Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015) on Netflix
PG-1320151h 45mActionAdventureAnimation
Abducted with his sister Ghufaira, Bilal is sold into slavery in Mecca and serves Umayyah, the city's richest man. The boy dreams of becoming a great warrior.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb7.5/1019,385 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes59%
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Plot summary
Bilal shares a home on the outskirts of a village with his mother and his younger sister Ghufaira, until Byzantine soldiers enslave the family and kill the mother. Sold as a boy to Umayyah, the richest man in Mecca, Bilal grows up serving the household of a Quraysh leader. In the city he meets Okba, who sells idols from his shop, and the masked Charlatan Priest, who promises people that the idols will grant their desires. When Umayyah's son Safwan threatens Ghufaira with an arrow, Bilal steps in and is whipped for it. He befriends a white horse and Saad, a skilled archer, and gives his own food to a hungry boy caught stealing from the idol's bowl. Abu Bakr, who believes in equality, watches, but Bilal cannot imagine a fair future for slaves.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015)
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- The battle scene in Bilal is the longest battle scene in animation history, holding 310 figures, weaponry, warriors and horses, where a single frame conventionally holds only 7 items.
- So ambitious was Bilal's battle scene that many crew members left, believing it could not be done, and the remaining team hired actual Chinese warriors to act out the battle for the animation.
- Barajoun's falcon rig was the most complex setup the studio built for Bilal, and each shot of the falcon took over 5 terabytes.
- Every horse in Bilal carries more than two million hair strands, and the rig behind them contained nearly 1,000 controls; a single frame took over four hours to render.
