It is also a good reading time for Baozi to read to Baozi before going to bed every night. He has recently read the novels "The Base" and "Tracking the Red October". Not only Baozi likes it very much, but his father is also surprised to find that after many years After re-reading, I have a new experience. So I started to want to write something on the theme of "Classic Rewatch". It happened on the 18th that the famous Russian actor and people's artist Andrei Myakhkov died at home due to acute heart failure on Weibo, at the age of 82. Miyakhkov is a well-known soviet actor who has played the leading role in two of the great director Ryazanov's love trilogy ( "The Story of the Office" , "The Trick of Fate" ), "The Office's Story" In "Story", he plays Novaseltsev, a pedantic and submissive clerk in the Statistics Bureau, who is in love with the strong and old-fashioned female director Kalukina, which can be said to be the theme of the overbearing president falling in love with me. Red Originator. I liked this movie very much when it was first aired in China in the 1980s, but this time it stirred up memories again. I found the whole movie on Sohu Video and rewatched it, and then wrote the opening of a classic rewatch series based on this, which is quite appropriate. .
Divine translation
This romantic light comedy was released in the Soviet Union in 1977. The version imported from the mainland was translated by the Bayi Film Studio. It was first broadcast on CCTV in 1985. The quality of its translation and dubbing was superb, especially when the male protagonist spoke to the director's office. The heroine apologizes for a scene, which is really a classic among the classics:
Woman: You are always hesitating! Male: I didn't hesitate... Female: I can't figure out what kind of person you are! Man: Why are you touching me? Don't touch me... Female: You say I have a heart of stone! Man: If so...tofu heart! Woman: Say I'm cold as ice! Male: No! You are passionate! Woman: Say I have no heart! Male: You have all the guts! Woman: Say I'm dry! Male: No! you are wet...
In addition, at the beginning of the film, when the male protagonist introduced the female protagonist, the female director of a statistical bureau in Moscow, Lodnila Brogofievna Kalukina, the translated lines were: "This female chief, actually Be proficient in your own leadership business", and the original Russian line (Она знает дело, которым руководит.) doesn't actually mean "actually" in Google Translate, why this artificially added joke comes, it's quite interesting...
soviet joke
In addition to the comic depiction of the love between men and women, the film also has unique humor everywhere in the daily dialogue. For example, Novaseltsev found that the newly transferred deputy director turned out to be an old acquaintance he had not seen for many years. His friend encouraged the deputy director to recommend Novaseltsev to be promoted to the director of the Light Industry Division. The deputy director readily agreed, but Novaseltsev wanted to refuse. Also welcome a conversation:
Novaseltsev: We haven't seen each other for so many years, maybe I've turned bad. Deputy Director: No matter how bad it is, you can lead a division. Novaseltsev: It's...
Later, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I read a lot of these kinds of tunes, and I learned that there was a special category of "Soviet jokes " . Come out and laugh together: After the end of the second five-year plan, the leaders of the Central Bureau of Statistics reported to Comrade Stalin, announcing that the plan was a great success, many units overfulfilled their tasks, and the best-performing factory even achieved 900% of its annual output . Comrade Stalin was very happy and asked what kind of factory it was. The director replied: "It's a factory that makes 'out of stock' signs."
Filming locations
The interior scenes such as the office in the film were of course built in the studio of the Moscow Film Studio (Мосфильм), and the exterior scene of the office building of the Bureau of Statistics, which has been featured a lot, was taken from the office of the Russian Federation Maritime and Inland Water Transport Agency (Федеральное агентство морского и речного транспорта). The building is located at the intersection of Kuznetsky and Petrovka Streets in Moscow. As can be seen from Google Street View, the main entrance of the Transport Bureau (left side of the picture below) is now open on Petrovka Street. The bronze lamp sockets on both sides of the door and the metal decorative strips of the awning in front of the door have appeared in the movie. The revolving door where the characters entered and exited was located on Kuznetsky Prospekt (where the Deputy Commissioner parked his Volga sedan), and now this part (right side of the picture below) has become a high-end restaurant called Bolshoi , The revolving door is also gone.
most expensive tool
No, no, not the new Volga sedan with a tape player and stereo speakers, which Novaseltsev describes as "little house-like", or the public sedan of the chief.
This is the VT-340 computer terminal (Terminal) made by the Hungarian state-owned company Videoton (restructured and restructured into a private company in 1991) next to the director's desk. It is said that in the 1970s, the unit price was as high as 440,000 rubles, which was enough to replace 60 to 70 ordinary cars. During the filming, this baby was brought to the studio by a staff member of the Central Bureau of Statistics every day, and was sent back to the bureau after the filming of the day's scenes.
