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3 | ''Film, Film, Film'' is a Soviet animated film (1968) directed by Fyodor Khitruk which chronicles the creation of a movie from the writing of a script to the premiere. |
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5 | It can be seen on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg-XDAmz8bM with English subtitles]]. |
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10 | * AffectionateParody: Of movie-making in general. The writer is a neurotic mess; the director is a hard-working perfectionist on the verge of heart attack; executives' demands are unreasonable; studio is rather chaotic with actors in costumes off their sets (a witch, a skeleton, an army with rifles and tanks); the technical crew are weirdos in love with their jobs; ShiningCity is built out of cardboard and plywood; logistics is a mess; weather is uncooperative; the director forces the male lead to repeat a dangerous stunt again and again, because the antagonist repeatedly fails to show how evil he is; executives' demands are unreasonable; the director is forced to twist the plot into its opposite: reshoot funeral as a wedding; a child actor repeatedly fails to follow orders; executives' demands are unreasonable; the film gets unfair criticism before getting approved by viewers; all in all, the work is highly stressful, while the theme song tells how joyful it is. |
11 | * AlienGeometries: The movie studio looks ''trippy''. |
12 | * CameraTricks: The cameraman is quite fond of these. The first time we see him, he is filming a fishbowl while upside down. Later, we see him filming a horse chase, while being right under the stampede. |
13 | * DevelopmentHell: In-universe. Mainly, preproduction hell. A lot of managers have to approve the script, and the director and the writer rewrite it several times. This involves throwing several pages in a trash bin, then retrieving them two managers later. |
14 | * DrivenToSuicide: The screenwriter, when we first see him, is fantasizing about hanging himself, imagining his cigarette smoke as a noose. During the film's premiere, he repeatedly tries to jump out the nearest window and is dragged back in by other members of the crew. |
15 | * EpicFilm: Parodied. The characters are trying to produce a grandiose historical drama. |
16 | * ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe example. It starts during pre-production with the director having to drop and rewrite entire pages of the script to get the movie approved by officials and continues during the production. |
17 | * {{Facepalm}}: The director does this, when the PowersThatBe make him retool a funeral scene into a wedding scene. |
18 | * FreezeFrameBonus: The piece of the storyboard we see during the funeral/wedding scene contains the names of the movie's apparent protagonist and his bride: Nikita and Natalya. |
19 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: After they get management approval, but before going to the biggest boss, the writer offers a bottle of Validol pills[[note]]An anxiolytic drug often used to relieve chest pains.[[/note]] and the director downs it. |
20 | * LighterAndSofter: In-universe. After ExecutiveMeddling kicks in, the director is forced to reshoot an "overly depressing" funeral and mourning scene as a bright and joyful wedding scene. |
21 | * MeanCharacterNiceActor: The big guy seems to play a villain, or at least a brute, on-set. But his default expression is really demure and he seemed to be one of hte most anxious people at the premiere. |
22 | * TheMuse: She comes and goes to the scriptwriter as she pleases. |
23 | * NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: [[invoked]] The animals aren't a problem, except that the animal handlers [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext accidentally bring a lion instead of a cow]]. The little girl seems to have been the biggest challenge during the production. |
24 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The director in the short looks suspiciously like Creator/SergeiEisenstein (even if Khitruk himself says that the director was modeled after another person), and the movie they're filming looks too much like a certain [[Film/IvanTheTerrible historical flick set in medieval Russia]]. |
25 | * PrimaDonnaDirector: Played with and parodied. The director may be an easily-angered dictatorial perfectionist, but he also really loves his job and has to endure a lot of pressure from the studio. |
26 | * RealityIsUnrealistic: Lampshaded in the short. They have to use a water hose to film a rain scene, and when the real rain starts, they stop shooting. |
27 | * ScoobyDoobyDoors: Appears briefly when the director and the screenwriter are running around the studio offices, trying to get the screenplay approved. |
28 | * ShiningCity: The set, at least from the outside. (And when they aren't filming a funeral.) With white walls and golden domes built out of cardboard or plywood. |
29 | * SpeakingSimlish: No real words are uttered during the film. |
30 | * ThunderEqualsDownpour: Just as the director was about to try, for the third time, to film one scene, thunder sounds in the background, and the downpour makes the production halt again. |
31 | * TroubledProduction: Played for laughs. Apparently gathering the required personnel for shooting was the only smooth procedure. Everythign else involved problems that delayed the production in various ways. |
32 | * WhenItRainsItPours: It started to rain really heavily during a shot to the point of halting production. |
33 | * WeirdSun: A bright red one. |
34 | * WritersBlock: The scriptwriter is having problems completing the script, specially with his muse appearing and disappearing all the time. |
35 | * WritersSuck: The writer is a suicidal neurotic mess, and one can see why. |
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