Asian film with lots of 'Rangerific' features
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:31 am
For those of you in the US (and maybe Canada), there's a free film on Hulu called Myn Bala.
It's a film that's semi-historical, about how the invading Dzungars pushed the native Kazakhs off the Central Asian steppe and into hiding in the wooded mountains, and how they eventually came together to expell the Dzungars.
To me, you've got parallels between the Kazakhs and Fornost Dunedain and the Dzungar and the Angmarians.
And all proper credit due to New Zealand standing in for Middle Earth, but Kazakhstan is what I imagine Rohan really looks like. You just can't beat vistas of seemingly endless steppe.
Further, there's some absolutely fantastic clothing, tools, etc. showing how a dispossessed people survive living in the forests.
Caveat: the movie doesn't shy away from violence, so be prepared to see folks getting clobbered with maces and clubs, among acting as pincushions for some arrows.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/571883
It's a film that's semi-historical, about how the invading Dzungars pushed the native Kazakhs off the Central Asian steppe and into hiding in the wooded mountains, and how they eventually came together to expell the Dzungars.
To me, you've got parallels between the Kazakhs and Fornost Dunedain and the Dzungar and the Angmarians.
And all proper credit due to New Zealand standing in for Middle Earth, but Kazakhstan is what I imagine Rohan really looks like. You just can't beat vistas of seemingly endless steppe.
Further, there's some absolutely fantastic clothing, tools, etc. showing how a dispossessed people survive living in the forests.
Caveat: the movie doesn't shy away from violence, so be prepared to see folks getting clobbered with maces and clubs, among acting as pincushions for some arrows.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/571883