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"Treasure Island"- Soviet animation and feature film, created at the Ukrainian studio "Kievnauchfilm", based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. Consists of two parts: "Captain Flint's Map" and "Captain Flint's Treasures."

It was released in the US in 1992 as "The Return to Treasure Island" on video. The American version is 34 minutes shorter (without musical numbers). In 2006, the Krupny Plan association released a restored version of the cartoon.

Comedy adaptation of the famous novel " Treasure Island"about the search for the pirate Flint's treasure. The animated plot is interrupted by musical numbers filmed with the participation of actors and illustrating the events of the cartoon or relating to certain problems associated with the lifestyle of pirates (smoking, alcoholism). At the same time, the manner of filming differs in different episodes: somewhere the image is color, somewhere black and white; one scene imitates a silent film using intertitles; In the opening sequence, live action is combined with animation.

Differences from the novel text

It’s interesting that the lines of the film’s characters almost completely correspond to the lines of Stevenson’s characters. However, sometimes, in order to achieve comic effect or simplify the plot, what happens is not completely true to the novel. So, in the book, Jim lived in the Admiral Benbow tavern with his parents; his father dies and his mother is taken to the village before the tavern is destroyed. However, the parents do not appear in the cartoon; Jim is helped by a one-eyed cat, which Billy Bones brought with him, and Jim's mother is only mentioned in passing ("My mother says..").

In the cartoon, Blind Pew dies by rolling off a cliff in a barrel, while in the book he is trampled by the horses of the soldiers who galloped to the Admiral Benbow to help.

In the book, Jim recognizes Black Dog in the Spyglass, screams, and he runs away, after which Silver plays the good guy, convincing Jim that they will catch him. In the cartoon, Black Dog calmly drinks rum in a tavern with other drunkards, watches Jim's fight with a fat pirate, and then even becomes one of the Hispaniola sailors recruited by Silver.

Silver’s “dossier” states that he is single, like all the other cartoon characters, but in the book (in a letter from Squire Trelawney), on the contrary, the fact that he is married to a black woman is mentioned.

Jim promises Ben Gunn “here’s a wheel of cheese,” although he does not ask for cheese, unlike the book.

Sometimes faithfully following the lines of the characters in the novel leads to contradictions with what is happening on the screen. For example, when the heroes, while still on the schooner, learn about the conspiracy, Captain Smollett, in response to Trelawney’s question “How many people are loyal to us on the ship?”, says: “There are seven of us, along with Jim,” which corresponds to the plot of the book, but not a cartoon. However, after defending the fort, he says: “There were four of us against nineteen. Now we are four against nine." In the film, the number of pirates cannot be counted (on average, there are four of them in the frame, except for Silver, or five with a small pirate in a yellow robe, less often - six; only once, when Trelawney, at the call of Captain Smollett, bravely goes “to hand-to-hand combat” in eleven pirates appear simultaneously in the frame; already in the next scene, where they listen to the clicking of a cork, there are eight of them; before rushing to the model, they can be counted sixteen - it seems that the maximum number for the entire cartoon), while the goodies - only four: the fifth - Ben Gunn - joined them later.

Also, upon returning to the fort, which was surrendered to the pirates, Jim Hawkins says: “It was I who killed Israel Hands!..” (since in the book Jim actually kills Israel Hands). Meanwhile, in the scene of the capture of the schooner by Jim, Hands does not die, but remains hanging between the masts of the Hispaniola, grabbing the ends of the rope cut by his own dagger - moreover, he remains there when the pirates are defeated and the heroes set off on their way back.

Parallels with other works

• Some moments of the cartoon are an outright parody of American cartoons and westerns (the moving door in the fight between Billy Bones and the Black Dog, the unbreakable window of Squire Trelawney, the similarity of the Spyglass tavern with the saloons of the Wild West, depicted, for example, in certain episodes of Tom and Jerry , when Squire Trelawn, Dr. Livesey and Captain Smollett escaped from the pirate ship, the pirates first fired one cannonball, then a bunch, and then they took out a machine gun belt and began to shoot not from a cannon, but from a machine gun, and the pirate who was shooting from the cannon began to shoot like Rimbaud) .

• In the scene where Jim meets Ben Gunn, the monkeys are shown watching from a tree. This scene is copied from the Disney cartoon "The Jungle Book"

• First line of the song "Song about the dangers of smoking"(“Columbus discovered America, he was a great sailor / But at the same time he taught the whole world to smoke tobacco”) echoes the beginning of a courtyard romance (student song) “Copernicus worked for a century”(“Columbus discovered America / A country completely foreign to us. / Fool, he would rather have opened / A pub on our street”), dating back to the 19th century.

Animation Features

Many hand-drawn sequences in the cartoon are used several times. For example, a night raid by pirates on the Admiral Benbow tavern and a daytime attack on the fort (with the difference that Blind Pew is now replaced by Silver).

The death of minor characters in the cartoon is shown conditionally. During the entire film, in addition to Billy Bones and the cat, only two cartoon characters die for real: Blind Pew and the fat man defeated by Jim with a rocket (after the death of both, the five pirates on the shore mournfully bare their heads). The rest tend to reappear. For example, the bearded man who fired from a “bomb launcher” (a cannon “modified” to look like a machine gun) during the main characters’ escape from the ship got hot and fell apart when they decided to cool it down. But towards the end of the film he is again present in the crowd of pirates. In the final scenes of the second series, in the crowd you can also see a black-moustached pirate, from whom, a little earlier, Israel Hands left only his shoes as a gag.

