Be Kind Remake.
In Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, all the videotapes in a rental shop are accidentally erased, so Mos Def and Jack Black “remake” the movies using a camcorder and common household objects. They call it “Sweding”.
“At the “Be Kind Rewind†Web site (bekindmovie.com), Mr. Black’s voice defines Sweding as “putting YOU into the thing you like,†and there is a quiet strain of populist defiance buried in Mr. Gondry’s wonder cabinet,” A.O. Scott writes in the New York Times. “Commercial pop culture is, too often, understood as a top-down enterprise, its expensive, disposable products passively consumed by the public. And yet at the same time that stuff is capable of inspiring a deep and durable sense of ownership. The movies we love belong in some profound way to us, and part of us lives inside them. Sweding is Mr. Gondry’s way of making that rather abstract sense of connection literal, of suggesting that even if we are not strictly speaking the owners and authors of the movies we like, well, then, perhaps we should be.”
This is your cue to swede yourself into your favorite Pinoy movies. How about a remake of Temptation Island in which you play all the roles? Bituing Walang Ningning with two guys as Sharon Cuneta and Cherie Gil? A mash-up of Himala and The Flor Contemplacion Story? In the words of Manny Pacquiao, Duet! Send me the link.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 26th, 2008 at 12:02
“Dude, youre nothing but a second-rate, trying-hard, copycat, pare.” [Breaks beer bottle on Sharon-guy’s head.]
March 26th, 2008 at 15:22
I looooved this movie. Did you see the sweded trailer for it (starring Michel Gondry himself)? I swear to God, that man will be the father of my children.
March 26th, 2008 at 17:26
Having just read Desperately Seeking Shekels, I think it would be great if someone sweded a mash-up of SupahPapalicious and No Country For Old Men. Complete with a mop-top hairdo/wig. And a coin toss scene. Call it.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:15
I made a blog about sweding a few months ago. Check it out at sweded.blogspot.com. I can’t wait to see sweded pinoy flicks on youtube. For Ur Height Only anyone?
March 28th, 2008 at 01:59
msr. gondry is a genius (case in point, the video for “star guitar” by the chemical brothers). do check out how he solves a rubik cube with his feet on youtube.: ) and then, of course, with his nose. and the even funnier videos of how he “faked” them. ayos.
March 28th, 2008 at 07:49
Someone should do the “I am da pulis” scene from that one old action movie which I can’t remember. Was that Rudy Fernandez?