Boris Shcherbina Telephone Scene from HBO's Chernobyl. "We need a new phone", "I don't give a f*ck".
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Soviet scientists attempt to use a high-tech German robot in the effort to clear debris from the roof of the Chernobyl complex, but the machine fails almost immediately. Political operative Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) suspects that the robot has succumbed because of exposure to radiation levels that exceed its design tolerance, and he further believes that this is likely because his superiors in Moscow lied to the machine's owners about the amount of radiation to which the machine would be exposed. When his suspicions are confirmed during a phone call, he cannot contain his frustrations, even though the person to whom he's speaking warns him that "they" (presumably the KGB) are listening to the conversation and his denunciations of Rhyskov, Gorbachev, and other top officials. The result is one of the most epic rants in the history of cinema -- on par with Tony Montana's outburst in Scarface. The scene would be hilarious were the subject matter not so sobering.
Includes the memorable lines "We need a new phone" and "I don't give a fuck".
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no
Boris had a bigger meltdown than that reactor did.
Haha
Too Soon!😏
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I would love to see Professor Legasov explain that meltdown as he did with the model in the court scenes.😅
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That phone was two days away from retirement…
It was retired - permanently.
Soviet-style.
Gotta appreciate a subtle Simpsons reference
😭
Those jokes here are not right. People in the USSR were killed for less, and it's like Legasov says close the end of the movie; 'Accidentally the party sent their only good man.'
He went from not understanding the situation, but willing to risk his life from the start, to going all out to contain the disaster, even if that would kill him, which it eventually did.
@@piotrmalewski8178 And the Germans have officially entered the chat.
“Of course I know they’re listening,” Shcherbina said calmly.
Scherbina knew that he was already a dead man just being there. If they kill him, one of them will have to take his place.
Is this a Goblet of Fire reference?
@@kairu55ableyes
calm is undestatement!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reactor: "yo, can we get some boron and sand for my man over here…"
Legasov: The boron and sand melted on Scherbina's head and has burned a hole through the earth
"When it reaches the reservoir located in the bladder it will instantly create steam and result in a 2-4 megaton explosion."
😂😅🤣😂🤣💀💀
😂😂😂😂😂
might need more than 5000 tons worth 🤔
Apparently, the reactor asked for the sarcophagus to be built around it, to protect it from Boris‘s meltdown.
The KGB guys monitoring the phone line are like : "Okaaayy. I think we should let this one slide."
The Chernobyl nuclear accident was the beginning of the end for Soviet Russia
When someone nails a performance like that, where they have to be furious beyond belief, and he's on his own working with a prop talking over the phone he's not even working off another actor! Great actor
Skarsgård was channeling the anger he felt at the Soviet government when their attempted cover-up of Chernobyl was revealed to the world
I have a memory of him from Bergmans Hamlet and how his figure the Prince slowly decapitates his uncle.
Well, one really needs to raise blood pressure to show the veins in his head haha
Stellan Skarsgård deserved EVERY SINGLE award he won for this magnificient performance…
He is one of the finest actors in generations. That said, making a film is incredibly stressful... I'm sure he had plenty of frustration to draw from for this scene
my favorite line of the whole series was
"We need a new phone"
The phone was still in pretty good condition. Repairable. Not great, not terrible.
@@Christrulesall2 waste of phones
@@zwp-uq3di Boris was being racist against that phone. It has rights!!!
@@Christrulesall2 where tf did racism come from?
@@zwp-uq3di Your not serious right? Your cool? It was a sarcastic joke..
My therapist told me I need to learn how to get angry. I am here to learn from the best.
First you need a phone
Your therapist is encouraging you to embrace anger? Isn't that kind of bad?
@@alext2566 They are encouraging me to express anger rather than suppress it. Being unable to get angry has prevented me from defending myself in the right situations in the past. Once again, I am just really bad at getting angry. I promise, I am not smashing phones ;)
@@Lessarevesuppression of anger is not a great thing. It'll stuff up your health. The one day you can't suppress it and you'll end up hurting yourself or others.
But note what provoked Shcherbina's anger. He would not be where he was if he lacked perfect self-control.
My man realized he was dealing with the End of the World, while also finding out his superiors are going far enough to cover it up by knowingly getting obsolete equipment.
