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lives, is accumulated, and a brain in which all the goodness and knowledge of the people in
the world is gathered. He tells them that they have to reach the sword and the brain and that
his daughter will guide them in their search. Thus, the two Turkish warriors understand that
this planet is the place where their ancestors lived in harmony and peace.
The Wizard kidnaps the Pundit’s daughter and blackmails Murat and Ali. When they go the
Wizard’s palace, he takes Ali captive and invites Murat to cooperate with him but Murat
refuses. Confident that he will defeat the Wizard by the help of his ancestors’ power and faith,
Murat escapes from the Wizard’s palace and gang up together with the pundit’s daughter find
the sword and the brain.
The Wizard sets up the mechanism required to transplant Ali’s brain in himself but Ali’s brain
is so devoted to his friend Murat that the transplantation is unsuccessful. This time, the
Wizard pursue of the sword and the brain, manages to touch them and thus acquires their
powers and as a result the Pundit loses all his strength and dies.
While Murat and Ali are fighting the Wizard’s men, Ali is killed. Now, Murat has to save the
world alone. He melts the sword, plunges his hands into the boiling liquid and thus his hands
acquire the power of it. He destroys The Wizard and his men with this power and saves this
planet, which is part of the earth. Murat leaves the people of this planet under persecution and
return to his world, while the narrator says: “The earth can not be without human and human
can not be without the earth... Protect your future because the future is in peace…”
3.1.1.Analysis of Film 1
This film is acknowledged to be one of the cult films in Turkey. It is considered to be a low
quality film in terms of story-telling and photography techniques. Ordinary viewers and
young people find the film absurd and ridiculous. Fragments from the film are shared with the
tag ‘mind-boggling scenes’ in internet. The film is thought to be at the top among examples of
the Turkish commercial films that went beyond the accepted norms. One who is not
acquainted with the Turkish Cinema and Turkey may consider the film a comedy that makes
fun of fantastic adventure films.
It is hard to say that the film is in conformity with the narrative unity and the causality chain
in the classical narration. The story of the film, which falls in the fantastic adventure genre
and is full of logical contradictions, is as follows.
Murat and Ali are the characters representing the good in the film. Murat and Ali’s strong and
warm relationship is based on friendship. They protect each other and make jokes especially
about profligacy and women. They are not individualistic and they are ready to sacrifice their
lives for each other if needed.
The Wizard and his men are the representatives of the bad. The relationship between them is
only hierarchical with no connection other than the chain of command. Concepts such as love
and friendship are meaningless to them. And indeed, they are the losing side.
The most prominent institution in the film is the global state that the earthmen established
together. Murat and Ali, who are representatives of the good, are warriors who fight for this
state. They have no complaints or criticisms about the state to which they are affiliated. The
Wizard, the representative of the bad, appears to be a tyrant. He always prioritises his
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