Recep İvedik
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Recep Ivedik
Plot
Upon discovering a millionaire's wallet in the street, a man named Recep embarks on an eventful journey to return the wallet to its original owner and win back his childhood sweetheart. Recep has found a wallet, and he does the right thing by tracking down its owner. After suffering a series of unexpected setbacks, the hapless Recep returns the wallet and receives a generous offer to stay in a posh hotel for free. Though at first Recep refuses the offer, a change glimpse of his childhood sweetheart as she departs on a tour bus causes him to reconsider. ~ Jason Buchanan, RoviCast
- Sahan Gokbakar - Recep Ivedik
- Hakan Bilgin - Erim-Mudur Bey
- Fatma Toptas - Sibel
- Tulug Cizgen - Anne (sibel anne)
Credit
Togan Gokbakar - Director| Receiving Prosperity: Louise L. Hay (1990 Film), Received Payment (1922 Film) | |
| Recess (1967 Film), Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001 Film) |
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Recep İvedik
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| Directed by | Togan Gökbakar |
| Produced by | Faruk Aksoy Ayse Germen Mehmet Soyarslan |
| Written by | Serkan Altuniğne Şahan Gökbakar |
| Starring | Şahan Gökbakar Fatma Toptaş Tuluğ Çizgen |
| Music by | Oğuz Kaplangı |
| Cinematography | Ertunç Şenkay |
| Editing by | Erkan Özekan |
| Studio | Aksoy Film Özen Film |
| Distributed by | Özen Film Kinostar Filmverleih |
| Release date(s) | February 22, 2008 |
| Running time | 90 min |
| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| Budget | $500,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $24,878,340 |
Recep İvedik is a 2008 Turkish comedy film, directed by Togan Gökbakar, which stars Şahan Gökbakar as an oafish character who takes up residence in an expensive Antalya hotel to win back his childhood love. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on February 22, 2008, was the highest grossing Turkish film of 2008. The film's titular comic character was created by Şahan Gökbakar for his Turkish comedy television show Dikkat Şahan Çıkabilir, which ran from 2005 to 2006, and has subsequently gone on to feature in a series of sequel films.[1]
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Production
The film was shot on location in Istanbul and Antalya, Turkey.[2]
Plot
İvedik is a fearsome-looking uncultivated driver with a lot of aggression but a spark of goodness in him. Involved by accident in a street fight, he rescues the wallet of the owner of an Antalya luxury hotel and hitchhikes his way south to restore it to the rightful owner. Along the way he is made the object of an unlikely attempted seduction by a homosexual truck-driver, reacting with shock and innocence.
Reaching the hotel to hand over the wallet, he begins his stay by shattering a porcelain vase in the hotel lobby and talks his way out of the situation in exactly the same way as earlier burlesque characters. After giving back the wallet, he is about to leave when he glimpses his childhood sweetheart Sibel (Fatma Toptaş) among a party of arriving guests and decides to take up the owner's offer of a free stay in the hotel. Gökbakar then uses İvedik to burlesque every aspect of five star hotel life. Unable to use the toilets, he pees in the ornamental flowers, drinks the hotel shampoo as well as the contents of the minibar, massages the foot of an amorous woman in mistake for Sibel's, gatecrashes women's morning fitness exercises on the beach in a ludicrous purple gown, and cuffs the heads of almost everyone who comes into contact with him. All the while he pours out a stream of inappropriate invective and obscenities.
By the close of the film most middle class conventions have also been shattered, a high point being a burping contest between him and Sibel. Sibel, who is resisting her bourgeois mother's attempts to marry her off to a fiance she does not love, contains a very mild criticism of the middle class lifestyles and attitudes with which İvedik is colliding. By making a sweet nice girl like Sibel belch at full volume, Gökbakar comes closest to an outright repudiation of middle class values. The film ends with İvedik leaving the hotel. Has catharsis been achieved? No. İvedik departs more or less exactly as he arrived, presumably en route to more adventures in his next film. Yet somehow he ends up by being not so much frightening as slightly loveable—no doubt because he no longer appears wholly dangerous. It is Sibel's view of him which has changed—and that of the film audience too.
Cast
- Şahan Gökbakar as Recep İvedik
- Fatma Toptaş as Sibel
- Tuluğ Çizgen as Sibel's mother
- Hakan Bilgin as Müdür
Release
The film opened in 230 screens across Turkey on 22 February 2008 with a first weekend gross of $5,330,000.[3]
Reception
Box office
The film has a worldwide gross of $24,878,340.[4]
References
- ^ "Misc Notes for Recep Ivedik". Turner Classic Movies. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=737500&category=Misc%20Notes. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ "Filming locations for Recep Ivedik". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193516/locations. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ "Box office / business for Recep Ivedik". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193516/business. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ "Recep Ivedik". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/0RCVK.php. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
External links
- Official website for the film (Turkish)
- Recep İvedik at AllRovi
- Recep İvedik at the Internet Movie Database
- Recep İvedik at the TCM Movie Database
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