Bueno, el socialismo aplicado es eso......
@@ulisesherrera9632 Mm, es más pura incompetencia y tratar de salvar su honor/pellejo ante sus enemigos y/o rivales. Socialismo no dicta eso, es más parte de la cultura Rusa
@@86Fallowcp Este otro tipo arriba cree que no hacen lo mismo bajo el capitalismo jaja. Cañerías de plomo, plomo en la gasolina, efectos en el cambio climático que se saben desde hace décadas pero que empresas de petróleo ocultaron? Solo unos ejemplos
@@doctorrobert1339 el capitalismo no es una forma de gobierno, el socialismo sí.
@@86Fallowcp no es solo "parte de la cultura rusa", y nadie dice que el socialismo dicte eso. Obviamente en el papel no dirán que vuelven al estado obsoleto e incompetente, pero este es el resultado de dicho sistema.
Reactor: My explosion will be a shitstorm on a massive scale.
Boris: Hold my vodka.
You win the internet, Comrade.
Comrade... 😂
* hold my phone
Kids these days will never know how therapeutic it is to slam the phone to pieces after yelling into it.
The modern equivalent is the flip cellphone.
Well, some of us have gone from picking plastic shards out of our knuckles, to glass ones, so speak for yourself.
The phone doesn’t get enough credit for its incredible acting he should’ve gotten a golden globe or emmy for best prop
@FlounderVFW & @jmpp7644, you have both won the internet today. 😊
@@davidcalvin4215 That phone never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
The phone was a great character they shouldve done more with him
The two dislikes are from Ryzhkov and the other is from Gorbachev
Exactly....✌️
A third dislike from Yegor Ligachyov (the captions incorrectly say "Go tell him he's a joke!" when Boris actually says "Go tell Ligachyov!")
Boris: has phone meltdown
Valery: "He's not 3 roentgen. He's 15,000."
Not great not terrible
he is delusional take him to the infirmary
The general when he heard, "I DONT GIVE A FUCK!!!!" is like... damn glad it's not me
In a nation where even high ranking members of the government disappear when they disagree with the state, really puts into perspective just exactly how pissed Shcherbina was here.
I could be mistaken but as I understand, Skarsgård channeled his own personal anger and outrage over the disaster when he learned of the Unbelievable Soviet Silencing Regiment’s downplayed severity in all things for this scene. One of the realest outbursts I’ve ever heard in my life lol
It is possible. He declared in interviews that, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the Swedish Government impeded locals to carry on with long-standing hunting and foraging traditions that had gone on for generations, to prevent radiation-related illnesses from potentially consuming contaminated game or plants. Skargård’s family seemed to be particularly affected by this.
@@jcmat9917could you explain me about this. About what exactly is his family affected?
@@marko0marko0marko01
Read my comment again… it’s all there.
@@jcmat9917 they've got cancer by consuming contaminated game? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Maybe you are the one who should revisit comment of yours
@@marko0marko0marko01
The Government put a restriction, or a ban, on hunting/foraging, to prevent people from getting sick. Since this people depended on these activities for part of their livelihood, it had to impact them badly. If this still doesn’t make sense to you, then I’m not the one with the problem, dude…
What i liked about Boris was that he was a realist. Like he knew how the game was played in the USSR, even acknowledged the stupidity of it all, yet he still played within the rules because he knew he could never accomplish anything if he didn't. This scene was basically him saying the quiet part out loud. They are in a situation where they may not have to admit the reality of it to the rest of the world, but to not admit it to even themselves is beyond stupid. They expect them to solve the problem yet deliberately hamper their efforts and can't see the correlation between that and their inability to solve it. I think the only reason Boris didn't get in any trouble for that phone call was that on some level, everyone listening knows he's right to be angry.
So accurate!
>"the only reason Boris didn't get in any trouble for that phone call was that on some level, everyone listening knows he's right to be angry."
That, plus they know if they get rid of him, then someone else will have to replace him and they'll just face all the same obstacles.
0:17 I love that little 'Oh my God' expression; the Party has just done what Boris would have done prior to Chernobyl, and Stellan Skarsgard nails the reaction. It is a fantastic set up for the next scene.
