inly have busts when they have nothing else to do. Our DVD store is actually a music store, and we are always escorted to a hidden back room to view the DVDs for sale. They choose to import/rip/copy the strangest selection of DVDs. Of course they have the blockbusters like Transformers, and most recently, I Am Legend. But they also have lesser-known indie movies or classics like Dr. Zhivago. I've mentioned that I teach a movie appreciation class, and Darbie sometimes shows movies to her listening class. Strangely enough, we've found that, on more than a couple of occasions, movies we have recently shown in class suddenly start appearing in the DVD store. We've brought some movies from back home like The Princess Bride and The Count of Monte Cristo. Both of these movies magically and randomly appeared in the DVD store exactly one week after their viewings; we had not seen either of these movies anywhere before we showed them in class. I like to think our students are black market bigwigs, and that Darbie and I are shaping the market.But here's what I really wanted to share with you. We recently bought I Am Legend on DVD (it took a total of one week to get it from the US to Chinese DVD). Often the best part about these jiade (fake) DVDs are the jackets. Because there is not yet an official English DVD version to imitate, they usually have to create their own plot synopsis on the back cover. I give you the jacket description for I Am Legend:
Ignorant humanity, often disaster event setter of a bad example...
A big area virus suddenly erupts, the propagation velocity
quicklynearly nobody can prevent, nobody knew source of
the fearful viralstarts in where, only knew it does not
have the means irreversibleto stop, being unable to cure,
most importantly, it is artificialcreates.
You can only imagine how reliable the Chinese and English subtitles are.
Darbie and a hardened member of the tough Chinese black market
DB & KM
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