I am totally disappointed on some Malaysian who look down to this movie. Obviously they are more interested on seeing handsome male actors and beautiful damsel in distress Hollywood actress than the movie itself.
I adore Tiara's part as Puteri Gusti as she is more suitable with the part. They appear like a stick is because they are royalty. And they are supposed to be like that! (I mean, polished) Can you imagine a bubbly and clumsy princess with no sense of grace. She even had to do hard work to be like a royalty!
The film is satisfying since this is the first malay film I've seen in the cinema.
However, the language held a mild usage of old Malay. But most Malaysian wont understand them if they put all of them like prosa tradisional in malay literature text book.
Sofia Jane who plays as Tun Teja makes a good impression as a jealous wife. However the sultan is so cynical to me. (Especially the scene where the camera focused on his teeth..... .... ....)
The bad part is the leaf scene. The person who plays as Orang Kaya had a bad sense of imagination. His eyes don't actually follows when the leaf fall on the ground.
However, the movie don't show much of the people at Java. I know that Majapahit is a great country at that time. But the movie shows little on that.
The fighting scene with the eclipse is the obvious flaw in the movie and what the use of the huge boulder? I was wondering if they decide to clone Stonehenge for all the sudden.
Last and not least, the English subtitle in the cinema. I confess that the person had bad sense of literature. Like the curse of 'Memuntahkan Darah' translated as 'vomiting blood'. It is true that a person would be cursed when seeing the princess but logically, they should put 'death' instead.
Through lots of version of Puteri Gunung Ledang that I've read. There was a version that says the Sultan's wife is dead and he have to find another wife and wanted a wife that is more different than average princess. Thus he chooses the princess of Mount Ledang. and there was a part where he didn't try to kill his son and refuse the offer of marrying her.
The flying keris is cool! and the part where Gusti change her appearance to an old lady with gloomy background. It suits the scene!
The silat scene at the beginning of the movie really fascinates me. It was less than what I've expected. The sounds, the choreography was magnifique!! I always see in most malay movie which had dumb kung fu acts with lousy sound effect. To be honest, it was wonderful than Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
But it lasted until the fighting eclipse scene. It was disappointing.
I am expecting more when they had some epic movie in future. I was wondering if they might interested on making the Langkawi famous myth about Mahsuri.
I am agree that Malaysian movie industry is starting to bloom and they should have spent more time on perfecting their skills on catching the scene and put them perfectly in story lines and actors and actress than focusing on budgets, make ups and stupid computer generated scenes.... they wont work... honestly.
Finally, we can see Malay film that is good in quality.
I adore Tiara's part as Puteri Gusti as she is more suitable with the part. They appear like a stick is because they are royalty. And they are supposed to be like that! (I mean, polished) Can you imagine a bubbly and clumsy princess with no sense of grace. She even had to do hard work to be like a royalty!
The film is satisfying since this is the first malay film I've seen in the cinema.
However, the language held a mild usage of old Malay. But most Malaysian wont understand them if they put all of them like prosa tradisional in malay literature text book.
Sofia Jane who plays as Tun Teja makes a good impression as a jealous wife. However the sultan is so cynical to me. (Especially the scene where the camera focused on his teeth..... .... ....)
The bad part is the leaf scene. The person who plays as Orang Kaya had a bad sense of imagination. His eyes don't actually follows when the leaf fall on the ground.
However, the movie don't show much of the people at Java. I know that Majapahit is a great country at that time. But the movie shows little on that.
The fighting scene with the eclipse is the obvious flaw in the movie and what the use of the huge boulder? I was wondering if they decide to clone Stonehenge for all the sudden.
Last and not least, the English subtitle in the cinema. I confess that the person had bad sense of literature. Like the curse of 'Memuntahkan Darah' translated as 'vomiting blood'. It is true that a person would be cursed when seeing the princess but logically, they should put 'death' instead.
Through lots of version of Puteri Gunung Ledang that I've read. There was a version that says the Sultan's wife is dead and he have to find another wife and wanted a wife that is more different than average princess. Thus he chooses the princess of Mount Ledang. and there was a part where he didn't try to kill his son and refuse the offer of marrying her.
The flying keris is cool! and the part where Gusti change her appearance to an old lady with gloomy background. It suits the scene!
The silat scene at the beginning of the movie really fascinates me. It was less than what I've expected. The sounds, the choreography was magnifique!! I always see in most malay movie which had dumb kung fu acts with lousy sound effect. To be honest, it was wonderful than Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
But it lasted until the fighting eclipse scene. It was disappointing.
I am expecting more when they had some epic movie in future. I was wondering if they might interested on making the Langkawi famous myth about Mahsuri.
I am agree that Malaysian movie industry is starting to bloom and they should have spent more time on perfecting their skills on catching the scene and put them perfectly in story lines and actors and actress than focusing on budgets, make ups and stupid computer generated scenes.... they wont work... honestly.
Finally, we can see Malay film that is good in quality.