That look, that "You absolute IDIOTS!" look!
A moment of silence for that telephone.
The Chernobyl disaster was the 2nd worst meltdown in history.
Comrade Shcherbina was #1
That phone is delusional take it to the infirmary
Or the scrapyard!😜🤭😂😏
fuck off Dyatlov
Underrated comment man...lol
I like to imagine the KGB listening in on this conversation was actually terrified hearing his reaction. Kind of like "wait he knows and he's still not scared of what we could do to him?"
there was nothing to do, every one knew he was already dead man walking
Were they worried the kgb were listening or were they worried the west was listening?
@@rascallyrabbit717 If you read the script for this episode, Scherbina himself says that he's a dead man. The dialogue in the script is altered from what we actually saw on TV. Instead of him screaming, "I DON'T GIVE A F***!!!!" he instead screams, "YOU THINK I CARE!? I'M A DEAD MAN!!!!"
He already knew that his exposure to the radiation likely spelled his doom, so he had nothing to lose at this point. So he was unrestrained with his anger at the government that hamstrung their efforts to mitigate the disaster every step of the way.
For me, it's my favorite moment in his character arc. It's when he truly realized that the state was not on their side. They would rather keep their secrets than do what needed to be done to protect the people. When a government is more interested in its own power than doing right by its citizens, it is inevitable that such a government fails in the end.
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Both
@@insertcognomen as olnarks said in reality they would be worried about both, but as far as the scene is concerned I believe it's supposed to be a fellow Soviet warning him the KGB is listening so watch what he says, & of course Boris pulled out his nuts and laid them on his chin in response
Transformation from " Situation is under control" in episode 2 to " Tell fkn Gorbachev, he's a joke" of Boris 😂
Boris was equally my fav character(besides Legasov obviously) because of his transformation from "by the numbers G-man" to conscientious, doomed old guy trying to use his power and resources best in the hopes of unfucking a global situation. Ironic since I kinda hated him the first episode.
You know when you can hear a guy at a distance 20 meters that it’s best his anger isn’t directed at you.
And through a closed trailer.
“This call may be monitored for quality assurance “
Me: 0:25
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"My phone.
My nuclear disaster.
My Chernobyl"
- Boron Roentgen Harkonnen
(Im so proud of this stupid comment)
Boron Roetgen Harkonnen XD
Boron xD love it.
lmao😂
Duke Radiation atreides:Here I am
Here I remain
@@Dillinger.John-123 Duke Paulice Robot Atreides: Here i am, for no more than 90 seconds
Working as a Desk Sergeant, this scene brings me great joy and I wish I could do the same when the phone rings for stupid calls.
That might be the best "I don't give a fuck!" ever committed to film.
Even the nuclear plant noticed Shcherbina's meltdown and was all like, "Dude, chill."
That guard is like...
"Thank God I wore my brown pants today."
I love how every sentence Boris yells has 3 exclamation marks. It's an appropriate presentation of the reality at stake.
Reactor No. 4 core: I think I'm going through a meltdown.
Boris Shcherbina: Hold my Беломорканал.
Reactor: Ohhhh pizdec
“Please explain to me how a deputy of the council of ministers explodes. Not a meltdown, an explosion.”
“That is how a Deputy of the council of ministers explodes: lies”
Good one
Ok you got me with that one 🤣
Damn you. I was so excited to come comment this
With lies. With lies and propaganda.
That is brilliant
My dad was supposed to be drafted to clear this shit like they did in the movie. His luck that before boarding the bus they lost some of the documents, his included. So he just turned around and went back home.
Dang. He dodged an irradiated bullet.
Skarsgård performance is impeccable
He is terrific actor. It's still perplexing how MCU completely squandered him.
"I don't give a fuck" scherbina said calmly
This scene is fantastic therapy! How many times have we been in a situation where people who think they know better than us and talk down to us. Then we want to do this over the phone!
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!!!
Exactly. I watched my friend do that. Our boss at the time had it coming. Then he went in person and ripped a strip off him in person.
