Ako sa z Paródie na Harryho Pottera Stal FENOMÉN?

When and how did the idea for Dan Drev come about?

It started when I was 13, in 2007 in high school. The original idea was based on the fact that our classmates were talking about the fact that they wanted to redub Eragon, such a fantasy film. Dubbed parodies were popular at the time, vulgar smurf parodies and it was all in Eastern. But we knew them word for word. So I thought that when these classmates of mine are going to dub Eragon, we could also dub something with our friends.
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And that's how it started. I dubbed some such nonsense and it fascinated me terribly, I thought it was funny. Suddenly Harry was saying what was on my mind. The next day, I explained it very fascinating to my two classmates, Jakub and Stanislav, and they were also excited. After school, we went to my place and started dubbing the first part of Dan Drev.

What or who inspired you?

Many characters were our classmates and our teachers. Everything was internal until about episode seven, because we were doing it for our classmates, who we wanted to entertain. Every time we watched Dan Drev's new work in computer science class, there was a bunch of classmates around me and they laughed terribly because Harry Potter was telling something about our classmate or teacher. It was one of those moments that we enjoyed, because suddenly 30 people are having fun with something that popped up in our head. Well, around part seven it already changed, because it was gaining more views.

What was the most views for you?

Well, it didn't have 50 but 200 and sometimes it was commented by someone from the next class, sometimes someone we didn't even know existed, some stranger. That's when we said let's do it for all of Slovakia. 

What happened after that seventh part, how did you work on it after that?

From the seventh part, we started writing scenarios. Until then, it was like we met and put the first thing that came to our mind, but then we said to ourselves that if it is to be successful in the whole of Slovakia, we cannot focus only on our class and jokes that only our class will understand.

We always came to my place after school, mom made us some sandwiches, gave us Fanta and we were closed for five to six hours. To this day, when we occasionally meet these guys, we remember how we were hunched over in the dark with that microphone from that headset and it was fun. 

Do you know what is the most popular message from this parody of yours?

I know that the most popular message from Chamber of Secrets is about "Sorry I'm late, I was measuring my co*ot.", then "The food cart is coming, put your co*ots in.". Haha, that's so brutal because the Fag starts to grab his pants there. 

How was Peder dubbed? Didn't you want to be the main one, that Harry?

I really good dubbed Pedro. Peder was just so expressive, vulgar, a stupid fool who never understood anything and was aggressive. I know that Peder always had something that made me laugh. 

Did you expect it to be such a success?

I was aware that we could create something that would really affect generations in Slovakia. I was aware of this because I already had experience with the first film and I knew what to do better.

Why or on what basis did you choose Meky Žbirka for your parody

We chose Meky Žbirka for one and only reason, and that is because I somehow knew how to imitate his voice. There was no other reason. We thought that when Voldemort appeared there, someone had to dub him, but it was like Meky. I realize that it is not 100%, but at least there is something there. 



We were aware that we had to find some aspects of his personality that could be made fun of. Well, that was his English that he uses everywhere and then it was his appearance. It's so superficial, but it was also his revelation. 

Why and who was Šlota?  some legal problems. Well, since we wanted to put a lot of racist humor in there, we needed a character that would somehow justify putting that racist humor in there. 

I had the idea that actually the Bulgarians, Chvostnatý Gábor et al., that they would be Hungarians. Those Bulgarians had a lot of rifts there for some reason, and then it all fell into place for me, that Slota and the Hungarians. 

And how did the name Peder come about?

We had a chemistry teacher named Ján. He was such a top guy old with huge lumberjack hands, terribly hairy and kept saying "Ejha", "God" and "Father". He actually told me that "Pieder" during chemistry lessons, neither Peter nor Peťo but Pieder and that's how Peder came about. We wanted to put him there as an upper-class guy who would say "Ejha" and "Boha", as well as those Central Slovak - Orava words, but for some reason there was more it occurred to us that we would cast him as homosexual. 

And who is Dano Drevo or how did this nickname come about?

Our classmate Daniel was so unathletic, let's call it that, and I remember during one gym session we were playing soccer and he somehow kicked the ball away. He was actually the goalkeeper, he kicked the ball and in an incredibly comic style it was reflected almost everywhere, as in some kind of parody, and straight between his legs into the goal. He scored his own goal in such style and we couldn't breathe from laughing. At that moment, it happened that Dano, you are also wood and from then on Dano was Wood. Because he was popular in this sense, that he is wood, we said that he must be the main character.

How did you get to Meliško?

Meliško is a total legend and we were his big fans. We could quote all his recordings, word for word, so we wondered if we had a character that was not dubbed by anyone and there was the dragon. At that time Meliško was such that he was already going to various events and his star was growing more and we found out that he had a manager, so we wrote to him and he said that okay we will do it for... how much did we give him then? Maybe some €40 and a bottle of pine, €25 of which was taken by the manager, so Laco was doing it for €15 and a bottle of pine.

And how did you solve the distance? Did you follow him or did he follow you?

We dubbed it in Prievidza. At that time, we went to Prievidza by bus and we had instructions that Mr. Ladislav would be in his favorite pub, Papuča or Septima. I and Jano Brunovský, the second dubber, arrived there, and Meliško was already there, as if quite drunk. He was sitting there alone, he had a pine tree in front of him, and we said, "Good day, Mr. Ladislav, we are here, I don't know if your manager told you that we are going to dubbing.". 

He didn't know what was going on at all, so we had to explain it to him for 20 minutes, it wasn't ideal for him when he was drunk. Of course, he was convinced by the fact that we chose that pine tree. So we took a taxi to his manager and the interesting thing was that for the first 10 minutes we thought he couldn't read because we gave him a microphone and text and he didn't. But as he began to nibble more on the pine tree, his tongue became untied. 

And how did you work with him in such a condition? 

It was interesting. Kuse cursed at us that we belong to Pezinok and that we are all forced. About three-quarters of the way through the dubbing process, he got mad that he was coughing because he needed cigarettes. So on Sunday we had to look for cigarettes in Prievidza, he smoked about four and finished it. May the earth be easy for him.

Finally, tell us something about Dan Drev's quiz. Did you participate too? 

There was an association called I think Mystery and they do pub quizzes. So I took part in a pub quiz and they told me that they are always hopelessly sold out, that so many people want to keep going there. I came there, of course full of pub quiz and I thought that I will win it as a creator. I was in the NEXT LAST place. 

There are people who know how much Šaňo Fekete owed to all people. He says it at the funeral and we just shot some amount there, I don't know how much it is and they know it down to the last penny. They know EVERYTHING about Dan Drev and that's when I realized, okay, maybe it could be quite a cult.