Two teams of animators worked on the cartoon. One used the classical hand-drawn animation method, and the second used the "flat puppet" method. The difference between the methods is that with classical drawing the artist draws a mirror image of the character. As a result, Silver alternately loses his left and right legs. The same mistake occurs in other films by D. Cherkassky, where the heroes (sailors and pirates) either have different legs (“Doctor Aibolit”) or different eyes (“The Adventures of Captain Vrungel”).

Dossier on heroes

In the cartoon, when introducing pirates and other characters to the audience, the “dossier” style of the television film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” is used:

• Jim Hawkins- Very, very good boy. Polite, truthful, modest, kind. Listens to mom. Every morning he does exercises. The character is very soft.
• Dr. Livesey- A very good and cheerful person. Sociable character. Not married.
• Sir Trelawney- Stupid, greedy, gluttonous, lazy, cowardly, arrogant. Character is missing. Not married.
• Captain Smollett- An old sailor and a soldier. He speaks the truth, which is why he suffers. The character is very bad. Not married.
• Billy Bones- He's the "Captain". Holder of the Treasure Island card. He drinks a lot and always has a cold. Bad character. Not married.
• John Silver- He's "Ham". He is "One-Legged". The most terrible pirate, but he successfully pretends to be kind. Secretive character. Not married.
• Black Dog- Flint's friend. Hunts for the map of Treasure Island. Secretive character. Not married.
• Blind Pew- Also an old pirate. Flint's friend. Cunning. Greedy. I'm ready to do anything for money. The character is vile. Not married.
• Ben Gunn- As a child, he was a well-bred boy, but he started playing toss, got involved with pirates and went downhill... His character is soft. Not married.

All cartoon characters are not married. It is also noteworthy that often the text does not coincide with the voiced version. So, in the voice-over of Trelawney’s dossier, instead of “coward” it is said that he is a coward, and in the intertitle of the Musical Pause Jim’s name is omitted, which the announcer nevertheless calls.

Performers and crew

The roles were voiced

The film was filmed

• Ensemble "Grotesk" (Odessa Theater "Grotesk"):

• On the death of Billy Bones (“Fifteen people on a dead man’s chest...”, Song about drunkenness) - 02:35
• Song about the benefits of sports (“Jim maintains daily routine…”) -- 02:33
• On board the Hispaniola (instrumental number)
• Chance - 02:49
• Introduction No. 2 (“Now the bells will strike midnight…”)
• Story by Ben Gunn (instrumental)
• A song about greed (“Greedy Billy was a pirate... One, two, three, four, five, you know, I guess”) - 02:19
• We are all participants in the regatta
• Song about the dangers of smoking (“The Ministry of Health warns: smoking is poison…”) - 01:56
• Fortune lottery (“Life is like a movie”) - 01:11
• About loneliness (Final song, “It’s better to be one-legged...”) - 01:23

Music and songs performed by VIA "Festival". With the exception of the final song (sung by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan)

Awards

• VF of television films, Minsk 1989 - Grand Prize.
• 1st Prize of the IFF TV Films in Czechoslovakia
• 1st All-Union Film Festival of Animated Film, Kyiv, 1989, prize “For the best feature film”

• Despite the fact that the book takes place in the 18th century, the heroes raise the Union Jack with the Irish oblique cross (St. Patrick's cross) over the fort. It is known that it only became an element of the British flag in 1801.
• There are a number of inaccuracies with clothing. When Silver walks on a crutch at the Spyglass inn, when he rolls up the crutch and opens the lock with it to go into the room where Jim overheard the plot, his hat is not blue, but red. During Smollett's conversation with Silver before the attack, Alexander Smollett's boots change color several times.
• Some pirates constantly change their appearance from frame to frame. During the plot, Hands appears as a bearded sailor, but after that he appears without a beard and in all red.
• In the scene where the horse-drawn carriage stops at the Spyglass, there is a spectacular trick - the horses do not slow down, but slow down by inertia, and at the same time you can hear the squeaking of the brakes.
• Also, the only characters named in the dossier were Silver, Hawkins, and Ben (Benjamin) Gunn. Alexander Smollett, John Trelawney and David Livesey are named by rank or profession instead of by name.

"Treasure Island" Stevenson main characters different, both positive and negative, but thanks to them the novel turned out to be so interesting and exciting.

"Treasure Island" heroes

Positive heroes of "Treasure Island"

