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Shrek in Iran

by EdHannigan Mar 12, 2010 11:19AM PST

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201003/?read=article_edwards

Fairly interesting article on Iranian film culture.
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Our conversation turns to the movie Shrek. Nahal loves Shrek so much that she?s seen the first installment of the DreamWorks trilogy ?at least thirty-six or thirty-seven times.? Her obsession is, apparently, shared by many Iranians. The image of Shrek appears everywhere throughout Tehran: painted on the walls of DVD and electronics shops, featured in an elaborate mural in the children?s play area of the food court at the Jaam-e Jam mall. Once, from a car, I passed a five-foot-tall Shrek mannequin on the sidewalk; like his fellow pedestrians, he wore a surgical face mask to protect him from the smog.

Nahal explains: ?You know, it?s not really the original Shrek that we love so much here. It?s really the dubbing. It?s really more the Iranian Shrek that interests us.?

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