Prime Jennifer Connelly was the most gorgeous woman on the planet. It’s a shame that she doesn’t get the recognition that she deserves from her performance😔
Leonardo DiCaprio should've won an Oscar for this movie, as the movie itself, as if promotes the issues of extreme covered-up exploitation, done even by Western countries, or ... especially by them(?)! ... But, this must've been the reason that the movie and DiCaprio's exceptional acting here went unnoticed ...
What he described about his parents happens on a daily basis to White farmers in SA. The thanks they get for creating employment and feeding the nation
You don't really get right after war or any kind of trauma like that......you just live with it the rest of your life. From personal experience though nothing ever looks the same again, view of the world is different. Can't walk around like nothing happened or live life normal like most people.
American Trooper: i got bad PTSD from the shellshock and I sometimes have bad dreams. Afrikaan Trooper: My mother was raped over and over then finally executed, my father was hung from a hook and they slit his stomach open so his gut fall out. I suck it up and get over it.... American Trooper: ........ Ya know what I am cured.... Nothing wrong with me anymore.....
Rhodesia developed and maintained a powerful and professional military. In June 1977, Time magazine reported that man for man, the Rhodesian army ranks among the world's finest fighting units.
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I never watched the full movie. I got up and left, upset when seeing it on tv, due to it being so true. Here I am. Living in South Africa. Him telling the story about his parents... its true here... and even... worse... I want to watch this movie and finish it, but I don't if I could stomach it. I hear these things on the radio, tv, media and pretty much everywhere all the time. I feel like I've had my fill and that the movie isn't necessary for me to finish watching. He's a brilliant actor. His accent is really really good
so true, I left that "godforsaken" continent a long time ago... I pray for whites to get out of South Africa asap, because Zimbabwe 2.0 will soon be there.
Coz in the end after all, the sand of Africa is red... my ancestors died for this land. I encourage many people to leave this shithole, but I'm staying with the rest. When this country goes down, I'll go with it. It's too difficult to leave as well. Many would if they could. I know many. But I don't intend on dying either. And I don't intend on seeing the final destruction of it either. We will do what we must when the time comes. If war is declared against us, we will do what we can to stay safe and keep our families safe.
I really love how it showed the reality of life for whites in South Africa and Rhodesia. They weren't evil, just farmers who feared what would happen when blacks took over, and then their worst fears came true
No. Segregating, murdering, and disenfranchising people is wrong and "evil." That doesn't excuse violence of blacks on whites. But defending segregation and apartheid is just as wrong and unjust.
"Sometimes I wonder if god will ever forgive us for what we've done to each other. Then I look around and I realize god left this place a long time ago."
More than you.....have seen much of that....aint pretty. Ya see things....go through things...changes how ya look at the world. Never looks the same again....
As someone who is part south african, I can say he did a pretty good job with the accent, he looses it on certain words, but it's still pretty damn good.
Really that I think is the first most ridiculous thing I realized. I don't like his acting in this movie as well. The only movie I think he did bad. Though he won an oscar even for it. Weird to me.
I don't care what anyone says about the accent. The best way to find out if it works is to go onto South African Movie Websites, use Google Translate to translate to comments from people reviewing the movie. I have done so and the people themselves think DiCaprio's accent is spot on. Those who mock it have never heard the real accent. I always find it sad that American's like foreign actors using American accents but laugh at American actors using foreign accents. Why? Because they think foreign accents are funny and wont to laugh at things that sound different.
As a born and raised South African male who speaks both English and Afrikaans fluently on a native level, I can confirm that his accent is extremely well done. Had he not been a famous celebrity, he might have passed for a local here if he wanted to :P
Destined for Damnation I just got back from South Africa and now, this sounds wrong to me, I don't know if it were the type of people I met or what, but to me, most of the accents were more pronounced than this. I visited Jo'burg, PE, Cape and Cape Town and spent a lot of time with a guy from Nelspuit and none of their accents sounded quite like Dicaprio's
Will J. Well I have met quite a few people who speaks like he does. Also keep in mind that the character he plays has a combination of South African and Zimbabwean accents...
Destined for Damnation Yeah, true, I guess that must play a part in the accent. On a different note, South Africa is awesome, I want to move there now xD
