I was quite intrigued by this (unverified) TVtropes anecdote.Being as Central Asia is the furthest region on the Earth from the ocean, ocean-themed films and television programs do well with citizens of the the Asian steppes as they're considered "exotic". The movie Titanic (1997) is wildly popular there, especially in Kyrgyzstan. The movie plays about 5 times a day on TV. There are radio plays, novelizations, comics, and basically everything on the market has the image of one the movie's characters on it.After a quick search on Google, a travel book seems to corroborate the story and add more intriguing details:A pirated version of the movie Titanic was showing up on the only Kyrgyz TV channel. It was shown almost every saturday night for a year despite it clearly had a banner caption running accross the bottom of the screen which stated: "For the consideration of Academy Awards only" (...) The fact we were showing a bootleg version was bad enough, but it had been dubbed into russian with just one actor speaking all the lines in a completely monotonous emotionless male tone (...) Ageing posters and Titanic memorabilia were everywhere in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz version of Titanic deserved its own award. It was certainly more entertaining than rhe original.I'm not sure if never seeing the sea is the most logical explanation (is there other maritime/boat movies with unusual cult-following in Central Asia?). This is still a fascinating case of surprising cultural reception. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2S9L050
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