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Fengyi Zhang showed a lot of flexibility portraying a ruler descending into madness.
Then,there's Barbara Stanwyck, the real ruler of the roost.
This movie gave me recurring nightmares, with Alan Rickman's voice representing an omnipotent, insidious, fascist ruler.
i mean, the whole thing with Sybil Danning going three-way with two of her werewolf minions was just out of place and quite disturbing (but kinda hot), Christopher lee about to stab a dead karen as if she's a vampire, etc. actually, this movie was actually like some sort of mish-mash of Dracula and The Lost Boys...except with werewolves, because everything Christopher Lee (whom played Dracula himself) was saying about werewolves pretty much ripped off from every other vampire movie (stake in the heart, garlic, the creature of the night must die AT NIGHT, and the ruler of werewolves lives in TRANSYLVANIA).
So she plans to get King Triton's trident to become the new ruler of the sea.
Despite the (English) title, this seems to have little to do with Devils and much more to do with a power hungry ruler who seeks the Philospher's Stone & wants gold made from lead (& virgin's blood).
-The movie tells the tale of a prince whose life is wonderful, but after an evil wizard tells him to go into town disguised as a beggar the wizard then locks up the prince and soon becomes the shadow ruler of Baghdad. the jailed prince meets a thief called Abu who helps him escape the jail and head to a town called Basra where he meets a princess who he falls madly in love with, but unbeknown to him the evil wizard Jafa is also in love with the princess and tries to convince her father to allow him to marry her.
Ahmad is ruler again and plans to wed his Princess; but when he tries to make Abu his vizier, the young thief refuses, saying that what he wants is adventure, not hard work and confinement in a palace however grand it may be.
The movie deals with the so-called historical figure of Vlad Tepes (phonetically that is "Tzepesh" and it literally means "Impaler"), not the vampire of Bram Stoker but the tormented Wallachian (Romanian) medieval ruler that stood against the might of the Ottoman Empire with nothing but a few trained men of his own and his reputation as master of psychological warfare by means of sheer terror and unprecedented scale of prisoner execution through impalement (Google on that for detailed info).
His reputation as a mad executioner would be well justified by today's standards, although he was just a babe when compared to other rulers of his time (his own cousin, Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia, "the Athlete of Christ" as he had been named by the Pope for having repeatedly beaten the crap out of the Turks, had reportedly killed many more people through impalement than Vlad but because he had always been politically correct, he never went down into history as a deranged butcher).
This is truly a great classic film starring Charles Laughton,( Sir Humphrey Pengallan) who is a ruthless ruler who heads a gang of thieves who look for shipwrecks along their coastline with many huge rocks and boulders.
Despite the fragmentary approach, one needs only remember the decadence of ancient Rome, the times and it's many religious practices together with it's ruler and sloven people to understand the movie.
His relatively liberal religious tolerance compared to his predecessors and ancestors does not make him the greatest ruler of India.
Vlad was a brutal ruler, and he had his reasons.
Ever since I came to know that a movie is coming out on Akbar, one of the Mughal ruler, I had decided to boycott it by not watching it.
As I do not want to watch and be part of a film glorifying and celebrating any Mughal ruler who looted, mass murdered, and converted by force (to Islam) hundreds and thousands of innocent Hindustani (Indian) people.
He is given an then ambassador post in the East, forms a friendship with the ruler and gives them weapons to fight of a mutual enemy.
The tyrannical ruler of this movie(played by Orson Welles) is emotionless and just not very impressive as a person but supposedly because he had the money he could rule over everyone.
It involves some sort of ruler of a Middle Eastern country who wants Joan Wilder to write about him or something.
For some reason the ruler tries to kill Jack, by blowing up his boat, and this only sends Jack after them.
Once in the country Joan begins to realize that the ruler is not as good a guy as he wants her to think.
She runs into a guy called the Jewel of the Nile who I think is supposed to be the real ruler of the country.
Considering that nearly everyone has seen some version of the reign of King Henry the eighth, this shows unbelievably sloppy writing, woeful miscasting in key roles, and reduces the central character to a narcissistic sociopath, and not the deeply flawed but charismatic ruler, scholar and musician he was.
The film is about a rock star who wants to become the ruler of America.
Mr. Martin is a wonderful actor that gave his role as the Prince a 3 dimensional and more human outlook on the man who haunts history as a viscous and sadistic ruler with a taste for unnameable torture.
Putin the Poker PlayerPerhaps it takes an ex-KGB spy for a Kremlin ruler to play diplomatic poker with skill.
Indeed, the established concept of nuclear deterrence through “mutual assured destruction” (MAD), which kept the peace between the Soviet Union and NATO, may not apply with a ruler like Ahmadinejad, who believes in the sacred merits of martyrdom.
But this was music to a Japan trying to pursue its own agenda in Asia as well as to Dr. Mahatir, Malaysia’s ruler, who is on an anti-establishment kick.
To what degree is Xi set to become the all-powerful ruler many observers predict?
Mao’s revolution fueled countless rectification movements and campaigns that inverted the once-inviolate primacy of ruler over ruled, scholar over worker, husband over wife, father over son, and family over individual.
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