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Moore's second film made in apartheid South Africa.

posted 10 years ago by ib011f9545i
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I have seen this film lots of times and quite like it but until now had not realised that it was filmed in apartheid South Africa(like Gold which Moore was also in.)

Like Queen(the band not the monarch)and Rod Stewart the actors in this broke a UN and union boyvott to take money from the South Africans.
Burton had given interviews where he said he was a socialist or even a communist but any political ideals were forgotten by the time he made this.

People might say so what it is just a film but South Africa spent millions working on its bad image and reputation and letting people make films there was part of that,the message of this film is whatever it is but it is not a progressive one.

This film is actually funny if you have ever seen NORBERT SMITH a film by Harry Enfield which sends up all the old drunk British actors making war movies when they were half drunk.

[–] marktayloruk 10 years ago

The old South Africa was freer,better governed,and more democratic than most UN members. Britain's unions at the time were crawling with Communists and other Reds at the top. So what does these hypocrites' disapproval matter?

[–] ib011f9545i 10 years ago

Yes apartheid South Africa was great,it was a dictatorship for everyone with the Boers on top.

Which is why so many of the Brits who moved there now live back in the UK and don't want to talk about it,when they were there so many of them were on the next plane "home"when the law changed and they had to join the army.

But it seems the new South Africa is not so great either,corruption and violence and so black South Africans come to Britain as well.

[–] marktayloruk 10 years ago

It wasn't great -just not as bad as most countries.

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[–] ContinentalOp 9 years ago

Burton had given interviews where he said he was a socialist or even a communist but any political ideals were forgotten by the time he made this.

- ib011f9545i

Sadly by this point Burton did anything for money. That is the price of extreme alcoholism.

It wasn't great -just not as bad as most countries.

- Marktayloruk (surprise, surprise)

Translation: It kept the nig-nogs in their place.

Yes, certainly a nice place! A vast beacon of tolerance and democracy!

Formerly KingAngantyr

[–] carthur27 9 years ago

extreme alcoholism

You're obviously very ignorant about the disease alcoholism. If someone is suffering from "extreme alcoholism," they won't be physically able to make a motion picture. They will spend 90% of their time lying in bed and drinking.

[–] ContinentalOp 8 years ago

You're obviously very ignorant about the disease alcoholism. If someone is suffering from "extreme alcoholism," they won't be physically able to make a motion picture. They will spend 90% of their time lying in bed and drinking.

I love that pedantic asswipes like you still linger on IMDB, makes the place more fun.

Formerly KingAngantyr

[–] Vega_Lyra 8 years ago

It was better than the alternative, which would have been a Communist East Bloc supported regime like what happened in most of Sub-Saharan Africa at the time. The ones that weren't led by French supported strong men, that is. Look at what happened in Rhodesia and Angola for example. South Africa was the West's one true ally in the region against Soviet aggression.

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