{"id":191,"date":"2005-08-01T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-01-10T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:02:00","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xxii-backstroke-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/08\/filler-by-proxy-xxii-backstroke-of-the-west.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XXII: Backstroke of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">A couple of years ago a friend of mine arrived home from China with a suitcase full of dodgy pirated DVDs. The prize specimen was a bootleg of <em>The<\/em> <em>Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, with the artwork on the front cover doctored to persuade punters that the famous Tolkein adaptation starred Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lopez, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer &#8211; all wielding swords. The back cover featured screen grabs from a hardcore porno video, with a plot synopsis in gibberish (&#8220;Much confusion but enjoy the mutilation.&#8221;) and the credits for <em>Black Hawk Down<\/em>. The actual movie turned out to be some softcore French film from the 1970s, without dubbing or subtitles.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Thanks to the interweb you can savour the ineffable charm of East Asian counterfeiting without travelling all the way to the car boot sale taking place two blocks down. Flickr hosts a growing gallery of <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/groups\/crappybootlegs\/pool\/\">screen shots<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The hot ticket among cheap-arse VCD buyers these days is, of course, the new <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie.  In particular, the Chinese edition with remarkably creative subtitles.  Screen shots are collected for your enjoyment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterson.com\/2005\/06\/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/middlekingdomstories.blog-city.com\/crazy_subtitles.htm\">here<\/a>.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Just because you can write this shit doesn't mean we can say it!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/starwars01.jpg\" \/><br \/>You will be treated to dialogue that manages to improve upon George Lucas&#8217; original script, learn of the Jedi Knights&#8217; obsession with elephants, and gasp at the theological bombshell that Darth Vader is a Presbyterian. The wish power are together with you. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago a friend of mine arrived home from China with a suitcase full of dodgy pirated DVDs. The prize specimen was a bootleg of The Fellowship of the Ring, with the artwork on the front cover doctored to persuade punters that the famous Tolkein adaptation starred Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lopez, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}