Dan Leo Dukhin, Writer

a recent Russian film about the mid-80's USSR, the corruption of its power and the power of its corruption. The movie has been posted on YouTube in its entirety.  It's sort of an homage to Pasolini's "Salo" and, naturally, Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange", an interspersion of sadism and philosophy.

 

But, since I thought that writer/director Alexei Balabanov's own philosophy was all over the map, I chose to feature its main point more - the decay of the Soviet regime, theoretically supported and practically opposed by its protagonists.

 

For those who skipped those glory days or were in a different universe watching MTV, my rewrite is ever so accessible.

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This is an autobiographical clip.

 

Many years ago, this may have been a significantly younger, fictitious Dan with his parents in their last few moments in the "old country". 

 

The exchange obviously wasn't exactly like that. The conversation was thematically pieced together from the various discussions that took place within that time frame.

 

Admittedly, my Dad spoke on the same topics but in much simpler terms.  (I usually made faces).

 

My own dialogue - I was a tad too young then for deep philosophical musings - may appear a smidgen staged but, if one looks at it as a flashback scene from someone older, wiser and prone to pontification, the revisionary theatric dialogue has certain merit.

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Frasier clip:

 

At one point, I deemed myself a pretender at the sitcom riches.

 

I began writing the "Frasier" spec in 1993 or so.

 

The script has gone through eight zillion revisions, give or take a zillion.

 

With the previously posted stuff much darker, why not fluff it up a little?  

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