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It's a beautifully shot film, and does a neat job inverting traditional cinematic techniques. Where most films skip the parts of the protagonist's life where nothing happens, in favor of focusing on periods of action and import, this film skips the parts where lots of things happen (i.e, a penniless Khan building the massive army that renders him a credible leader of the Mongol people) instead preferring to focus on periods in which very little happens. Also; Genghis Khan: Family Man.That said, it's a gorgeous picture, and it got me reading the Wikipedia page on Khan, which is pretty interesting. It also led me to a right wing meme I couldn't quite place. This comes from an Amazon review of a book on Khan:
Poor China - seems they can't get a break these days. Like it's not bad enough with the "Free Tibet" crowd and the Olympic Torch fiasco, here we've got Conn Iggulden piling on, sending Genghis Khan and his fearsome horde crashing through the "Chins" walled cities and wrecking the kind of havoc made popular in John Kerry's now infamous "Jenghis" Khan testimony to Congress in post-Vietnam America.Huh?
