Invictus Or: How Rugby Ended Racism Forever
Invictus trailer, you guys:
Finally, a movie that combines my two favorite things: uplifting underdog sports triumph stories with historical examinations of institutional racism. High five. The best part about this movie, though, isn't the surprising triumph of the South African rugby team against all odds, but how it reminds us that racism is over and everyone in South Africa has moved from the shanty towns into modern homes with electricity and running water and windows for windows instead of mud-slicked garbage bags. That is why District 9 was such a failure, because it didn't make any sense. "Metaphor? What metaphor? If you want to talk metaphors, why aren't the prawns and the humans uniting over their mutual love of rugby?"
Actually, no, the best thing about this movie--the second best thing being its realistic and important portrayal of how rugby ended racism forever*--is Matt Damon's accent. "I'm a doohly appaynted fedehral rugby." (What am I even talking about, everything about this movie is perfect.)
*In South Africa. Rugby ended racism forever in South Africa. If you would like to learn how racism was ended in America, you need to watch the Clint Eastwood documentary, Gran Torino.
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Trailer
Tags: Invictus | Matt Damon | Morgan Freeman | South Africa
Still better than Leo in Blood Diamond.
Score = 4
Yes, that was awful, he switched in and out every 10 minutes.
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Oi rather enjoyed heering hees accent, broo.
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God likes rugby?
Alright.
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"Hah lang biforr the world cup?" What a tense deadline for a political tale. Bartender, a round of thrills for me and my rugby team, please.
Score = 9
Big year for movies set in South Africa. District 9, Skin and now Invictus.
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At my job, someone once put Nelson Mandella on a poster promoting a jazz fest in our city. The boss and everyone were very pleased with the design (it wasn't good) and when they asked for my pov I asked "why's Nelson Mandella on this poster?" The person designed it said "because you fool he's a jazz musician that's why he's famous." After trying to decide whether to pull a Fergie or cry, I had to explain to them what Apartheid was over lunch.
The point of the story is, I'll have to prepare myself for when they decide to see this movie and believe that this is what ended racism.
I also REALLY need a new job.
Score = 40
That is the worst thing I'm going to hear all day, and I already know this at 10AM.
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Damn, that's some dumb coworkers.
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First you'll have to hear about how Sandra Bullock ended racism by getting all the lovably passive Forrest Gump-like black people to join the football team, thereby isolating them from all the thuggish inner-city black people forever, because those are the only two types of black people in the Sandra Bullock movie-universe.
Score = 6
Yikes you're right. I'm going to need a bigger :(
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S01EP01 The Gang Gets Racist
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So no actual African actors were available for this movie?
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WTF, why did everyone just drop points? There's someone that signs in and goes ultra neg on all the comments.
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I CALL ONCE MORE FOR OPEN COMMENT POINT SYSTEM METRICS
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So is Wikus Van Van De Merwe the goalie? Is there even a goalie in Rugby? Will Morgan Freeman please narrate the answers!
Score = 8
After seeing District 9, my dad complained to me, "Why weren't there any famous people in it?" Instead of explaining to him how it's a documentary-style movie by a South African filmmaker and that good movies don't need famous people doing bad accents, I should have used my Delorean to go forward in time, get this trailer, go back in time, kill Hitler, and go forward again to two months ago and shown my dad this. IS THIS REALLY WHAT YOU WANTED, DAD?
"I've bini-vitedtuh tea." - Matt Damon, 2010 Oscar Winner
Score = 17
Its super rainy and sad out so it seems like a pretty good day for the informant and col. abraham curtis (morgan freeman at the height of his career in dreamcatcher) to effectively end racism forever.
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Chevy Chase has already ended racism, Thanks Thursdays!
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in order to prepare for this role, Morgan had to seduce his step-granddaughter. Thankfully, it was just for the role
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clint eastwood better watch out or hes going to be typecast as the producer/director who solved racism.
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Damon is going to end racism and, from the looks of "Green Zone," get us out of Iraq in the same year. How do you like them apples?
Score = 5
I think we should give him a preemptive Nobel Peace Prize, just in case!
Score = 5
Strange seeing this and coming from New Zealand, where the media has portrayed that rugby team as cheating bullies all my life (SPOILER: they win the world cup at the end). Who would have thought the team I have so long considered my nation's enemy was actually out there ending all the racism. It was a close game, imagine if we won, there'd still be racists in South Africa today!
Score = 7
Is it wrong that I was thinking about Andrew Mehrtens crapping his pants for that entire trailer? Because I kind of was.
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I am very confused. Why did Red leave Zihuatanejo to coach rugby in Africa? Did Andy find someone else who was good at getting things? So many questions. History is hard.
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I've played rugby with a non-racist South African, but there was also a racist non-South African on the team. So...toss up?
I mean, yeah, I started playing to end racism, but once I found out it had pretty much ended (you know, except for that one dude), I stayed for the binge drinking.
Score = 4
Man! I finally saw the Informant(!) this weekend and loved it. This, coupled with showing my internets-illiterate boyfriend the "I'm fucking Matt Damon" video for the first time, made me decide once and for all that, despite varying opinions, Damon is just plain awesome.
This ruins everything.
Score = 2
For a big-name actor, Damon's got an oddly consistent run of good movie choices... i myself am looking forward to this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291580/
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OMG I forgot all about that! I believe he plays a young lover to Dustin Hoffmans' Liberace. phew, my faith in the Damon has been restored.
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Clint does a really good job with racism. Here, rugby is a metaphor for murder since murder ended racism in South Africa.
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I know, right? I'm from New Zealand too and all I could think was, If John Minto hadn't caused such a ruckus and let South Africa play us in the '80s then racism would have been ended that much earlier.
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Very true, but when New Zealand initially tried to end all the racism forever by playing South Africa in the 70s, all of Africa boycotted the Olympics. Obviously they got the wrong message.
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