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A Stuntman Is Akin To A Clown

2024

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A Stuntman Is Akin To A Clown
A Stuntman Is Akin To A Clown
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WE AND THE CAR

SEE WHO ARRIVED

CASCADER ARE KIND … TO THE CLOWN

Our interview with the former head of stunt shooting Alexander MIKULIN.

- Alexander, why did you choose this unusual profession?

- It happened. At first he was an athlete, drove along the track on a bicycle, motorcycle. Then cars entered my life. The first film I got into was called "Everything from the Beginning". After he was invited to Mosfilm, where I had a chance to work with a wonderful director Eldar Ryazanov in the film “Watch Out for the Car”. At that time, strangely enough, I looked like a young Smoktunovsky, whom I duplicated. Initially, the pursuit was not planned there, I myself proposed it to Eldar Alexandrovich for the sharpness of the plot. He agreed - the result is what you remember well.

- It turned out very interesting, but this pursuit, in my opinion, is kind of "gentle" …

- I call her romantic. There are terrible chases, with breaking everything in earnest, they are funny, and in this film one of the few is romantic. Then there were other chases.

- There is an opinion that people with uncomplicated sports careers go to stuntmen. Are you one of them?

- Of course not. And the opinion is erroneous: athletes and stuntmen are different people. We are probably closer to the profession of a clown. After all, circus clowns perform the tricks of jugglers, equilibrists, trainers, they only pretend that it is easy and everyone can. Often their numbers are even more complicated than the "real" circus performers. So it is here. I don’t want to say that sport is “easy”. For example, I could hardly participate in some kind of competition, but at the same time, not every driver can do what we do. By the way, I always insisted that there should be a clear division into at least three specialties. Specialization is approximately the following: work with horses; fights, falls, jumps and everything connected with it; technical tricks: helicopter, plane, motorcycle, car, boat.

- The latter are just yours …

- Yes. For example, recently I participated in the filming of the film of Ivan Dykhovichny “Crusader-2”, where there are many tricks on cars and boats. True, the film takes place in the summer, but in the cinema it is always the opposite: summer is shot in winter, and winter in summer. And we shot stunts on the water in October. Well, of course, stuntmen had to fall into the water - but what about without it.

- Does not discourage starring?

- I mainly deal with the technical preparation for the shooting. Although he performed stunts in the Crusaders, he also worked on fine-tuning and remaking cars for filming. After all, not ordinary cars are shot in films. For example, such a trick is being prepared: a car-ladder rides. The actor (the main role and tricks was performed by A. Inshakov - president of the stuntmen association) clings on the go and climbs on it. The ladder begins to climb smoothly. The car reaches the river, stops abruptly, and the actor falls into the water. Together with him, people fly out of the cab, knocking out the head with glass. On a regular car, the ladder will not be able to climb on the go, because all this, firstly, will turn over, and secondly, the climb during the ride is specially blocked. Everything was redone, another, lightweight staircase was created, but at the same time strong enough to withstand a person, the lock is removed, it can already be lifted. So that the machine does not fall into the water, it is stopped exactly at a given moment by cables.

- Doesn't it hurt stuntmen to knock glass out with his head?

- This is a special Italian “sugar” glass, it breaks easily, without splinters, it just turns into dust. Bottles are made of it, which in films are broken on the head.

- I know that before, when the situation in our cinema was more favorable, you were invited to shoot very willingly. How many paintings do you have?

