HELL.
HELL.
Federiko FELLINI.
NON-REALIZED DREAM of the MAESTRO. Already in apogee fellinievskogo
Myth when one name of the maestro opened all doors, including
Banks, the director both on the right, and at the left exasperated tempting
Offers to picturize Dante. In a kind was available - much
It is not enough - as itself "La Divina Commedia" in all its greatness. More
That, maestros suggested to transfer on the screen dantovsky
"Hell".
Crafty evading, Fellini not without a coquetry refused.
Eventually, having accepted game rules in it, the maestro has written
The... "Hell" - parody "the report on intentions". Also has exposed
Instead of itself the puppet with the same name which takes part in
Business negotiations up to vysokonauchnogo a colloquium
"Dentists".
The author's text published for the first time in Russian will enter in
The collection of products Federiko preparing by publishing house "п п п?п?п п я "
Fellini.
N.п . The resulted text has for an object first of all to allow
To orient to technical workers of manufacture in
The approximate budget (constructions, characters), and also specifies
For the period of shootings.
Sketch stated in record which I here represent,
Comprises narrative structure more profound
The scenario to which working out I am intended sooner or later
To start.
How much time, insisting in all ways, offered me
To transfer on the screen "Divine comedy"?!
"It is your duty, your debt!" - during the necessary moment on what
-nibud from numerous receptions one of lawyers spoke to me
"Kolambija Broadkasting Systems", sucking, to precisely dummy, thick
The Havana cigar. (Where it occurred? In Grand Hotel? In Venice,
In Kanne, in London?) it did my life on all its extent
Both seductive, and terrible, - and all thanking it, so
To not banal sponsors: "you cannot refuse, after all you
The Italian and Dante the Italian, and Americans respect you; and, if
Frankly, there are nevertheless Fellini's films which I do not understand ".
"You - the myth", - was declared by the lady-translator at the lawyer with
Cigar, looking at me with the mixed liking, fondly concluding,
That, in general, I should explain to Americans that has induced
Dante to go down in the Hell.
"The mister the president, Athenes on a line". The secretary passes
Telephone tube to the high, thin person in a shirt without a jacket
And in braces which straight off passes to the Greek. We sit
Silently, not understanding a uniform word. Other lawyer (the Mexican? In
Any case black) slow and at the same time
By solemn and conspiratorial gestures does to me a sign to be
Attentive, developing the huge poster, the whole poster, on
Which the huge, massive tyre with a wedding veil is visible,
On top topped with an orange blossom.
And two million dollars! It mizer for "Fajerstoun end Pi"
Together with "the Company of dresses for newly married". And only
The deposit. Behind this project sponsors were built in turn! The signor
Fellini, what does not approach you? Why you break?
But I did not break at all, even in fiftieth time meeting with
Presidents, vice-presidents, sponsors, lawyers... And
Invariably in hotels, in an environment of retinue of servants and waiters, under
Salad dishes with silver covers, a cutting from a turkey, indispensable
Fish salt, liquors and clubs of a tobacco smoke, with phones, that
Called directly in a room, no less than in next, with names
Cities and continents which were cried out in a full voice, and in
This time is unceasing knocked on a door where others entered
The characters, the nearest Mexican or Sicilian relatives,
Which by means of Americans through National board on
To tourism, embracing and kissing, podchalivali under matstsarellu from
Aversy, with the load up to the top filled by photos of actors,
Settling down on sofas and it is direct on a floor, forming Babylon
Tower from English, French, Spanish and Armenian
Languages.
Thirty three episodes - and under a nose to me put three vyprostannyh
Finger. Television agencies of all world will give the guaranteed
"Teleshake-up" minimum! From its part, not being unfounded,
I honesty stated time and again sensible and reasonable objections,
I had to listen to the sums of fantastic incomes,
The list of favorable rates, never-ending lists of prizes and
Awards.
