The ongoing feud between two vital figures in Turkish cinema has garnered widespread consideration within the movie world. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who got here to the world’s agenda after actress Merve Dizdar obtained the Award for Best Actress on the 2023 Cannes Film Festival for her function in his film, and Zeki Demirkubuz have a historical past of disagreements.
According to data compiled by an Anadolu Agency (AA) reporter, the disputes between the 2 achieved administrators, courting again to the forty third Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in 2006, have grow to be probably the most talked-about subjects on social media.
The current disagreements emerged after Nuri Bilge Ceylan printed a e-book final month discussing his movie “Winter Sleep,” which gained the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. In the e-book, he made statements concerning the allegation that Zeki Demirkubuz claimed plagiarism in Ceylan’s movie “Three Monkeys.”
Ceylan said: “There is no such thing. Zeki knows this very well, but for some reason, he prefers to create an impression as if something like that exists. He doesn’t say it explicitly; instead, he does it from a safe distance that he could easily deny, if needed. I think it’s very shameful. We have been friends for so many years, and we have helped each other after all. I understand the sense of competition, but I would have expected it to be done in a more gentle manner, not by hitting below the belt. He even claimed that he didn’t watch ‘Three Monkeys.’ How can one imply such things about a film they claim not to have watched? He tactfully executed a strategy by placing carefully calculated details in his film so that mud would stick. Judging by the impression he created in the market, it cannot be said that he has failed to achieve his goal.”
“I might be the one who is belittled here, but I am not the vile,” he added.
Demirkubuz’s vitriolic statements
Zeki Demirkubuz, throughout a tv program on the night of Dec. 26, made notable statements concerning the problem. Referring to the time when his movie “Destiny” gained the very best movie award on the Antalya Film Festival in 2006, he recounted: “We were never as close friends as it was said. He wasn’t someone I’d ask for bread if I were starving. But he was a friend I had contact with, like Semih Kaplanoğlu or other friends. However, I distanced myself when I felt uncomfortable, but our relationship didn’t break. He made a very crude move during the editing of the movie ‘Climates.’ He directed that, and I made ‘Destiny.'”
Demirkubuz talked about that the award quantity that yr was raised to TL 300,000, which at the moment equated to roughly $230,000.
“On the day of the award ceremony, whereas sitting within the resort foyer, he arrived, appearing weirdly. There was a man on the jury from Cannes, a good friend of his. They even joked about it there, maybe he sensed it. Then he talked to me. Later that night, he and his producer, his spouse, sat in entrance of us in the course of the ceremony however by no means spoke to me. I really had an excellent relationship along with his spouse. I known as out, he did not even look. I believed perhaps he had an issue. He obtained two awards however was very unhappy. Just earlier than they introduced the very best movie award, he fainted. They took him away, and I even tried to assist.
“After the ceremony, I called to ask ‘Are you okay?’ he didn’t talk to me and looked away two days after the day we saw each other. I wanted to slap him so I asked a close relative of his about the problem. He said Ceylan didn’t talk to me because I said few words against the Cannes Film Festival. Who are you, are you the Cannes Film Festival representative?” he added.
Demirkubuz additionally responded to Ceylan’s different statements: “It’s shameful for Türkiye’s only globally recognized director to stoop to such levels. I don’t understand why he did something like this 15 years later. There must be some calculation, some gain behind it. That’s why he did it. I didn’t watch ‘Three Monkeys.’ I usually don’t imply; if there’s something, I say it directly.”
Ceylan’s diss
Following Demirkubuz’s remarks on a tv channel that gained consideration, Ceylan selected Twitter to reply, saying: “I was planning not to respond no matter what he says, but unfortunately, this tone makes it impossible now. He should open a YouTube channel for himself. Coming soon… “
The administrators’ conflict continued with the next publish by Demirkubuz: “If I had an ounce of trust in the society’s sense of justice and inquisitiveness of these fools who claim to be oppositional, and if I weren’t hesitant to become a subject of public discourse, I would have closed the account then, made you a ‘national hero.’ I repeat, stay where you are and keep clenching your teeth.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com
