Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Did director James Cameron 'plunder' their work and the work of other Soviet-era writers to make Avatar? Boris Strugatsky says no, but that isn't stopping the St. Petersburg Communist Party from calling for Cameron's arrest.
As already reported by Komsomolskaya
Pravda, Boris Strugatsky himself announced on his Web site that he has no claims
against James Cameron and doesn't accuse him of plagiarism. Nevertheless, the
communists of St. Petersburg/Leningrad have decided not to believe him. Moreover,
they've decided to demand an extradition warrant.
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Indignant party members say that
Cameron, prepared to do anything to execute the command of the White House, surreptitiously
entered the mysterious and romantic world of Soviet science fiction, and transferred
all the action to his primitive propaganda film and to the Strugatsky-created
world of planet Pandora. Completely devoid of imagination, Cameron plundered
Strugatskys' novels, and books by Yefremov,
Bulychev
and Snegov,
naively believing that no one would notice the theft. You were mistaken, mister!
St. Petersburg Communists accuse you and your masters of robbing Soviet science
fiction!
Scandalized communists not
only demand that Russia ban all films by James Cameron, they want a special parliamentary
commission created to screen foreign films to be shown in Russia. Their other
request: "fire the leaders of Ruskino, which procures films created through the theft
of Russia's intellectual property for Russian screening."
[Editor's Note: Ruskino is a Russian Web site that allows people to watch and review films and TV shows.]
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Party members were incensed
not only by the "theft of an entire planet from Soviet books," but
also the harmful influence the movie has on children.
After seeing the dark blue snouts
of the creatures created by Cameron's inflamed brain, teenagers get scared and don't
sleep well at night. Consequently, their
parents get nervous and then do badly at work.
"It's not
that we believe Cameron's film Avatar is some kind of ideological
sabotage, as some media report. This is simply the theft and misappropriation of
socialist intellectual property - the contents of books and films of Soviet
science fiction. In any country, such acts fall under the Criminal Code. We
demand the issuance of an international arrest warrant for Mr. Cameron, who
borrowed all the characters, ideas and general life on Pandora and handed it to
a crazy cyborg paratrooper. Not only in all Russian
airports! Cameron must be apprehended in any country on earth that's a member
of Interpol!"
Yekaterina Petrova, secretary of the VolkhovRKKPLO:
"This
star-spangled scum has lifted his hand against the artistic heritage of the
deceased Strugatsky, Efremov,
Bulychev and director Paul Arsenov,
using the fact that deceased authors can't write a statement to the prosecutor.
But we will write the statement! Why is Polanski, who seduced a Pioneer,
deservedly arrested, while this gangster Cameron calmly walks the earth shoveling
in dollars, earned by stealing Pandora from Soviet books? Most likely, Cameron's
agents secretly bought Soviet science fiction novels in advance, snatching whole
pages from them - even entire episodes to the delight of Obama and his clique!"
Andres Tamm,
Estonian immigrant a member of the KPLO:
"I think
we can do without an international arrest warrant for Cameron. This is a matter
for international arbitration. A sufficient response would be to expel a number
of aggressive American diplomats from Russia - for example,
those who fund the Orange
Alternation and drink bloody tea with it.Another
good thing would be to say to hell with the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg and
give the building to the House of Pioneers.
Then Obama himself might push Cameron to admit that he robbed the Strugatsky brothers and the film Andromeda Nebula."