The Mexican lawyer called me eyes in which sparkled
Tears, muttering the one and only line: "Now all was reduced to
To this desire ".
Already to itself not belonging, confused and discouraged, with a glass
Champagne in a hand I have lain down, motionlessly having buried in an armchair:
"A puppet, I only a puppet!" And during this moment,
Hardly my voice has said last remark, two workers in a corner,
Precisely waiting a signal, could bring a dummy in a hat and with
Scarf, having asked me: "It here, dottore?" On my affirmative
Nod they leave on a platform and place Fellini's puppet in
Armchair, clamping it between fingers a glass with champagne.
(I consider, what is it the best decision for the problem permission
Presence of the cinematographer on a platform. To embody him
I would not like. Completely to neglect the character, avoiding even
Its display, it is represented to me old as the world a trick, when
nezrimost the author gives artificiality and self-confidence.
Huge puppet, on the contrary, is better can express
Feebleness, non-participation and distancing which the author tests
Before this truly infernal leapfrog from persons and places, more and more
Seductive a promise where only a puppet just right to master with
Such grandiose project.) in a scene, which I just
Has presented, all still address to this motionless
To the idol who at times responds them my voice or expresses
My thoughts besides eyes and lips.
"You know, signor Fellini with whom I spoke on the phone? With
The greatest musician that works at cinema and with which to you still
Did not drop out to meet. You agree? "Seeing my confusion,
He throws a sight at the secretary, which, directing on me strict
The sight, hurries to declare, that it to me had already been sent three
Cartridges, and besides twice! And while the puppet assures, that
Today in the evening it will hear to them in the most attentive image,
I try to recollect, where I could put them. Usually scenarios,
Cartridges, I give compact discs Tereze, the girl with fantastic back,
Which then to me was very nice.
And here already the girl with perfect back rummages in cases and
Suitcases.
The girlfriend of the girl with perfect back, the intellectual-photographer,
Type Elizabetty Katalano, which, having pushed a nose between index and
Big fingers, declares with a call - a pier, this time you not
Will make mistakes, removing not in CHinechitta, but in the real
The scenery approached to places, cities and the countries, occupying
Hell. The girl with perfect back at thought on travel on
To unfamiliar cities with stops in the big hotels it is unbent and
Not without a shiver listens to the girlfriend who lists: "Area
Amazons (for it attracts me), India, Calcutta, Benares... "
The girl with perfect back represents something reminding dance
Stomach whereas the girlfriend continues the list - Greenland,
The North Pole... "Other variant is Fredzhene or Ostija", -
The first pins up with soft irony. Having roared, it there and then
Declares, that has found the cartridge of the Greek musician. Silence.
We listen to music of the composer which tried to be inspired
Grandiose and frightening visions dantovskogo the Hell. But almost
It is audible nothing, except a sound of a turning magnetic tape, then
Any vshlipa and again a tape sound. The girl with the perfect
Back, being afraid, that has loaded not from that party, catches for
The cartridge. We try to hear again something, but from the tape recorder
Only stuffy faltering breath yes the whistling is distributed
Trill. It is very modern, ultradodekafonicheskaja music,
Near to which SHtokhauzen pure Puccini.
Katalano extremely razdrazhena. The girl with perfect back soars
In clouds, dreaming of fantastic travel which it can
To make on pair with a puppet if that agrees to remove "Hell".
And a puppet? What does she think? She thinks of Jacqueline Risse, with
Which should meet tomorrow at university. About the well-known
"dantistke", made an an appointment in student's cafe.
For the next day appointment to Jacqueline, which from the ardent has taken place
Ardency spoke about Dante, about its ethical, poetic and others
The roots put in pawn in him that should sprout in the future
Transposition and than it is impossible to neglect.