1. Jim Hawkins(English) Jim Hawkins) - a young man, the main character, on whose behalf (with the exception of a few chapters on behalf of Dr. Livesey) the story is told. It is his actions that propel the plot of Stevenson's novel. Jim Hawkins actively participates in all events: he made friends with the pirate Billy Bones, he stole the map of Treasure Island from the chest of this pirate, which he gave to Dr. Livesey and the Squire; he discovered a conspiracy on the ship, found Ben Gunn, killed Israel Hands, took the pirate ship to the Northern parking lot and became a bone of contention in the confrontation between John Silver and the remnants of his gang.
2. Jim Hawkins' mother- owner of the Admiral Benbow tavern.
3. Dr David Livesey(English) Dr. David Livesey) - a gentleman, a doctor and a judge, a man of amazing courage, ready to fulfill his professional and human duty without hesitation. Once served in the Duke of Cumberland's forces and was wounded at the Battle of Fontenoy (1745).
4. Squire John Trelawney(English) Squire John Trelawney) - a wealthy landowner who financed the expedition for Flint's treasures. Over six feet (183 cm) tall. Initially aspired to leadership; however, his talkativeness and incompetence caused the majority of the Hispaniola's crew to be made up of the late Flint's thugs. Relinquished command to Captain Smollett when he learned of the impending mutiny. An excellent shooter. He took three faithful servants on the voyage, who showed themselves well in the battle with the robbers.
5. Captain Alexander Smollett(English) Captain Alexander Smollett) - captain of Hispaniola. A professional sailor who has knowledge not only of navigation, but also of organizing ship life. During the storming of the blockhouse he received two gunshot wounds. Height is over six feet (183 cm). After returning to England he left the naval service.
6. Tom Redruth(English) Tom Redruth) - an old forester from the squire's retinue; died at the stockade from a pistol shot on the day the schooner arrived at the island.
7. John Hunter(English) John Hunter) - the Squire's servant, died during the assault on the fort. One of the pirates snatched the musket from his hands and, thrusting it into the loophole, dealt him a terrible blow, which broke the unfortunate man’s ribs. Hunter fell and broke his skull. He died from these wounds in the evening of the same day.
8. Richard Joyce(English) Richard Joyce) - the squire's servant, died during the storming of the fort - he was shot in the head.
9. Abraham "Abe" Gray(English) Abraham Gray) - a ship's carpenter's assistant, along with Dick, Alan and Tom (not to be confused with Tom Morgan) was one of those honest sailors whom Silver and his henchmen wanted to win over to their side. Heeding the call of Captain Smollett, he went over to his side, fighting off five angry rioters who cut his face. Subsequently, he justified the trust placed in him by killing the boatswain Job Anderson, who was trying to break into the log house. After returning, he spent the received part of the treasures on his studies and as a result became a navigator and co-owner of a small ship.
10. Benjamin "Ben" Gunn(English) Ben Gunn) - former pirate, crew member of the Walrus. During his stay on the island, he built a boat, on which Jim Hawkins later managed to swim to the Hispaniola. After Flint's death, he sailed on another pirate ship, but quarreled with the crew and was left on Treasure Island as punishment. During his forced three-year life on the island, he repented of his crimes; found the bulk of Flint's treasures and transferred them to his cave. The English writer R. F. Delderfield wrote the book “The Adventures of Ben Gunn” about his adventures on the island. After his return, he spent his share of the treasure in nineteen days, after which he was hired by the squire to work as a gatekeeper.
11. Allan And Volume- honest sailors killed by pirates on the first day of the mutiny. Tom was killed by Silver, Allan was killed by the second boatswain Anderson.

Negative heroes of "Treasure Island"

• John Silver, aka Lanky John, aka Ham- cook on the Hispaniola, then leader of the rebellious pirates. Age - 50 years (according to Silver himself). They said that “in his youth he was a student and, if he wanted, he could talk like he was reading a book.” On the Walrus, Flint served as quartermaster. His left leg was amputated up to the hip, so Silver walked on a wooden prosthesis and with a crutch. Unlike the pitiful fate of most pirates on the shore (which did not spare even Pugh himself), especially the disabled, he saved up money and opened his own inn, the Spyglass, in the port of Bristol. Married to a “colored” woman. On his shoulder he carries a parrot named Captain Flint. At the end of the novel, he not only remained alive, having gone over to the side of the winners in time, but also hid from them in one of the ports, not without the help of Ben Gunn, taking with him as much money as he could carry. Unlike the book, in the domestic film - Treasure Island (film, 1982) - Silver, by an absurd accident, dies from Ben Gunn's shot with a poisoned arrow from a blowpipe. Dennis Jude wrote the novel The Adventures of Long John Silver about Silver's life before the events of Treasure Island.
• Job Anderson(English) Job Anderson) - a tall, strong, brave and energetic boatswain. After his disappearance, Arrow served as first mate on the schooner. The second most important pirate on the Hispaniola after Silver, he wields a cleaver superbly and shoots a pistol. He fell at the hands of Abraham Gray during the storming of the stockade. In the domestic film, due to his own negligence, he exploded on a bomb from a keg of gunpowder set by George Merry.
• Israel Hands(English) Israel Hands) - a boatswain's mate (boatswain's mate or second boatswain), after the death of navigator Arrow and the promotion of Job Anderson, he began to act as a boatswain, together with Silver, Anderson, Merry and the ship's carpenter, he formed the core of the conspirators who planned to mutiny on the Hispaniola and take possession of the map. Left by Silver to guard Hispaniola. Killed by Jim aboard the Hispaniola. Flint was a gunner on the Walrus.
• Hispaniola carpenter(first and last name unknown) - a strong and dangerous pirate. He was killed in his sleep by Ben Gunn. In the Soviet film his name was Jack.
• George Merry(English) George Merry) - 35 years old, a lanky pirate who caught a malignant fever on the island, which explains his sickly appearance. After the deaths of Anderson, Hands and the carpenter, he became the informal leader of a gang of pirates and an instigator against Silver, for which he was subsequently shot by John Silver.
• Tom Morgan(English) Tom Morgan) - the oldest robber from a gang of pirates, was left by Smollet and company to atone for their sins on Treasure Island. Young sailors Dick and Red Fowler remained with him.
• O'Brien(English) O'Brien) - a pirate, a bald Irishman who wore a red sleeping cap on his head. He took part in the assault on the fort; after the pirates retreated, he was the last to climb over the stockade; the defenders of the fort did not fire at him. He was stabbed to death on board the Hispaniola by Israel Hands in a drunken brawl, having previously wounded him. In Dennis Jude's story "The Adventures of Long John Silver" he is named Michael.
• Harry- a regular at the Spyglass tavern. The same pirate whom (along with Long-Legged Ben) John Silver sent to catch up with the Black Dog. Subsequently he died during the storming of the stockade (presumably). In the domestic film, Harry is a deaf-mute pirate carrying a light cannon on his back, who personally knew Flint and was left on the island after the end of the story.
• Long Legs Ben- a regular at John Silver's Spyglass tavern. Probably one of the six pirates left behind by Silver on the Hispaniola. Was shot by Squire Trelawney at the cannon (allegedly). R. F. Delderfield's book mentions that a pirate named Dick was mortally wounded at the cannon.
• John Fowler(Jim Fowler, Red Fowler) - one of the three surviving pirates left on the island. It does not have a name in the original author’s text; it received a name only in L. Delderfield’s story “The Adventures of Ben Gunn”. It states that Fowler was not a pirate and a member of the crew of the Walrus, but joined John Silver after the Hispaniola left England. In the domestic film, Harry was left on the island instead.
• Dark- one of those robbers who, together with Pugh and the Black Dog, destroyed the Admiral Benbow tavern. As the blind man put it, Pugh had always been a fool and a coward; was probably killed during the attack on the log house. In Dennis Jude's story "The Adventures of Long John Silver", his surname is Campbell.
• Johnny- one of those robbers who, together with Pugh and the Black Dog, destroyed the Admiral Benbow tavern. He loved to hum the song “Lillibulero”.
• Three nameless pirates- former members of old Flint's gang.
• Dick Johnson- young sailor; Initially, Dick was not a pirate, like the sailors from the crew of the Walrus. He joined the conspirators under the influence of Silver's eloquence.

