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mehmetmutluozdemir
I'm now the president of Fatih University cinema club.
I like classical movies very much. Especially silent ones, very specially the silent comedies. I'm now writing a filmography of Charles Chaplin in Turkish. I'm the editor of a cinema magazine that generally deals with great directors, their arts, not the popular cinema.
My favorite directors are (not with the order):
1) Charles Chaplin
2) Raj Kapoor
3) Akira Kurosawa
4) Federico Fellini
5) Vittorio de Sica
6) Luchino Visconti
7) Stanley Kubrick
8) Billy Wilder
9) Orson Welles
10) Helki Saner
etc.
My Favorite Actors Are (not with the order):
1) Charles Chaplin
2) Sadri Alisik
3) Raj Kapoor
4) Anthony Quinn
5) Cuneyt Arkin
6) Al Pacino
7) Buster Keaton
8) Omar Sherif
9) Marlon Brando
10)Gerard Deparideu
etc...
My favorite actresses are (not with a order):
1) Guiletta Masina
2) Greta Garbo
3) Martha Raye
4) Ingrid Bergman
5) Nargis
6) Salma Hayek
7) Olivia de Havilland
8) Edna Purviance
9) Marjorie Bennett
10)Anita Ekberg
etc...
My Favorite Singer is:
Umm Kulthum no doubt
Reviews
The Professor (1919)
Older Chaplin
Chaplin looks old in this movie. Even it is not completed this film can be seen in Limelight DVD set. In Chaplin's human drama masterpiece Limelight, Calvero the tramp comedian performs several acts, one of those is the "performing fleas" act. This act was performed by Chaplin originally in this movie "The Professor". Chaplin was related to whole music hall life, vaudeville, singing, Harlequinade and circus. In limelight (which is highly autobiographical) Chaplin is in all. The Professor is I think a quite artistic film. Chaplin is not the usual tramp in this film. He is a flea trainer. There is a scene similar to the scene in The Kid, Chaplin rents a bed just in the same place he does in the kid. And performs his great flea act in this film. I wander why he stopped making this film.
Saka ile Karisik (1965)
This is the film!
Osman F. Seden is a good director with a wide sense of humour. He made many wonderful films ant this is one of those. Of course the most important thing in this movie is the actor Sadri Alisik. Sadri Alisik is too great an artist that can only be compared to Charles Chaplin. In this film Sadri Alisik is a penniless tramp, while he was in a meyhane (place with alcohol drinks) two rich businessmen make a bet, one wanted to show the other that tramps can also be trustworthy. So they find the trampest tramp of country, Ofsayt Osman (Sadri Alisik). They give him a 1 million cheque, and tell him not to spend it before a month passes. Ofsayt (offside) Osman is named Ofsayt because he had no goal in his entire life. He never had a success, so people call him Ofsayt Osman. He was of course trustworthy and would never take even a lira (Turkish money) of the cheque. But he meets a ill girl (Filiz Akin) and spends some of the money for her operation. So he was sued for not obeying the agreement. The final scene is delicious and very touching. Ofsayt Osman asks while crying: - Dear judge, I've never had a goal in my whole life, now I spent some of this cheque for a young ill girl, is not that a goal again, is not that a goal? Of course kind hearted businessmen forgive him and happy end happens. There is another love story in the film between the tramp friend (who was a secret journalist in fact) of Ofsayt Osman and the daughter of the millionaire. This film is one of the several greatest films I've ever seen.
Pay Day (1922)
Amazing
This is an amazing film of Chaplin. Indeed Chaplin is supposed to do every incredible work. Chaplin's tramp is usually a waiter in a restaurant, so there is much for a waiter to do as a gag in slapstick. We can see Charlot as a violin artist, a film artist, a new janitor, a stage staff, a singer (as in modern times), a barber (in the great dictator), a broken king (a king in New York), a gold seeker (gold rush of course), a waiter (in many shorts, also modern times), a factory worker etc. In this film Chaplin is a very qualified brick workman, the gags are incredible. Chaplins performance is unbelievable (do not mention this, I can believe everything amazing I heard about Chaplin). Meanwhile Chaplin is not the usual penniless tramp in this film. He works hard, he again does everything (even cruel)to take a job for a loaf of bread, but earns money, very talented in the job, however gets less money than he has to. He does not now to calculate, and of course is a henpecked. His wife Phyllis Allen (was 60 while shotting the film) is a nightmare for him, so bathtub is a wet but comfortable bed for him. This time Chaplin works with the oppression of his wife. I think this is one of the several best silents of Chaplin. It was also very clearly printed and was a great joy to watch it. Chaplin's keystones do not make me laugh, but in his newer films (like this) his genius smiles at us.
Turist Ömer Boga Güresçisi (1971)
Another Great Movie
This film is one of the excellent films I've ever seen. In this film Turist Ömer goes to Spain in and fins himself in the middle of the arena. He fights a bull and by using chloroform he makes the bull collapse down. In this film Turkish famous singer Erol Büyükburç collaborates with great actor Sadri Alisik. He plays a famous Spanish singer in this movie. However some scenes were shot in Spain and film is about the adventures of a Turkish tramp and Spanish singer, no Spanish is spoken in this film. Everyone speaks a brilliant Turkish even in Spain. I'm afraid the bull would also speak in Turkish if it had the ability to speak. Film is completely in color and musically very beautiful. Turist Omer is a very good character in Turkish cinema. As Chaplin plays the tramp, Raj Kapoor plays the Awaara, Sadri Alisik plays another vagabond 'Turist Ömer'. Turist Ömer is a very lovely tramp character that has no sense for money but a great sense of truth. In this movie Turist finds a wallet full with money and even he is very poor he looks for the real owner of the wallet. So the owner of wallet, the famous Spanish singer who is in Istanbul for a concert thanks him and offers him a vacation in Spain with him and the adventure goes on... Unlikely the tramp of Chaplin Turist Ömer never steals, helps everyone, drinks if he finds, has no problem about women.
Awaara (1951)
This film effected Turkish cinema more than anything
This movie is itself a legend. In 1988 TRT (Turkish national television) was to show that film. As I was a little child I could not now about the movies but that day my mother, grandmother, my uncles wife all got together and prepared delicious foods, and watched that movie on TV. Perhabs on that day all women in Turkiye were watching that film.
Mavi Boncuk, a delicious movie has reference to this film. On that movie Munir Ozkul says: - Aaah Awaara (at the time he looks to Awaara's poster) I've grown my children by selling it's tickets, played for 6 months on those days.
It is a fact that Awaara was a great success, on those days a film was playing for only a week but Awaara was in vision for 6 great months. I only remembered a scene from the film I watched when I was 6 years old, this is the scene that Raju stole a watch. Then 3 years ago I bought this film and watched with friends, my friends were very impressed with the movie, and we watched again and again.
Awaara is a milestone for Turkish cinema, it is filmed again by great Turkish actor Sadri Alisik in 1966. Arabesk is stated to enter Turkiye with Awaara. Adalet Cimcoz and Ferdi Tayfur spoke Nargis and Raj Kapoor in Awaara's Turkish dubbing version and film is great with that excellent dubbing.
Films song is also sung in Turkish lyrics by Sadri Alisik and song was also a hit.