Football was and remains the main association with Vasily Utkin. However, he had his own opinion on many things. Exactly 15 days before he left us, his interview with literary critic Galina Yuzefovich came to light. There he talked about many things that have nothing to do with football. Maybe you didn’t know Vasily like that.
On the roof of the car: – For me, one of the biggest mysteries is: why does a car without a roof cost more? It doesn’t have a roof. Good is true! Can you give another example where there is a line of items, but without something they cost more?
About the series “The word of the child”: – This is a film about an absolutely eternal theme. These are Romeo and Juliet! Plus, three options in one movie. Three mismatches, essentially. A direct one, when Vova Adidas kills the brother of his beloved. Well, it’s just Montagues and Capulets. Another boy falls in love with a policewoman, which is also a mistake. It’s impossible to imagine them becoming a couple. Well, a wonderful young man played by Ruzil Minekaev: his girlfriend dies and this ruins his life. Eternal plot. A film about the impossibility of love. Three characters look for love in different ways, in completely different ways. And sometime around the fifth episode it is reported: this one died like this, this one died like this, this one died like this. And you understand that this is a generation that has not found love. There was no way to find her.
Utkin’s legendary question about Atlético in ChGK:
How Utkin played “What? Where? When?” Can you answer the questions they asked?
About reading: “Little by little I began to feel like I was seeing worse. Television series are replacing reading novels. There is a wonderful writer, Guzel Yakhina. His first book is about the exodus of his people. I remember what I read, but now I will not say what was discussed. Here’s something surprising: I find it extremely difficult to stay focused. It does not work. I’m reading, but I don’t remember what happened five pages ago. It was dragged, I don’t know.
About Tarkovsky’s films: – Wine, cinema and dominoes? Wine is very important to me. Cinema, of course, too. Although, to be honest, I always considered myself stupid for watching very intelligent movies. I made several visits, but I couldn’t understand what the movie “Mirror” was about. Others have an idea about this movie, but I couldn’t form my own. Although Tarkovsky’s other film, “Andrei Rublev”, is one of my favorites.
About participles: – Participles are something that haunts me. There are words that are not them, but are similar. Here, for example, there is a battery. In such cases, my friends think I am joking. But I live with this. It’s even a little scary.
Vasily Utkin
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About what it consists of: – This may seem like a snobbish boast, but reading Nabokov transfixes me. I can’t say it’s like me, but that’s how I feel. I can’t explain it though. I am a member of Nabokov. First of all, before the Lolita period. I was once forced to write down 30 or 50 favorite books. “The gift” came first for me.
About the commentator’s profession: – On the one hand, you are the main character within your genre. On the other hand, you don’t know what will happen in the next second. You are definitely not the main character in terms of what the viewer is watching. This is an amazing school because the genre is quite self-centered. Everything depends on you, but you are not the main thing. There is one more nuance in the work of commentators. No one else is constantly faced with the fact that the viewer experiences strong emotions and remains helpless at that moment. That’s why the commentators’ work is so memorable: it strikes a chord.
Together we chose the commentator’s most memorable quote:
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Which quote from Vasily Utkin do you remember the most?
About its advantages: – I am an educator. This is my main talent. In fact, I have two main talents. Second, I am terrible at writing obituaries. What I can do? That’s talent.
About your voice in the browser: – Navigator is an achievement more significant than football. Those who understand football talk about it. And for a sailor, his voice must sound good. For me it is quite rare among commentators. They are usually tenors and I am a baritone.
About the Three Musketeers: – Have you tried to perceive the Cowardly, Donkey and Experienced troika as Dumas’s Three Musketeers? Porthos stands out easily. Most likely, Vitsin is a satirical Aramis. He’s still sentimental! It is not clear who Nikulin is. He’s just a little attracted to Athos. Morgunov, like Porthos, speaks very sporadically. And the sounding board of this trio is Nikulin. Athos also personifies morality. Just one day he tries to imagine that Athos is drunk from the first to the last page. Drunk and full of nobility. This is not such a rare condition.
Why this particular commenter is so important:
Utkin shaped the language of football. Through him we perceive the game.