"You unique who is capable to embody it", - spoke it
To puppet, which, being afraid and refusing, in 100-th time
Repeated the objections, fears and refusals. In what language they
Speak? They that, recite terza rimas? And in what are dressed? On me,
The cinema should not be an illustration; Dante, at last, to me of nothing
Speaks... Well, maybe, at school but also then it did not seem to me
So attractive. Moreover in lycц e when the name was said
Dante Alighieri, I pulled a hand to ask for leave in a toilet, and
The corridor ran out from a class in spacious, as a church nave, under
The high arches tightened by a web directing horror on the director
Lycц e (but the watchman could not find all such high in any way
Step-ladder to reach and remove a web), and there, on the smooth
Marble pedestal, there was a black bust with empty, widely
Goggle eye-sockets and the severe person, as at the judge or
The supervisor. We have been convinced, what is it it, with thin, as
Edges, lips peeped and informed teachers that we
Made during changes.
ANY PASSING THOUGHTS. An evil ghost with burning eyes, old
The poor Karon Dimonio, rough and severe drunkard, chased us with
Stick, with a fiery beard and the eyes poured by blood.
(Present, as in port of Rimini where all has clouded a fog,
The huge boat which the old beggar corrects moors. "A grief
To you, impious souls! "- he exclaims under the general mess and under
Remarks: "Yes you would go!." - all of us, schoolboys.) a colloquium in
Smart salon from it trudnoperenosimoj orderliness. A subject -
"Dante and psychoanalysis". Any madman states something
Not clear. But Jacqueline, as always, is even more inspired and
It is executed convictions. This time it sits near to the poet
Orelli which are read by Dante on onomatopoeic manners,
Gutturally also it is rolling publishing lip and tooth sounds, that
Forces enthusiastic and touched Risse to applaud.
Really you do not feel, how it is close to you, Federiko?
The puppet somehow vaguely begins to nod. But
Memoirs on Dore's illustrations, which new Americans with
Other television channel have forced it to open for itself, having hanged out them in
Corridors of the Parisian hotel in the extremely unsuccessful attempt to incline
On the party, again immerse it in invariable confusion.
And than all of them now, including a puppet, are occupied, having buried noses
In glasses of the airport of Venice? They stare aboard the plane from London,
Which just about will land and on which the well-known arrives
The English film actor, beaten last films all
Records on gathering.
The plane lands, photographers hurry to the young blonde,
Which the first passes on the escalator accompanied by retinue
Men and women. "It was beautiful, that blonde", - has quoted
Line someone in crowd approached to it.
"Such young? - The puppet thinks. - it is absolutely not similar on
That black head in lycц e ".
And here already the boat carries all of them on Lido, where the new
The TV men, new sponsors, secretaries, lawyers, translators
Have organised a symposium by common efforts to attack and oborot
Unjustified and inadmissible objections of a puppet, which in
The status close to hallucination, over lifted by a wind
Combs of waves suddenly sees monstrous demons with wings flying
Mice that have a seat on lonely piles of a lagoon. One of them with points
On hooked to a nose calls to him: "Greetings, Federiko! You me not
You remember? I Pjachentini, from Modena ".
Yes, precisely, the puppet thinks. It Pjachentini from Modena.
Most repugnant of colleagues-newsdealers, with which I once
Worked.
I wave to it a hand, and the devil sends me to the answer a blare
From own back. It is viewing under a loud applause
The film removed in 1910 on "Hell" Dante.
In attempt to find not hackneyed visual way in transfer
Horrors of "Hell" the puppet recollects the visit to a madhouse in
Madzhano: chambers with the beings vegetating; less
Violent from them feels furious sexual desire ("It drochit
On 50 times on day ", - the hospital attendants who have adhered him spoke
Wrists from both parties of a cot, and that expired in darkness among
Stench of this cell with vegetative beings, naked, filled in
Then, with the huge member who is sticking out, as a sword, and scurrying about,
As at a snake, language).
