In every age, in every part of the world where women are valued less than men, there have been those who resisted, who excelled at supposedly masculine skills and sought to claim masculine space for themselves. Most of them are footnotes in history, their stories often tragic; the vast majority were never remembered at all. Every now and again, though, one succeeded so spectacularly that history is not enough, and the story of what follows becomes legend. In Mongolia, the greatest such story belongs to Khutulun.
Ever since Khutulun’s story made it out into the wider world – thanks in part to Marco Polo – people have been trying to rewrite it, to tame her. Though elements of her story influenced Red Sonja, she is best known in the West in the form of Turandot, her well-attested martial prowess stripped away, her fate twisted into a conventional romance. Mongolia’s film.
Ever since Khutulun’s story made it out into the wider world – thanks in part to Marco Polo – people have been trying to rewrite it, to tame her. Though elements of her story influenced Red Sonja, she is best known in the West in the form of Turandot, her well-attested martial prowess stripped away, her fate twisted into a conventional romance. Mongolia’s film.
- 3/6/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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