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Posted: Monday January 29th, 2007 21:52 |
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It's a good film, with typical hollywood takes on Africa.
If you can get round that then you will learn a good deal about Africa and and the Neo Colonialism that is engaging in the "New Scramble for Africa".
Di Capio, is a strong contender for the King of Scotlands crown
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Posted: Monday January 29th, 2007 23:35 |
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It was a very entertaining film. Kept me hooked from the first go, and usually I am a very cynical and crictical lover of film but I must admit thi was a top drawer thriller, especially since it presented Black fatherhood in such a positive light.
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Posted: Friday February 2nd, 2007 11:47 |
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| I saw it last night......Its a good movie.......educational and its an interesting insight to the diamond industry.......I enjoyed the movie but it was uncomfortable viewing at times
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Posted: Monday February 5th, 2007 14:17 |
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I thought this film mediocre.
No real substance or insight into the Diamond trade. A very Hollywood take on Africa and once again the great white hope (di Caprio) saving the blackman/world............................
Djimon "Dial an Africian Man" Hounsou/di Caprio - lack lustre performances.
Hollywood is onto another bandwagon this year, it must be sick of New York based stories and moved onto Africa.
All out this year:
"King of Scotland"
"Blood Diamonds"
"Catch a Fire"
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Posted: Tuesday February 6th, 2007 08:58 |
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cmon princess, Djmon has star quality i.e the ability to project a startling/imposing/impressive visual quality on screen. He would have been just as good as a silent movie star..and thats the test.
Give the african his props
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 09:12 |
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| This is a good film but who will actually go out and watch the documentary 'Cry for freetown.'
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 20:18 |
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We see the documentary blood diamonds as another where the horrors are laid in one camp—the African one. The vivid brutality is placed on specific leaders, yet no names or people are cited on the European side. They are innocent in the horrors, blind to their part in the diamond trade, innocent "ohh we didnt know dem diamonds were bloody"
We often hear statements such as , "after colonialism things collapsed"!, they walk through the debeers diamond trade and skip apartheid era and the dilemma of exploitation on the local African people. I mean they talk about Diamonds in Africa and make no mention of the slave labor and oppression. yet they leave nothing out when demonizing Sierra leon.
In came Europe, in Came South African mercenaries it is the bottom line. they said "these SA troops where the only ones able of restoring calm to the warring Africans"
Voice is always given to allow the tarnished whites to defend and give there side of the story. DeBeers is then given the voice of altruism and humanity who morally started to stamp out blood diamonds.
Then again comes the good Europeans to save Africa, justified invasion. The British saved Africa and ended "another war"
The ultimate hero in every single story is the European, it is an inescapable reality of any and every film made on Africa
Tricked into a Casino economy by who, who collects the chips everytime? Europe does.
HIV/AIDS Blame Africa
Deforestation Blame Africa
Colonialism Blame Africa
POVERTY Blame Africa
BLOOD DIAMONDS Blame Africa
SLAVERY Blame Africa
i am all over the place but if you watch the documentary you would know what i am on about
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 20:18 |
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| http://www.ourstoryourvoice.com start supporting our own work Last edited on Friday February 9th, 2007 20:19 by Sundiata
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Posted: Friday February 9th, 2007 22:01 |
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We see the documentary blood diamonds as another where the horrors are laid in one camp—the African one. The vivid brutality is placed on specific leaders, yet no names or people are cited on the European side. They are innocent in the horrors, blind to their part in the diamond trade, innocent "ohh we didnt know dem diamonds were bloody"
We often hear statements such as , "after colonialism things collapsed"!, they walk through the debeers diamond trade and skip apartheid era and the dilemma of exploitation on the local African people. I mean they talk about Diamonds in Africa and make no mention of the slave labor and oppression. yet they leave nothing out when demonizing Sierra leon.
In came Europe, in Came South African mercenaries it is the bottom line. they said "these SA troops where the only ones able of restoring calm to the warring Africans"
Voice is always given to allow the tarnished whites to defend and give there side of the story. DeBeers is then given the voice of altruism and humanity who morally started to stamp out blood diamonds.
Then again comes the good Europeans to save Africa, justified invasion. The British saved Africa and ended "another war"
The ultimate hero in every single story is the European, it is an inescapable reality of any and every film made on Africa
Tricked into a Casino economy by who, who collects the chips everytime? Europe does.
HIV/AIDS Blame Africa
Deforestation Blame Africa
Colonialism Blame Africa
POVERTY Blame Africa
BLOOD DIAMONDS Blame Africa
SLAVERY Blame Africa
i am all over the place but if you watch the documentary you would know what i am on about
I had a feeling that the film would take this angle which is why I have been reluctant to watch it so far. I would like to watch the documentary 'Our Story Our Voice' when it is eventually released, I note that the producers made '500 years later'.
You might find this book interesting if you haven't read it already. 'The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite ' by Chinweizu. It's a very enlightening book which analyses the unbalanced relationship between the western world and Africa which you seemed to be alluding to in your above analyses. Your local library might have a copy or you can purchase it from most African-centred bookshops.
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Posted: Saturday February 10th, 2007 05:10 |
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Yeah got back from watching this film, ummm it was a good story I guess but Di Caprios accent was crap! It still has that hollywood perception of Africa but it does tell a story.... Bad product placement I must say (JD anyone?)
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Posted: Saturday February 10th, 2007 22:27 |
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A documentary on the History Channel (529 on Sky) is currently being shown right now on the diamond trade in Sierra Leone.
See this thread for more info:
http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/forum9/26771.html
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Posted: Sunday February 11th, 2007 23:54 |
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| I too I'm of the school of thought that this was mediocre. De crapio's "ha, brew" accent was annoying as hell as was David Harewood's rent-an-African baddie accent. Djimon Hounsou played the usual nobel savage/powerless African. The relationship between De Crapio's Danny Archer and Jennifer Connelly Maddy Bowen is lifted from the likes of Alexandra Fuller's book Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. His Damascus Conversion towards the end is unconvincing, I'm sure there is a good film about veterans of the Rhodesian war to be made, this unfortunatly is not it. Nor is it a particularly Successful expose of the multi-layered diamond trade the way Steven Soderbergh's Traffic was for the narcotics industry or The Constant Gardener for the pharmaceutical industry. It takes a complex situation and dresses it with hollywood "thriller" clothing and cheap sentimentalism especalliy the final scene of Djimon Hounsou's Solomon Vandy addresing congress.
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