Thursday, March 09, 2006

Oh Brother Where Art Thou - Chinese Style

One of our friends picked up the sound track to "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"

Now, living in Beijing can make it rather difficult to find music and movies that are actually, physically created by the companies that originally published them. If that was too subtle, what we mean is that plagiarism and un-lawful reproductions are EVERYWHERE. So much so that finding a legit copy of a given piece of intellectual property is almost impossible. Even the large department-like stores are in on this deal. One of the reasons it is so hard to tell if you are getting a 'real' copy is because the mass production of black-market copies are so good. Once you watch the movie it often becomes clear though - especially when you try to view the 'special features' and discover that they were somehow not loaded onto your particular copy....

But getting back to our original story, our friend bought the sound track and upon reading the song titles noticed a small discrepancy. Check out #13 from above.
"I am a Mao? of Constant Sorrow"
We think this is sort of appropriate though. Mao, man, whatever. It even sort of reminds us of Team America's song "I'm So Ronery" sung by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il.

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