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FAVORITE MUSIC: The Beatles, Jethro Tull, The Cure, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Iron Maiden, The Smiths, Earth Wind & Fire, RHCP, Air, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Sting, Prince, Sade, Madonna, Lana del Rey, Florence+The Machine, David Guetta, Mozart, Tschaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
FAVORITE NOVELS: The Lord of the Rings, The Stand, Catcher in the Rye, Shogun and everything by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Stephen King, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Erich Kästner, Ephraim Kishon, Roald Dahl, Theodor Geisel, James Thurber and Bill Shakespeare
FAVORITE ACTORS:
Jack Nicholson and
Peter Ustinov, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Charles Laughton, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Peter Lorre, James Mason, Peter Sellers, John Barrymore, Vincent Price, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, George Clooney, Alan Rickman, Jack Black, Christopher Lloyd, Bruce Campbell, Matt Frewer, Kemal Sunal, Romy Schneider, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Drew Barrymore
FAVORITE COMEDIANS:
1. Charlie Chaplin
2. The Marx Brothers
3. Monty Python
4. The Three Stooges
5. Andy Kaufman
6. Mel Brooks
7. Peter Sellers
8. Robin Williams/Steve Martin
9. Steven Wright/Conan O'Brien
10. Kemal Sunal
FAVORITE Film Composers:
1. Ennio Morricone
2. Bernard Herrmann
3. Henry Mancini
4. Jerry Goldsmith
5. John Barry
6. Danny Elfman
7. John Williams
8. Nino Rota
9. Ryuichi Sakamoto
10. Miklos Rozsa
FAVORITE Classical Composers:
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Piotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky
3. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
4. Camille Saint-Saens
5. Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew
6. Ludwig Van Beethoven
7. Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Frederic Chopin
9. Johannes Brahms
10. Edvard Grieg
FAVORITE TV-Shows Drama:
1. Dexter
2. Sopranos
3. The Shield
4. Twin Peaks
5. Miami Vice
6. The West Wing
7. The Wire
8. Firefly/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
9. Remington Steele/Moonlighting
10. Xena/Buffy
FAVORITE TV-Shows Comedy:
1. Simpsons
2. Scrubs
3. Frasier
4. Married with Children
5. Seinfeld
6. The Office UK
7. Fawlty Towers
8. The Honeymooners
9. All in the Family/Modern Family
10. MASH/Cheers
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Propaganda (1999)
Funny and Touching, Wonderful Movie!
In 1948, the borderline in Eastern Turkey is drawn right through a small village. Friends and lovers are separated, blind bureaucrats are taking over and everyone - even the bureaucrats - has too deal with this new age they are not yet ready for, in their naive way.
I really loved this movie and in my humble opinion it is one of the best Turkish pictures ever. It depicts the warmth and passion of the Turkish temperament, although it is a sarcastic comment on stubborn bureaucracy, not only in Turkey but everywhere! The cast is great with the beloved Kemal Sunal (died much too early like all good people) and the wonderful Metin Akpinar. They both are comedians who are usually playing funny, often touching parts with a moral-lesson, like to learn what the really important things in life are.
It is indeed a realistic picture, because in the 1940's people who thought they were neighbors were separated this way. Everyone handles this situation in a very naive way; even the officers do not really know what a passport looks like, because everything is so new. As for the pregnant girl who is still accepted by her family although she is not married: I am sure even in those days there were people who were not so dumb and stubborn to put family honor above love for the family members. The father-character portrait by Akpinar is a simple but wise man, who is loyal to his beloved ones.
One last point: This is a modern movie about old Turkey, so you get a bit of both worlds. You find the positive stereotypes as well as the negative ones. Half the Turkish population are modern, western-oriented people, who are aware of their own culture, but also open to others. The fanatic-islamist people are stubborn and intolerant and as such a group you can find anywhere in the world, and they will always be there, as you see in this movie. We should end all prejudices for a better tomorrow! But with each passing day, this feat seems to be more out of reach than ever. What a shame!