The director’s creations keep many secrets.
Everyone knows Leonid Gaidai as a great director, a brilliant comedy creator and just an amazing creator. However, few people know that Gaidai simply “appropriated” many ideas for his film masterpieces, though with a good purpose. The use of other people’s scenes in their films had no mercenary motives. Thus, the director made secret references to the films of fellow competitors, which he appreciated and loved.
For example, the iconic scene in Operation Y, where a student tries to copy an exam using a headset, was not invented by Gaidai, but was borrowed from the film Sinful Angel. It was to this tape that the director said hello with his scene from Shurik.
The moment in The Prisoner of the Caucasus, when Experienced gives out a dashing twist and teaches you how to crush cigarette butts, is a reference to the film Inostranka. The tape was shown a couple of years before the “Prisoner”, did not gain much success, but Gaidai liked it. The professor from Inostranka crushes rubbish in the same way and, like Experienced, teaches him to dance the twist.
The scene where Gorbunkov rides in a taxi in the “Diamond Hand” is also “plagiarism”. The director created a comical parody of a moment from the film “State Criminal”, where a similar scene was dramatic, and not funny and funny, like Gaidai’s. The author of the Zen channel writes about this “In detail. About cinema».
