film, the widest - from "Mom" to "Women in Black."
Mandatory program
Writer and director Svyatoslav Podgayevsky,sincerely loving and understanding the genre, making the film "Queen of Spades" (reviews as one confirm this fact), confidently skated off the "mandatory program." He managed to perform all the basic elements surprisingly well, forcing bored stamps to work and not allowing the viewer to get bored. With the coherence and dynamics of the narrative, everything is in order. The disturbing melodies of Pavel Ruminov, who returned to the horror genre after “Dead Daughters”, provide corresponding dark music. The juicy picture amid the oppressive atmosphere is the merit of cameraman Anton Zenkovich and his “depressive” camera. And the entourage of apartments of domestic new buildings when viewing the movie “The Queen of Spades” reviews are called the main distinguishing feature, thanks to which you will not confuse Russian horror with overseas counterparts.
Plot
Рецензии и отзывы на фильм «Пиковая дама» с it is with great regret that the plot twists and turns of the horror, hidden behind a stylish impressive picture, do not shine with either originality or novelty. Four teenagers of different ages decide to hold a mystical rite to call the Queen of Spades. Twelve-year-old Anna (Alina Babak) becomes the actual performer, after which the whole company becomes the object of persecution for the otherworldly being who came to our world. The father of the protagonist and the attracted "specialist" become the protector of the kids. "The Queen of Spades" - the horrors, reviews of which only make, that they repeat about the secondary and illogical nature of the film.
Acting Casting
It is certainly worth noting that more than successfulgetting almost all the acting team in the stereotypes of the genre is a huge advantage of the painting "Queen of Spades". Critics' reviews of the skill of the actors involved are mostly laudatory. The only exception was Evgenia Loza, who, according to film fans, could not get the idea of horror and reveal the potential of his character. Igor Khripunov, Alina Babak and Vladimir Seleznev especially distinguished themselves and looked favorably against the rest. Alina's acting performance terribly reminded of Linda Blair from The Exorcist, Khripunov looked convincingly in the image of a man in the street who faced the supernatural for the first time. Well, Vladimir Seleznev embodied the collective image of the fighters against the undead from Van Helsing to the old medium from Astral.
First swallow
Domestic cinema, trying to get away fromcopyright cinema and begin to form a typical "spectator" industry, trying to work on entertainment genres. Significant success in this field has not yet been observed, but "The Queen of Spades" (testimony from film critics is proof of this) is a significant step in this direction. Podgaevsky's brainchild is a real “pop” film product, a mystical horror, which, although it looks at American horror films and collects their stamps, it has an adequate working structure. And in the secondary and illogicality you can blame any modern horror film.
Film structure
The structure of the picture consists of conditional twoheterogeneous parts. The first focuses on a group of teenagers conducting a black rite, and the appearance of an auto mechanic - divorced father of Anna with a rather vague past. After a successful challenge, adolescents are trying to understand what the vengeful spirit needs and how to get rid of it. At this time, one of them dies a painful death, someone just scared thoroughly. In this part, the director demonstrates confident high-quality work with genre tools. Then the second part begins, in which a “specialist” appears, who knows much more than those around him. A series of “explanatory” dialogues is immediately launched, the action is switched to adult characters. The culmination is the act of expelling the demon, occurring in the hospital and terribly reminiscent of the "Box of curse."
"The Queen of Spades" domestic cinema
Judging by the fact that the films by Pushkin"The Queen of Spades" was filmed at the very dawn of cinema in Russia, this work is very popular among artists. Moreover, it is easy to shoot - no bulky scenery is needed, there are no battle scenes, but there is plenty of drama.
- The first production is the short film “PeakDame (1910). In the project of director Peter Chardynin, little was left of the original, only a briefly stated basis. And the opera was taken as the basis, not the story itself. No musical accompaniment, only titles. The style of the time - theatricality, an abundance of makeup. Look curious.
- Вторая экранизация «Пиковая дама» (1916) – innovative production of Jacob Protazanov. The picture surprises with forethought screen compositions, size of plans, lighting and double exposure. Actor's game, especially the Russian king of silent film industry, Ivan Mozzhukhin, is more than psychological and nuanced. The director boldly experiments with the methods of retrospectives, the author's vision of the characters.
- The third picture is The Queen of Spades (1960).Director Roman Tikhomirov presented to the audience the eternal classics in a beautiful performance. This is a sound musical film, based on the Pushkin story with an opera arrangement by the great PI. Tchaikovsky.
- The fourth film adaptation - "The Queen of Spades" (1982).The film is also based on the work of Alexander Pushkin of the same name. Without exception, reviews of the film “The Queen of Spades” (1982) mark a distinctive feature - director Igor Maslennikov introduces the author-narrator, played by Alla Demidova, into the plot. Screenwriter Alexander Shlepyanov did not remove a word from the original. The viewer hears the "Pushkin" language, which characterizes the entire era, forming the atmosphere of the film.
