The Legend of Suriyothai
by Chatrichalerm Yukol
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Actor: Chatchai Plengpanich, Johnny Anfone, M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi, Mai Charoenpura, Sarunyu WongkrachangDirector: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Thai (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Legend of Suriyothai
Movie Review: Edited Version?
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a little annoyed that the version released in the US appears to be so heavily edited for time. Although I admit I haven't seen the Coppola produced release, I have been told that most of the editing was done to "character development" scenes. Unfortunately, the US audience needs this development much more than the Thai audience would (i.e., US audiences have no institutional memory of the histories involved). Too bad.
I loved the version released in Thailand; a beautifully filmed movie with a great combination of action, drama, and intrigue. The elephant battle scenes were fantastic.
The subtitles were not perfect though. I must say that such a beautiful film deserved better subtitles, which seemed to be an afterthought. (Typos, and the English subtitles occasionally conveyed different meaning than the sound track.)
Summary of The Legend of Suriyothai
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/25/2003 Run time: 142 minutes Rating: RDirected by a prince and financed by a queen, The Legend of Suriyothai is a sprawling Thai epic in the tradition of Hollywood's biblical extravaganzas of the 1950s. A former film student-turned-prince of Thailand, director and co-writer Chatrichalerm Yukol recruited film-school classmate Francis Ford Coppola to shape this ambitious production (originally over three hours long) into a 142-minute "Reader's Digest" version for an international audience, and the result is a mixed blessing: There's more pomp, circumstance, and pageantry in this historical saga than you'd find in a half-dozen lesser films, with bloody battles, assassinations, beheadings, parades of elephants, and jaw-dropping sets and costumes galore, and the attention to physical detail is astonishing. It's also a narrative mess, spanning two decades in the 16th-century story of Suriyothai, princess of Ayuthaya (now Thailand), where two kingdoms are quarreling while war with Burma (to the north) is about to erupt. Palace intrigue, lavish ritual, and traitorous deception abound, unfolding at a deliberate pace that will either test your patience or command your attention. As history lessons go, it's occasionally slow but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon
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