Vodka Trees

The Concept

As you may have guessed the idea involves trees that produce alcohol, those this is only the tip of the iceberg in my idea. I intend the entire piece to be a comedic satire in the vein of Monty Python or Mitchell and Webb. The aim of the film is to poke fun at the criminal inefficiencies that communism creates and the direct contradiction of human nature it represents. Even in the supposedly ideal conditions that a small tightly knit community would present to such an ideology as you will soon see.

The Plot

The plot concerns a journalist travelling in central Siberia collecting research for a wildlife column before he's ambushed by a local woodsman, before long he befriends the young journalist before rendering him unconscious. By the time our journalist protagonist wakes up he is inside a community of rustic woodsman clinging to communism. 

Over the course of the next few hours he will come to realise the weird and wonderful world of a great controversial ideology typified by hammers and sickles, egalitarian meetings, criminally efficient bureaucracy and posters of leaders long since deceased. 

Communist symbolism

Communist imagery is an intrinsic part of the short and will be featured to emphasise the ideology of the characters as opposed to dialogue. The vast array of Soviet propaganda readily available will be strewn about trees and all around the camp.   

This is a prominent example of left-wing Soviet Propaganda emphasising the greatness of the "Leader". Posters like these will emphasise the brainwashed nature of the rustic individuals strewn throughout trees as a constant reminder to the loyal marxists of the cause they feel must be fought for.

Though posters are only one piece of the pie all objects that evoke communism will be featured to full effect on costumes and throughout the camp (for added comical effect I may be tempted to replace knives and forks with hammers and sickles). 

Medals such as these will be a staple of the Russian characters' costumes and dependant on quantity will be placed in a comical ridiculously large supply on the characters' chest similar to Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev's Legendary love of them below.  

Though my aim is not to mock the values that communism presents it is only to portray the aspects of it that to westerners seem ridiculous. A prominent part of the objectivism in the short will be devoted to the achievements of communism such as a photograph of the worker and the peasant girl. 

In highlighting the triumphs of the ideology I want to highlight the concept of it not as an ideology to be strived for but an ideal created out of human optimism and the will to create an egalitarian united and prosperous world. 

Satire of Communism

No doubt the aims of my short have become abundantly clear to you though I do not simply want to make a statement of communism being a cheap and ridiculous thing to look down on and ridicule. I want to maintain an impartial view on it and to promote a fresh and impartial view in the minds of my audience. 

This is the intention of my short film.