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Remember NOMAD, That Kazakh Movie We Were Telling You About??
Merrick again...
Yesterday we posted an article about a movie called NOMAD. With a budget of $40 million, it’s the most expensive movie ever made in Kazakhstan & will be released via The Weinstein Company. You can read that article HERE.
The Kazakh government is unhappy with the way it’s portrayed in Sacha Baron Cohen's forthcoming BORAT movie, and is hoping NOMAD will create a better impression of the nation for moviegoers everywhere. However, the project will likely confound STAR TREK fans expecting to see a thermos sized floating killbot snuffing out anything that gets in its way.
Tom wrote in with two links we thought might be of interest. You can glimpse the first few moments of NOMAD HERE. Solid enough production values, with opening title music vaguely reminiscent of passages from 1984’s DUNE. Also, Tom says there’s a trailer available through the film’s official Russian website [HERE]. I’ve been unable to load this site beyond its splash page…so I can’t comment on this.
Interestingly, the film features several actors American audiences may well recognize, including the terrific Jay Hernandez, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Scott Lee.
As some Talkbackers have pointed out, no matter how warranted the Kazakh response to BORAT – it’s difficult to imagine a period piece set hundreds of years ago will send the desired message about contemporary Kazakhstan.
What do you folks think?
Tom wrote in with two links we thought might be of interest. You can glimpse the first few moments of NOMAD HERE. Solid enough production values, with opening title music vaguely reminiscent of passages from 1984’s DUNE. Also, Tom says there’s a trailer available through the film’s official Russian website [HERE]. I’ve been unable to load this site beyond its splash page…so I can’t comment on this.
Interestingly, the film features several actors American audiences may well recognize, including the terrific Jay Hernandez, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Scott Lee.
As some Talkbackers have pointed out, no matter how warranted the Kazakh response to BORAT – it’s difficult to imagine a period piece set hundreds of years ago will send the desired message about contemporary Kazakhstan.
What do you folks think?
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doesnt open for me either...
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...give Indiana Jones directions in the desert during his search for Atlantis. They are good people.
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Click the link below the picture, and then the button on the far left is the link to the trailer with different resolution options.
I couldn't really understand what the hell was going on in the trailer, but it looks big in scope.
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Shouldn't he be doing Iron Chef? "Today's ingredient: CHOCOLATE LABRADOR!!!" Don't forget the karate chop and.. pose.
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Don't know about this. I'll wait to see more.
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The trailer looks ok and maybe the film will be as well(reminds be stylewise of a few recent Korean/Chinese films) but to say this is being made to counter the Borat film is fucking nonsense as it has plainly been in production for quite some time,in seems to me to be more of a marketing ploy by the film company making the Nomad film so they can catch hold of some free publicity off of Borat....
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Yeah... trailer looks ok. I like J S Lee and Dacascos. They've had their moments in film and if done well this movie could be fun. As for a Borat comeback... evs.
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Absolutely right. This film just got lucky with its timing. Good on it, anyways.
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Now that could be nice.
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Maybe they'll stir up some natural beauty tourism ala LOTR-New Zealand. Throw the romantic cultural element in there and you've got yourself a market.
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doesnt it?
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When did this happen? --- I'll go Netflix a copy of "crazy/beautiful" to remind myself just how lousy an actor he is.
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So, does that mean that vaunted 80s pseudo-prog band Toto will be doing the soundtrack? The music was, after all, the best part of Lynch's glorious trainwreck of a Frank Herbert adaptation. This movie should have Nathan Explosion play Genghis Khan, and the rest of Dethklok can be his lieutenants. That would be totally brutal. Metal rules.
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Remember the portable version of the Sega Genesis, the Nomad? Yeah, that thing rawked.
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... and thats my final word on the matter.
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at the locarno film festival last august. Story is a bit corny. Big hero coming along to unite the different clans and save them from occupation. Love, friendship, battles, blabla... been there, seen that! The production design, lighting and overall look of the film is stunning though... Agree with BirdMcMonster: they might get some tourism out of it... certainly makes you want to go see those terrific landscapes!
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I think if this film flops the director will be execute!
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photo's look pretty good, better than I expected.Aparantly even today the Kazakh's aren't very good freinds with the Mongols, so given the subject matter it should stir up a bit of passion in that part of the world.I knew a Kazakh who used to talk about how they made fun of all the Mongols at school haha......
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"BORAAAAATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!"
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Kazakhstan.
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Caught a screener of it... not enough nudity....
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...and then maybe I'd go see this. This could be good if they have Lee and Dacascos are fighting one another. Corny but you know some of us would watch it. Only it'd have to be Brotherhood of the Wolf Dacascos. You know, where he doesn't talk. Just jumps around and kicks people. How long you think before we see a Borat vs Nomads movie?
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For some reason, that just made me think of the comment Cohen made as Borat. He said that his movie had beaten King Kong, which had been the number one Kazakh movie since the 30's. I'm tellin' ya...Dune has only just come out over there.
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This film is about two years old and is about Genghis Khan not Kazaks and is a RUSSIAN production. It had it's share of trouble and three directors one of whom went on to direct another Khan themed film called MONGOL starring Tadanobu Asano. Get your facts straight guys.
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Now I don't have to be the one to break it to these guys. Jesus. I thought you were supposed to be film geeks? If PTA squeeks out a fart and you hear about it you make a note of it but a big production like this slips past you?
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Don't they realize that Borat is really making fun of the American view on foreign cultures, and not actually making fun of Kazakhstan? Just like when he does the gay german fashion critic. He does that to make fun of the homophobes and the elitist fashion world.
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Too many hills. Too boring. Have to go to...sleep...zzzz
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I'm sure the Borat film will do more for Kazakstan tourism than a heroic epic that takes it far too seriously will ever do.
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and does anyone else have as much fun saying "mark decascos" as I do? mark decascos! hehehe
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just like the intro to "Dethwater!" Scienceman, you are brilliant!
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This movie is not about Genghis Khan. It takes place in the 18th century during a time of a fragile peace for the clans of nomads. The plot is based on a prophecy that a child will be born descended from Genghis Khan who will unite the clans. The enemy wishes to kill the boy so the boy is taken under wing by a great Kazakh warrior, learns stuff and so forth...
In any event, Khan died over 600 years before the time period of this film. -
to get an impression of modern day Scotland by watching BRAVEHEART.
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Is there still confusion about the nature of this film? I am confused.
1.which movie does that link have the first few minutes of, the new kazakh one or the old genghis khan one?
2.which movie has Jason Scot Lee in it, the Kazakh one or the Genghis one?
3.Is the website in Russian the Kazakh one or the Khan one?
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and i laughed hard at Old man balls.
AND i thought of "doo-in'" that Shit on a dollhouse toilet years ago. (never filmed it) -
This film, that the link is for, was not made as some retaliation to the Borat film as it wasn't in production when this was being made.
I read about this film in Febuary over at Twitch and even then it said that it was being released by the Weinstein brothers stateside. So the Kazak government is proclaiming that this film is their answer to Borat when in fact it wasn't made as such.
So...They aren't making one soon or anything like that, it's already been made, in fact it was supposed to wrap up in 2004.
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