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seem to have ended in a mood of frustration and despair due to the insurmountable ‘barrier of
criteria’.
2.Purpose and Method
The Turkish Cinema, which began to make films story-telling in 1916. It is possible to find
many films about saving the country and fighting against enemies of Turks. However, the
Turkish Cinema has not taken any interest in ‘saving the world’ except two films: The Man
Who Saved the World (film 1) and The Son of The Man Who Saved the World (film 2).
The purpose of this study is understand the reason of needing to make these films, although
there has been no tradition of creating heroes who saved the world either in cinema or in other
works of culture. The films were subjected to ideological analysis for this purpose.
Ideological positions of the films were determined by looking at the attitudes that they take up
towards opposite key institutions and values (Retold by Guchan from Gianetti 1999;197).
The films were analysed within the framework of the fundamental questions stated below.
-What are plots of films?
-How are the relationships established?
-How are the relationships between institutions and individuals?
-Which ethical values are emphasised?
-Which religious values are emphsised?
-To what extent social class structure is emphasised?
-Where are the films in the ideological spectrum?
3.Findings and Comments
3.1.The Plot of Film 1
The film begins with the narrator telling about the stages that mankind has gone through so
far and the dangers of extinction that the world has faced. This introduction lasts 4 minutes
and 30 seconds and is too long for a fictional film, and viewers become aware that humans
have passed the space age and are now living in the galaxy age. The narrator inserts many
times and makes explanation.
The Wizard wants to rule the whole universe by conquering the world. Howewer, for the
Wizard to attain his goal, he needs to transplant a human’s brain in him. There are two
Turkish warriors, Murat and Ali, who were chosen from among the strongest and best fighters
in the world that came together to fight against the Wizard. While Murat and Ali are fighting
the Wizard’s men, they feel that a mysterious force is pulling them towards it. When their
space ship is hit, they stranded on a planet that they have never seen before. According to
Murat, they did not strand there but they were stranded. This planet, which also houses the
Wizard’s palace, has come off from the earth thousands of years ago. The Wizard is
persecuting the people in various ways.
Murat and Ali can no longer remain as a mere bystander in the face of what is going on in the
planet and start the war between the goodness and the evil. However, they have only their
physical power as weapon. They meet an old pundit who is the leader of the good people
living on the planet and his daughter. The pundit tells them about the 13th Tribe, the virtues of
the Islamic religion, a sword in which the strength of the mountain, where the 13th Tribe
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