Ambiguous Meaning of The Tale
In the early 1990s, Yuri Entin was under constant pressure over his film. This is because the word goluboy (blue) is the modern Russian slang term for gay. This misconception was helped along by some of the quotes from the songs in the movie, for example, when the Blue Puppy is teased by the other dogs: "You are blue! You are blue! We don't want to play with you!" or in the subsequent song by the Puppy, which has the line, "I am hurt by an evil fate, oh, why am I blue?"
However, the additional connotation to the Russian word "blue" is a recent phenomenon, and writer Yuri Entin has pointed out that he never thought of such an association in 1976, when the film was made.
In the original work of the Hungarian writer, Gyula Urban, the Puppy was black, but in the Soviet tale, Entin wanted the Puppy to be a non-traditional color.
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