I actually came here to vent. Tired of life, its expectations and the bullshit
The story of the lives of any of us who work under a system…
@@johnstitt2615 believe me, EVERY person in a position of authority should have a mandatory warning with the promotion telling this:
"One day, you will be blinded by your hubris. No one can know when this will happen, but it is certain that it will. Then, in this day, one of your subordinates will come to you and give you a dress down so egregiously violent that you will even question about your own competence as a leader, and above it all, you will know that you DESERVED IT."
Props to the production team, making a real-life soviet union to make the show authenticate, Bravo.
When you accidentally send the one good man
Can you imagine being the quartermaster and having a lowly soldier come in a say "I need a new phone, my CO destroyed this one in a fit of rage"
In the USSR, Shcherbina could get 5000 tons of sand and boron just by asking. I am sure a new phone was no issue.
It was just having to do embarrassing things like evacuate tens of thousands of people from deadly radiation that he wasn't allowed to do. Phones, sand and boron don't talk. People do.
@@johncate9541 Exactly. If this was, let's say, a mining disaster, Soviets would have just executed surviving witnesses and pretended a town never existed in the first place. Shcherbina was pissed as hell, because of all Soviet officials at this point he was the only one understanding the weight of the situation, and he knew exactly how Soviet regime was capable of destroying the world just by their standard and total misinformation.
I recommend the documentary 'The Battle For Chernobyl'. It really shows the struggle of these men and the lengths they had to go to trying to clean up this insane level of contamination.
They should produce a series about the Spitak, Armenia 1988 earthquake. Shcherbina part 2
It's incredible how he went into Armenia to organize relief efforts so quickly after spending so much time dealing with Chernobyl.
Bring back Stellan Skarsgard for the role.
minor correction, it was in Armenian city of Spitak
I agree! but it's the Spitak Earthquake.
@@matthewchristiansen9978 Wait what?! I'm a yank so I don't know *too* much about the people afterwards, but to know the real man went on to do that as well just...damn, so much respect. Most of us can only daydream about being a fraction of the kind of man he was.
He should get an award every year for his acting in this series.
The last time Skarsgard was in charge of a nuclear reactor: "These orders are seven bloody hours old! Sitting on the bottom like an adle school boy....all ahead flank...inquire of the engineer the possibility of going to 105 percent on the reactor!"
Well, to be fair, neither reactor went critical while he was in charge, sooooo I'd say he's pretty good at managing nuclear reactors ;)
(we'll gloss over the fact that the submarine was destroyed entirely because of him....)
Glad to see I am not the only one who realized that connection.
This is why he was the best to lead the operation. The writing in this show is incredible.
*Boris had 15,000 roentgens of fury here.*
Great acting by Stellan Skarsgård. I love this series, my favorite.
*_“We need a new phone.”_*
Perfect line.
I’m sure there are a few actors out there that can be scary when angry, Skarsgard however could instill the fear of God into the devil himself.
Joe Pesci level indeed.
I’m 3 years late, but I’m exactly sure that the devil himself has an immensely strong fear of God already
0:24 When your father reads on the electronic register that you have an avalanche of disciplinary notes and insufficiencies Then he calls you on the phone and calmly asks you why you have all those notes.
Reactor 4: Nothing can match my meltdown.
Boris: Challenge accepted.
If Boris Scherbina was such a badass as he portrayed by Stellan Skarsgard, he probably would had throw all radioactive graphite from the roof with has bare hands, and then flown to his Scherbin-cave to have a dinner with the Satan himself
..ты б, так и поступил на его месте. Никто не сомневаться.
Then death would be like “oh shit oh blyat”
He was already dying.
Check out the comment above/below about the earthquake. IRL Scherbina went on being a badass even after Chernobyl.
Such great character development with Boris through the series.
When my amazon order is 3 weeks late and they tell me to call the post office
The thing about landline home phones is they could take this kind of abuse. (Normally) as in if you are angry you can angrily slam the phone down and it would be fine. Can't do that with cell phones nowadays.
Stellan Skarsgard = International treasure.
Now that Stellan is in Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021), let's hope he can become an interstellar treasure too!
Best scene in the series, IMHO. I still say, "Tell f**king Gorbachev" when I'm in a mood and don't want to deal. 😁
0:43 TELL FILUCKING GORBACHEV
Heartbreak. He was trying to save lives.
This is one my favorite scenes from the whole series. It also provides an abject lesson on the danger of substituting orthodoxy for fact. I love when he comes walking out of the hut with what's left of the phone in his hand.
