So we had to strip away a lot of it for timing. There's too much effects to actually apply, a lot of these complicated sorts of interplay. Because a lot of what we wanted to do, we end up thinking, well we can't really do that because there's so much effects. But also I just want to make a point that working with Jet was amazing, just to see him do his little thing in the movie was phenomenal.Īnd the choreography, all the training we did to develop that final fight scene. You know with Jet, there wasn't a whole lot of interaction, it was mostly my soldiers subduing him. What was it like facing off against Jet Li for that brief moment, and did you have to prep for the fight scenes though you've had onscreen martial arts experience in the past? So you get to briefly engage in a fight with Jet Li, though of course you do most of your battles with the Liu Yifei's Mulan. So I think there's a certain turn of the tides that happens with her character. It's not necessarily she's working for him, he promises that they'll share but it turns out that's not the case. You start seeing the unraveling of utilizing Xian Lang just as a tool, just as a stepping stone to get to where he wants to be and what he needs. And as we go, as the strategy starts to take effect to benefit Bori Khan, more and more you see his true colors, you see his true intentions. If you do this together, you'll have a safe place to live, you won't be chastised, you won't be ridiculed, you won't be judged: that's the paradise that Bori Khan offers Xian Lang. Yeah I think bringing Xian Lang, Gong Li's character, into the picture you get this idea that we're partners. Can you speak on the dynamic between Bori Khan and Xian Lang? There was a lot of ethnographic precision when it came to those kind of things.Īs sympathetic as Bori Khan's campaign can be, I think it's interesting that he has a somewhat complicated relationship with Gong Li's character, the witch, and their similarities as outsiders, despite Bori Khan looking down on and using her. They're nomadic and part of that legacy that the Mongols left behind, so they're all descendants of those warrior groups. And this particular dialect that we kind of created for Bori Khan was from the Siberian area of the Tuvan people. So after spending two tours in Kazakhstan, and six months was the longest of one of my tours, I got to really get a grasp of those descendants of Genghis Khan. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's interesting, I had done a film called Nomad, which had to do with the Central Asian people in Kazakhstan. To take back tribal lands that were belong once belonged to their people and have this strong determination to put together a fierce army to take back those things from the Emperor.ĭid you do a lot of research into the Rourans and their history prior to stepping into the role? And so I think Bori Khan, for me, I came into wanting to develop a backstory - having him, not only revenge for his father but actually be somewhat of a guardian for his clan and his tribe, and a guardian to protect this culture that was being overrun by the Chinese Empire. And one was that, as the story plays out we understand that Bori Khan's father, who was also named Bori Khan was killed by the Emperor in battle in the previous generation. But then looking into the region that he's from, we wanted to sort of strategize and give him a lot of really strong intention for what he does. So I took a lot of historical interpretations, Bori Khan is actually a historical figure. ![]() I think knowing that it was going to be an epic live action movie, a really strong drama, we wanted to do our homework and get this character grounded. So what was it like taking on that role and putting your own twist on it? You get to take on the role of the villain of Mulan, stepping into the shoes of one of the most iconic Disney baddies Shan Yu, but in this film, you play Bori Khan.
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