• Captain Flint(English) Captain Flint) - legendary pirate captain, comrade-in-arms of Pugh. On his old Walrus, Billy Bones acted as navigator, John Silver as quartermaster, Israel Hands as gunner, and Job Anderson as boatswain. In the book it is only mentioned in conversations, since the novel takes place after his death.
• Billy Bones(English) Billy Bones) - pirate, former first mate of old Flint. After the death of his captain, he became his heir and fled to England along with the map of Treasure Island.
• Drink (Blind Pew, English Blind Pew) is a blind pirate leader who is known to have lost his sight in the same battle in which John Silver lost his leg. Along with Flint, John Silver and Billy Bones, he formed the four most ferocious and dangerous villains in Stevenson's novel. He died under the hooves of a horse after a pogrom at the Admiral Benbow tavern. His influence on other pirates is enormous. Even as a blind man, he terrifies Billy Bones, and the cunning John Silver repeats his name with respect. It was he (not John Silver or Job Anderson) who led the ill-fated attack on the Admiral Benbow Inn). It is not entirely clear what place he previously occupied in the hierarchy of the ship’s crew of the old “Walrus”. As is repeated many times in the novel, on Flint's ship the navigator was Billy Bones, and the boarding crew commander (quarter deck master) was John Silver (the term quarter deck master should not be confused with the more widely known term quartermaster - the head of supplies/food). Most likely, this is precisely what explains why Flint was “afraid” of Silver - as the field commander of his “special forces” - and not at all of his “supply”.
• Black Dog(English) Black Dog) - one of the most dangerous pirates from old Pugh's crew, he was missing two fingers on his left hand. Ironically, he could not participate in the Hispaniola expedition for the treasures of old Flint, since as a pirate and treasure hunter he was known to the Hispaniola cabin boy Jim Hawkins.
• Nick Allardyce- a lanky pirate with red hair, along with five other pirates, was taken by Flint to the island to bury treasure and was killed there. He took the pirate Tom Morgan's knife with him to the island and remained indebted to him. Allardyce's fate was unenviable: from his body Captain Flint made a compass that indicated where the treasures lay.
• Darby McGraw- a pirate, and probably Captain Flint's bodyguard. Mentioned by Ben Gunn when he portrayed the dying Flint.
• Navigator Arrow(English) Arrow) - Captain Smollett's first mate. Apparently, he was hired by the squire independently, as he did not enjoy the respect and authority of the team. Turned out to be an alcoholic; John Silver supported him with alcohol from his hiding place. Disappeared from the Hispaniola under unclear circumstances.

Robert Stevenson described the pirates of the 18th century very plausibly. This is an evil, stupid and drunken rabble, devoid of any organization. Alexey Durnovo spoke about real people and facts that were used in the famous novel “Treasure Island”.

Silver, Flint, Billy Bones and Blind Pew are, of course, fictional characters, but they have a lot in common with people who actually existed. Even some of the facts mentioned in the book took place in reality.

Collective image

The famous dialogue at the apple barrel, from which Jim Hawkins learns that a conspiracy is brewing on the ship, is literally filled with references to real events.

“I had it amputated by a learned surgeon - he went to college and knew all Latin by heart. And yet he did not escape the gallows - he was strung up in Corso Castle, like a dog, to dry in the sun... next to others. Yes! These were Roberts' men, and they died because they changed the names of their ships."

John Silver talks about the famous Captain Bart Roberts, who terrorized the seas of the New World and Africa for several years. Black Bart himself died in the battle, but the pirates from his crew were actually hanged in the Corso Castle fortress.

A drunkard, a thug, but a coward - that's the true pirate

As for the name of the ships, changing it was indeed considered a bad omen, not only among superstitious pirates, but even in the English fleet. A little later in the same dialogue, Silver will mention Howell Davis, the same one after whose death Roberts became the captain of the Rover and began his “career.”

There are a lot of such references in the text of the novel. Blind Pew will say that he lost his sight in the battles for King George. Surviving pirates who returned to land often described themselves as former Royal Navy sailors.

Silver, dreaming of wealth, will mention that he wants to be a lord and ride in a carriage. This is quite consistent with the pirates' ideas about a rich life. Everyone who has money, of course, is a member of parliament and does nothing but ride around in a carriage.

