In the modern world, the viewer is too often served a ready-made dish - sometimes even chewed for it, says Pyotr Buslov. The director knows what kind of blood Tarantino sheds in his films (and he spills with pleasure himself), how to conquer Galina Polskikh, what you can spy on Dmitry Nagiyev and who to say hello to from the dashing 1990s. He told Izvestia about this and more on the eve of the premiere of his film “Boomerang,” which will be released on December 2.
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“I came up with the name “Boomer” in 2001”
— Your super-successful action movie “Boomer” has become a symbol of a turning point in the country and Russian cinema. Comedy "Boomerang" - some kind of hello from the past? Why didn't you come up with a different name?
- What for? I wanted to make a connection with my previous films. Probably few people know that I came up with the name “Boomer” in 2001. Before this, the car of the German brand was called “Bimmer”, both around the world and in our country. I wanted to trace this transformation from the 20-year gap between “Boomer” and “Boomerang”. This is a generational movie, it tells in a light, genre-bending, ironic, philosophical way about the changes in society, country, and heroes over the past 20 years. So, in the film, one of the heroes was a luxury car of my favorite brand. Only this time it’s not a brutal business-class sedan, but a luxurious sports coupe.
Pig blood on the playground
Still from the movie "Boomerang"
Photo: Actober Films
In general, the name has a deep meaning. Everything in life comes back like a boomerang - both good and bad. This is the message.
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“You didn’t spare the car this time either.” Is it really possible that a car that costs as much as an apartment in Moscow was broken into?
- Well, of course they broke it. Shattered! Without this effect there would be no effect. According to the plot, this is a crash for good, because a car saves a person.
But only one car was damaged, and at least ten of them would have been destroyed on the James Bond.
— In the film you brought together the top artists - Nagiyev, Sychev, Tribuntsev, Madyanov. Even the star of Soviet cinema, People's Artist of Russia Galina Polskikh played one of the roles. How did you persuade her?
— When I invited Galina Aleksandrovna to play a small role in “Boomerang,” she, to my great joy, responded with pleasure. It turned out that she really likes my films. And when she arrived for the shoot, she also saw that every day on set was a creative holiday. This brought us even closer.
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Actress Galina Polskikh on the set of the film “Boomerang”
Photo: Vadim Fortunin
— Why do you need a holiday on the site?
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— Because I really love actors. It is important for me that they come to me in a good mood and work with their souls. Then the result comes out.
By the way, the audience themselves can get an idea of the creative atmosphere on the site. I edited funny moments and film bloopers and inserted them at the end of the film, under the final reel. Let them laugh at the same thing we laughed at during editing. Such a bonus for the viewer.
What measures need to be taken
If the taste of blood occurs as a result of pathological changes in internal organs, the doctor will prescribe inpatient drug treatment depending on the disease. Drug treatment of the oral mucosa involves the use of antimicrobial solutions (Chlorhexidine, Miramistin), dental gels (Metrogil Denta, Cholisal, Kalgel), drugs that stimulate the process of tissue regeneration (Solcoseryl dental adhesive paste).
There are contraindications, you need to consult a specialist!
If suppuration occurs, you can use antibiotics, previously crushed into powder.
To quickly remove the unpleasant taste and smell, you can eat a slice of lemon or other citrus fruit. Tea with cardamom or ginger effectively copes with the metallic taste.
In order not only to get rid of the taste, but also to promote the healing of the wound surface, rinses made from plant materials are used:
- chamomile flowers;
- Oak bark;
- calendula officinalis;
- peppermint leaves;
- Salvia officinalis leaves.
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“Empathize with Nagiyev”
— Didn’t you have any problems with the casting?
— It’s always difficult to get popular artists. Timofey Tribuntsev and I have been friends since the filming of “House Arrest.” Dmitry Nagiyev is an incredibly popular actor, I always wanted to work with him. And if we talk about difficulties, they were how to coordinate their acting schedules. After all, they play two main characters. And it is extremely difficult to combine Dmitry and Timofey when they are so busy. Therefore, the filming period “floated” for a long time.
Pig blood on the playground
Actor Timofey Tribuntsev on the set of the film “Boomerang”
Photo: Vadim Fortunin
— They say that the film was shot for three years.
— Yes, that’s right, but to be precise, all the work on the film took more than three years. This includes the filming period, post-production, soundtrack creation and many other stages. Good cinema takes time.
