Posted on 05/09/2021 4:03:46 AM PDT by C19fan
“1964 British movie Zulu with Michael Caine is excellent.”
YES! I LOVE that movie! Seen it ten times at least.
Let them kill each other and the lone survivor gets the idiotic claim, the is executed for murder, ending the monarchy. Maybe the UK could try the same since the people are too weak to do it themselves?
That’s what I’m saying....between all the wives and children plus the mother in law, when did he have time to be king......
are you kidding? He probably used the excuse “I gotta go King now” to watch TV and drink a beer. and every day.
They should all fly to Miami International where they can settle this in a traditional manner.
ML/NJ
ah yes....the old 28 children conundrum
They did. The Zulu community was willing to participate because, overall, it portrayed them fairly well.
The 1964 movie “Africa Addio” has some amusing scenes from the filming. Starting with the pre-battle mass wedding scene, where the girls are all dancing nearly naked...then it cut to them at the end of the shoot, putting on much more conservative modern attire, and being picked up by their parents in nice cars. When I saw that, I wondered whether the parents knew just what their daughters were doing in the movie.
Another good Michael Caine movie and apropos for this thread “The Man Who would be King”.
Thanks! I’ll dig that one up too!
“...Being from 1964, I suspect there won’t be much ‘woke’ in it.”
I’m surprised “Africa Addio” is still available for viewing; a lot of uncomfortable truths in that movie.
Watching them kill, and allow tourists to kill, wildlife we call “endangered” today was an eye-opener.
The lectures about biological deficiencies of whites are amusing to say the least - considering that with each passing day Africa is further from its white colonial rule, it is closer to the Stone Age.
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One of the movies in my library...:)
That was Henri Thele.
The guy was built like a king, and imho, portrayed the “king of the Zulus” in an incredible fashion. I think it was a fictionalization, but it I believe it was one of the best “docu-drauma” of its time.
As I remember, they were showing the wildlife management policy shifting from the colonial-era practice of strict population control/tourist permits (still practiced in some southern African game preserves) to government orders of “just put meat in the markets, to hell with the numbers” under native rule.
It also contains the only known imagery of the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, where the ruling Arabs and Asians were targeted for slaughter but (not mentioned) the comparatively-tiny white population was left alone.
Uganda and Kenya pushed out their Asians as well (though less violently); whites were unmolested there as well (though a decade earlier the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya targeted them).
I didn’t get the impression that those people throwing spears into the elephant were taking it to market, but who knows...
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