However, the main thing, of course, is the collective image of a pirate. A completely wild, very angry, and also armed to the teeth man who is ready at the first opportunity to get into the throat of his own comrade - this is what a real pirate is like. They have been walking the seas for many years, but they do not know how to control it at all. Silver doesn’t want to kill Captain Smollett and the others right away, because he knows for sure that without them he won’t even get to England, or to the neighboring island. And the pirates, of course, set up camp in the middle of the swamp. Because their heads are not burdened with any unnecessary knowledge. Like the fact that swamps contain insects that are dangerous to health and life.

Captain Flint

Blackbeard is considered to be the prototype of the fictional Flint. We have already written about Blackbeard. He was not a devil in the flesh and a fiend of hell, he was a man who loved to instill fear in others. This is exactly how Flint appears before us, with all the abundance of terrible stories that are told about him. Blackbeard's greatest fear was his own people. In the same way, the pirates who sailed with him on the Walrus are even afraid of Flint’s name.

Blackbeard - the probable prototype of Captain Flint

Flint and Edward Teach are related and another character is Israel Hands. In the book, he is the second boatswain, who, according to Abraham Gray, was Flint's gunner. This seems to be the only time when a real person appears among the characters. Hands was on Teach's team and was either a navigator or a boatswain there. When Blackbeard died in the battle at Ocracoke Island, Hands was not with him. Shortly before that story, Teach shot his officer in the knee during a drinking binge. There were no compelling reasons for such cruelty. Teach explained his action by the need to maintain discipline on board. The mutilated Hands settled in Carolina and escaped death and even the gallows. In Treasure Island, he is killed by Jim Hawkins. At the same time, in the novel Hands appears as the most unpleasant and disgusting of the pirates - cruel, arrogant and treacherous. At the same time, he knows how to operate a ship, which is already an achievement for a pirate without the necessary education.

Billy Bones

Bones is a bit of an atypical pirate. Just a little. He, just like any other sea robber, abuses rum and grabs a knife at the first opportunity, but there are important differences in his image.

First of all, he is a navigator. And this ship position requires special skills and knowledge that you can’t get anywhere. Anyone can be a boatswain or quartermaster; a gunner only needs to know how to handle cannons, and this skill can be acquired through practice. Doctors and navigators were worth their weight in gold on pirate ships. People trained in medicine and navigation. Calculating the course requires knowledge of the starry sky, the ability to use complex instruments to determine the height of bodies, as well as an understanding of the basics of mathematics and geometry. To understand: many pirates did not know where the north was and where the south was, most did not know how to read and write.

Knowledge of navigation is a huge rarity for a pirate

Bones has no problem with this. Not only is he educated (albeit minimally), he also has a habit of taking notes. Its probable prototype could be a certain Blaise Kennedy, who was a navigator for Captain Edward England and then ran away from him.

John Silver

Silver is distinguished from all other pirates by his enterprise and charm. He doesn't drink away his share like Blind Pew or Ben Gunn, but tries to invest it in business. He has his own tavern and a wife with savings. To put it bluntly, such thrifty and enterprising people were not liked among the pirates. The idea of ​​drinking everything at once came not so much from savagery, but from the thought that you would be hanged anyway, sooner or later. It's a shame to hang around in a noose when your pockets are full of money.

In fact, in the middle of the 18th century the situation was exactly this. Almost all the pirates ended their lives on the gallows; some were lucky enough to die in battle. English laws of those times did not allow pirates not only to spend their loot other than in taverns, but also to return to civilian life. The time for amnesties had already passed by that time.

Silver, with his “Spyglass” and the old woman who is waiting at the appointed place, is undoubtedly different from the gray mass. He looks like pirates in a completely different way. Firstly, for all his intelligence, he is still stupid. He chooses the right strategy for himself, but the wrong one for the common cause. Dr. Livesey will deceive him by exchanging the card for the ship, and Silver will not suspect a trick. A typical trait of an 18th century sea robber is self-confidence based on nothing. Arrogance and lack of critical thinking.

Thrift was not welcomed among pirates

Silver is brutally cruel, which can be seen in the last chapter. Jim experienced this himself at the moment when Silver thought he was about to find the treasure. There was no treasure there, the old pirate again needed Jim, and he again came to his defense. But finishing off a dying comrade who doubted his authority with a shot is quite the trait of a pirate. And Silver does just that.

Finally, there are external attributes. A wooden leg, a parrot, nautical words - this all adds up to the classic image of a pirate. You can also add Silver's nickname to it. He, if you forgot, is “Ham”. The origin of the nickname is not explained anywhere; it apparently has to do with skin color. Over the years of wandering in the tropics and subtropics, she became weathered, roughened and brownish, just like chicken roasted over an open fire.

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

This year marks the anniversary of the most famous novel about adventures related to the search for treasures hidden by pirates on a desert island. Robert Louis Stevenson's book "Treasure Island" is 130 years old.

The novel was first published in 1883; before that, in the period 1881-1882, it was published in series in the children's magazine Young Folks. The writer later recalled how the novel was created: “Once I drew a map of the island; it was carefully and (in my opinion) beautifully painted; her curves unusually captivated my imagination; there were coves here that captivated me like sonnets. And with the thoughtlessness of the doomed, I named my creation “Treasure Island.” Spyglass Hill, Skeleton Island were marked on the map, bays and bays were drawn...

Almost on the same day, the writer sketched out a plan for the future novel. It was immediately decided that he would write for boys, and the prototype of the main character Jim Hawkins should be Lloyd ( SamuelLloyd Osborne - the writer's stepson). It should be noted that Stevenson never hid the fact that when working on the book he relied on the works of his predecessors and even named them. The parrot Captain Flint was borrowed by the writer from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; skeleton index - from Edgar Allan Poe; Billy Bones, events in the tavern and the dead man's chest - by Washington Irving. Every day after breakfast, Stevenson read chapters from his future book to his family. Lloyd was delighted. The novel was written very soon and published in the youth magazine “Young Folks” under a pseudonym. Initially, “Treasure Island” was simply not noticed. However, this did not upset the writer, since the novel turned out to be his first completed major work of art - before “Treasure Island,” Stevenson had never been able to bring a single work of art to the finale. When the novel was published as a separate edition in 1883, the writer overnight became a celebrity and a wealthy man.

