Posted on 03/11/2023 10:11:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
Sir Michael Caine has responded to the claim that his 1964 film Zulu incites the far-right, calling it “XXXXXXXX”.
Earlier this year, the film was cited as a “key text” for “white nationalists/supremacists” during a review into the government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent.
Speaking to The Spectator, Caine revealed he got the part of arrogant, inexperienced Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in Zulu after playing “a cockney bloke in the West End in a play called Next Time I’ll Sing To You.”
“An American director who was in the audience saw me and gave me a part in the film Zulu as a posh officer. This made me a star and I never went back on the stage again,” said Caine.
Responding to the news that Zulu was named a piece of culture that “incites the far-right”, Caine said: “That is the biggest load of XXXXXXXX I have ever heard.”
The Zulu were fine with it. Anyone else’s objections can go straight into the round file.
“Zulu”, which I believe is based on actual events, is a great movie.
I am sick and tired of Leftist bullshit!!
Saw Zulu not that long ago on Roku, I liked it.
Good on Michael Caine for speaking up & calling it what it is. Are we going to revisit every moment of the past how many hundreds of years looking for bigotry or trouble? How many riots happened after Zulu was released? How many black people were killed as a result? None & none. Such nonsense!
I just remember the relentless onslaught of the very tall Zulus against the British…..I was very young when I saw it.
The criticism is, of course, dumber than a bag of hammers: both the Zulu warriors and British soldiers were fighting for empires who put both sides into conflict with one another. The movie is largely a testimony to the skill and bravery of both sides.
It’s been years since I watched Zulu; now I’m curious enough to watch it again from a mature/current perspective.
Good movie.
Don’t know anything about the guy but I always liked Michael Caine as an actor, he seems like an alright sorta guy from interviews.
Great movie and the soundtrack was great too.
This is a reminder to watch a very good movie again.
It was about the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, which followed immediately after the massacre of the British force at Isandlwana. It follows the facts pretty well. Another movie that deals with this campaign is “Zulu Dawn,” which focuses on the Battle of Isandlwana. Borth films are pretty accurate as to the engagements themselves. I recommend both films.
After tonight we will be an hour closer to Zulu.
If you haven’t got a copy of your own, get one now. I don’t trust streaming services to not remove them from availability or severely modify them from originals.
Great movie!
They acted in the film. In Zulu dawn there’s a scene where the Zulu are charging over the hill towards the camera. They literally set up a beer concession truck behind the camera and then the director told them first come first served!
That was a great movie. I’ll have to watch it again.
That’s why prefer hard copies of media.
Britain has allowed too many woke folks with chips on their shoulders to get into power.
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