About a week ago, I got a DVD screener for "Hell's Ground", a
Pakistani zombie movie that was an entry in last year's Asian Film
Festival. Made on a shoestring budget, it borrows shamelessly from
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with a mace-wielding, burqa-clad fiend
chasing the movie's hapless teens through the forest. I happen to
love knock-off's like these that pay homage to Hollywood blockbusters
on the cheap. Whatever financial handicaps "peripheral" countries
suffer is more than made up for by the director's sheer enthusiasm
and embrace of local color.
Probably no other film embodies these qualities better (or worse, in
some eyes) than "The Man Who Saves the World" ("Dünyayi Kurtaran
Adam"), a Turkish cult film nicknamed Turkish Star Wars because it
weaves Star Wars clips into the film. The soundtrack is also lifted
directly from Hollywood films, primarily "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
But it throws in the music of "Moonraker", "Ben Hur", "Flash Gordon",
"Battlestar Galactica", "Planet of the Apes", "Silent Running" as
well. Considering Hollywood intellectual property imperialism, one
might regard the movie as payback.
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/hells-ground-and-turkish-star-wars/
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