Movie Comedy for Grownups
continued...
In Part 6 of this Zerrin Egeliler movie chronicle, we noted that her seks comedy film Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) is based on a simple premise... that it's perfectly all right for a wife to remarry a second husband after the death of her first husband.
But, what if, at the prompting of her pushy mother, the new widow goes ahead a little too hastily with remarriage. And then... what happens when the report of her first husband's death turns out to be false -- having been based on bad info? What does a merry Turkish widow want with hubby #2 if hubby #1 is still alive and kicking?
Well, in such a case, you've got the makin's for a Turkish 'erotik' comedy-movie stew...
Basic Movie Facts
Şıllık (Painted Jezebel) -- 1979
An Ören Studios Production, written and directed by Ülkü Erakalın -- starring Zerrin Egeliler (as herself) along with some of the best known conventional film cross-over actors/actresses of that era: Hadi Çaman (as himself, in the role of hubby #1), Bülent Kayabaş (as himself, in the role of hubby #2), Mürvet/Mürüvvet Sim (as Egeliler's mother), Kamer Baba/Sadık (as the family lawyer), Ali Demir (as the marriage-ceremony magistrate, and Yüksel Gözen (as the marriage-court judge).
The Movie's Plot
The movie's opening-scene is filmed in the 700 year-old Karacaahmet Cemetery of Üsküdar, on Istanbul's Anatololian (Asian) side. [See atı alan Üsküdar'ı geçti.] Friends and family have gathered there for the funeral of Zerrin Egeliler's reportedly-deceased husband Hadi Caman. Several friends (including Bülent Kayabaş) offer condolances to the grieving-widow Egeliler and her mother (Mürvet Sim), by expressing the simple but heartfelt 'Başınız sağ olsun' Turkish condolence-phrase.
Note: As a rule, Muslims bury the 'departed' the next day after a person 'departs'. (See The Muslim Way of Death.) Exceptions to this rule arise if distant family members need more time to return for the burial ceremony -- or if the departed is a celebrity/VIP for which burial ceremony preparations can be quite extensive. Still, in 'ordinary' circumstances, next-day funerals are carried out on-schedule, even if there are no physical-remains to bury (as in the case of an airplane lost at sea, for example).
Even in the midst of condolance-giving at the graveside, Egeliler's mother begins to pester her daughter on the subject of remarriage, reckoning that Bülent Kayabaş would make a fine new son-in-law. But Egeliler admonishes her mother and respectfully weeps for her 'deceased' husband.
Undaunted, Egeliler's mother sneakily pressures the family lawyer (Kamer Baba), who is also among the mourners at the cemetary, (see movie photo, upper left) to officially 'Read the Will' the next day at 2 in the afternoon at the family home.
The appointed hour arrives, and, in the parlor of the family home, the lawyer assembles everyone mentioned in the will. They include Bülent Kayabaş, Zerrin Egeliler, and Egeliler's mother. (See movie-photo, upper left.)
On the fireplace mantle, sits a life-sized photo-portrait of the presumably-deceased Hadi Çaman. But, as we soon learn, it's no ordinary portrait...It's a 3-dimensional picture with the power of movement and speech (see movie-photo at upper left) -- employed by the film's director Erakalın as a cinematic 'device'. A device with the ability to influence the movie's plot and orchestrate the actions of the other actors!
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