The feminist style of Hollywood has reached Kazakhstan? However, this "Queen Tomelis" is not so much feminist as it is a legacy of matrilineal society-after all, the story it tells is 1,000 years earlier than "Mulan".
There are many ancient war films made in Kazakhstan, such as the series of "Nomadic God of War", "A Thousand-Blooded Warriors" and "Kazakh Khanate", all of which revolve around the national heroes of the Kazakhs. Tomelis, who defeated Cyrus the Great, was a Masagota, or a Scythian in a broad sense, that is, a "Sypriot" in Chinese classical literature. Except for living in the Kazakh grasslands, Scythians and Kazakhs are not directly related.
Let us look at how contemporary Kazakhs construct their own history.
They chose Farabi, a philosopher who was born in the Islamic world in what is now Kazakhstan, to tell the story of this nomadic hero. The documents cited by Farabi are from Herodotus of ancient Greece.
Although referring to archaeological excavations in the territory, the whole movie is very elegant. For example, the Scythians’ long pointed hats, armors, and war horses do not require stirrups (this is not possible in domestic pre-Qin film and television dramas), but the race problem is difficult to restore. The Scythians are of Indo-European race, while the Kazakhs are of Turan race-yellow and white mixed race. It's like using Han actors to play the role of ethnic minorities in the Western Regions.
Although many of the Persian troops in the film are Turanese, the important characters Cyrus and the Persian messenger obviously used "foreign aid." The actor Gassan Masood who played Cyrus was a Syrian. He once played the role of Saladin who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in "The Kingdom of Heaven"-Saladin is actually a Kurdish.
A face of a classical Middle Easterner, Gassan Massoud is indeed suitable for acting as an emperor, but there are too few similar roles. In the Islamic world, Turkey, the only country with a relatively developed film industry, is only interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
The sorrow of the Middle East and Central Asia lies in the thousands of years of historical changes and a major race change. The people who once lived on this land in history are not the ancestors of this wave of people. Therefore, the Buddha of Bamiyan exploded, and there is no historical burden.
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