I like how the General guy gave Boris the look of, "Wait, seriously?" when being informed that the government gave out the propaganda number.
Shows you his reaction to the Communist Party's stupidity and ignorance of the dire situation at hand....even he could see it himself and realized their bullshit
All this scene needs is Harry from "In Bruges" shouting: "YOU'RE AN INANIMATE OBJECT" at the phone.....
"Tell fucking Gorbachev" lmaooo
Lol, right?! KGB listening in instantly drop their smokes out of their mouths
😨😰😨😨 "...cyka blyat....there's nothing we can do"!
Stalin: "That's my boy!"
More like Ivan the Terrible than Stalin. 😉
Dad: can you get the meat out of the fridge to thaw
Me: I’m not home
Dad: 0:35
William Pitts underrated Comment...
Lmao
That was hilarious. I haven't laughed out loud at a comment in ages, thank you.
😂😂😂😂😂underrated
0:01 Almost my reaction when the company's new software messed up the phones and software bring the operation to a complete halt
bro had a vision
Him: *starts throwing meltdown*
Me: Why are you even friends with Legasov? You could be dead in 4 years if you stress like that!
Tremendous series , amazing Oscar worthy acting out of 5 stars this deserves 10
This was a great character moment to show that Boris wasn't just a party shill and actually cared about fixing the problem.
I would say he already proved that when he asked "Why did we see graphite on the roof?"
@@anderskorsback4104 When he didn't understand things yet, he still wanted to fly over the reactor even when told this would kill them. He was either very quick to overcome disbelief, or more likely, given other scenes with him, he was an extremely brave man who just didn't yet understand that a reactor is far worse than machinegun fire or artillery shelling and there was no chance of walking out of this alive. The man was a war veteran after all.
The half life of Boris's telephone is less than Uranium in the reactor
Before I had seen Chernobyl for the first time, I never knew how much hearing Stellan Skarsgard bellowing "I don't give a fuck!" could improve my mood.
God damn he's good. Love Skarsgard.
Boris: breaks phone
Also boris: *angry russian voices
i know this is supposed to be serious and all that, but that "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!" just left me cackling
So many great movie scenes involve destroying telephones. "Everywhere I go--America, Europe, Russia, China--everyone hates the phone company." "BEDOUINS hate the phone company."
Stellan Skarsgard is such a legend.
“We need a new phone.”
Some of the best understatement in cinema history.
someone who really got involved in this mission at all cost and soul very much a man who deserves respect❤
He made LAVA with that phone.
The way he says "I Don giv a fok!" 😂
Yep. 😁
Man had graphite welded to his own control rod tip.
Love this scene….especially when he calmly says, “we need a new phone.”
Legasov: "...yeah, I know, man."
General: "Welp."
This is me when creditors keep calling me lol
Bro, pay your bills! I hope you sort it out lol
This series was the highlight of the entirety of the history of television.
Ahh good old communisim.
its socialism, dude. socialism. communism was the goal. also three mile island... remember?
It's not communism it's corruption, greed, and a bloated bureaucracy. The USA is in decline due to these exact reasons, and likely won't survive it
I find this scene both funny and scary at the same time
0:25
- It's an inanimate fuckin' object!
- You're an inanimate fuckin' object!!!!!
"Of all the ministers and all the deputies, the entire congregation of obedient fools, they mistakenly sent the one good man."
Coupling incompetence with bureaucracy guarantees that progress is impossible.
That "I dont give a fuck!" Was building for awhile
I'm just amazed Scherbina didn't turn into a giant green monster and start smashing everything. What with all the radiation around and that level of rage.
And Boris pulls a Joe Pesci with the phone…
Stellan's Stellar performance🎉
In Chernobyl, It was not just people or animal who died, There were Phones too
Me when my supervisor tells me I’m on speaker and other supervisors are listening
"I don't give a fuck!" When Boris Scherbina had a nuclear explosion meltdown in 1986. "We need a new phone" When the meltdown energy continues to leak out in the air after the explosion.
That is the best "losing one's shit" moment I have seen in a show. Especially at 0:16 when realizes what's going on and his head is about to explode.
Fully justified reaction.