Movie Scripts

     Have you ever learned something unexpected from a movie in which there was not a moral pushed or lesson taught? Over the weekend while watching the movie ‘Mongols’, a foreign movie filmed in China, the last section of TTC 2 dawned on me. It reads:

The Master

acts without doing anything

and teaches without saying anything.

Things arise and he lets them come;

things disappear and he lets them go.

he has but doesn't possess,

acts but doesn't expect.

When his work is done, he forgets it.

That is why it lasts forever.

     The main character, who turns out to be Genghis (who would have thought that in a movie named ‘Mongols’?) has virtually no possessions through the entire movie. He leads his group without ever actually leading, they are willingly led. Regardless the situation he shows virtually no reaction other than going with the flow. While imprisoned he seems almost no different than getting drunk with his blood brother. Every situation is just dealt with when it arises and once completed goes on his way.

     Yes, it is just a movie with a script that the actor follows. Movies aren’t typical of this acting style, though. I learned a lot in the two hours by watching a character do nothing. I highly recommend watching it, keep in mind that anything with the great Khan will be bloody.