Familiar actors. "Computer" - domestic science fiction thriller

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Low-budget domestic science fiction thriller "The Calculator" (actors: A. Chipovskaya, E. Mironov, V. Jones) is based on the work of the same name by A. Gromov, a famous science fiction writer who acted as a screenwriter in the project. And most of the filming days (17 out of 20) the whole group spent in places where they previously filmed episodes of "Prometheus", "Oblivion", "Noah" and the TV series "Game of Thrones".

With the light hand of the ubiquitous Bondarchuk

Among the producers of the picture is a significant showman Fyodor Bondarchuk, to whom many actors owe their appearance in the project. "The Calculator" can be called an international project due to the presence among the main actors of the star of foreign crime comedies Vinnie Jones ("Bone Breaker", "Cards, Money, Two Smoking Barrels"), who embodied the image of the main antagonist of the thriller.

The director of the project was Dmitry Grachev, known to the domestic audience for the comedy melodramas "Wedding by Exchange" and "Bride at Any Cost", which collected an impressive box office in the Russian Federation. Those invited to the project were happy to work with him.actors. "The Calculator" was called a "designer" film by domestic film critics, thanks to the efforts of the entire cast and crew.

Storyline

The film "The Calculator", the actors and roles of which correspond to each other, since they were selected under the vigilant control of F. Bondarchuk, has an interesting, but far from innovative plot. A group of ten prisoners are sentenced to life exile from the planet XT-59. They must survive in the Sargasso swamp, the nature of which is trying in every possible way to destroy them. The protagonist, nicknamed the Calculator (actor Yevgeny Mironov), with the support of Christie (actress Anna Chipovskaya), decides to go in search of the Happy Islands, which, according to legend, are a real oasis in the middle of a lifeless and deserted planet.

Just Van Borg (foreign actor Vinnie Jones) with the rest of the unfortunate group do not support the initiative of the protagonist and go towards the real-life geographical object Rotten Shoal. The routes of both groups practically coincide at the beginning, a lot of dangers, disagreements, and obstacles await the heroes ahead. This is a brief description of the storyline of the thriller "The Calculator". The actors and roles of the film after the release of the movie gained a lot of fans among the domestic audience.

Science fiction "Strugat" cut

The literary work "The Calculator" in its original version is not intended for entertainment cinema,however, for an arthouse, the option is also not obvious. This is a Strugat-style fantasy, unprofitable for staging, not technological, but rather psychological and social, and by the end it’s completely philosophical. In general, the entire stellar cast of the film is an excessive luxury in this "designer" thriller, in which the focus is not on human nature, as in the literary source, but on the original visual style, which has no analogues in modern Russian cinema.

Director's priorities

The film "The Calculator", whose actors are known and loved in the Russian Federation, according to director Dmitry Grachev, is a kind of act of contemporary art. Therefore, Grachev, setting priorities, deliberately abandoned the wet and swampy aesthetics that the story is saturated with. The authors of the picture, focusing on the embodiment of their artistic concept, "drained" not only the swamp aesthetics, but also partly the psychological and philosophical background.

However, this author's decision did not prevent the acting ensemble from realizing their creative potential. The wonderful dramatic actor E. Mironov remarkably got used to the role of his character, revealed his image to the viewer. Sometimes he dramatizes a little, as if he is playing on the stage of the theater, but he also fully demonstrates the perspicacious mind, multiplied by the trouble-free intuition, characteristic of the main character described in the literary source. All the actors involved in the filming had the opportunity to verify his professionalism. "Computer" would not be sosoulful, if the main character was played by someone else.

Antagonist and main character's girlfriend

Actress Anna Chipovskaya in her role looks more than organic. Chipovskaya managed to make her heroine a truly cosmic girl, in which genuine innocence and inner strength are combined. The girl, according to the author's idea, must make a choice between the repressed presidential adviser, gifted with brilliant prudence, and the real bandit Polar Wolf. He is embodied on the screen by the same Vinnie Jones, whose texture and organics, indispensable for the roles of real lawless men and scumbags, were once seen by Guy Ritchie. The Calculator did not add anything supernova to the image of the brutal actor.

Supporting roles

Theatrical veterans are also present in the film - serious dramatic artists Ivan Verkhovykh and Vladas Bagdonas, who played the secondary roles of two more expelled unfortunates. Also, the viewer will definitely recognize Kirill Kozakov and Nikita Panfilov in the image of representatives of law enforcement agencies. Each of the above-mentioned actors demonstrated a game of the highest level, reliably conveying the characters of their heroes, taking into account the fact that they have lived their entire conscious life in a system of total control. Some film critics scold the cast of the picture, stating that all the characters are empty and the actors are to blame for this. "The Calculator" introduces the viewer to the characters who, due to the ban, are unable to make decisions on their own, to think - where does their spiritual world becomerich?