{"id":13818,"date":"2011-12-18T20:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2011-12-23T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:55:56","slug":"michel-gondry-taxi-driver-sweded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/18\/michel-gondry-taxi-driver-sweded\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Gondry&#8217;s Taxi Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Michael-Gondrys-Taxi-Driver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13819\" title=\"Michael Gondry's Taxi Driver\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Michael-Gondrys-Taxi-Driver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Gondry\">Michel Gondry<\/a> has done a &#8216;sweded&#8217; version of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/13\/revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese\/\">Taxi Driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The term comes from the French director&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J7C8nHAAs70\">Be Kind Rewind<\/a> (2008) where video store workers (Jack Black and Mos Def) remake films on the cheap or &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Be_Kind_Rewind#.22Sweded.22\">swede<\/a>&#8216; them.<\/p>\n<p>In the film the tapes are described as being shipped from Sweden as an excuse to charge higher rental fees and longer wait times.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the marketing campaign for Gondry did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-B0dJQ35rDs\">a sweded version of the actual movie<\/a> and now he&#8217;s done this version of Scorsese&#8217;s classic of urban alienation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jccW-xudoD8?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I especially like how he&#8217;s done the &#8216;You talkin&#8217; to me?&#8217; speech.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/13\/revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese\/\">Revisiting Taxi Driver<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/06\/06\/blu-ray-taxi-driver-scorsese-de-niro\/\">Blu-ray review of Taxi Driver<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gondry has done a &#8216;sweded&#8217; version of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Taxi Driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[2380,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}