“Treasure Island” was translated into Russian and published already in 1886. The best translation was made by Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky (1904-1965).

Fictional and real pirates

Robert Louis Stevenson almost did not invent the characters in the book “Treasure Island”.

Prototype Billy Bones, for example, Bones became quite real, although very different from the fictional character. In Stevenson's novel, Bones was the navigator of the legendary Captain Flint, who inherited his map of Treasure Island. The real Bones pirated under the command of the real-life Captain Bartholomew Roberts and ended his life on the gallows.

	As a good villain John Silver Stevenson portrayed his friend, poet and critic Williams Hansley. - ... one thought came into my head about John Silver, which promised to bring a lot of amusing moments: take one of my friends, whom I loved and respected very much, throw away his sophistication and all the virtues of the highest order, leave him nothing except his strength, courage , ingenuity and indestructible sociability, and try to find their embodiment somewhere at a level accessible to an uncouth sailor.
	However, some literary scholars and historians argue that Stevenson was lying in this description and John Silver had a real prototype. Or it is an unknown one-legged pirate, who at the beginning of the 18th century. was landed together with the pirate captain England on a desert island (a few months later they managed to escape, but the further fate of the one-legged man disappeared into the darkness of time). Either it was the famous - the commandant of Fort San Felipe in Cartagena; contemporaries called him “half a man” - in battles the brave man lost an arm, a leg and an eye; however, physical impairment did not prevent him from honorably repelling several attacks on Cartagena. Installed in the city in honor Blaza de Lezo monument.
Pirate John Silver turned out to be one of the most beloved heroes of world literature. Why? Of course, on the one hand, he is a cruel, insidious, greedy person, his word is not worth a penny... But on the other hand, he is a nice, witty, never-failing person. Silver led the pirates to victory with dignity, but their stupidity and irrepressible greed forced the leader to leave his former comrades and fight for his own life. Was Silver right or wrong? Do traitors deserve more? The pirate acted wisely... There is hardly a reader who, at the end of the book, would not rejoice at John Silver's escape from the ship, and even more so at the fact that the one-legged scoundrel grabbed a bag of gold as a reward to himself. “He probably found his black wife and is living somewhere for his own pleasure with her and Captain Flint. Let’s hope for this, because his chances for a better life in the next world are very slim.” This is how Robert Louis Stevenson ended the story about the one-legged pirate. There are two more pirate captains mentioned in the novel Treasure Island. John Silver recalled his past: “I sailed first with England, then with Flint.”
	Edward England(? - 1720/1721) - another of the famous pirates, the true originality and charm of whose personality is revealed only today. Unlike most corsairs, England did not like to shed blood. He hunted for prey in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His career as a captain was not too long, lasting about three years. If it were not for his extraordinary gentleness of character and some kind of innate mercy towards those who, by the will of fate, became his captives, England, quite possibly, would have plied the seas much longer. But he was clearly a black sheep among pirates, and therefore initially could not count on a long career. England is a pseudonym. This pirate's real name was Edward Seager. He was born in Ireland. Seager became a pirate by coincidence (many could say the same about themselves), when the sloop on which he served as first mate was on a voyage from Jamaica to New Providence (Bahamas) and fell into the hands of pirates.
	One of the most famous corsairs in the history of piracy is considered Edward Teach, who bore the nickname "Blackbeard". Because of his beard, which covered almost his entire face, his appearance was terrifying and legends circulated about him as a terrible villain. In Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, Teach became the prototype pirate Flint. This British corsair became famous for his raids in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Truly one of the creepiest characters among pirates. Daniel Defoe, the enlightened author of Robinson Crusoe, was simply obsessed with the topic of pirates and even created an entire study, “A General History of Pirates,” dedicated to them; according to his authority, Blackbeard was a devil in the flesh, not a man. Defoe writes: “During the battle, he clung a gun belt over his shoulder in the manner of a bandalier, from which hung three pairs of pistols in holsters, and tucked lighted matches under the brim of his hat, and when they illuminated his face from both sides, his eyes seemed truly ferocious and wild, and all this taken together gave him such an appearance that human imagination could not have given birth to a hellish fury whose appearance would have been more frightening.” Most likely, Daniel Defoe is exaggerating to some extent. Edward Teach was a man, to say the least, but he was distinguished by his tall stature, great strength and incredible power, truly terrifying the pirates who were under his command.
Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that Blackbeard had almost the most well-trained crew, who sacredly respected discipline and unquestioningly obeyed any order of their captain. Apparently, this also affected the results: despite a very short career (only 15 months!), a significant amount of booty allowed Edward Teach to enter the top ten most successful pirates in history. In Treasure Island, Captain Flint hid his treasure on a desert island before his death. But even before the appearance of the novel, there was a legend that Captain Teach also hid his treasures, which no one ever found, although many searched. Perhaps it was this story that prompted Stevenson to create Treasure Island. Blackbeard became the hero not only of Stevenson's novel. He appeared more than once on the pages of other works, and four films were made about him. And modern researchers are still puzzling over the question of who this man really was. In 1996, archaeologists found the remains of a ship at the bottom of Beauforg Bay, which they considered Teach’s famous “Queen Anne’s Revenge.” And in North Carolina, many names still remind of the famous pirate.
Monuments to the author and characters of the novel “Treasure Island”
	On September 8, 2004, in Edinburgh, Sir Sean Connery unveiled a monument dedicated to his fellow countryman - the English writer of Scottish origin, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the classic adventure novels Treasure Island, The Lord of Ballantrae and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson himself once said that he was against a monument that would depict him personally. Therefore, the sculptural group, created by sculptor Sandy Stoddart, depicts the heroes of Stevenson's novel Kidnapped (Kidnapped, or the Adventures of David Balfour) Alan Breck and David Balfour. The monument is located exactly in the place where the farewell of the main characters takes place in the novel, namely on Corstorphine Hill. Sir Sean said he was delighted to unveil a statue of one of Scotland's most famous writers. This statue is the first thing you will see when arriving in Edinburgh.
MonumentsJohn Silver
	City of Dolgoprudny (Moscow region). The sculpture “Pirate John Silver” in Dolgoprudny was installed for the 55th anniversary of the city (in 2012). The author is Belarusian sculptor Vladimir Zhbanov.
	City of Yeysk (Krasnodar region). In the summer of 2012, on the Azov coast of Russia, on the beach of the city of Yeisk, a 2-meter pirate appeared.
	Krasnodar city. A sculpture of a one-armed and one-legged pirate next to a chest adorns a recreation park in the city of Krasnodar.
	The location of this monument, unfortunately, has not been established.
Billy Bones Monument
	Lugansk (Ukraine). A monument to a fictional pirate, a character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Treasure Island,” was installed near the entrance of the Lugansk Regional Puppet Theater.

