“8 ½ tales about Paul McCartney” ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An idea for an animated cartoon movie about Paul McCartney, pastor cat Basil and the Beatles. Real historical facts and personas are alternated with fairytale characters and motifs. Māris Druva. “8 ½ tales about Paul McCartney” On 24 March 2003 Paul McCartney met Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Russian president shows Kremlin to his guest and they remember the far January of 1974, when it had become clear that student and judoist Volodya Putin as well as the star of the Kirov Theatre of Ballet Mikhail Baryshnikov and the founder of the Beatles Paul McCartney all like the same daughter or a high-ranking Russian diplomat named Zhanna. The song “Back in the USSR” performed on the evening of 24 March by the Kremlin wall will be devoted to those old and romantic days. That’s what Paul McCartney told Putin. He was surprised that these words were also overheard by a pastor cat that stayed with them all the time they spent in Kremlin. Who was that pastor? Many years have passed until Paul McCartney understood that situation in Kremlin. He had to meet the pastor cat face to face in the courtroom of the International Court. With the beginning of the process McCartney discovered everything about this special pastor cat. He found out that the pastor cat and his team – a rat named Old Rat, a rook named Savrasov and a dog named Dog tried to save New York from the 2001 tragedy, and how they delivered Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Raimonds Pauls and others from huge trouble. When the pastor cat’s grandfather Vasya passed away, it happened that the pastor cat Basil has inherited the copyright for the Beatles first songs. It happened that Vasya the cat together with two more talented cats and a drummer dog performed in Liverpool and Hamburg clubs as early as the fifties. The three guitars and drums lineup seemed interesting for two young and ambitious men Paul and John those days. From time to time they were even invited to perform with the guitarist cats and the drummer dog. They were even invited to perform alongside them in a New York club tour. The songs that later became popular and were listened to around the world as the Beatles songs were produced together. Now the pastor cat Basil wants to regain his part of the inheritance from Paul McCartney. Sensational and unknown facts about the nights in Liverpool and Hamburg clubs where a new era in the world music life has begun. Vasya the cat’s and Paul McCartney’s escape from Hamburg prison in 1960 is also connected to the revolution in the world of music. Contrary to the predictions Paul McCartney and the pastor cat become friends after the sensational process. They organize another Paul McCartney show by the Kremlin wall in Moscow. Will Mikhail Baryshnikov and Zhanna come to listen to the “Back in the USSR”? After the show a fateful and yet unseen by the world’s composers ruling will be signed. All the aforementioned characters and stories are fixed in books, compact disks and radio broadcasts by Karina Lučinina, a Latvian actress. The songs by Karina Lučinina (based on Shakespeare’s and Lord Byron’s lyrics) are supposed to be used in the project. The song “Mirror of My Heart”, for example (Byron’s words are used). The idea for an animated cartoon movie about Paul McCartney in Russian can be heard in the archive of the Latvian Radio 4 (the most popular Russian radio in Latvia) 12 September 2010, 20:00 (“The Story of a Seagull” http://lr4.lsm.lv/lv/lr/arhivs/?channel=4&y=2010&m=9&d=12 (45.-47.min.)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4di9jurlD0 8 December 2015, 16:06 (“8 Stories about Mikhail Baryshnikov” http://lr4.lsm.lv/lv/lr/arhivs/?channel=4&y=2015&m=12&d=8 (21.minūte)) All rights for these works are reserved exclusively to Māris Druva (Tel.+371 28849204, [email protected])
Is this Baryshnikov? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application for an animated film with elements of featured film Is this Baryshnikov? (From a novel – fairy tale of the same name by Maris Druva) Original version about the tragedy of 9/11 in New York.
In October 1997, after his tour Mikhail Baryshnikov takes a boxer breed dog named Toby from Riga to New York. Later Toby establishes a Dogs’ ballet troupe in New York and stages Mikhail Bulgakov's ‘’The Master and Margarita’’.
In October 1997, part of Manhattan in New York begins to rise above the ground. A sizeable part of Manhattan that has risen above the ground swings around its axis for a few months and then freezes inclined. A giant Inclined Plane has formed. Soon amazing things start to happen - sick people, animals, birds are healed and discover special talents. Within the Inclined Plane new groups of artists, theatres and concert halls are built, global artistic miracles begin to occur..
At the end of 1997, a pastor, Basil, in the form of a Persian breed cat, flies from Riga to New York together with his comrades – a rat named Old Rat and a rook ? called Savrasov. The „Cat Pastor” begins to serve the Western part of a New York cat congregation and sermonizes warnings of the tragedy which commenced when the Inclined Plane rose above the ground of New York. The same warnings are screamed every day by the rook Savrasov sitting on top of Times Square’s highest billboard tower. Meanwhile, the Old Rat shouts warnings in the New York underground.
The Inclined Plane continues to thrive and surprise the world with its unimaginable peaks in culture, arts and sciences, and by every living creature’s dream to become alive on the Inclined Plane.
However, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and many others along with Andrei Tarkovsky’s and Vassily Shukshin’s classmate from the Moscow Film School Shperling, look to the Inclined Plane from the outside and do not try to get into it. Baryshnikov prohibits his boxer dog Toby from establishing a ballet troupe at the Inclined Plane.
In 2001, the Inclined Plane becomes globally overloaded. In September 11, 2001, the Inclined Plane does not sustain the pressure and begins to swing and rotate around its axis. When the Plane turns in a perpendicular position to the ground a giant grave opens there, and thousands of houses and living creatures cascade into it. The Plane then continues to rotate and turns around for 180 degrees, lands and again comes level to the ground. Thus, where once the Inclined Plane began to ascend, there is now a black ploughed field.
Baryshnikov sees and feels the deep pain of New York, holding the porcelain vase he once accidentally cracked at the Riga School of Choreography as a boy and then glued it back together for eternity.
September 11, 2001 became a deep personal tragedy for the Cat Pastor Basil and his team. No one listened to their warnings, they were considered crazy and were to be expelled them from New York. Soon after the tragedy, the Cat Pastor changed his religious denomination - from a Lutheran pastor, hebecomes an Orthodox priest and together with Old Rat and rook Savrasov move to Moscow.