The Legend of Suriyothai.
I havent seen this movie, but I'm now making it a priority to! I was just browsing through a list of movie trailers, and found it.
It's a historical film about a Warrior Queen named Suriyothai, and it apparently takes place in 1500's Siam (Thailand).
I was reading about it here, it's says the movie used over 5,000 extras for the battles and around 200 war elephants! Talk about realism! The violence is not eidted, there are plenty of beheadings in this one, so the realism has been pushed to the extreme. Highly historically accurate, it even shows the Siamese army making use of Portugese mercenaries! So far every review I've read about it has had nothing but praise for it, I mean, I've never been interested in Siam, but after seeing that trailer, I hafta say I most certainly am now!
Heres the amazon review:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...91134?v=glance
And heres the trailer:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808406117
(click on the picture to see the trailer)
Who else is as interested as me, or has seen this movie?