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— Dmitry Nagiyev’s career included “Purgatory” and “Unforgiven.” However, neither the war drama nor the tragedy could overcome the stereotypical attitude towards him. You also have him in the usual role of a rich scoundrel, but the first impression is wrong. Did you interest the actor in the character's transformation?
— Dmitry was faced with a very difficult task. According to him, he has never played anything like this. And the fact that the attitude towards the hero changes and you want to empathize with him is very important. Interaction with the on-screen hero is something that the viewer is deprived of in the modern world. He is often given a ready-made dish, which they even chew for him.
Dmitry Nagiyev has a difficult path in his profession. Fame and fame did not come to him easily. I think he's done a lot of work to become a star.
— Nagiyev’s laurels do not allow many to sleep peacefully. So you decided to try them on yourself, appearing in the film as a bald TV presenter. They came up with his surname Bussler...
Pig blood on the playground
Still from the movie "Boomerang"
Photo: Actober Films
— I take laurels calmly. It was a funny story. My Fedor Bussler is a crazy TV presenter, a collective image of impulsive and extravagant talk show hosts. It arose very simply: first one TV star, then another, then a third refused my offer to play in this episode, and at the last moment I had to go out myself.
— Didn’t you have to take a master class from Nagiyev?
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“I spend so much time with him on set that I’ve already learned something, and he picked something up from me.” It turned out great.
Taste of blood in the mouth in the morning
If unpleasant sensations appear only in the morning, after waking up, you can suspect the presence of chronic diseases:
- ENT organs - chronic runny nose, polyps in the nasopharynx, enlarged adenoids, sinusitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis. Inflammatory processes in the nasopharynx lead to the fact that the mucous membrane becomes thin and ulcers appear on it. During sleep, mucus accumulates in the nasopharynx. In the morning, when you blow your nose or cough to cleanse the passages, the mucous membrane is injured and bleeds.
- With nasal congestion and bronchial asthma, breathing through the nose is impaired. The mucous membrane dries out, the taste buds give out erroneous information.
- Exacerbation of chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. The cause of morning unpleasant taste sensations is gastritis and stomach ulcers, varicose veins of the esophagus, pancreatitis, cholecystitis.
- Diseases of the cardiovascular system - angina pectoris, heart attacks, and other pathologies cause fragility of the small vessels of the respiratory system. Such bleeding is additionally accompanied by pain in the heart, heaviness, shortness of breath and cough in the morning.
“I splashed blood in the frame”
— Even though this is a comedy, you couldn’t do without blood at all. Couldn't it have been filmed so that no one died in the comedy?
“It didn’t work out without blood at all.” The hero had to sacrifice something dear and lost a close friend. Without this, the story would not have happened. The genre dictates its terms.
And I splashed blood in the frame. I poured it with pleasure. Don't worry, she's not real. By the way, fake blood comes in different forms. There is one that should land on the actor’s lips. And if it is viscous or has an unpleasant taste, he will not be able to play. And liquid blood is needed for the walls. It flows better over them. Special blood is also prepared for clothing.
— In biology lessons they said that blood can only be arterial and venous.
- Right. It also differs in color. It depends on the genre of the picture whether to use dark or scarlet blood in the frame.
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Director Pyotr Buslov during the filming of the film “Boomerang”
Photo: Vadim Fortunin
— You talk about your filming, like Tarantino.
- And I moved towards Quentin. And in one of the scenes I said hello to him. By the way, Tarantino uses bright blood. But also not real.
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When they tell me that some directors go to the slaughterhouse for material, I don’t believe it. Pig blood on the set is complete nonsense. When creating a slaughterhouse according to the script, we even used fake carcasses in the shot, and not from a meat processing plant. First of all, they are very expensive. Secondly, real meat is also not cheap, but at the same time the question arises: how to preserve it and what to do with it after filming?
- How to where? Gather a group for a barbecue!
“Even they won’t eat that much.”
— Are you ready for criticism and hype addressed to you?
- Certainly. All the hype is just out of envy. If you want, criticize. Let's!
— Nagiyev Dmitry - guarantor of the cash register? Was there any consideration for his media presence when you invited him?
— You seem to work in the promotion department of a rental company! Dima Nagiyev is not a 100% guarantor of fees. And in general there are no such guarantors that the viewer would firmly fall for. After all, when the director and producer invite a star, they want the film to work out. And don’t confuse audience success with commercial success. These are two different things. Sometimes they coincide, then it's luck.
