Hero and Act in Eldar Ryazanov’s Film "Beware of the Car"
The article analyses the specificity of the definition «act» in the Russian artistic culture. The author focuses on the features of the interpretation of the act in Russian film, referring to the semiotic understanding of the cinematic approach. Here are analysed intermedial relations of the image of the main hero of E. Ryazanov’s film «Beware of the Car» - Yu. Detochkin - with such characters as Chatsky, Prince Myshkin, Robin Hood, Hamlet. The intertextual nature of the creation of the image of the hero is stressed, it is conditioned by the historical and cultural context of the period of thaw and I. Smoktunovsky’s acting. Particular attention is given to the interpretation of the motivation and behaviour of the protagonist, which differ in contradictory and ambiguity. The system of correlation actions, their motivation and evaluation in relation to the actions of other characters in the film is made. Specificity of a new type of the hero in the Soviet cinema of the thaw period is presented. The character’s actions are a sign of otherness and breaking of conventional stereotypes. Ideological and genre overtones are designated in creating the film imagery.