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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4318420" data-attributes="member: 35909"><a href="http://www.mongolmovie.com" target="_blank">www.mongolmovie.com</a>I'm really excited for this, going to see it on Sunday.  I've been reading around about it.  Apparantly, they only had a bdget of around $20 million to do what is in the "epic war" genre, and still managed to land an actor from Zatoichi, a great Finnish composer (just listen to those samples, I love the music!), and cast and crew of over 40 different nationalities.  Still on music, if you follow the picture link to Altan Urag's site, they have some music videos posted via youtube, they are also amazing.This is apparantly (hopefully) the first movie of a trilogy, spanning from Genghis Khan's childhood up to 1206, when he unites all the Mongol tribes, and mostly focusing on the hardships and bondage he endured and his romantic relationship with Borte (ie, potential "date movie."  I'm taking my fiance, who normally dislikes history and war/fighting scenes, but likes lord of the rings, we'll see how that goes).It looks to be "historical fiction," mainly because the director admitted there was a dearth of information available compared to all the major events that occured, so he had to kind of get in Temujin's mindset.  And it's a film, so I absolutely expect added drama and such.It's just nice to see a work like this, detailing Genghis Khan as he truly is, a valiant hero.  It's really sad that of pretty much every review I read online, the author felt the need to state something like "The Genghis Khan of this movie is not the bloodthirsty, satanic tyrant we usually think of him as..."  Hopefully this movie will do some good to reversing the prejudiced views western history holds of him, a man who was the Mongolian equivalent of the American founding fathers all rolled into one, and whose progressive policies, such as religious tolerance, greater rights for women, promoting people based on merit, and scaring foes into peaceful surrender to conquer with minimal loss of life were all far ahead of his time, and far ahead of those other peoples who looked down on him as a "barbarian."  If not, the fight scenes should be awesome at least. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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