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accounting error was a two trillion dollars leave the standard and poor's raising ages of placing a bench trial in washington inquiry even as world markets continue to shift poland the president of the us. are next on cheese for life plays host to russian culture units and all of direction are working in the u.s. explains what some of america's most successful animated shows including this and since they have a slight russian accent. hello again and welcome to the spotlight they don't think we shall be targeting al green album three my guest is dimitri. the simpsons has become so popular in the united states it made it to the big screen but only few people know

that this typical american family actually has groups so are several other super popular animated show in the u.s. how could this happen how the russians still coming or are there already there we're asking the simpsons are that i mean it might. give them a large it was a part of the award winning any nation's two year called pilot after the fall of the soviet union he moved to america only to help create the country's best animated cartoons he joined his friend and colleague david going off to another talented russian and class kitchen animation studio together they created one of the most successful animated the ninety's called rug rats the movie deal has also been our director for the simpsons movie and the television serious the simpsons. and she was into the show thank you thank you very much for being with us well

first of all even russia as we just heard you worked in the best cartoon studio that that we had at that time and maybe maybe the best still is so why did you decide to move and start working in the u.s. for economic reasons for political reasons certainly not political ones. probably economical reasons at the time ninety four i was out of a job for probably more than a year i was three it was already dwindling economically so when i got the invitation from the president of class kinship will cover a chapel and definitely a record of insisted. on having me over there and so i gladly accepted his invitation and at the time it was just invitation to come over for a year probably to see if i like it or not and we'll go from there that wasn't decision

and we went to los angeles. one year past another one and i'm still there. it makes make stuff which is pretty different from what you were making when you were here in russia and they knew that so why do you think what if you have an opinion on this matter what do you think they decided to invite you they wanted they wanted you to somehow change the image in the face of the. american cartoons or what i i believe the reason was that since our children and his wife arlene clause give they started their own studio basically in the bedroom of their apartment that's how they started. the series. so probably governors business model was to. i have

a studio which is not like any other studio so our he wanted the constant addition of the protocol for fresh blood and him being an artist himself he really liked or what or even to do it and would solve it animation. he was a huge fan of it so all he constantly infused fresh blood from western europe i believe that was the reason and at that time it was pretty successful. later his policy changed he lost a little bit of interest in animation itself. and the studio started to stall a little bit on technically the official it still exists but it started the business well let's take a look at some of the recent russian animation of success stories and a report by spotlights in the do neither. impressionist painting is moving that's how alexander petrov's cartoons are often described the artist is

drawn when released fingertips on gloss they commit brought him international recognition and the highest possible award an oscar russian courtrooms have little again and more often nominated for the caramel was in russian morris the latest nominee was a simplistic black and white animation by constantine brown's eat and although the oscar ski team then again still boast of at least twenty international words from the scuttles what might make russian animation and interest into western audiences is that there are you think leaks and which ones are banned during the times of the subject you know the russian animation industry enjoyed substantial state support which allowed for creativity and although russian could tunis had to go through harsh adaptation to market economy rules their creativity survived it was demonstrated to the full in the ninety nine days when in moscow animations to do

christmas did the series were known as animated shakespeare for the b.b.c. . adaptations of shakespeare's plays produced using different animation techniques enjoyed international success. russia's biggest commercial success some animation so far is this series shari king the popularity of believe to around ballard garrett is so huge that the decision was made to distribute good to an international but still the real pride of russian animation and noncommercial projects so what like the recently released barrymore didn't stop motion the ugly duckling with tchaikovsky's music as the soundtrack only for you should make you soft money are currently being made and you will destroy some making company so use my film. and i think you are the best people to ask what's the main difference between russian and american approaches to

generation but all the examples what we just saw. we can talk about success when. those are really deeply individual pieces been made by great artists and. carpet towards. can mass production of all of the same episode of the same kind of episode because we've got to weaken a little generation is a really great that is great only and mainly because of that he does what he feels he has to do and exactly the way. he feels it has to be done i can easily imagine that if it was. really on a production level new episode every several weeks would have been so much different so of course. first of all kind of animation is way much different

from. the nation which is done for kryten networks there are so so many of them i've talked to a number of people working working in animation and this is strange they usually not the not the people working in the movies but people working in courtrooms in russia say here they have more freedom then they would have had in their colleagues and people like you who work for big studios in the west do you agree and probably probably again it really depends on the project because there are projects. where a certain level of freedom is really welcome to buy that again only a certain level when we talk about russia later is working on their own which may be not targeted directly to bring commercial success

