{"id":12153,"date":"2007-01-30T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/turkish-star-wars\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:34:00","slug":"turkish-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/turkish-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Star Wars?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7069307816427160377\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Star Wars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/starwars.jpg\" width=\"124\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>I haven&rsquo;t had time to watch it all the way through yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-7069307816427160377\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Turkish <i>Star Wars<\/i>&rdquo; (<i>D\u00fcnyayi Kurtaran Adam<\/i>)<\/a> (Google Video) sounds intriguing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Released in 1982, <i>D\u00fcnyay\u0131 Kurtaran Adam<\/i> was created in Turkey caught in the midst of massive political upheaval. As a result, American-made films were not easily acquired and were often remade with a Turkish cast and setting. The musical soundtrack is entirely lifted from Western film hits of the time, primarily using <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>. There are also scenes incorporating the music of <i>Moonraker<\/i>, <i>Flash Gordon<\/i>, <i>Battlestar Galactica<\/i>, <i>Planet of the Apes<\/i> and Disney&rsquo;s <i>The Black Hole<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/linkfilter.net\/?id=125320\" target=\"_blank\">linkfilter<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/starwars\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">starwars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-541806071615979571?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&rsquo;t had time to watch it all the way through yet, but &ldquo;Turkish Star Wars&rdquo; (D\u00fcnyayi Kurtaran Adam) (Google Video) sounds intriguing: Released in 1982, D\u00fcnyay\u0131 Kurtaran Adam was created in Turkey caught in the midst of massive political upheaval. As a result, American-made films were not easily acquired and were often remade with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/turkish-star-wars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turkish Star Wars?!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}