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personal interests in his decisions. Nobody except for The Wizard has the right to speak.
There is no institutional structure that The Wizard considers superior to himself.
Friendship, love and compassion are ethical values that are especially emphasised, endorsed
and therefore recommended. Besides them, loyalty to the state and working for the interests of
the state are emphasised and endorsed.
The religious values are discourse on Islam and Christianity. Islam is praised in the film
whereas Christianity is otherised. It is understood at the end of the film that The Wizard
comes from a Christian community. When the film is viewed from a religious perspective, it
is observed that Muslims represent the good while Christians represent the bad.
There is no emphasis laid on class structure in the film. There are no clues in the film as to
which social class the heroes belong to.
The film is somewhere between the centre and the right and perhaps slightly closer to the
right in the ideological spectrum created by Gianetti (Guchan 1999) because the film
highlights, endorses and recommends values such as heredity, allegiance to the past,
nationalism, adherence to religion and traditionalism.
3.1.2.The Relationship of Film 1 With Its Period
It seems as if this film is spokesman for the military coup that took place in Turkey in 1980.
The basic goal of those who planned and implemented the military coup is to establish
“national unity and social peace”. For this purpose, subjects such as the glorious history of the
Turks, superiority of their religious faith to other religions, and conspiracy of the foreign
powers to lay seeds of animosity between brothers and sisters within the country are
mentioned whenever opportunity arises.
The film does not mention class structures, it praises the fraternal life of 13 th Tribe. The
Wizard as an external power, destroyed this fraternal life. This discourse in the film is in
conformity with the discourse of the junta which says that the internal conflicts are created by
‘roots abroad’ centers.
3.2.The Plot of Film 2
A Turkish spaceship and its captain Kartal who are looking for the Gokmen who they lost in
depth of space 8 years ago… Uga who wants to conquer the universe and the radioactive
mixture that he intend to try it on the world… The King of Lunatica Planet, Dogibus, who
want to be the member of Orion Union, and his beautiful daughter, Maya… Zaldabar (or
Sahin), the son of ‘the man who saved the world’, the twin of Kartal. He was born two hours
before Kartal and was kidnapped and converted to a space pirate by Uga...
Kartal has to find Gokmen, to prove who is Zaldabar and to prevent the destruction of the
world by Uga. Kartal’s power is coming from his father’s spirit and his patriotism. And the
award of his success is marry Maya and live happily peacefully in the world that he saved.
3.2.1.Analysis of Film 2
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