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.”
One recalls that the first thing the Zulus did was to deal with some guys who broke discipline and were about to, uh... well, anyone who saw Zulu knows what one is referring to.
Look up; John Colter 1808.
Thankfully, I’ve got my copy of “Zulu” on Blu-Ray, so it won’t matter to me when the Ministry of Truth memory-holes it.
Hugh Glass was the man left behind after being mauled by a Grizzly bear. His story was told in MAN IN THE WILDERNESS.
Interesting that one of the men, a teen who abandoned him was later to become a major Mountain Man, Jim Bridger.
“Hugh Glass was the man left behind after being mauled by a Grizzly bear. His story was told in MAN IN THE WILDERNESS.”
Yes. That was with Richard Harris.
“Interesting that one of the men, a teen who abandoned him was later to become a major Mountain Man, Jim Bridger.”
That’s a fact.
I vaguely remember that Richard Harris movie.
“Caine revealed he got the part of arrogant, inexperienced Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead”
This is incorrect. Bromhead had been in the army for 12 years. He commanded that company for 10 years. All of the defensive works at Rork’s Drift were laid out by him before Chard returned from Isandlawana. The man was an experienced infantry officer, not some scion of a British Nobel that bought his son a commission in the British Army
“Zulu” 1964 Movie - Final Battle Including “Men of Harlech” Song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrE8vOM0ss
Zulu (1964) - The Zulu Are Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaMAWGTGFj0
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