Matt Damon Goes Asian

[JD]

I just found The Counquerer on Wikipedia and watched the trailer on Youtube. What the hell were they thinking?

 

[Kor]

That actually happened? I've heard that before, but I always thought it was a joke.

In 1956. The movie was called The Conqueror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)

EDIT: Ninja'd by other posts above this.

Kor

 

[Nerys Myk]

I just found The Counquerer on Wikipedia and watched the trailer on Youtube. What the hell were they thinking?

Mongols ride horses. Cowboys ride horses. John Wayne plays cowboys . So John Wayne can play a Mongol. Perfectly logical.

 

[Jedi_Master]

In 1956. The movie was called The Conqueror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)

EDIT: Ninja'd by other posts above this.

Kor

Proof that even the Duke could make a stinker film.

 

[Ovation]

Proof that even the Duke could make a stinker film.

Oh, it's hardly the only one. I think he'd made nearly 200 films before Stagecoach (1939). He was in MANY B and C movies that were made within a week or two before John Ford made him a star.

 

[EmoBorg]

While I love the movie and easily ignore it owing to context, Obi-Wan Kenobi as Prince Faisal of the Hejaz in Lawrence of Arabia comes close (conceptually).

But Anthony Quinn as Abu Tayi was awesome.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

It's sad that movies aren't looked at as good or bad anymore based on their own merits, but on all of the behind the scenes casting/directing/writing decisions that go into the movie well before it's even been made.

Where every casting decision is made to anger as many people as possible anymore.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's sad that movies aren't looked at as good or bad anymore based on their own merits, but on all of the behind the scenes casting/directing/writing decisions that go into the movie well before it's even been made.

Where every casting decision is made to anger as many people as possible anymore.

I don't think that's even remotely true

 

[LJones41]

I think this sadly is just due to the fact that if you really want to get mainstream audiences to pay attention to a movie like this you need a white guy in the lead role. It is definitely annoying though, and it would have been nice to see an Asian actor like Donnie Yen or Jet Li in the lead.

I agree.