The terminal looks like a modern desktop computer, but in fact it only works properly with input (keyboard) output (display) devices connected to a remote mainframe computer using a special cable. Users enter data and commands on the terminal, and then read the results returned by the remote host computer through the screen. The personal computer (PC) was still in its infancy at that time (the Apple I computer was born in 1976), and even in western countries with more developed related technologies, the government, scientific research and large enterprises were all using similar terminal equipment to connect prices. Expensive, bulky computers for computing resources. The picture below shows the ADM-3A terminal, which was put on the market in 1976 and was designed and manufactured by the American company Lear Siegler . It is similar in size and function to the VT-340, but the price is only $995 (about 740 rubles during the contract period). The shell of the VT-340 uses a large metal plate, with a rough style and heavy colors, full of military style; the ADM-3A is made of plastic parts, with soft curves as the main color, and the two can be compared.
the roles of the characters
The last impression is related to the work of the protagonists. The statistical bureau they belong to is called the Central Bureau of Statistics, and is affiliated to the Soviet State Planning Committee (abbreviated as Госплан/Gosplan). As we all know, the great ideal of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is to build a society without classes, without exploitation, without oppression, and realizing the self-liberation of human beings. In the economic aspect, the planned economy co-ordinates all social resources, and conducts production and distribution for the purpose of promoting the growth of the common interests of the whole people. The implementation of the planned economy is a layer-by-layer planning model. Each layer needs to input a large number of statistics, do a large number of numerical calculations, and generate various forms. The characters in our movies are busy with these tasks every day.
In the seventies when the film was released, the planned economy of the Soviet Union was developing to a new peak, marked by Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich in 1975 for his outstanding contribution to the field of linear programming. Received the Nobel Prize in Economics. Linear programming answers one of the most critical questions in economics: how to achieve the optimal allocation of resources. In terms of specific applications, the material resources in the entire country are mastered through statistics, and a material balance sheet is produced as the basis for planning; then the input-output method is applied to allocate various resources such as material and human resources to various departments of production and circulation, so that the production line The operation is balanced. In this process, a large number of statistics are needed to generate the calculation matrix of linear programming, use Kantorovich's solution multiplier method to solve the calculation, and form an input-output table to guide production, which is sent to various departments for implementation.
Although the theory is exquisite and the execution is more precise, there are also many flaws and loopholes. First, the operation of social economy contains too many nonlinear, external things and probabilistic factors, far from being able to be fully simulated and solved by adding model variables and constraints to linear programming. No matter how well planned, there will always be too many unplanned things, especially when it comes to human innovation and new technologies. Just by collecting data and solving the matrix, no one can deduce that someone can create a chip out of worthless sand, the chip becomes a computer, the computer occupies everyone's desktop, the computers are interconnected into the Internet, and the computer shrinks into the palm of everyone's hands. so that the comrades in the Soviet Union can make arrangements in advance and create from scratch computers, the Internet, and the iPhone, things that change the world.
Another major flaw is that the operation of the planned economy is inseparable from the huge and complex administrative bureaucracy. In this system, the state controls all social resources, and there is no supervision or the existence of opposing groups, which will inevitably lead to high power. Or the interests of bureaucratic groups are united and linked together as a whole, which promotes rent-seeking and corruption. We can see in the movie that although they both work in the Bureau of Statistics, Novaseltsev and Olia, who are staff members, live in suburban apartments, and they have to squeeze buses and even suburban railways to and from get off work. The director and deputy director of the same age live in the city center, the housing area and furnishings are obviously much superior, and there are more public or private cars to go in and out. And this is a normal phenomenon caused by the difference in cadre level. If the power is more prominent or there is illegal behavior, it is conceivable that there will be a gap in interests. Over time, ordinary people in the whole Soviet Union were indulged in their daily livelihoods, interest groups were busy with power blending, and no one cared about the ideal of communism. In the end, development stagnated, the system failed, and they were defeated by powerful enemies and collapsed on their own.
When I saw the Soviet people's office romance and material living standards on TV in the 1980s, my Chinese people were only envious. In the past 30 years, if we consider material life as GDP , China's powerful country can be equivalent to the whole country's labor in Guangdong. It can be said that time has changed. May the people of today know that there are reasons for the ups and downs of the world, and don’t just look down on the road to make a fortune. If you can learn a lesson and avoid the deep pit where the Soviet Union is buried, it will not be in vain to be called “big brother” for so many years.
final subtitles
No, I have to add another paragraph: At the end of the film, the female director Kalukina chased Novaseltsev out of the statistical office. The two got into a taxi and changed from fighting to kissing. The taxi took them to Moscow. The street gradually faded away... At this time, a Russian subtitle appeared on the screen to the effect of "Nine months later, Novaseltsev's third son was born". There is a complete dubbing version on Sohu video, the picture and sound effect are very good, but the last subtitle is not translated, for the sake of friends who read this article and go to watch the film, we must make an explanation for this.
References
- 16 интересных фактов о фильме «Служебный роман»
- 8 интересных фактов о фильме «Служебный роман»
- VT videoterminál-család
- Good morning to the workers, what about the planned economy?
- Death of the Soviet Internet
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