Mikhail Motsak, who described the note from Captain Kolesnikov, 27, whose rank would be comparable to a lieutenant in the American Navy. It was the head of the Russian Navy's northern fleet, Vice Adm. It also raised the prospect that divers would find more notes - perhaps containing evidence as to why the submarine exploded and sank - when and if bodies of other survivors are recovered. And it instantly reignited a national debate over whether the military's attempt to rescue the sailors, widely denounced as botched, was fatally flawed as well. The revelation that 23 of the Kursk's 118 crewmen survived the sinking, at least for a while, set off a sensation and demolished assurances by senior military officials that the Kursk's entire crew most likely had perished within minutes of the accident. Today, the world finally heard Captain Kolesnikov's message after Russian divers recovered his remains from the husk of the submarine, and the note was found stuffed in his pocket. We have made this decision as a result of the accident. ''All personnel from compartments six, seven and eight moved to the ninth. ''13:15,'' he wrote, noting the military time. Dimitri Kolesnikov, the commander of the turbine room on the Russian submarine Kursk, scrawled a message 10 weeks ago to what was then an unknowing outside world. Eventually, thousands and thousands of e-mails, documents, contracts and finished films made their way online and cost Sony millions in the aftermath.Trapped in the rear of a breached and sunken submarine on the Arctic seabed, the electricity failing, facing all-but-certain death with 22 companions, Lt. In the case of The Interview, hackers demanded that Sony remove the film from their slate or face the consequences. You only need to look at the utter chaos that came when Kim Jong-Un was featured heavily in The Interview to get why removing Putin from the film is a safe choice. "That's a certain way to be targeted (for retaliation)." "For a studio to release a movie about Putin that makes him look like a fool would be suicide," said Ajay Arora, CEO of security firm Vera. While no specific reason was given by the productions in either case, security analysts who spoke to THR came up with a pretty good reason - hackers. With regards to Kursk, Putin featured in the early drafts of the screenplay and was obviously involved in the real-life disaster but was later removed from the shooting script. In the case of Red Sparrow, Putin - himself a former Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB - was a character in the source novel by Jason Matthews, but has since been removed from the shooting screenplay and the time of the story shifted from modern Russia to '70s Budapest. However, in both cases, the current Russian leader Vladimir Putin was a part of the original screenplay and has since been excised. Two major films are planned for the next year - Red Sparrow, with Jennifer Lawrence, and Kursk, with Colin Firth and Matthias Schoenarts - have a Russian focus to them, with Kursk based on the real-life submarine disaster and Red Sparrow dealing with a KGB double-agent. What with everything that's happening in the US with Donald Trump and the very real possibility that Russia interfered with the elections, it's no wonder that major studios are starting to greenlight films with a Russian feel. You had Rambo, Beverly Hills Cop II (technically they were East-Germans, but you get the idea), and about a dozen more schlocky action films that had Russia, or the former Soviet Union, as villains. Throughout the '80s, Russians were essentially the go-to bad guys in films.
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