INVICTUS - the movie of Mandela and the 95 RWC

[naza]

So little Johnny Howard, cricket tragic, shows up at every big sporting event he can. Its seen as a transparent attempt to get some national sporting success to rub off on him.
Mandela blows in, watches a couple of games, shamlessly cashes in on the team's success by wearing a jersey. Gets credited with unifiying the country and is now somehow the hero ?

Que ? Seriously, how does that work ?

 

[Blue]

What's the problem with radically simplifying and sugar coating a complex event that's important to you?

Thanks Scarf. Now I know why. :thumb

 

[Blue]

So little Johnny Howard, cricket tragic, shows up at every big sporting event he can. Its seen as a transparent attempt to get some national sporting success to rub off on him.
Mandela blows in, watches a couple of games, shamlessly cashes in on the team's success by wearing a jersey. Gets credited with unifiying the country and is now somehow the hero ?

Que ? Seriously, how does that work ?

Haha. Nice try.

But you have it all the wrong way around. JH graciously attended sporting events, hoping his greatness would rub off on the event.

 

[RugbyReg]

the trailer is out.

I think it looks ace.

Don't get caught up on the rugby technicalities. What with the Olympic decision, this could be a massive profile lift for the sport in the USA

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/invictus/

 

[Scarfman]

Puuuuuuuke. Just like every other biopic.

Shit, I'm in a bad mood today. It's Deans. He's messing with my head.

 

[Blue]

That looks terrible.

 

[rustycruiser]

That looks terrible.

You sound surprised?

 

[RugbyReg]

what looks terrible about it?

I think it looks very promising. Not often 3 such big Hollywood names would get it too wrong.

 

[Biffo]

The movie is not centred on the RWC. It's about Nelson Mandela's masterly political manipulation of the rugby-addicted segment of RSA society.

It wouldn't matter if Matt Damon was a dwarf. The rugby is a very secondary consideration in the story, behind the politics.

How come noone complained about 5'6" Russell Crowe playing James J Braddock?