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Has anyone seen any of these "sweded" films:

Turkish Star Wars -- Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam

The gold standard of Turkish remakes, and a must-see for any North American who made a temporary religion out of Star Wars when they were a kid (basically everyone). Turkish Star Wars uses not only footage stolen directly from the original film but also the soundtracks to Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Flash Gordon. This is movie making at its most abstract and progressive. I think. It begins with a five-minute montage of sampled shots. We see the Death Star exploding, then the same thing in slo-mo, then in reverse, then a storm trooper, then R2-D2. All with no context and little sense, set to an eerily Big Brother speech delivered in Turkish. It was probably just the story set-up, but I couldn't help suspecting that it might have been anti-American propaganda. Most of the similarities to the original film end after the intro, when it becomes a Turkish kung-fu movie set in the desert. The same desert they have in Egypt, apparently, as there's footage of the pyramids spliced in. The Han Soloesque and Luke Skywalkerish leads run around in pursuit of the Darth Vader wannabe, who looks like Rasputin from the future. Fake Han and Luke don't use lightsabers or anything -- they rely mainly on a move that consists of karate chopping both sides of a person's neck at once. Everyone they do this to dies immediately.
Turkish Exorcist -- Seytan

This movie fucking scared me TONS more than the American version. At first I was laughing over the title's misguided attempt at literalism. By the time I'd watched the whole thing, though, I couldn't sleep with the light off or eat basically anything without wanting to puke. Seytan has everything the original had: the spinning head, the pea soup, the vicious little girl, only it is TURKISH. Somehow that made it grosser. In fact, it felt more like a documentary than a work of fiction at some points. They probably do still have demon possession in Turkey. Seytan also gets bonus points for being the only Turkish remake I viewed that had nudity!
Turkish E.T. -- Badi

Badi (I like to pronounce it "Batty") is the adorable little name of an extraterrestrial stranded on Earth (this time somewhere near Istanbul) in the Turk version of Spielberg's original pile of mush. But while our alien managed to be brown and wrinkly yet still cute, Badi is the polar opposite -- gray and perpetually covered in a sheen of snot. Plus, his voice is just a Turkish guy whispering and rasping into a Vocoder so he sounds like a child molesting robot. The setting and tone of this movie couldn't be more different from the sunny California of the American E.T. Badi is more like a Hardy Boys novel written by Franz Kafka, with a group of kids creeping through dark slums, trying to protect a deformed outcast. All the adults in the movie, when they see Badi, either faint or try to kill him (except for one extended and perplexing scene where the alien goes on all the rides at a local carnival). When the Turkish Polis finally come to take the little monster, the kids stage a FULL SCALE RIOT complete with colored gas bombs, Halloween masks as disguises, and anarchic confusion in the streets! The youngest kid, a four or five year-old, has had his voice dubbed by an adult woman, so in one shot we see a young boy crying but hear a grown Turkish lady's wails and sobs. It is very, very disturbing. In a particularly Turkish twist, the flying bicycle from American ET has been replaced by a flying pushcart.

Turkish Wizard of Oz -- Aysecik Ve Sihirli Cuceler

The Turkish Scarecrow is the most appallingly hilarious stereotype of gayness that I've ever seen. He simpers, minces, prances and lisps his way through the entire film, which probably set Turkey's queer rights movement (if there is one) back about 100 years. The closest parallel is Joel Grey in Cabaret. Turkish Dorothy is actually a little treasure, rocking a kind of goth/farm girl look, and the Turkish Cowardly Lion looks like John Gacy trying out for Cats. This merry little band doesn't arrive in Munchkin Land until about halfway through the movie. I was looking forward to seeing 50 Turkish midgets doing a song and dance routine, but they used more kids than "little people." The few real-deal midgets who do appear are pretty amazing, wearing tiny red soldier suits and playing traditional Turkish folk music, which I guess is very popular in Oz.

Turkish Superman -- Supermen Donuyor

This is another one that uses the theme from the American film, and it's really pretty ingenius and disorienting in conjunction with the opening sequence. It's supposed to be a shot of outer space, but it's really just a bunch of old Christmas ornaments hanging against a black sheet. Then it cuts to a crayon drawing of the Superman emblem surrounded by little stars -- it looks like it was drawn by a preschooler. The special effects are a lot closer to the TV show from the 50s than the movies from the 80s. That's why the flying sequences are so much fun to watch. On his first flight, Turkish Superman cruises over every piece of stock footage the director could get from the Turkish Tourism Council. This turned out to be a pretty faithful remake, although it tops the original in terms of both awkwardness and quality.

A note: Turkish films are the reason the fast-forward button was invented. These things are not meant to be watched in a linear, one-sitting fashion. Treat them more like pieces of video art, or just watch them with your friends while stoned. They all achieve that perfect mix of creepy and funny.

Son (that's Turkish for "End").

Does any one have any other links to turkish "sweded" films of the 70's

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Now the whole family can enjoy them!

Turkish Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iE7Tcuoow

Seytan (Turkish "The Exorcist")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Dqx2ChSn0

Turkish E.T. – Badi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0U-M9W4nKw

Turkish Wizard of Oz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZz-YcRmrfQ

Turkish Superman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oI7Fd3Uec


And as a special bonus…

TURKISH RAMBO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDugy8JuhTg

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Is the Turkish Rambo kicking "our" arses in the Movie.

Anymore?

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Turkish Clint Eastwood spagetti movie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT_u6Y4FPqI

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TURKISH STAR TREK
Part of a comedy series called “Turist Omer” about some goofy guy in a poor excuse for a cowboy hat who always winds up in bizarre situations. This time around, Omer gets mistakenly beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise where he’s dropped right into the middle of a Turkish rip-off of “Star Trek” episode “The Man Trap.” You get Turkish replications of all of your favorite Star Trek characters, including Mr. Spock (who is known as Mr. Spak in this one), Captain Kirk, Ohura and enough bad space monsters and fake rocks to tide over even the most fickle Dr. Who fan!

Like “Turkish Star Wars,” this film shamelessly swipes footage from the original.
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