- I think not less than 60. From the well-known: “Watch out for the car”, “Elusive Avengers”, “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia” (though I only worked out tricks here, the Italians were the performers), “Tehran-43”, “Old Men- robbers ", " Director "…

- This is a film where the actor Urbansky died on the set? And it’s on the set of a car stunt …

- Then the director of the picture, Saltykov, instead of the stunt men, invited a group of racers to the shooting: famous athletes, many of them are champions, but no one had experience in the cinema. It is possible that because of this a tragedy occurred. According to the scenario, the car was supposed to jump from a springboard. But no one had specially prepared it, and she stuck into the mound from the whole course. It is still not clear why Urbansky was sitting in it. He was not driving, but to the right of the driver. The participation of the artist was not required at all, he still would not have been visible, the dust was a pillar. At the time of the fall, the driver managed to hide under the steering wheel, sports training worked, and the wonderful actor died. The stunt group was already invited to the second version of the picture and they appointed me the head of stunt shooting, but even then there were serious disagreements with the director: I stood for safety precautions, so that all the stunts were carefully prepared. Several times I had to cancel the shooting of some frames that the director demanded to do on the move, and shoot them after preparation. Sometimes in our profession it is necessary to show firmness, otherwise injuries cannot be avoided. In general, I am not a supporter of dangerous tricks, I like elegant and romantic.

- Such, for example, as in the film "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia"?

- In this film, unfortunately, I only developed tricks, performed by Italian stuntmen, this was an indispensable condition of the contract.

- Why "unfortunately"?

- I work a little differently. I think that if the car has already entered the frame, it should do the trick and leave the same frame. And abroad, and in the same Italians, installation is more practiced. The car enters the frame, then the assembly gluing - it does the trick when it lands, breaks and it no longer has a salable appearance, and in the last frame a whole third machine is removed.

- Now, as far as I know, not only gluing is used, but also a computer?

- Abroad, using a computer, something fantastic is already being done. You can wipe, finish, clean up something. So, remember, the Beware of the Car trick, where the Detochkin’s car drives off the road along a steep slope and then backwards up onto it? She was pulled back with a cable. Then there was no computer technology, so the cable was a little visible … In general, with regard to technology, including the production of cinema, we are in the Stone Age. To our stuntmen, in order to get the desired result on the screen, it is more difficult, they take more risks. Americans, for example, today master computer so masterfully that you feel the unreality of what is happening only at the end. For example, a motorcycle flies through the air - flies to itself and flies, but only when it lands, I realize: after such a landing, the motorcycle should have been smashed to smithereens, and it is completely intact.

- How many cars are broken in one film?

- Previously, there was a clear statement: socialist property cannot be crippled. When we shot “Italians”, we were always surprised at the “Italian” approach to filming: they had a trick - a car, the next trick - a new car, it never occurred to anyone to take care of them. We have to write off the car after filming - the whole problem. If the car in the frame beats to smithereens, then this is either the last frame, or the car decommissioned.

- As far as I know, there are no special educational institutions where stuntmen are trained. I wonder who you are by education?

- I have a law degree, four courses of an automobile institute and a higher directing course.

“And who would you be if you hadn't become a stuntman?”

- With a law degree? By the president. Just kidding - anyone. In general, my father always told me that if I were the chief engineer of the plant, he would be proud of me, and so … True, Academician Mikulin had his own idea of “serious work” - he was the general designer of aircraft engines, always in a responsible position. Chkalov made his flight on his engine … But mother, on the contrary, is all in art: director and teacher. Maybe that's why I did it.

- What is your car?

- "Lada". The best cars - VAZ 2105, 2106 … I love rear-wheel drive cars. Zhiguli are best adapted to our roads. If you need fast, I’ll ride on it so that no one catches up. And for my soul, I have a five-liter Ford Mustang.

- You made cars, shot in difficult tricks. Were there funny situations in the movies?

“I like to joke, but some take my humor too seriously.” I remember once shooting a short film commissioned by the traffic police. It was such a moralizing series on how to not behave on the road. Two twin boys participated in the film, one “obedient” and the other “bully”. In one episode, the "bully" runs out onto the road, and I drive at high speed and brake sharply. Having removed one take, the director calls me aside and asks: “Sasha, and if you don’t calculate and really crush the boy?” I answered him in tone: “Why should we be afraid, we have a spare boy …” Well, and he understood it too literally and on this day the shooting was over …

Photo from the archive of A. Mikulin

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