Vidioten (uhf)

Post by **Karmus** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:51 pm

Yesterday a friend called me and told me that TvDanmark 1 was sending "Vidioten", a Danish title for UHF ("The Vidiot"). Unfortunately I was at my dad and he hasn't got cable tv, so I couldn't watch the ending. Later I checked the program list for March 18th and it was aired at 15.00 (3PM) and ended at 16.45 (4:45PM) after a lot of commercial breaks. Here's some info about it from the webpage:

3-Forestillingen: Vidioten
Amr. komedie fra 1989
(UHF)

Vidioten er den satiriske musiker Weird Al Yankovic (kendt for sine Michael Jackson-parodier) filmdebut, og den kaster et parodisk blik på en amatøragtig lokal tv-station, og de i sandhed mærkværdige programmer som den sender ud i æteren.

George Newman og hans kammerat Bob bliver fyret fra deres jobs hos fastfood restauranten Burger World, og George beslutter derfor at overtage driften af Kanal 62, en falleret lokal tv-station, som hans onkel Harvey har vundet i et pokerspil. I løbet af kort tid vender George udviklingen på tv-stationen og forvandler den til en succes, blandt andet ved at lade altmuligmanden Stanley Spadowski blive vært i et børneprogram. Og George opfinder nu en række nye programmer, det ene mere bizart end det andet, og seertallene stiger mod himlen. Kanalens uventede succes går dog ikke ubemærket hen hos konkurrenten Kanal 8, hvor chefen R. J. Fletcher planlægger at sabotere rivalens fremgang. George må derfor hastigt udtænke en redningsplan.

Medv.: George Newman: Weird Al Yankovic. Stanley Spadowski: Michael Richards. R. J. Fletcher: Kevin McCarthy. Bob: David Bowe. Teri: Victoria Jackson. Onkel Harvey: Stanley Brock. Philo: Anthony Geary.
Instr.: Jay Levey.

Quickly and directly translated:

The 3-Performance: The Vidiot
American comedy from 1989
(UHF)

The Videot is the satiristic musician "Weird Al" Yankovic's (known for his Michael Jackson-parodies) film début and it casts a parodic glance on an amateurlike local TV-station and the truly odd programs it sends out in the airwaves.

George Newman and his buddy Bob get fired from their jobs at the fastfood restaurant Burger World and George decides to take over the operations of Channel 62, a bankrupt local TV-station which his uncle Harvey has won in a poker game. In a short time George turns the evolution of the TV-station and transforms it into a hit, among other things letting the everything-imaginable-man Stanley Spadowski be host in a children program. And George invents a line of new programs, the second more bizarre than the first and the audience raises towards the sky. The Channel's unexpected success doesn't go unnoticed past the rival Channel 8 where the boss manager R. J. Fletcher plans to sabotage the rival's progress. George must therefore rapidly think of a rescue plan.

Contributory: George Newman: Weird Al Yankovic. Stanley Spadowski: Michael Richards. R. J. Fletcher: Kevin McCarthy. Bob: David Bowe. Teri: Victoria Jackson. Uncle Harvey: Stanley Brock. Philo: Anthony Geary.
Director: Jay Levey.

Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:14 pm

Thank you, Karmus! Jay Levey was the director, not the instructor, but otherwise the film description is great. It sounds kind of poetic, in fact. "The audience raises toward the sky!" Well, of course!

Insert Coin(s) to Continue · Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:54 pm

Thanks for sharing that.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:14 am

That's cool! I enjoyed that description!

Insert Coin(s) to Continue · Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:48 am

Could we merge this with the UHF Reviews topic?

Post by **Karmus** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 4:03 pm

Orthography Enthusiast @ Mar 19 2004, 04:14 PM wrote: Thank you, Karmus! Jay Levey was the director, not the instructor, but otherwise the film description is great. It sounds kind of poetic, in fact. "The audience raises toward the sky!" Well, of course!

Heh, I was not writing this. I just translated what I found on the website so it's their fault.
Wow, thanks for all those nice replies!

I just did it in one quarter.
EDIT: You were right! I looked it up in my dictionary and it said "instructor", but... there was a special mark: film/theater = "director". Sorry.

Post by **ccsyaoran** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:22 pm

al dubbed over in germen... gotta hear that!

was it actually dubbed, or subtitled?

Post by **Karmus** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:32 pm

I think it had Danish subtitles. That's usual for movies. In Germany they voice syncronize and dub everything. Even the Danish movie "Min Søsters Børn" (German: "Sommer mit Onkel Erik") has been 'Germanized' except the background music in some scenes.
HEY, have you been to that Spanish Messenger site? (Reg. your avatar) Hehe, I have one too!