History Film / Mongol

* BloodBrothers: As boys, Temudgin and Jamukha pledge loyalty to each other, complete with a Blood Oath palm-slicing ritual. Thereafter they call each other "brother". So when Jamukha eventually becomes Temudgin's rival and enemy, it's SeriousBusiness.

* BadassBaritone: Would you expect Genghis Khan to sound like anything else?

''Mongol'' was directed by Creator/SergeiBodrov, and was [[InternationalCoproduction a joint Russian/Kazakh/German production]]. The film was shot in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}} Inner Mongolia]] and the dialogue is in the Mongolian language. It is a considerably better film than previous Genghis Khan biopics such as the disastrous ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956, with Creator/JohnWayne as Temudgin!), ''Film/TheMongols'' (1961), ''Film/GenghisKhan'' (1965), as well as being more historically accurate, though it takes its share of major artistic license.

''Mongol'' was directed by Creator/SergeiBodrov, and was [[InternationalCoproduction a joint Russian/Kazakh/German production]]. The film was shot in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}} Inner Mongolia]] and the dialogue is in the Mongolian language. It is a considerably better film than previous Genghis Khan biopics such as the disastrous ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956, with Creator/JohnWayne as Temudgin!) and ''Film/GenghisKhan'' (1965), as well as being more historically accurate, though it takes its share of major artistic license.

** Temujin actually wanted to sapre Jamukha in real life, but instead the latter committed a variant of SuicideByCop, asking Temujin to end his life instead of sparing him, reasoning that there can only be one Khan.

* BadassBeard: Temujin and many Mongols sport them. Which is a much more accurate depiction than the infamous fu-manchu Mongols are for some reason associated with.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite a few of them but the most glaring one is the Tangut people speaking Mandarin Chinese. While the Tanguts were distantly related to and shared a language family with the Han Chinese (they are both Sino-Tibetan peoples), as well as being heavily influenced by the Chinese to the point of adopting Chinese characters to write the Tangut language — Tangut is still not intelligible with the Chinese languages at all and shares more similarities to Tibetan. The unrelated Tangut language survived for a couple of centuries even after the destruction of the Tangut kingdom. Perhaps because the movie was filmed in China where Mandarin is widely spoken while the Tangut language went extinct (it is still undergoing linguistic reconstruction today), they just decided to go with Mandarin for the sake of convenience.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite a few of them but the most glaring one is the Tangut people speaking Mandarin Chinese. While the Tanguts were distantly related to and shared a language family with the Han Chinese (they are both Sino-Tibetan peoples), as well as being heavily influenced by the Chinese to the point of adopting Chinese characters to write the Tangut language — Tangut is still not intelligible to the Chinese languages at all and shares more similarities to Tibetan. The unrelated Tangut language survived for a couple of centuries even after the destruction of the Tangut kingdom. Perhaps because the movie was filmed in China where Mandarin is widely spoken while the Tangut language went extinct (it is still undergoing linguistic reconstruction today), they just decided to go with Mandarin for the sake of convenience.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Quite a few of them but the most glaring one is the Tangut people speaking Mandarin Chinese. While the Tanguts were distantly related to and shared a language family with the Han Chinese (they are both Sino-Tibetan peoples), as well as being heavily influenced by the Chinese to the point of adopting Chinese characters to write the Tangut language — Tangut is not mutually intelligible with Chinese at all and shares more similarities to Tibetan. The unrelated Tangut language survived for a couple of centuries even after the destruction of the Tangut kingdom. Perhaps because the movie was filmed in China where Mandarin is widely spoken while the Tangut language went extinct (it is still undergoing linguistic reconstruction today), they just decided to go with Mandarin.

* WarGod: Tengri is depicted as one - seeing how Temujin prays to him before a battle. Such as it is, there actually is a god of war in Turko-Myth/MongolMythology - Kyzaghan, a deity that some note is quite similar to Odin from Myth/NorseMythology.

'''Jamukha''': I'm not your brother, I am your khan! And you are my slave!

