movie name : The Barbarians
actress name : Sheeba Alahani
charterer name : China
movie year : 1987
actress name : Sheeba Alahani
charterer name : China
movie year : 1987
In 1987 movie Barbarians, actress Sheeba Alahani plays as villainess China. One of the things that make female villains and their first female villain character in human history, the character of Sekhmet, that it's contradiction was essential for ancient Egypt scientific advancement, the idea that everything have contradiction, and you should explore contradictions, unlike the christian doctrine, at least before the industrial revolution, that there's one absolute truth, that's why many things were describe satanic, this both effects art and science..
Anyway, the 80s intro music is very interesting..
The experience that you get from watching this movie is unmatched with watching any modern movie. Queen Canary is so beautiful..
The movie starts with interesting fight scene I've never seen before, it's really fun, They really gave much thoughts on it..
Wait, Queen Canary isn't the protagonist of the movie, or what?
Around 10 minutes mark, this scene with the male villain is absolutely awesome, you know the iconic scene of Negan when he caught the heroes of the show and brought them to their knees, you learn to make such scenes, from movies like this one, the same idea, tension and relief, the use of contradiction to make good drama..
Finally, we see the gorgeous China around 16 minutes mark..
I love watching China in this movie, I'm watching her and all I'm thinking "That's a great actress", and she only made one movie!!
The origin story of The Barbarians and how they became strong after they were taken as children is one of the most iconic scenes in Cinema history even if you probably know it by only it's variations, you can see how it's very similar to the story of the Spartans, take some elements and use such elements to draw your own world, it's different, but you can still see the inspiration, the oldest origin story of a character similar like that, from what I've read, is the origin story of Saif al-Din Qutuz, and I think the story of Dracula have similar premise, the historical character of Dracula, not the vampire one..
Around 25 minutes the main villain was about to kiss Queen Canary, and the villainess interrupted them saying "My Lord!" LMAO..
This scene is really great, China tells Kadar "You've grown weak.", and he goes like "I.. am still master here.", and she replies "Yes, but what power have you if your heart is her prisoner?"
Absolutely brilliant character and writing..
The two heroes get a sword fight around 28 minutes..
The two main heroes in the movie are actually twins, like this is awesome.. Sadly David Paul, the actor playing Gore left our world recently, thank you, David Paul, we love you and we miss you, RIP 💔💔💔.
I love this movie, I don't care..
Finally we see our villainess around 54 minutes, she took her guards and rode the horses and left the castle, now we are talking.
Watching this movie make you realize that a movie being fun to watch, doesn't necessary mean it would be recognized and famous, you also need a big star and marketing to make it recognizable, the problem with modern movies that you only get the big stars and marketing, but never the good movie..
Around 59 minutes, our gorgeous villainess found the ruby she's looking for, and we get one of the most disappointing ending ever, like as soon as she started to be active in the movie, she dies in the most stupid way ever, she didn't even have a final fight with Ismene or something, basically the rest of the movie, you have four main characters vs half-assed villain, it's like this scene destroyed the whole structure of the movie, the movie basically ended there.. That's why villains aren't side characters in movies, any of the four main heroic characters dying there wouldn't harm the movie structure as with the villainess demise, because now either you start building a new villain, and it's too late as only half hour left of the movie, or you end with the male villain who wasn't great to begin with, if you want to the theater, you would basically spend the rest of the movie waiting for it to end, you will never recommend it to anyone, and you will just forget it as a bad movie and experience, even tho it was going great for the first 1 hour..
You can watch China's compilation here..
