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Be Kind Rewind
2008 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Michel Gondry
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
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> Be kind rewind
This just reminded me of the existence of that excellent movie, will watch again (unrelated to the post or the topic except for the section title).
At some point it'll become like the "Be kind, rewind" movie where an entire movie can be compressed to a text description of each scene then and entirely regenerated on demand by AI.
> custom voice acting!
Be Kind Rewind https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/
If you like that, you can look up other music video shot by Michel Gondry. He has an incredible creativity and DIY ethos that really sets him appart.
The film "Be Kind, Rewind" is kind of a "mise en abîme" in that regards, shot by Gondry and featuring characters that show the same kind of cinematic craftiness.
> If I took a film, and re-enacted the scenes, does my film infringe upon the original film?
There’s a good movie about this premise:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind
reminds me of the jack black movie called 'Be Kind Rewind'!
Reminds of the movie 'Be Kind Rewind.' Low budget film making is great fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind
This sounds an awful lot like the business model in "Be Kind, Rewind". That said, it's also a lot more promising.
Good luck finding a partner and growing the business, I've been saying for years that the movie industry needs some disruption. Just make sure that if you sell, you sell for enough to make yourself not feel bad when the studios inevitably kill your product.
"Swede" is a term from the movie Be Kind Rewind. It refers to homemade remakes of movies.