Sometimes I fire up the movie just for this one brief scene. I don't know what it is about this song. You hear it once, and it lives in your soul thereafter.
I remember tbis scene well. I once went to a concert by a Bantu choir and it was this type of singing. I love classical and.baroque music, but what I heard was something else.
This song has the same effect as it has on you.. I don't know how many times I youtube straight to this part just for this scene... I definitely lives in your soul..
It is a beautiful song! I used to live in Congo when I was a child, back in the eighties.. I remember a south african told me this was a welcoming traditionnal song. But you know, it's jut a child memory 😉
THANK YOU!!! I saw both movies as a child, and I remember this scene, and I remember thinking this was possibly the best thing I'd ever heard. A few minor changes in computer technology later, and I'm sitting here with both "The Gods Must Be Crazy" movies, trying to find "That welcome song, where this woman arrives at a village for the first time and the people are singing from wherever they were standing?". Yeah, Shosholoza is a better name. Way better. I saw this 35 years ago, I'm not sure if that makes my memory pretty respectable (I remembered the movie, and that I've wanted to find this song again) ...or lousy-ish (complete inability to find the scene by eye). Whatever this was posted as part of, or moved you to post this scene with a description, thank you so much.
Elena, you can find this scene on the first movie at 1 hour and 2 minutes into the movie. There are also 2 other God Must Be Crazy movies but they are not as good as the first two, but they are also good to watch because they are so different than the normal stuff we watch.
This is the best version of the song out there and it is sung by people in the same situation and culture as the ones who made it. You’ll never find something like this again. Such an amazing thing.
Just watched the movie today, can't even remember when I saw it last time. Gotta show the kids what we watched when we grew up, humble and funny stories.
I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old. I remember being absolutely mesmerized by this song. I thought that the landscape added to the majesty of the melody & therefore you could only experience the sound in person on location. I still think about this song at least once a week and it's been almost 40 years.
The very first time I saw this show, my wife and I were attending a business meeting and had to spend the night in a hotel in Pennsylvania, USA. We were looking at the TV trying to find something interesting to watch. The movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" came on the TV and my wife and I both loved the movie and were really captivated by this scene and the song
I have tried seraching for this exact version of shosholoza I haven't found any. This is the best version yet ever since I saw The gods must be crazy in the late 90's and early 2000s. Its actually one of my favourite movies to date. 2022 still Love itfrom Kenya 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
Have you seen the second Gods Must Be Crazy movie? I see that there are 4 of those movies but the first one is my favorite and the 2nd one is a close second. I didn't care too much for the last two movies
I first saw the movie in the 1980's. Once I had web access I tried to find out what this song was. All I could find 20 years ago was scenes from the movie, but then ten years ago or so I discovered Shosolonda and identified it as the same song. I really does stick with you.
You are right. I found other versions of this movie on RU-vid but not the original version. You could try other web sites such as soap2dayx.to/home and type the gods must be crazy and you could see this version plus other versions
The priest's house isn't really on a hill overlooking the village and the people don't really sing they wave but it's good to see what impression the producer wanted to bring out with 2 schmucks in the background saying "bask in the glory"
A year later, but for what it's worth... The scene was filmed in Venda, a former homeland in northeastern South Africa. Still a wonderful place to visit and quite rural!
I don't know much about the details of the making of this movie but I did find a very interesting article at this location. www.nytimes.com/1985/04/28/movies/the-gods-must-be-crazy-a-truly-international-hit.html
