I haven't seen this movie so I was wondering if this is a good movie or is bad?
Many friends have told me that this is a great film but I don't know.
If someone have seen this movie before please tell me what is this about? or if I should waste my time watching this movie...
I apreciate your help!
This isn't a movie. Its a miniseries. I saw it back when it came out. I just recall that they showed saggy boobs while this was on network tv. Thought it was strange that the censors allowed it. Of course I was only 10 back then so maybe I'm wrong about what I saw. I do recall it being an interesting story.
shareIt's a miniseries. I watched it way back when. I loved it. great drama and great war scenes.
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It's very accurate, compared to other films regarding the Zulu's. Henry Cele is wonderful as Shaka. The two main problems (in my opinion) are 1) the British actors (apart from Robert Powell) over-act, and 2) it was produced (or directed?) by 2 different people, which means it comes across as very disjointed.
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shareI haven't seen this series since I was a child (I was born in 1982), but I was taken enough with it to play-act as Shaka Zulu and insist to my mother that I wanted to move to Africa and join a tribe and fight with the Zulus. It must have had something to it, or perhaps it just caught my imagination.
shareI remember it was my grandfather's favorite and he watched it every year, knew no other details except that it was quite long but I intend to watch it someday.
shareTo be quite honest the miniseries didn't quite live up to it's soundtrack, I mean it had a really really good original motion picture soundtrack that as far as I'm concerned could have even rivalved the likings of Jan Hammer, or Tangerine Dream. But, sometimes real life stories don't always translate well on film (even though this was a multi episode "miniseries" and didn't have cinimatic release [at least not in the United States]).
Ocassionally I think sometimes there's an oppositte extreme like in the movie "Stand and Deliver" with Edward James Olmos where a soundtrack just doesn't live up to a film.
My nephew was born in 1982 and he did the same thing! We watched it as a family and when the theme song played, he would substitute his name - instead of "Bayete Nkosi!", he would sing "{his name} Nkosi!" It was really cute.
shareSome portions of the British dialogue was overdone, but all in all, this was A great mini-series experience. I recommend it to everyone. Henry Cele 'passed away in death' recently. The profession lost a great member!
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I just finished watching this series for the first time in 20 years and i must say, hokey acting aside, it's frickin awesome.
it's suprising how few films there are about african tribal history.
There are not a whole lot of those around. Shaka Zulu is the only one I can think of. People seem to think that Africa had no civilization before the white man came. They had a very rich and long history before the white man even got his act together in Europe! Just look at the history of Old Mali and Timbuktu with their history of trading and artwork. They were bustling areas for centuries. Civilization depends on who is defining it. Slavery in a lot of areas meant that the people were in slavery but could work their way out of it over a period of years. White man's version, except for bond slaves, meant slavery for life. Look how far Egypt goes back also along with Ethiopia and Morocco. This was an awesome film. I have seen it several times in English and dubbed in Spanish. The outfits the British wore then was downright hilarious. Shaka was an interesting individual. He wanted no kids and made sure of that by killing off any possible offspring. That is the way he was and nothing could change him.
shareone of the problems with African society (and it still exists in many parts) is the tribalism. the blood feuds between tribes that have been ongoing for 100's of years. Slavery still exists in some parts of Africa to this day.
One of the problems with tribalism is no concentration of ideas and sharing of knowledge. civilizations with tribalism become stagnant.
probably the reason there are few movies about African tribes is there was no written language in sub Saharan Africa. add to that a nomadic lifestyle and it's difficult for anthropologists and archeologists to study old African culture until the Europeans started to colonize and keep records.
Timbuktu was established less than 1000 years ago and the etymology before that cannot be established.
Much is known about ancient civilizations such as the Mayan, Chinese, Arab, Greece, Rome, Egypt, etc because of written records. Either a written language or hieroglyphics. But, sub Saharan Africa, unfortunately, did not have widespread record keeping so little is known.
Saying something like "white mans version" may be the PC way of thinking but, it's hardly accurate. Most slaves were captured by other tribes raiding, then selling the captives to Arab slaves who would take them to coastal baraccoons for the European slavers to purchase. slavery has a history in almost every culture on earth.
An outstanding mini-series. A little slow in the story telling to start, but any who stay with it will be greatly rewarded with the interactions to come betweem Shaka and the English. Masterful acting by the late Henry Cele.
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