Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014)

March 20, 2025 1:06 AM

(Full name - Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema.) Turkey in the 1960s and 70s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world even though its film industry did not have enough written material to start with. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors at Yeşilçam were copying, stealing and hacking scripts and remaking bizarre versions of movies from all over the world without any regard to copyright law.

Movies were so popular, they had screenings for up to 4,000 people at a time. And they shamelessly copied 'Everything': Tarzan, The good the bad and the ugly, Turkish Star Wars, Some like it hot, Rocky, Stallone's "Ramo", Laurel and Hardy, The Exorcist, Wizard of Oz... It didn't matter how cheap, insane and ridiculous it looked, they pirated it and it sold. And all the movies played the Godfather score... 8/10.

The trailer.

Internet Archive has a good free copy with English subtitles.

7.9 on IMDb.

3.7 on Letterboxd.

Variety review.

This is a German film, made by the German-Turkish Cem Kaya.

posted by growabrain