Sources:
Kopelev, D. N. The real and fictional life of Captain Teach / D. N. Kopelev // Questions of history: monthly. magazine – 2010. – N 1. – P. 126-136.

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Genre adventure film Director David Cherkassky Based Treasure Island written by Yuri Alikov
David Cherkassky Production designer Radna Sakhaltuev The roles were voiced Valery Chiglyaev
Victor Andrienko
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Valery Bessarab
Evgeniy Paperny
Boris Voznyuk
Yuri Yakovlev
Georgy Kishko
Vladimir Zadneprovsky
Grigory Tolchinsky Composer Vladimir Bystryakov Studio Kievnauchfilm
Creative association of artistic animation A country Distributor Kievnauchfilm Language Russian Duration 107 minutes Premiere IMDb ID 0465041 Animator.ru ID 6756

In this film, animated scenes are interspersed with musical numbers and game scenes filmed with the participation of actors and illustrating the events of the cartoon or dealing with certain problems associated with the pirate lifestyle, such as greed, smoking or alcoholism. At the same time, the manner of filming musical numbers and game episodes differs in different episodes: in some places the image is in color, in others in black and white. One game scene imitates a silent film using intertitles, and in some episodes live action is combined with animation.

Plot

An unusual guest comes to the Admiral Benbow tavern. The scars on his face revealed him as a former pirate who had survived many storms and drunken fights. This is Billy Bones, a sailor who was once on Captain Flint's team. He was very scared and drank a lot of rum all the time. He promised to pay Jim Hawkins, a boy working in a tavern, three pence in silver, but every month, if he suddenly noticed near the inn “... a sailor on one leg...”. The sailor obtained from Flint a map of the island where he buried his treasure, and now he was afraid that it would be taken away by a gang of John Silver, a one-legged pirate who was ready to do anything for a gold coin.

During his entire stay at Admiral Benbow, Billy Bones was visited by his former shipmates: Black Dog, who was hunting for a map of Treasure Island, then Blind Pew, who gave Bones a black mark. Due to strong emotions and excessive consumption of rum, some time after Blind Pew's arrival at the tavern, Billy Bones died, and as a result the map falls into the hands of Jim. He escapes from a gang led by Blind Pew, heading straight to Dr. David Livesey. In the end, the pirates escaped from the inn, and Blind Pew fell into a barrel and drowned in it. Having involved Squire John Trelawney in the case, all three prepare a ship for Treasure Island. While discussing the details of the upcoming journey in a tavern, the friends encounter a hostile pirate. But Jim makes short work of him because he does exercises every morning. Having gathered a group of experienced sailors under the command of Captain Alexander Smollett, the heroes on a ship called the Hispaniola are heading for the island.

Along the way, a conspiracy is exposed. It turns out that most of the crew members consist of pirates who were in the crew of Captain Flint, led by Silver. Doctor Livesey, Squire Trelawney and Captain Smollett take refuge in an abandoned fort on the island, while Jim, along with the thugs and their commander, finds Captain Flint's hiding place. But there are no treasures there. They were found a long time ago by Ben Gunn, a pirate who was once abandoned on the island. He and his partner attack the pirates and help Jim transfer the treasure to the ship. At the end the ship, the Hispaniola, sails back to England.

Differences from the book

The replicas of the film's characters almost completely correspond to those of Stevenson's characters. However, to achieve comic effect or simplify the plot, what happens is not entirely true to the novel:

• In the book, Jim Hawkins is a teenage boy living in the Admiral Benbow Inn with his parents. In the first part of the novel, his father dies, and Jim and his mother are forced to survive a pirate attack on the inn. However, in the cartoon, Jim is already almost an adult youth and lives alone in his tavern. He is helped by a one-eyed cat, which Billy Bones brought with him, and Jim's mother is only mentioned in passing.
• In the book, Dr. Livesey bleeds Billy Bones, and in the film, he listens to him with a stethoscope and counts his pulse. There, Dr. Livesey is a cheerful fellow who can do everything playfully. This image of the doctor does not coincide with his prototype in the book.
• In the book, Blind Pew is trampled by the horses of the customs guards who galloped to the Admiral Benbow to help. In the film, he rolled off a cliff in a barrel and drowned in the sea. There, Pugh unfolds from his bosom a whole canvas with state military awards awarded to him (that is, Pugh was once both a royal sailor and a privateer who bravely defended his homeland, unless, of course, he stole these medals).
• In the book, Jim recognizes the Black Dog in the Spyglass and raises a cry. He escapes, after which Silver plays the nice guy, convincing Jim that they will catch him. In the cartoon, Black Dog drinks rum in a tavern with other visitors and watches Jim's battle with a fat pirate, and then even becomes one of the Hispaniola sailors recruited by Silver.
• Sometimes faithfully following the lines of the characters in the novel leads to contradictions with what is happening on the screen. For example, when the heroes, while still on the schooner, learn about the conspiracy, to Trelawny’s question “How many people are loyal to us on the ship?” - Captain Smollett answers:

There are seven of us, including Jim.

