Comments on: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

By: craig

craig — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:43:56 +0000

martin thanks for the comment, I also saw the movie in a bit of a disjointed setting, stopping and starting and getting interrupted so I may have missed that.

can't wait to see it again uninterrupted

By: martin

martin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:28:57 +0000

My understanding of the term “Sweded” is a bit different. Now I haven't seen the movie in one sitting yet, but I've seen most of it (on a plane!), and read a lot about it and watched just about everything I could online when it was first announced. And my understanding is that because they had to explain to their customers why the movies took so long, they came up with the excuse that they were being special ordered from Sweden and it always took an extra day or two to arrive. Thus “Sweding” became the term they used when they made their own movies, and eventually took on a greater meaning of “taking something you like and adding some other things you like” making it your own by redoing it yourself…. see their hilarious website for more info: http://www.bekindmovie.com/gui…

By: craig

craig — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:43:56 +0000

martin thanks for the comment, I also saw the movie in a bit of a disjointed setting, stopping and starting and getting interrupted so I may have missed that.

can't wait to see it again uninterrupted

By: martin

martin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:28:57 +0000

My understanding of the term "Sweded" is a bit different. Now I haven't seen the movie in one sitting yet, but I've seen most of it (on a plane!), and read a lot about it and watched just about everything I could online when it was first announced. And my understanding is that because they had to explain to their customers why the movies took so long, they came up with the excuse that they were being special ordered from Sweden and it always took an extra day or two to arrive. Thus "Sweding" became the term they used when they made their own movies, and eventually took on a greater meaning of "taking something you like and adding some other things you like" making it your own by redoing it yourself.... see their hilarious website for more info: http://www.bekindmovie.com/guide.html

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:28:28 +0000

kudos to the makers Dark Knight for their record breaking opening weekend… it's no wonder there's talk of another one coming out ASAP

By: cbonnell

cbonnell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:36:07 +0000

cool

By: LMS

LMS — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:17:08 +0000

It was in reference to this group of filmmakers (http://www.dogme95.dk/) Seeing how it's a collective ran by a Dane, it's not a completely accurate term, but I'll let it pass . Also a vague reference to the much more Swedish Igmar Bergman, who was often rumored to use whatever was on hand to make his films.

Dang I knew film school would come in handy one day!