a little even more freedom is that what you truly know that's always the you know this as it is mother of invention so yeah when you. have a lot of limitations you really have to be extremely in with inventive so that really pushes you towards more and more creativity you said you said if he petrov had to do an episode every week yes are you envious to people that you don't have to do an episode every week would you prefer to work this way rather than doing commercial success while i had a chance to compare working on the mass production. animation and on like really individual. best of all oriented this is a by value of course from creative standpoint it's much more interesting and. there are really no boundaries for creativity on the project the problem is that

they had and like once every five years. they last for six months or they do not pay much so. but yet you project like it was happening every other month i would be ecstatic about that but it just cannot happen we we are of the same generation you remember like in the seventy's i think the series union. appeared cartoons for the adults and we feel mid level is hard for adults and this was something need to do you think this is that it could have curtains for children for help for snow white and the seven dwarfs i watched the other day i think it's for absolutely for adults and only for the kids love it. good animation of course you know if it's all the edges. i i really don't like this approach when sometimes a lot of owners being car because there's all it's our nation this is for kids it

has to be simple it has to be. maybe not that much you know creative or it could be extremely simple because kids are rather stupid and they don't understand the difference between good and really good so it can be simple i don't buy into this theory so if. animation piece is done for kids but. it's done with a great effort and creativity everybody's going to like it was making in america it is extremely important even when the project is oriented towards the kids kids not going to go to the theater by themselves they're going to go with parents so it is very important so that the parents not going to get bored and first taken minutes and want to walk out of the theater so they want to have those parents stay throughout the movie so it has to have some elements which will be of interest of

interest to parents as well as last play of somebody who understands me because i have to go to the movies with my side and when i have to well when i have to go i have to go and watch with them movies like avatar and he he's ecstatic about it i mean i mean i can't stand this is too much for me but there are movies i agree that there are great for kids and edible edible for adults and this is this i think great ok we're talking to dmitry milan and she just reminded he's the ide our director of the simpsons movie spotlight will be back shortly we'll talk more about his work in a minute after a break so don't go. well for british.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred the global financial headlines. is a report. welcome back to spotlight i'm going of in just reminded of my guest in the studio today is dimitri milan each of the our director of the simpsons movie and also he worked on

the rug rats is that's true yes well. what you made the simpsons the series you made it into a full size widescreen movie what was the hardest part of while and working out that the because we all we all are used to simpsons being like a series like like like little nothing like a smile that said but you know what what was it really hot i was really hard because two main challenges were about percival of course translate the format which is familiar to major if you're paying audience been seen or not like twenty inch screen and then you have to splash it over one hundred feet of the screen in a movie theater and if you will just. project it on such a huge screen it's not going to hold up to the. just even physics of human vision

because way too much of your color and it's going to strictly flatline will because also the technique that the technique that you're drawing it says the girls are all their attention is going to be visible so. you have to use a lot of enhanced moments so basically feel out and it was like you guys are not directed against to change it to come up with ideas but the second challenge which pretty much cancels out the first challenge was to make it in such a way so that nobody would notice it again simpsons is such an icon in american culture are you do not treat it with such a freedom so that it changes its look and starts to look like something different that was the main goal of the creators of the movie not to make it like a one huge extended episode but it has to state through to the origins of the t.v.

series and what about another thing did you did you ask yourself a question is anybody going to do this and why a ticket to watch this for two hours that you know that they now had i had no dog yeah no i had no doubt at all. the biggest challenge was you know knowing that expectations were so high is what the expectation is is not to disappoint. again the biggest fear was that it would look just as overly extended t.v. and so. we just you know had no right to make that mistake so the stakes were really high. and this year expects the rate of success you got to be aware that when the movie. it was just it was just not this illusion in people and not disappointed but it was real success wasn't yes

well i was seriously i was certainly hoping for that i was surprised what a big it's of. i have read in one of the interviews that you grant to one of the american papers that you worked so hard and you were so much occupied. when you were in that movie that you were sort of depressed after it's all finished after the work was terminated is that true while not depressed probably is not the right word. if. it's human nature you're getting used to an extremely high pressure pretty much you know becomes your. way of life the way of thinking you start thinking yellow at the scene go in your dreams or nightmares so when the whole thing starts it really is very abrupt and bizarre feeling because