Pig blood on the playground
Still from the movie "Boomerang"
Photo: Actober Films
- Do you think so?
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- Well, of course. The picture may sound great, the stars have amazing roles, but for some reason the film does not collect money at the box office. And there were such stories.
Success depends on a well-executed advertising campaign and how to convey information about the premiere to the viewer. The amount of funds invested is also important. And it happens that the viewer was not interested, he was carried away by something else. And all the efforts of the filmmakers will be in vain. Promoting a film is a serious mechanism. And this has absolutely nothing to do with whether the film is good, bad or average.
— Is it impossible to calculate?
- We can try. Which is what everyone does. And they pass it off as the final result.
Maria Prigorovskaya, whose childhood was spent in the Soviet Union, recalls that her mother often brought her a “healthy and wholesome snack” from the pharmacy - a sweet “bar” called “Hematogen”. And although it was developed as an over-the-counter remedy for anemia, which affects about a quarter of all humanity and which especially often affects children, it contained beet sugar, condensed milk and syrup, so little Maria enjoyed it with pleasure. In essence, it was a Soviet version of chewable gummy vitamins, although the texture was more like toffee. “When I was at school,” recalls Prigorovskaya, “I bought it every time I passed by a pharmacy if I had pocket money.”
Unlike modern American fortified supplements, the Hematogen that Prigorovskaya consumed as a child did not contain vitamins and minerals isolated in the laboratory from natural products (and is also not related to the American Hematogen FA tablets). The source of iron, which was part of it and was supposed to prevent the development of anemia, was black food albumin - the technical term for blood. Soviet-made candy bars consisted of at least 5% cow's blood.
Hematogen was not an experimental product. By most accounts, it was always on the shelves of Soviet pharmacies—and in the diets of Soviet children—until the collapse of the USSR. It can still be bought today in the former Soviet republics, although it is not as widespread as it was several decades ago. (Modern manufacturers offer many varieties of hematogen, which are useful not only for anemia, but in general in all cases: for radiant skin, improved concentration, for colds).
“In fact, you can easily find it today in New York,” says Anastasia Lakhtikova, co-author of the forthcoming research and educational work “Tempered Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life.” “If, of course, you know the right places in Russian markets.”
You might think it's just one of the many quirky relics of Soviet-era consumer goods—the product of frugality, pragmatism, and centralized, totalitarian production and distribution. But the history of hematogen goes back much deeper than the times of the USSR. To begin with, most cultures have a long culinary tradition of eating animal blood. According to Adrienne Jacobs, who also contributed to Seasoned Socialism, blood sausage has long been imported to Russia. In some cases, the custom of consuming blood products stemmed from poverty and the consequent habit of using everything “from horns to hooves.” But it had a lot to do with the fact that people, Jacobs notes, have long realized that blood is “incredibly nutritious”: full of vitamins, minerals, protein and less cholesterol than an egg.
Maria Pirogovskaya, who now studies the history of cooking and medicine at the European University in St. Petersburg, added that thanks to the knowledge accumulated during the 19th century and the increased interest in the use of chemistry in the food industry and medicine, “the idea of creating products seemed very tempting to European doctors and manufacturers.” , which would not spoil for a long time and would be very nutritious.” They've tried everything from coconut milk to yeast, creating extracts and powders from a variety of products. They also turned their attention to blood, hoping to extract valuable nutrients and turn them into a palatable product with a decent shelf life. (Raw blood spoils incredibly easily and quickly, especially during industrial slaughter). Pirogovskaya notes that researchers across Europe have created a range of blood-based products, such as hematopan, “blood powder sweetened with licorice,” and hemosan, “a drink made from blood protein, lecithin and calcium glycerophosphate.” The Russian newspaper Pravda writes that the recipe for hematogen appeared in the laboratory of a Swiss doctor at the end of the 19th century.
Aftenposten 06/24/2017 The New York Times 01/02/2018 Berlingske 11/05/2018 The idea of using blood as an easy-to-store sweetened product to treat anemia was not at all crazy, says hematologist Thomas DeLoughery. Doctors today still recommend taking iron for those who are at risk for iron deficiency. But iron tablets taste unpleasant and are poorly absorbed. That's why Delogeri and other doctors prescribe vitamin C to their patients along with iron supplements.
