A very good example of how a director is helpless. You cannot pull a good movie out of a script, this bad. Yes, the plot is a disaster. It's too sad to say this because I know Erdogan is a talented writer.
NARRATIVE: First of all, things are resolved without any powerful conflicts.Even fairy tales have to have conflicts to qualify as a story. For instance; how come Nergis leaves her husband and runs back to Asim? What did Asim do to deserve this?.. Kidnapped her daughter? Another leak in the script is about inconsistency. If Umut is that upright, honest person; how come she gets help from the Mafia? And when did she even got acquainted with them? Oh well, when they first met at the job interview... but Umut did not seem so happy even about being there. Did she ever get the job? And what is going on with this gang? What is organized about them? What is original in their methods? How are they different from all the people, gangs we see on TV everyday? If they are not, then why the title? why the movie?
ACTING: The cast consists of very talented actresses/actors (including Yilmaz Erdogan) but the problem here is that they had nothing in hand (in terms of story) to give the audience something new. Except for Cem Yilmaz. He is in fact a comedian and famous for that in Turkey but in this movie, he outdid himself as a gang leader. I liked him more here than his latest movie G.O.R.A.
Yilmaz Erdogan uses almost the same cast in all his movies and I believe this is starting to make the audience feel self-conscious in the theater and lose the "magic of the carpet".
NARRATION: Yes, It's good to have a helicopter. The first scene with the fly-cam, I see the city view from the sky. I think; is it an establishing shot? Will we focus on something here? Minutes later, again I see the city in a long shot, then I think I should connect this narration to a meaning... What meaning? Hmm.. Yes, this is a shot of an "organized" city. The title... Third time... Now what? repetition? Forth time... What a beautiful city... Istanbul... Fifth time... Am I hungry?
Too colorful because what... Funny?.. Do they (gangs) really live like that? Or was that a contrast? But, where are the shadows?
ABOUT the TITLE: When I saw the English title "Magic Carpet Ride" here on IMDb for the first time, I was shocked. The original title of the movie is "Organize isler" which in English, sounds like "Organized works (business)" but in the movie, it is used as "organized works" --> meaning "being organized works". The ironic thing is that, the Turkish word "isler" also covers both meanings. OK, I'm not saying, you have to translate the title directly into another language but if you've caught an irony this nice, why would you ruin it? Let me tell you why, to cover some meaningless narration. The annoying fly-cam repetitions would now gain meaning, you'd think.. OR maybe this is a more attractive title that would sell the movie abroad... and as a result disappoint more people... Magic what? What carpet? What ride?!
FINALLY: I'm not saying, Erdogan is an untalented director, the direction of Vizontele was good indeed but this one... well, I didn't like it a bit. (hayirli isler :)
NARRATIVE: First of all, things are resolved without any powerful conflicts.Even fairy tales have to have conflicts to qualify as a story. For instance; how come Nergis leaves her husband and runs back to Asim? What did Asim do to deserve this?.. Kidnapped her daughter? Another leak in the script is about inconsistency. If Umut is that upright, honest person; how come she gets help from the Mafia? And when did she even got acquainted with them? Oh well, when they first met at the job interview... but Umut did not seem so happy even about being there. Did she ever get the job? And what is going on with this gang? What is organized about them? What is original in their methods? How are they different from all the people, gangs we see on TV everyday? If they are not, then why the title? why the movie?
ACTING: The cast consists of very talented actresses/actors (including Yilmaz Erdogan) but the problem here is that they had nothing in hand (in terms of story) to give the audience something new. Except for Cem Yilmaz. He is in fact a comedian and famous for that in Turkey but in this movie, he outdid himself as a gang leader. I liked him more here than his latest movie G.O.R.A.
Yilmaz Erdogan uses almost the same cast in all his movies and I believe this is starting to make the audience feel self-conscious in the theater and lose the "magic of the carpet".
NARRATION: Yes, It's good to have a helicopter. The first scene with the fly-cam, I see the city view from the sky. I think; is it an establishing shot? Will we focus on something here? Minutes later, again I see the city in a long shot, then I think I should connect this narration to a meaning... What meaning? Hmm.. Yes, this is a shot of an "organized" city. The title... Third time... Now what? repetition? Forth time... What a beautiful city... Istanbul... Fifth time... Am I hungry?
Too colorful because what... Funny?.. Do they (gangs) really live like that? Or was that a contrast? But, where are the shadows?
ABOUT the TITLE: When I saw the English title "Magic Carpet Ride" here on IMDb for the first time, I was shocked. The original title of the movie is "Organize isler" which in English, sounds like "Organized works (business)" but in the movie, it is used as "organized works" --> meaning "being organized works". The ironic thing is that, the Turkish word "isler" also covers both meanings. OK, I'm not saying, you have to translate the title directly into another language but if you've caught an irony this nice, why would you ruin it? Let me tell you why, to cover some meaningless narration. The annoying fly-cam repetitions would now gain meaning, you'd think.. OR maybe this is a more attractive title that would sell the movie abroad... and as a result disappoint more people... Magic what? What carpet? What ride?!
FINALLY: I'm not saying, Erdogan is an untalented director, the direction of Vizontele was good indeed but this one... well, I didn't like it a bit. (hayirli isler :)