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Yes becuase it is a milestone in Turkish sci-fi genre  We showed world how to make a decent sci-fi movie with it
it may not have special effects as good as Star Wars, but...wait, yes it does - because it steals footage directly from Star Wars (hence this film´s nickname)!
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From The Dark Knight Rises to The Amazing Spider-Man, superheroes dominate the box office at this time of year. But a long way from the million-dollar Hollywood films, there is another group of caped crusaders who have caught the imagination of film fans the world over.
The film opens with an image of space decked in twinkling Christmas decorations.
The Superman theme kicks in and the familiar S-logo floats over the top, looking rather hand-drawn.
Soon we are following Clark Kent set out on his adventures. Only the bespectacled man is not Kent at all, it is someone called Tayfun and he is living in rural Turkey.
He is the star of Supermen Donuyor, meaning The Return of Superman – a 1979 Turkish remake of Richard Donner’s 1978 classic.
That is just the beginning. From the 1960s to 1980s Turkish popular cinema – dubbed Yesilcam (Green Pine) – produced a large number of films that borrowed storylines and ideas from American blockbusters and pop culture. Some even lifted entire sequences and scores from Hollywood.
Many had a superhero or fantastic theme but the range is vast, from James Bond adaptation Altin Cocuk (Golden Boy), to a Turkish exorcist called Seytan (Satan).
There is also Badi (Buddy), which is a Turkish ET, and the film that has been dubbed the Turkish Star Wars, Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves The World).
Watching these films is like entering a parallel universe – everything is familiar and yet totally different.
At times the film-makers appear to revel in the freedom of being able to take elements, ideas and characters from Western popular culture, add a pinch of Turkishness and then put them into a giant movie blender.
Take the 1973 movie Uc Dev Adam (Three Giant Men), in which Captain America and Santo the Mexican wrestler have to save the day from a sadistic Spider-Man.
 Captain America and Santo – go get the evil Spider-Man They often sparkle with energy and creativity, though the directors lacked the budgets of their Hollywood counterparts.
We see the protagonist fly in Supermen Donuyor but it is done rather crudely over footage of Istanbul.
Edited (8/19/2013) by Kelowna
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