Leonardo DiCaprio plays the leading role in the film “Aviator”. The actress playing in that film has been given an Oscar for her role. The film has been advertised so much, that everyone should watch it. This film is advertised on a Public Television Channel (H1) starting from September of this year. At the beginning of this year this film was shown in Moscow Cinema. But now we have a chance to watch it at home. Besides that probably the ticket price for this movie was about 3 dollars. This film was shown last Friday. The Armenian national TV channel has prepared a good surprise for us: we can watch good movies with Armenian translation, but what is more interesting, with artistic translation. Their news program has prepared a report about these actors. They proudly spoke about the difficulty of their work. Armenian known actors speak in that film in the role of famous actors from Hollywood. Sundukyan theatre actor Tigran Nersisyan is one of them.
Generally a lot of people say that they can’t watch movies translated into Armenian. Why? “Aviator” found the answer to this question. You can’t watch any movie when you hear the voice of Zosia Sinickaya (an actress of “Golden calf” film). Times have changed, generations have changed, but the intonation and sound tones of film translations haven’t changed. And if you don’t go to theatres, it means that you don’t like movies with the voices of Armenian actors.
Generally this was a separate arts direction during the Soviet times. Artists usually like to speak about Khoren Abrahamyan when they are at a café, they like to speak about his plays, about “Saroyan Brothers”, the backup of Hamlet and Bender. These are three great works, two of which are interpreting.
During the Soviet period Armenians were allowed to duplicate only soviet films. Foreign films were the “monopoly” of Russians. We used to watch foreign films in Russian, and Russian films – in Armenian. The Soviet Union collapsed, and the genre died out. We started to watch films with neutral backup and without the interpretation of actors. And now Public TV channel revives the habits of Soviet television (for example: “music mailbox”, etc.) and backup as a genre. Armenian actors are happy: they are given a chance to interpret world famous actors and feel like they are a participant in the world arts environment. Tigran Nersisyan, who hadn’t been a great film star before that and now he is given a chance to interpret DiCaprio and feel tough. It is a pity but the ambitions of actors are not good for people, because they will have to watch the play of Howard Huse in two ways: by the actors of Hollywood and by the actors of Sundukyan. But the actors of Sundukyan theatre benefit from this, because they could hardly have another chance to have this kind of audience. Tigran Nersisyan interprets DiCaprio in order to make people listen to his voice, like several years ago Vazgen Sargsyan joined Karen Demirchyan with political purposes of getting more votes.
So if the H1 channel wants people to watch their movies more, they don’t have to make the film as a genre by having both the voice of DiCaprio and the duplicator’s voice together. Instead of this they can just use the neutral voice of Levon Paronyan so people can understand what is going on. Armenian actors are very talented to make a boring film from a very interesting one. But it is difficult to say how boring “Aviator” was this time. The genre of Hollywood about how a child and his mother speak to each other, and then he remembers his childhood when he is already old is not interesting any more (especially when the hero is not Ray Charles, who was a very famous American rich person who remembered his mother). DiCaprio has to make his usual hero of American rich person, who reaches his goals by an American standard way more unusual so to be interesting for people to watch his movie. So it turns out that his hero detests, but DiCaprio doesn’t detest in a way to make sure that he does. In a word the fact that the hero is strange doesn’t save the situation and it is not justified to make a film about this person. Later we turn on a Russian channel in order to save ourselves from that acting of actors from Hollywood and Sundukyan and we see the real tears of a Russian woman. A documentary film, where Anastasia, a 20 year old young lady meets an American man (20 years older than her), gets married with him and gets lost. Anyway, we wish to see the end of “Aviator”, so we turn the channel for a couple of times to see what has happened. No, there is no hope; Armenian actors can’t make the roles of American actors more impressive. Then we turn the channel and learn that the American has killed that beautiful Russian lady along with his mad friend. The film of Hollywood didn’t save H1.