1. Setting, household objects: comfortable houses and modern household goods of the Australians. Representation of reality: conditional (within the framework of the genre), Australian setting and characters are represented with obvious sympathy. The main female character, Russian bride Katya, at first is represented in grotesque way, later on -in sympathetic way. Characters, their values, clothing, constitution, lexicon, mime, gestures: the Australian characters are typical representatives of the middle class. Katya apparently lived in poverty in St. Petersburg. General clothes of the characters corresponds with their social status, the Australians are well-dressed, Katya is dressed worse (at first). The vocabulary of the characters is simple, mimics and gestures are at times forced. Significant change in the characters' life: Having read a marriage advertisement, Katya leaves for Australia. Incipient problem: Katya finds out that her future bridegroom is dead, as a result she is left alone in the foreign country without any money? Search for solutions to the problem: Katya is trying to find a way out of the predicament, then she meets Ethan? Problem solution: Ethan proposes Katya to contract a pro forma marriage with his friend? Spinning Boris. USA, 2003. Director R. Spottiswoode. Historical period, scene: Russia, Moscow, 1996. Setting, household objects: hotel rooms, offices, streets of Moscow. Historical period, scene: Moscow, near future. Setting, household objects: streets and apartments of Moscow. Representation of reality: quasi-realistic representation of events. Characters, their values, clothing, constitution, lexicon, mime, gestures: the main character is an American. His clothes, vocabulary, mimics and gestures correspond to "average statistical" level. His murderers look nastily, their gestures and mimics express violence and anger. Significant change in the characters' life: the American arrives to Moscow, where the bandits rob and murder him? Incipient problem: the main character is dead, and his murderers are alive and at large;Setting, household objects: modest dwellings and household goods of Soviet/Russian characters, luxurious dwellings and household goods of Western characters. Representation of reality: as a rule, relative and grotesque representation of people's lives in,2001
2. Representation of reality: grotesque, almost caricature with respect to the Russian cosmonauts. Characters, their values, clothing, constitution, lexicon, mime, gestures: the good American spacemen (sympathetic, strong, brave, honest, patriotic, faithful to their civic duty) and the disorganized Russian cosmonauts (their commander is drunk on board). The vocabulary of the characters is simple and is connected with spaces specifics. The characters are dressed in space uniform. Significant change in the characters' life: a gigantic meteorite is approaching the Earth? Incipient problem: the lives of all people on the Earth are in danger, the end of human civilization (Armageddon) is near. Search for solutions to the problem: the Americans send a space expedition to blow up the meteorite, on their way they rendezvous with the Russian orbital station to refuel. Problem solution: the Americans manage to blow up the gigantic meteorite;Setting, household objects: interiors of space ships, offices, comfortable way of life of American spacemen, untidy way of life of their Russian colleagues