* WarGod: Tengri is depicted as one - seeing how Temujin prays to him before a battle. Such as it is, there actually is a god of war in Turko-Mongol mythology - Kyzaghan, a deity that some note is quite similar to the Norse [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]].

* Determinator: The monk who talks to Temudgin walks through the desert alone and with no provisions to deliver a message to Borte [[spoiler: dying just a few kilometers shy of her location.]]

* BloodBrothers / BloodOath: As boys, Temudgin and Jamukha pledge loyalty to each other, complete with a Blood Oath palm-slicing ritual. Thereafter they call each other "brother". So when Jamukha eventually becomes Temudgin's rival and enemy, it's SeriousBusiness.

* CallBack / ChekhovsGun: Early in the film, Temudgin, his father Esugei, and their party, hide in a cave when a thunderstorm passes. Esugei explains that "Thunder means our god Tengri is angry. All Mongolians are afraid of it." Later, during the final battle, another thunderstorm arrives, but Temudgin rallies his troops and wins the battle. An astonished Jamukha asks why he wasn't afraid, and Temudgin explains that he was no longer afraid because he had nowhere to hide.

* TheCassandra / CassandraTruth: When Temudgin is bought as a slave by a Tangut lord, the lord's Buddhist monk says don't do it, because Temudgin will bring destruction. The lord laughs at this, and imprisons Temudgin with a sign over his cell mocking Temudgin's pledge to destroy the Tangut kingdom. The monk, for his part, asks Temudgin to spare the monastery when he wrecks the Tanguts. Temudgin [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Western_Xia wrecks the Tanguts]], but spares the monastery.

* PoisonIsEvil: Giving a guy poisoned milk as part of a hospitality ritual is pretty shady.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: You'd expect Jamukha to die after Temudgin defeats his army in the climax. He was put to death in real life.

''Mongol'' was directed by Creator/SergeiBodrov, and was [[InternationalCoproduction a joint Russian/Kazakh/German production]]. The film was shot in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}} Inner Mongolia]] and the dialogue is in the Mongolian language. It is a considerably better film than previous Genghis Khan biopics such as the disastrous ''Film/TheConqueror'' (1956, with Creator/JohnWayne as Temudgin!) and ''Film/GenghisKhan'' (1965), as well as being more historically accurate.

'''''Mongol''''' is a 2007 film {{Biopic}} about UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. The film traces the early part of the life of Temudgin, the man who became Genghis Khan, starting with his selection of future wife Borte when he was nine years old. The film follows Temudgin through his father Esugei's murder, the usurpation by Targutei (another member of Temudgin's clan), Temudgin's friendship and then rivalry with Jamukha (leader of another clan), his defeat by Jamukha, his return and triumph, and Temudgin's eventual unification of the various Mongol tribes.

''Mongol'' was directed by Creator/SergeiBodrov, and was [[InternationalCoproduction a joint Russian/Kazakh/German production]]. The film was shot in [[UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}} Inner Mongolia]] and the dialogue is in the Mongolian language. It is a considerably better film than previous Genghis Khan biopics such as the disastrous ''The Conqueror'' (1956, with Creator/JohnWayne as Temudgin!) and ''Film/GenghisKhan'' (1965), as well as being more historically accurate.

* WarGod: Tengri is depicted as one - seeing how Temujin prays to him before a battle. Such as it is, there actually is a god of war in Turko-Mongol mythology - Kyzaghan, a deity that some note is quite similar to the Norse [[NorseMythology Odin]].

-->'''Temujin:''' (to a statue of Tengri) Our laws will be simple: never run from your foes, never steal women from another tribe, and ''never'' betray your Khan.

'''Jamukha''': I'm not your brother, I am your khan! And you are my slave!
* WarGod: Tengri is depicted as one - seeing how Temujin prays to him before a battle. Such as it is, there actually is a god of war in Turko-Mongol mythology - Kyzaghan, a deity that some note is quite similar to the Norse [[NorseMythology Odin]].

'''Jamukha''': I'm not your brother, I am your khan! And you are my slave!