“One [Hematogen] bar,” notes Delogeri, “contains 10 milligrams of elemental iron, which corresponds to a child’s daily requirement.” The fact that this iron is obtained from the blood is actually an advantage, since "iron in the blood, heme iron, is much better absorbed than iron in tablets."
Most manufacturers do not recommend eating more than one bar per day for children and more than one and a half for adults, and also do not advise pregnant, lactating and diabetics to use Hematogen. In addition, it is not recommended to take Hematogen for more than several weeks in a row. However, this is more due to an abundance of caution than real risk. On average, a Hematogen bar contains ten times less iron than a tablet, says Delogeri. Even if a child’s body absorbs more iron from a candy bar than from a tablet, he says, “it will still be difficult to get iron poisoning from it.” In the worst case, the child will have a stomach ache and digestion will be disrupted for a short time.
And yet, for decades after hematogen was invented, it disappeared from everywhere except the Soviet Union, where, however, it began to be produced only in the 1920s. The reason is unclear, but according to food history specialist Amy Bentley, this sweetness disappeared in Western countries because the whole world, led by the United States, was taken over by a new modernist idea of abandoning everything natural, like blood, in favor of scientific industry and pure chemistry. At the same time, this product was gaining popularity in the USSR thanks to the administrative-command economic system. “It’s quite possible,” Lakhtikova suggested, “that this project was the favorite brainchild of some very influential person who was sure that this was a great idea.”
Hematogen may have especially inspired the Soviet leadership after World War II, when the country was struggling to replenish food supplies but was investing heavily in producing vitamins for the population, especially for children. The Soviet people were obsessed with the idea of squeezing everything they could out of the domestic industry, so in the 1970s and 80s a krill paste called “Ocean” appeared and became widespread. “The product,” explains Jacobs, “was considered a healthy nutritional supplement to food,” but it was also a symbol of “the victory of the Soviet fishing industry, which caught huge quantities of krill.”
Darra Goldstein, an expert on the history of Soviet cooking, notes that Soviet scientists changed the hematogen recipe, for whatever reason. It was originally a syrup, but they started making it into a candy bar to appeal to kids. (At the same time, they continued to produce Hematogen syrup for adults, Goldstein notes. “As far as I know,” adds Pirogovskaya, “in hungry or lean years, drinks, omelettes or stews were sometimes made from this syrup.” It seems, however, that the liquid the Hematogen version did not survive the USSR).
It remains unclear how many parents or children knew or know that hematogen is made from cow's blood. You can meet people who grew up with it, but until recently did not know about its key component, and who are really shocked by this. But in reality its composition was never a secret; on the packages, instead of blood, “black food albumin” was listed, so the Soviet authorities were not hiding anything, while maintaining the technological accuracy of the description.
“People were not interested in its composition,” Lakhtikova suggests, “simply because it was the only thing that Soviet pharmacies offered against anemia.” Also, no one thought about vegetarians, and there was no squeamishness towards blood at all. “Refusing a product because you don’t approve of one of its ingredients,” she adds, “was something that rarely, if ever, happened in the Soviet food system.”
In addition, many Soviet children fell in love with Hematogen. This may have been because other sweets were expensive and hard to come by—the cost of a chocolate bar, according to Goldstein, was comparable to the average daily wage—while hematogen was cheap and (barring occasional interruptions) widely available in cities and rural areas. Some children eventually began to prefer its sweetness and texture (and even metallic taste) to other, more expensive Soviet sweets like toffee or soy bars.
The fact that many people became accustomed to hematogen in childhood may explain why these bars are still popular in post-Soviet countries. Of course, it has been replaced by other sweets and nutritional supplements, especially in cities. But the demand is still so high that now not one, but several companies produce hematogen of various types - including with nuts and dried fruits, additionally enriched with vitamins and minerals, in chocolate glaze or even (to the great surprise of one of the Pravda journalists) ) containing little or no blood.
But children growing up in the post-Soviet space, who do not experience the same shortage of products and lack of choice as previous generations, may gradually lose their taste for hematogen and consider it a more specialized product. Many authoritative American experts on Russian cooking and the food system have never heard of hematogen, most likely, Lakhtikova suggests, because its existence is known only to those who grew up in the USSR or one of the former republics, or in a family where there is an ingrained tradition of using hematogen as a food additive.
However, it still arouses interest. Delogeri was so excited when I first told him about Hematogen that he ordered some bars for a faculty meeting. It is unlikely that he and his colleagues liked the taste so much that they will begin to recommend blood bars to American children, but only time will tell.
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