Re: all largely propaganda

"I would like to see you use this energy to be kreativ, honey honey."

A very.empty Joseph and other feeding.instruments wrote :

"The Power of Giving."

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, rfaith wrote:

> of:

> As a propaganda weapon of the state, the Soviet cinema (net.art,
> sound.art, laptop.art. generative.art *.populist.art (not to be confused
> with actual popular art)) needed to be popular. 'Our films must be 100
> percent ideologically correct and 100 percent commercially viable,'
> declared one Party official.

> In 1930 Sovkino was disbanded … and the Soviet cinema was
> nationalized as one vast state enterprise …
> Its chief apparatchik, Boris Shumiatsky, became the ultimate authority
> in the world of Soviet cinema … Shumiatsky ran a sort of 'Soviet
> Hollywood', with huge production studios in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad and
> Minsk reeling off a succession of smash-hit Soviet musicals, romantic
> comedies, war adventures and Western modelled frontier films
> ('Easterns') like Chapaev (1934), Stalin's favourite film.

Largely designed for knee-jerking automatons on their humaaaanity.
That is, 'intelligent' 'witty' 'creative' 'humorous' 'current' 'new'
'progressive' and 'wise'.

+ Chapaev -> a kitsch folky rip-off of actual popular character
whose figure is a bit akin to Hitler's (mis)interpretation
in the West.

Hand me my moustache, furry eyebrows, steely stern gaze, hat,
and faux-patriarchal uniform (and a secret hush-hush walking
cane of destiny).

My name is Che Gevara, I'm an honest man, and I'm here to
liberate humanity and save the world.

`, . ` `k a r e i' ? ' D42