This corresponds to the plot of the book, but not the cartoon - in the cartoon there are only four positive characters, not seven. However, after defending the fort, the captain says:

There were four of us against nineteen. Now we are four against nine.

This phrase corresponds to the plot of the cartoon, not the book. In the film, the number of pirates cannot be counted. Most often, in addition to Silver, there are four or five pirates in the frame.

• Returning to the fort, which was surrendered to the pirates, Jim Hawkins says that he killed Israel Hands (since that's what happens in the book). Meanwhile, in the episode of Jim's capture of the schooner, Hands remains hanging between the masts of the Hispaniola, holding on to the ends of the rope cut by his own dagger. In addition, he remains there when the heroes set off on their return journey.
• In the book, Captain Smollett received two bullet wounds during a battle with pirates and could not move independently. In the cartoon, a fort wall fell on him, but he was safe and sound.
• In the book, Dr. Livesey performs a medical examination of the pirates long before they reach the place where the treasure is.
• In the film, the treasures were completely removed from the island, but in the book only gold was taken away. The rest (silver bars and weapons) remained on the island, waiting for other treasure hunters. “Let whoever wants to go after them,” Jim says in one of the translations.
• The cartoon ends with the sailing, but the fate of the treasure is not described. The book ends with a description of who disposed of their share and how. The only thing that is not described in the book is the fate of Jim's share.
• Squire Trelawney is characterized as dull, greedy, gluttonous, lazy, cowardly and arrogant. This description is more suitable for the moneylender Trelawney from the 1937 Soviet film and contradicts what Jim said in both the book and film: “the squire is the most generous man in the whole world.” In the book, Trelawney is arrogant and talkative, but brave and courageous. Moreover, he is the best shooter.
• Silver’s “dossier” states that he is single, like all the other cartoon characters, and in the book (in a letter from Squire Trelawney) the fact is mentioned that he is married to a black woman. In addition, Silver himself tells one of the sailors that his wife is waiting for him at the “arranged place” with the money received from the sale of the tavern and remaining from other trips “for luck” (Jim hears this conversation while sitting in a barrel of apples).

Parallels with other works

Features of animation

Many hand-drawn sequences in the cartoon are used several times. For example, the night pirate raid on the Admiral Benbow tavern and the daytime attack on the fort (with the difference that Blind Pew is now replaced by Silver) are repeated. The death of minor characters in the cartoon is shown conditionally. During the entire film, only Billy Bones, his cat, Blind Pew, the pirate who remained to guard the Hispaniola, and the fat pirate, defeated by Jim with a rocket, truly die. After the death of Blind Pew and the big fat pirate whom Jim defeated, the five pirates on the shore bare their heads in mourning.

Two teams of animators worked on the cartoon. One used the conventional hand-drawn animation method, and the second used the "flat puppet" method. The difference between the methods is that with classical drawing the artist draws a mirror image of the character. As a result, Silver alternately loses his left and right legs. The same mistake occurs in another film by David Cherkassky “Doctor Aibolit”, where the heroes (One-Eyed, the captain of the Black Cuttlefish, the fat pirate) alternately lack different legs. The last two, starting from the fourth episode, are not at all one-legged.

Dossier on heroes

In the cartoon, when introducing pirates and other characters to the audience, the director's “dossier” technique from the television film “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (1973) is used. It is noteworthy that the version written on the screen does not always coincide with the voiced version.

Character	Description	Character	Family status
Billy Bones(aka "Captain")	Holder of the Treasure Island map that started it all. He drinks a lot and always has a cold.	Bad	Not married
Black Dog	Friend of Captain Flint. Hunts for the map of Treasure Island.	Secretive
Dr. Livesey	A very good and cheerful person.	Communicative
Blind Pew	Also an old pirate and friend of Captain Flint. Cunning and greedy. He will do anything for money.	Vile
Jim Hawkins	A very, very good and polite boy. Modest, kind and truthful. He listens to his mother and does exercises every morning.	Very soft
Squire Trelawney	Stupid, greedy, gluttonous, arrogant, cowardly and lazy.	Absent	Not married
John Silver(aka "Ham", aka "One-legged")	The most terrible pirate, but he pretends to be kind, which, however, he succeeds.	Secretive
Captain Smollett	Old sailor and soldier. He loves to tell everyone the truth, which is why he suffers.	Very nasty
Ben Gunn	As a child, he was a well-bred boy, but he started playing toss, got involved with pirates, and went on a roll.	Soft

Performers and crew

Voice acting

• Valery Bessarab - Jim Hawkins
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - John Silver
• Victor Andrienko - Captain Alexander Smollett / Billy Bones / John Silver (one line) [significance of the fact? ]
• Evgeniy Paperny - Dr. Livesey / voice-over ("dossier")
• Boris Voznyuk - Squire Trelawney
• Yuri Yakovlev - Ben Gunn
• Georgy Kishko - Blind Pew