A lot of people - me included - get excited about Turkish riffs on films, even if Turkish Star Wars is so much more its own movie - Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam - than just slavish devotion to remaking Lucas' movie. Yet most of the movies that are being remade, remixed and ripped off are ones that people have some level of affinity for. Creating a new version of Mr. Majestyk is a much bigger swing.
Directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz and written by Ahmet Undag, Karpuzcu starts with an incredibly long scene of men picking fruit - yes, this is also about watermelons, just like the Bronson-starring inspiration - with star Dilber Ay sweating under the sun as a woman holds two large melons to her chest, laughing.
Whereas Vincent Majestyk's main concern was getting his crop in on time so he can survive another season, this has our hero's woman abducted and sexually assaulted in a scene that goes on forever and worse, it's pretty close to hardcore - indeed, this movie has inserts from another reel with the exact same actors - and it causes Dilber Ay's character to get his revenge. He has a little over an hour - well, like half of that by the time the scene is over - to kill them all.
The name of the movie, according to the translation site I am using, is Watermelon Maker.
Directed by Yilmaz Atadeniz and written by Ahmet Undag, Karpuzcu starts with an incredibly long scene of men picking fruit - yes, this is also about watermelons, just like the Bronson-starring inspiration - with star Dilber Ay sweating under the sun as a woman holds two large melons to her chest, laughing.
Whereas Vincent Majestyk's main concern was getting his crop in on time so he can survive another season, this has our hero's woman abducted and sexually assaulted in a scene that goes on forever and worse, it's pretty close to hardcore - indeed, this movie has inserts from another reel with the exact same actors - and it causes Dilber Ay's character to get his revenge. He has a little over an hour - well, like half of that by the time the scene is over - to kill them all.
The name of the movie, according to the translation site I am using, is Watermelon Maker.
