Too Much Explosive Power

Moviemakers around the world have employed loud explosions, which go slightly out of control, in order to create memorable audiovisual effects. Obviously, it is quite natural. Because, one of the goals of a feature film is to impress audience with humorously treated action scenes. Let us review several examples of such cinematographic techniques, used by Soviet and US artists.

A Kazakh biopic drama Songs of Abai, 1946, dedicated to the great Kazakh poet, musician, and thinker Abai Kunanbayev (1845-1904), shows life of nomadic tribes at the beginning of the XXth century. As they prepare for fireworks of a scheduled festivity, a Russian friend of the nomads remarks merrily that everything is under control. A few moments later, the minor explosion blows up and an agitated Kazakh old man emerges, comically saying: “Perhaps, they have put too much gundowder inside“. A Soviet action comedy The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers, 1968, whose plotline evolves during the Russian Civil War, among other things features a Russian pharmacist, trying to arm his revolutionary comrades. At first, the pharmacist has not been satisfied with insufficient gunpowder quantity, remarking disappointedly: “Not enough“. Then, he obviously takes an overdose, exclaiming stunningly: “Too much!” A Hollywood crime drama Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969, which narrates about doomed gangsters, has had an iconic dynamite scene. The two gangsters and their accomplices make an attempt to break into a strongbox with the help of dynamite. Apparently, they have applied the explosives too much as the Sundance Kid sarcastically asks his senior companion: “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?“

The aforementioned film scenes once again emphasize one common cinematographic feature. Despite ideological and artistic differences moviemakers around the globe should create catchy audiovisual effects in order to provide audience with impressive feature films. And if they do it in a humorous way, then their creative goals would be accomplished even more thouroughly.

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