To Swede or not to Swede...

To swede or not to swede, that is the question. For those of you unfamiliar with the word, to swede is to make a low (or no) budget version of a popular film. A sweded film is a lot shorter than the original and due to the zero budget it can a lot more imaginative, for example: Terminator 2: Judgement Day swede set fire to amushroom to represent the mushroom cloud explosion of the apocalyptic vision depicted in Sarah Conner’s dream sequence. That’s just one piece of fried gold I have stumbled upon.
The term comes from the 2008 film “Be Kind Rewind” in which Jack Black’s brain gets magnetised and as a result he wipes all of the videotapes in his friend’s, played by Mos Def, video store. Due to a lack of funds they cannot buy new stock, instead they recreate the films on a zero budget and this happens to be very popular. They create the term “sweding” to describe their endeavours and since it has taken the internet by storm.
There are as many bad swedes as there are good, and some of the good ones are brilliant. And the beauty of sweding is anyone can do it, as long as you have a camera and the innovation to turn a roll of tinfoil into a badass Robocop costume! Also the ability to completely disregard how stupid you will look in said roll of tinfoil. Acting talent not necessary.

Here are some good swedes to be found on YouTube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeDpy3IUHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5smBcpS9kc&feature=related