Those who say “I don’t like Atatürk” should watch this movie

His movie, like him, overcomes every challenge

When Saner Ayar, the former General Manager of Show TV, who the public has recently come to know as the producer of Atatürk, called me and said, “Abi, we are going to hold a preview screening of Atatürk for a small group of people,” I went to the theater in Kanyon to watch the production that had been causing a storm.

First we listened to Saner tell the story of the making of the movie.

100 years of the Republic They had taken action 3 years ago to make an Ataturk movie. Their first deal was with the US pay TV channel HBO. HBO, the home of the highest quality productions in my opinion, liked the script and decided to buy the movie. But they wanted it to be a 6-part series, not a movie.

The script, which was the result of a lot of work and a long research, was written accordingly and the shooting phase was reached.

However, HBO suddenly backed out of buying the series. “They decided to stop buying shows from outside the US.”

The producers then searched for a new broadcaster. This time Disney Plus has picked up the series.

The series was filmed on location in Turkey and Macedonia at a cost of 17.5 million dollars. 3,000 stuntmen and tens of thousands of extras were used. The months of filming could only take place in the morning, in the one-hour period following sunrise, so that the light would be suitable for the dramatic narrative of the film.

And then came the news you all know. Disney Plus had given up on releasing the movie.

With the efforts of Fox TV executives in Turkey, the problem was solved to some extent. It was decided that the series will be broadcast on Fox TV Turkey, while the film version will be released in two parts in cinemas in Turkey.

But there have been other developments in the meantime.

Ataturk is being released in cinemas not only in Turkey, but also throughout Europe, including Central Europe, and in many countries in East Asia.

Negotiations are underway to screen in the United States and Russia.

And Amazon and Netflix will show the series that Disney Plus has decided not to broadcast to all subscribers worldwide.

In other words, just like Atatürk, the movie Atatürk manages to overcome all kinds of difficulties and emerges stronger from the blows it has received and is preparing to appear in front of the public in cinemas all over the world and to be screened on two platforms.

Those who say “I don’t like Atatürk” should watch this movie

Let’s talk about the movie. To tell you the truth, I didn’t have high hopes for the movie.

An Ataturk movie has been the dream of many directors for years. Tarquin Olivier, the son of Sir Laurence Olivier, had tried for years without success. Monika Czernin’s documentary “Visionary, Revolutionary, Reformer” also did not have the expected impact.

Ömer Kavur, on the other hand, had been yearning to make an Ataturk movie for years, but could never achieve his goal.

With these thoughts in mind, I sat on the couch in the theater and started watching the movie, thinking about how to say that I didn’t like the movie very much without offending the producers at the end of the movie.

We entered the movie with a very well shot Çanakkale War scene. After images that resembled good war movies, an angry young Mustafa Kemal entered the frame and the pace of the movie started to slow down.

For 20 minutes I started to say, “Oh no.” The theatrical Macedonia scenes and all that, and I started to get bored.

But then the movie suddenly picked up a great pace.

We come across a very different Ataturk, such as sections of Mustafa Kemal’s life that we do not know, the personality of his father Ali Rıza Efendi, the role of Mustafa Kemal’s revolutionary thoughts and character, his anger at a decadent and rotten state, the role of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab teacher, on Mustafa Kemal’s understanding of command, and the source of his trust in the people despite everyone and everything.

Movie 30. From the first minute you can’t hold back your tears, you see how a great man emerges and how his character is shaped from the very beginning.

The conflicts and contradictions between the adventurous Enver and the balanced and principled Mustafa Kemal add another flavor to the film and you see why Mustafa Kemal became Atatürk.

Aras Bulut İyinemli gives a performance that made me ashamed of my thought “I wish they had cast Jude Law as Atatürk” before I started watching the movie. His performance, which I found strange in the first scenes, gradually improves and suddenly he identifies with the young Mustafa Kemal. So much so that after a certain point, just as Helen Mirren becomes more Queen Elizabeth than Queen Elizabeth, Aras Bulut becomes a younger Mustafa Kemal.

Talking to İyinemli after watching the movie, I ask him about the process he went through to portray Atatürk and whether he was scared or not. He admits that he was very scared at first. But he explains that he worked hard, read a lot of books and tried to analyze the character, and that he started to see a different Ataturk every time he read, but after a while he got confused, so he chose one of them and portrayed him.

The most striking thing about the movie is the success of the costumes. I ask this to director M. Ada Öztekin.

The costume team has done a lot of work. Since the existing fabrics did not give the desired effect in the film and grinned, the wool from Australia was woven in Central Anatolia in Turkey in accordance with the fabrics and techniques of the period and sewn in accordance with the clothes of the period. They’re really gorgeous. 1000 soldier hats were specially made, Anzac hats were made and brought from New Zealand. 1000 rifles that can fire 1,000 rounds have been manufactured.

I don’t want to give too many “spoilers” about the movie. Let me just write that I learned a few things I never knew about Atatürk’s life, that the movie starts with Atatürk’s childhood and ends with the Ottoman entry into the First World War.

On November 3, this film will be released in theaters, followed by the second film, which will start with the Battle of Gallipoli and end on May 19, just after New Year’s Eve.

It’s a really good movie.

Even as I write to you now, I cannot hold back my tears.

I especially want some ignorant young people who say “I don’t like Atatürk” to watch this movie.

If you don’t like the guy you’re gonna see in this movie.

You are not really human.