the world goes back to what it is a movie at least not yet. you need some time to adapt to that because that you described in the work where in this piece you describe you have as working under restrictive conditions being very restrictive while the shard one of those that was mostly the very beginning of the project because of course we started working on the project and the script was not still there it was changing changing pretty much on a daily basis and creators they didn't quite know what to do with visuals of the movie it was not their main concern at that point so they wanted something by they didn't quite know what they want at some point the consensus on their side was that it's probably going to be safer just to go with what we used to

have for the t.v. series and not do anything because again we start tampering with it and we lose some light intensity of the show and who might lose something it's not going to be quite the same as it used to be. and that was a little bit. chance for quite some time. later when the actually they were way too busy with the visuals and that was a really blessing in disguise because they just forgot even to think about the way the money is going to look so at that time i was pretty much free to come up with solutions that i in the end offered to them and they were really happy about it. lots of russians were can move easy in the united states lots of russians in hollywood. but we never see them working as a teen i mean as

a russian teen. it appeared to me when i when i read about these sciences the guys are good nobel prize and physically see they have a russian for that whole the whole floor or all the rooms they're all russians well you know this is the russian but it doesn't happen in movies in the united states why russians represent the great school cinematography why don't you flock together why don't you work as a team because because you quit it you wanted to want to make american movies in america or because the producers try to keep your pride and not the cheer and not let you fly i but i wouldn't say that there is a there is an attempt to really spread people around the bend on their ethnicity actually at the cost of chip or there was some moment where a group of three or four maybe five russians were working together as a team but. i don't know it's just my observe asian probably it's not very welcomed

to have people of the same cultural group been looked out from from the rest because initially i guess that in live action movies it's the same communication is the key it's extremely important to communicate but all the other people and when the people start to be in locked out and being isolated in a small group of their own something goes wrong communication wise that usually is a really bad science so you think that you have to keep keep it multicultural and this we're getting back to currently the nickelodeon a great channel a great a great. market for for for a cartoon do you think russia needs a channel like that absolutely and absolutely and. of course from my not indicated standpoint or russia desperately needs an image that we do have to be

content you know that that's the problem because there's there's tons of content like important content. nickelodeon disney and thirst thousands of projects which could easily fill out the space on the such channels but i strongly believe that russia needs its own content nickelodeon has a very very strict requirements for alameda's for example they don't allow cartoons events of the past is that true why vote that used to people say i don't know are because when i was describing the situation in one of my interviews that was the ninety's quite likely this. time this policy has changed at that point of yes and that was one of the rules which were not carved in stone but we've been told several times that some projects that i was working on and let's

say all the events were taken place in a like seventeenth century. nickelodeon advised not to do so because they preferred to have. all the action take place in either you know present time or in the future. you call it eagle colorado said in one of his interviews i quote i like to draw like children do in primitive techniques what do you think makes such technique. so trapped for contemporary artists in animation while are eager is a very strong artists and. yeah you might wish that he will drop like a kid even though he really admires the drawings that my daughter made when she was like three years old he still has a few of them on his wall. kids they think different they are of the different

they have such a pretty them in their life and at the same time they are not burdened with years of training their lines are not too straight or really thought out they just draw from heart and that what probably eager means because he wants to make his are you know really coming from your soul and from your heart the way kids do it is the reason why my son when he was about three four or five years of age he did wonderful drawings i have them as you said on the wall but now he's like eleven and they and they try to teach him to draw in school he's awfully he had a meet he's worse than anybody i've ever seen the same happened to my daughter i was absolutely sure that i have a genius on my hands because she was doing absolutely amazing drawings when she was like three five year olds freedom yeah they really couldn't because you know several years passed and all you could see you know those princesses and you know

little dragons extremely steve said. is that it does that mean that an artist a true artist is the man that is somebody who managed to sustain his feet to keep his freedom while growing up. yes of course even going to seem since you know since becoming bigger louder brighter and huge change even from technical standpoint it and thirty six can point happened about two years ago when the show was switched to high definition format. again the typical normal t.v. screen in the average american household it's not a twenty inch tube anymore it's like a fifty inch plasma so a lot of information has to fill out this screen so the transition to the high definition show became much more sophisticated visual wise yet at the same time i

have really strong the style just for the very first years of simpsons when it was really clumsy crude and naive. and beautiful at the same time it was not so clearly drawn perspective. it was not sophisticated yet it had a really strong sense of passion which was coming from the creators thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was neatly maligned chip our director of the simpsons movie and also the rug rats that's if an hour from all of us here if you don't have your sense a part like just drop me a line moved back with more first time comment on what's going on in and outside this country until then stay on r.t. and take care.

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