Suriyothai (2001) depicts the 16th century ruined Kingdom of Ayutthaya, which later became Siam. During this period, there were 2 city states that encompassed Siam (Ayutthaya and Pitsanulok). This film takes place over a score of years where the Kingdom saw many invasions from the neighboring Honsawadi (Ancient Burma).The film features full scale outdoor sets, real temples, throne rooms, ancient palaces, and massive scenes with thousands of extras on camera in a scale not seen since Lawrence of Arabia. It was funded by the Thai royal crown, allowing them access to royal palaces and relics, and directed by one of the Thai princes who went to film school with Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola later re-edited the film, trimming 3 hours from its runtime, changed its name, added his own name to the title and ruined it. It is shot in a traditional manner using practical effects. They conscripted 20,000 soldiers to play the extras, used 350 elephants, etc.This is the never before ripped non-export edition of Suriyothai that came in the mail on Monday. As a celebration for finally discovering the 2.0 track, I have painstakingly and professionally re-written the entire English subtitle sourced from the export DVD, all 3,000 lines of dialog. Beforehand, the previous hard subtitle packaged with the export DVD was completely botched, with improper grammar, misspellings, mis-translations, and even several scenes without subtitle at all. I worked through the subtitle top to bottom. I believe you all will be pleased with the result.I continue my effort to resurrect this utterly lost film, a masterpiece that was ruined by none other than Francis Ford Coppola, that is now relegated to the dustbin of film history. I have contacted Arrow, Kino Lorber, Criterion, and just about everyone else about remastering this film in its full 300 minute, 5-hour long glory.>DOWNLOAD (NEW SUB):https://gofile.io/d/LldjJm>PREVIEW(s):https://www.viddler.com/QU8tzvhttps://www.viddler.com/EDsp58
I might take you on that. I do like historical epics and the like. They have a soul that other genres don’t have.
Based, good work.Can I watch it if I don't know anything about the region?
>>214898392How long are you going to shill this movie
>>214898392Based kino archiver autist.
>>214898392I've always found this culture cool, very underrated aesthetic. Nice work OP, ill give a watch soon.
>>214898857Yes. It’s a fairly comprehensive history lesson. No other film demonstrates medieval SEA culture better than this one. Not even close lol. It might take one or two watches to fully comprehend the history though.
>>214898888Well, seeing that he took the time to 1. seek out and buy the Thai dvd2. rip it himself3. retranslate and fix the entire subtitle PROBABLY for a while anon.
the history of thailand as a sovereign nation was manufactured to avoid colonization
>>214899432No it wasn’t you fucking retard. There are Portuguese accounts of the Ayutthaya kingdom and even European drawings of it. Pic related. Not to mention the destroyed ruins still exist today and it exists on all European and Chinese maps. Burmese accounts reflect all their wars. Chinese records considered Ayotthaya a vassal state which wasn’t really true although they had some influence there. Portuguese called Ayothaya one of the three great powers of Asia. But its “manufactured” history lmao.
For me? It's Kickboxer.
Bump.
Can anyone who has watched it say if it's actually any good? The scope of it seems impressive but I need more than that to want to watch something so long
>>214899432It was because the French in Indochina and the British in Burma jewed each other out of Thailand
>>214900400kek so the reason why thailand has so many ladyboys is because the women look like men so the men make better women
>>214899432How exactly do you avoid colonization by "manufacturing history"?>Hol' up! I see you got dem" ships and doze guns, but we wuz kangz! Colonization avoided boom!
Watching it currently it's pretty good for an epic. The battles are meh though. It's hard to keep track of the characters cause they all rook the same but it's not impossible. I saw some breasts thus far and it's technically sound if not a few rapid cuts
>>214900400The girl at 0:30 looks cute enough.https://www.viddler.com/QU8tzv>I was charmed with them from the first moment, but it grieves me to think that some day they will become as ugly as their fathers and mothersBrutal.
