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Ok, I know I said I was going to review Producers first, but I do not have the DVD in my possession at the moment. A friend is going to let me borrow his copy and I am still planning on reviewing it, but for now I am doing my first review on Little Shop of Horrors. I am currently working on the video and it should be up hopefully by the end of the week.

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By several requests, I have decided on my first musical film review. I will review Mel Brooks' The Producers. The review should be up within the next 2 weeks. To see the video, check out my youtube account. www.youtube.com/Modyman. Keep sending in other musicals you would like me to review and I will eventually get to them. Thank you again, and I look forward to all your feed back when I release my first review.

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There are bad films. There are laughably bad films. Then there is Turkish Star Wars. A film made back in 1982, it was originally titled Dünyay? Kurtaran Adam, roughly translated out to "The Man Who Saved The World". But, over here in the States, we know it as Turkish Star Wars.

But, why do we call it that?

Well, there is no delicate way to phrase this, so I'm going to forego my usual literary prose and just go for the proverbial jugular.

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A brief history lesson. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, nick named Caligula because of the little soldiers uniform he wore as a child when he followed his father and his army into battle (Caligula roughly translates out to "little soldier's boot"), came into power in 37 A.D. His time as emperor is remembered for being exceptionally cruel towards both his people and the servants of his palace. Accounts state that he killed on a whim, prostituted his sisters, slept with other men's wives and later bragged about it, and demanded that everyone adress him as a god, to the point that he declared a statue to be erected of him in the Temple of Jerusalem. Of course, which stories of him are truth and which are merely historical gossip and fabrications is anyone's guess. The mystery surrounding his kingdom is fodder for Hollywood, since they do not have to worry about historical inaccuracies. They could feasibly make Caligula into a thirteen foot transvestite that wore Divine-esque makeup and got around by floating on a perpetual cloud of fart gas if they wanted to. Well, maybe not that far, but you get the idea.

On paper it sounds like a great idea for a movie. A biopic about a Roman Emperor whose insanity and lust for anything pleasurable knew no restraints. Of course, this being in the late 70's, where the Hays code had long gone out of effect and exploitation films were by no means uncommon, it was becoming harder and harder to shock people, and therefore get their undivided attention. So, logically, one must step up the ante, go for the jugular so to speak, and give the term "explicit" a whole new meaning. In comes Penthouse founder Bob Guccione to produce, Tinto Brass to direct, and multiple, multiple people to edit. What's the end result? A schlocky 70's film that looks like a schlocky 70's porn with great production sets.

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