Movie "Mongol" (2007)

[Subu'atai]

Apparently the Japanese guy played a geek on his next film lol

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

This movie sucks big time for historical accuracy. I can say this is the Mongol version of 300 There are just too many inaccurasies that I can't even list them.

[Temüjin]

yeah, Mongol archers use the meditteranean draw instead of the thumb-draw, this was the first thing i saw in the trailer and it completely spoiled the whole movie for me before i saw it...

[Azadan Januspar]

What are all these inaccuracies about?...why didn't they make something more realistic regarding this opportunity.

[Subu'atai]

It seems plausible that an army of nomadic horsemen would have been impossible to coordinate with their non-Altaic actors. In fact, they didn't even know how to shoot let alone ride and shoot!

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

May 27, 2008 21:37:06 GMT 3 Azadan Januspar said:

What are all these inaccuracies about?...why didn't they make something more realistic regarding this opportunity.

They have twisted the actual story, adding non-existing fiction. For example, according to the movie, Temüjin was abducted by the Tanguts and sold as a slave, stayed in their capital for a long time, than his wife Börte sold herself to a slave merchant, went to Ningxia and rescued Temüjin. This is just nonsense. There are also many other inaccurasies in the story line; some big events and characters are never mentioned, or blended into others. The final battle scene also has a very inaccurate tactic which was never used by steppe peoples. There are also other technical details like those mentioned by Temüjin Yabghu (I hadn't noticed that indeed).

[Temüjin]

and there was too much emphasize given to Jamukha in my opinion. iirc, Toghrul wasn't even mentioned, neither the other major wifes of Temüjin nor his closest followers & lieutenants.

[Subu'atai]

I've also heard that in the movie -> Temujin betrayed Jamukha

Another insulting inaccuracy, need to call these Ruskies back to Kalka river!

[snafu]

The movie just opened in here the US, and it's getting very good reviews. But I was disappointed with it. The story of Temujin is interesting enough on it's own. It doesn't need to be changed. But they mangled it in this movie and ended up with a story that was sort of boring and sometimes even silly. And the costumes were terrible. I don't think the director did any research at all into what steppe people wore 800 years ago. Most of the characters looked more like modern Kazakhs than ancient Mongols. I was hoping for something much more authentic.

[Azadan Januspar]

Yeah, those curved swords which resemble cheap Arabic tradition.

[Subu'atai]

Can someone explain the friendly fire scene on the last battle as well - like wtf?!

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

That last battle scene is entire fiction, there is nothing accurate in it ;D ;D

[snafu]

What was the name of the Genghis Khan movie the Mongolians made? I think it was back in the 90's. It looked very extravagant and expensive. It also looked a lot better than this movie.

[sarmat]

Although the movie is definitely not perfect and filled with historical inconsitenties and innacurracies, I still think it has a positive role in promoting the interest to the steppe and Mongolian history in the world.
Despite, besides the all idiotic scenes in the movie, the main idea is still that Genghiz Khan was a good guy. And this is the challenge to the view of the general public that he was just a brutal killer of innocents and nothing more.
As long as people became interested in the story of Genghis Khan, they can discover that his real life was actually much more interesting and meaningful than it is represented in the movie.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Well, the long Inner Mongolian tv serials were still much better in that aspect ;D