Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on February 22, 2008 in the United Kingdom and in North America.
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| Written by | Michel Gondry
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| Running time | 98 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $20 million
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| Box office | $30.6 million
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Mike: No, no! That's not in the movie!
Jerry: (interrupts) This is the next Lion King. This is Part II.
Alma: Roar! I will piss on the bones of your ancestors!
- The reason for Jack Black's version of the Ghostbusters (1984) theme song was simply because the legal department didn't have the rights to Ray Parker Jr.'s song yet.
- Some believe the term "Sweded" was created due to the Swedish government's stance on file-sharing. While many media corporations have succeeded in having files of their copyrighted works removed from Internet web sites, Sweden has treated such file sharing as a form of free speech, and a right of consumers. There is even a Swedish pro-piracy political party. The term actually was simply coined by writer and director Michel Gondry in the script, where Jack Black's character needs to justify an exorbitant fee and delay in supplying one of their custom-made videos to a customer. He indicates the reason is because it is a "very rare type of video", which needs to be imported from Sweden - "Because it's a faraway, expensive country."
- Elizabeth Berkley: when Jerry and Mike are "sweding" Ghostbusters (1984), she is one of the girls standing in the library watching in confusion.
- In keeping with the spirit of the film, director Michel Gondry "sweded" a version of this movie's trailer featuring only himself on screen.
- When Alma puts the movie selections of several store patrons into a black trash bag and picks two at random (settling a dispute about which titles to "swede"), Jerry says "Without civilization, life is nasty, brutal... and short!" This is an almost verbatim quote from Thomas Hobbes' 'Leviathan,' one of the most important works in political philosophy.
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