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Written by Pete G
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 Hollywood's new Blockbuster Kwango Kwango is released this week amidst a hail of controversy. Director Shabby McLerman has gone to extremes to protect his 'masterpiece' - he has taken his existing movie protection system 'McLerman-Vision' (which creates a strobe like on/off effect on a copied movie) - and introduced a strobe effect to the whole 'original' movie. This means the movie flashes on/off violently throughout it's three hour duration.
McLerman's theory is that if he created a movie that already looked copied and flashed repeatedly throughout - if anyone did copy it it would just be an empty 'nothingness'.
'Kwango Kwango' was originally penned as a jungle epic, spanning continents and pushing new boundaries in animal special effects, horseriding and eye makeup. Michael Crichton who spent years preparing the screenplay had a dream of 'horse-animal special effects the like of which the world had never seen'
But, what we have in the finished released movie, is an all together different experience. McLerman, in his obsessed self-protection, has re-edited the movie into a 'seventies disco flick'. Gone are the beautiful vista's of the Sierra Nevada, replaced by poor quality neon and cheap drinks. Elimenated are the wild horse story lines, replaced by 'dancing horses, caught up in dance competition-mania'.
Crichton, on watching the finished movie claimed 'actually I like the way the horses move, but I am devasted about everything else.'
Movie-man John Ross in his review of the unusual film proclaimed 'the industry has far too many compliance masters, McLerman in some ways has been as cheeky as he could be'
Starts in cinema's this Tuesday morning.
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