(Or the man, assured that it sacred Peter, and from
Which proceeded deep calmness and indescribable
Serenity.) the following meal. Where we this time? Again in
Hotel or in trattorii on Trastevere? The Cinematographer-puppet
Tells about the experience with lizerginovoj acid, that is with
LSD: this horror from the contours surrounding it, any sense,
Designation and which functions have appeared strongly forgotten.
Dispersed, deprived of consciousness, memoirs, grieves,
Regrets and hopes, it stayed in boundlessness, being not in
Status something to tell. Here it, the Hell, and at the same time horror
Deadly misunderstanding of everything, and you are lighted up suddenly by the instant
Flash of any immense happiness, freedom from all worlds: you
Any more the captive of values and kontseptov, you is not separated any more from
Subjects, from other persons, from a reality, which in you,
But you become these subjects - you both a flower, and the sea, and
Eyes of that woman, and a bird in the sky... You certain complete creation,
Mystical rose of the world, Paradise centre...
All need puppet tshchitsja to be told, while round it eat,
Drink and laugh, and when the story is ended, the heavy silence hangs.
Perhaps as for the first time, the puppet has arrived to inform on the
Feeling of powerlessness which owns it before idea of realisation
"Hell" statements?
Last scene can occur at studio, actors, which
Play Paolo and Franchesku, are lifted lebedkoj up almost to most
Ceiling, where powerful helicopter screws vihrjat circulations of the withered
The leaves simulating a never-ending infernal tornado. Dante mutters
Vergiliju, that he would like to tell about them, and here already appear
Pigeons that are dictated by its this grief, well etc. Follows
Episode with Paolo and Franchesky, which, despite the theatrical
mashineriju, participation of horse circus, shouts, noise of aircraft engines, nevertheless
Calls deep excitement.
SMALL USELESS NOTES. Not to forget: while the tyre of the lorry with
Fluttering wedding veil and shaking colours
Orange blossom slides on a long corridor of hotel, arises
Ringing melody of "the Wedding march" Mendelson.
The Pair of Japanese insists on high development (to check up
Premises, technical equipment and to test the device.
In all it will be engaged Fikera.)) Among the most convincing
Objections of a puppet appears - as have been dressed Dante, Vergily and
The others. It was much spoken about nakedness, devil nakedness - they
Are doomed to nakedness. Also it is not excluded, that during conversation,
Gradually quickening, producers, secretaries, sponsors, black
The lawyer, translators become absolutely naked, with the
puzami and the buttocks, dangling breasts.
Visit to the Experimental Movie centre and viewing on moviole
The copy of "Hell" which has been removed in 1909. Where to settle down to it
To the centre? It would be necessary to choose any place among fragments, ruins,
In an abandoned area or to leave it as is, having underlined
Decline, desolation and abandonment, as if sense and activity,
For the sake of which it has been equipped, henceforth became extraction past
Epoch. Any employee-fanatic, a semiblind fragment of the past
Sets newcomers in premises with low temperature, in
Cold compartments. With arrogance of a priest this mumifitsirovannyj
Relict a prorancid voice with inspiration and with emotion
Says any words. Speech would go that it-de has opened
Any secrets, invaluable secrets, something inexpressible, conducted
Only devoted. Along an infinite corridor are located
Cold rooms, ice cold compartments, whose metal doors on
Rails gleam and open with a viscous scratch, allowing
To notice tiny dark premises, in which at the ice
To temperature are placed one over other box with set
Films. A polar cemetery of a film. In the heart of a corridor the keeper
Opens a door and enters visitors into a viewing hall. Here too
Very coldly: a ceiling, walls, backs of armchairs up to the screen on
To other wall - all is covered by an ice layer. Distribute jackets and blankets,
To spread them in a lap. Light dies away, viewing begins.
From a copy which I saw on moviole, it would be necessary to make
vykadrovku to take from general plans of person Dante and Vergilija, as
If they have been removed largely.
Valery's BOSENKO transfer.
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//* an information Source: the Literary newspaper, 4.04.01
//* Reg. Nom. - 1110400001.48-------------------------------------------
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