>>214899548Better resolution. Ayothaya in 1572. Painted by a Portuguese ambassador. Complete with a complex artificial waterway pump system and well thought out planning and design of the city. The estimated population at the time was 700,000-1.8 million making it one of the largest cities in the world at the time. The King of France also later sent there ambassadors there and Ayothaya had ambassadors in Europe. Please explain how this is manufactured history sir. I want to hear the expert on southeast Asian histories. >>214900448I’ve only met one anon who came back to post he loved it. Over 400 people have downloaded it but don’t hear back often. It’s really great. Even a masterpiece. Take my word for it.>>214901386One of the rapid cuts was me forcing to cut several frames of the film because the I frame ended up leading to several black b frames. If I didn’t cut a frame then there would have remained several black frames in the film due to merging the three dvd discs. Sorry anon. It’s the best I could do. But what I’ve produced here is the best the film will ever look until I get someone like Arrow to pick it up. Also I think your opinion on the battles will change by the end!
>5 hours long I'm gonna have to split this into several viewing sessions because no way am I sitting through that in one go.
2H08 min typo in subtitle why ever not. Currently says whynever
>>214902362Whyever is correct but if you find errors please let me know Ty anon
How many horses and elephants were killed as a result of this production?
>>214898392Impressive work. Bump
>>214904818The final battle some elephants clearly get abused.
>>214898392Thanks anon. Do you have other movies like this one? I enjoy movies from asian cultures.
>>214905643Naresuan. 6 films. Made by same director as suriyothai. But only the first two films are translated. Suriyothai is by far the best although naresuan is still good.
Looks pretty impressive, and good work, OP. It's clear you actually care about this kind of stuff. I'll check it out when I can set enough time aside.
>>214898392OP is not a faggot today.
>>214898392I take it you're the anon who was asking about this before. I'll download it. If you want it to spread further, why don't you publish it as a torrent?
>>214906078It’s on avistaz currently. Also the sub isn’t 100% ready for that kind of release. I think it’s nearly donr with all errors fixed mostly but 1 song still needs translation during the execution of the child king.
>>214907214Is it possible to scale the picture to a 16:9 aspect ratio, and put the subtitles on top of the picture?
>>214898392Based anonVLC doesn't open it for some reason. Tried Win Movies & TV and it worked
>>214907782Yes. Use your media player to zoom in. Re encoding the film isn’t a good idea
>>214898392Nice work anon. Let me know if they release a movie about my favourite SEA kingdom, Majapahit, especially if it's about their most kino story of Citra Rashmi and the Battle of Bubat.
>>214907944I’ve had people tell me they open it and get a green screen. I have no idea what that is. The film has never been re-encoded from the original dvd source. I use potplayer and never had an issue.
>>214908038Mahajapit?Majahapit?Mapajahit?Mahapajit?
>>214901317They wouldn’t colonize sovereign nations, so Thailand pretended to be one
>>214907988But then I'll miss the subtitles. It doesn't matter, I'll watch with the borders, thank you for your service.>>214907944It works on VLC, mpc-hc and kodi for me.
>>214898392>I worked through the subtitle top to bottomThank you anon, I haven't seen this and now I will because of your dedication. Based.
>>214908508Zooming does not affect the subtitles because I did not burn the subtitle into the film silly. I thought of everything I’m not gonna screw anons over like that.
>>214908506Most SEA nations were ‘sovereign’ nations by definition. So was China. China was colonized. So were the SEA nations. Do you just pretend to be retarded or…
>>214909365You're right! I can override the placement in mpc, but I'm not sure how to do it in Kodi. I'll see if I can find a way.
>>214909953I’ve already done the zoom zoom at home using potplayer. Potplayer is the best media player anyway. Simply zoom to fill your monitor and you need not do anything else. If you’re wondering why it’s 16:19 in a 4:3 aspect ratio, it’s a dvd meant for non anamorphic televisions. So the black boxes and stuff are part of the data. They can’t be removed unless you re-encode. Luckily the zoom function exists so it means nothing!
Bump
>>214910000Checked. I'd prefer to use Kodi, but if that doesn't work, I'll look into this potplayer thing.
>>214911232What’s kodi?
>>214902362Yeah, 5 hours is too long. Any anon has timestamp suggestions for when to cut up viewing sessions? Currently waiting for the download but I'll watch later.
>>214912809I easily binge watched this film in 1 go but 2 hour 30 min is the halfway point literally.
>>214902674Oh shit my brain read this as whyever not. Ok I’ll fix this when I get home in a few days thanks anon.
>>2148993311. Based2. Based3. ZAZED
>>214907944Update VLC
