Interesting Information About GORA – Webtekno

The first years of the 21st century started unproductively for Turkish cinema. Even though there were a few successful films, the enthusiasm of the past years could not be captured. Then a movie called GORA was released. The script was written by master comedian Cem Yılmaz. The cast of the GORA movie consisted of master actors. But the real interesting point of the movie was that it was a science fiction-comedy production.

Those who are old enough may remember that the movie GORA rocked the box office. Unfortunately, the science fiction genre did not revive in our country, but Turkish films of many different genres, especially comedy films, started to appear one after another. GORA is such a movie. There are some interesting details about GORA, which strengthened its place in the hearts of the audience with its later sequels and side stories.

First, let’s briefly remember the movie GORA:

• Year: 2004
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
• Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak
• Cast: Cem Yılmaz, Özge Özberk, Ozan Güven
• IMDb: 8.0

Arif Işık, who works as a carpet maker in a tourist town, is kidnapped by aliens one day; yes, by. Arif, who was taken as a slave to the planet called GORA Here Robot 216 meets characters such as Bob Marley Faruk and takes Princess Ceku and goes to find Master Garavel. What happens next turns into the most enjoyable adventure of Turkish cinema ever.

Interesting information about GORA, some of which you will hear for the first time:

• A GORA universe was formed with its sequels and side stories.
• The GORA acronym is unknown even today.
• Arif Işık is actually Tourist Ömer.
• Cem Yılmaz laid the foundations of the GORA movie years ago in his stand-up show.
• The movie was released late because of Cem Uzan.
• Erşan Kuneri, Sean Connery; Do you understand?

A GORA universe was formed with its sequels and side stories:

The movie GORA, which was released in 2004, was so popular that the main character was changed in 2008. This time, Arif Işık went back exactly 1 million years before today. The movie AROG was made. In 2018, the movie Arif V 216, which tells the story of Arif’s new adventure with Robot 216, his best friend on the planet GORA, was released. In 2022, the Erşan Kuneri series, which tells the story of Erşan Kuneri, who appeared as a minor character for a few minutes in the movie GORA, was released on Netflix. So the movie GORA created its own universe. Moreover, this universe seems to expand even further in the coming years.

GORA stands for unknown even today:

We say it as GORA in passing, but the original name of the movie is GORA, which is an abbreviation with a dot between them. So, have you ever thought about what GORA stands for? This expansion, which everyone is curious about, was written by Cem Yılmaz when the film was first released. If It’s Not Beautiful, It Will Not React He explained as. However, it was thought that the opening was censored because he was the minister of culture of the time.

Years later, in his CMYLMZ Q&A show with university students, he used it as GORA, which stands for Your Robot Becomes Creaky… He said a sentence like this, but it was a joke. In another interview, Cem Yılmaz said that this name actually came from the gora sandwich and that he added dots in between to make it interesting. According to a user on İnci Sözlük, GORA stands for Gay Oriented Realistic Art. There are countless other theories about the expansion.

Arif Işık is actually Tourist Ömer:

Anyone who knows how big a fan Cem Yılmaz is of Sadri Alışık is. Turist Ömer is a character played by Sadri Alışık, who turned him into one of the legends of Turkish cinema. This beloved character was created in 1973. a Star Trek adaptation Tourist Ömer appeared before the audience with the movie On Star Trek.

The adventures of Tourist Ömer, a distinctive and unique character, in space are admirable even today. Cem Yılmaz must have admired this movie too. He wrote the movie GORA with the idea of ​​a Turk in space. Of course, there are huge differences between them, but if you watch the two films back to back, you will see how great the inspiration is.

Cem Yılmaz laid the foundations of the GORA movie years ago in his stand-up show:

This is the first show recording of Cem Yılmaz, who has been performing stand-up shows since his young age. One Taste, One Texture, Even today, it remains on Cem Yılmaz’s YouTube channel as a memory of the show in 1999. While watching the show, take a break from your laughter and listen to the space stories. You will notice that the foundations of many events depicted in the movie GORA, which was released in 2004, were laid in this show.

The movie was released late because of Cem Uzan:

In fact, the shooting of the movie GORA started in 2002. The rights of the film were in the hands of the Star group, owned by Cem Uzan. Because almost all the assets of Cem Uzan and his family were confiscated by SDIF The movie GORA was also shelved. At that time, there were some meetings between Cem Yılmaz and the then minister of culture on the issue, and then the rights of the GORA movie were sold to BKM and the movie was released.

Erşan Kuneri, Sean Connery; Do you understand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3PQL0H3Vw

Although the character of Erşan Kuneri, whom we know better with the series released on Netflix, appears in a few minutes of scene in the movie GORA, ‘My name is Erşan Kuneri, am I a pornographer?’ He had his line engraved in our minds. The name Erşan Kuneri sounds like it rhymes with another name, right? Yes, it is: Erşan Kuneri is actually Sean Connery.

Legendary actor Sean Connery, who also played the character of James Bond, was a name that everyone admired for a while. At that time, a young man named Cemil Can Taraklı, who wanted to be an actor, After starting to act in adult films, she is looking for a stage name for herself. This young man, who was a fan of Sean Connery, started using the rhyming name Erşan Kuneri and another legend was born.

Legendary movie of the Turkish science fiction and comedy genre About GORA by Cem Yılmaz We talked about interesting information, some of which you will hear for the first time. If you know any different details about the movie, you can share them in the comments.

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