09-02-2010, 03:46 PM
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Invictus
Very good. A typical tight Clint Eastwood directed movie, with Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela so very well - even that difficult South African accent. Matt Damon played Francois Piennaar and was fine, although about 5" too short - not a lot he can do about that.You don't need to be a sports fan or a rugy afficianado to enjoy it; it's fascinating to watch Mandela and see how very very clever he was in identifying the 1995 Rugby World Cup as a vehicle for pulling the country together.
10-02-2010, 08:50 AM
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Re: Invictus
I haven't seen the film --here is the poem which kept Mandela going-The poem -Invictus
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds,and shall find,me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul
by William Ernest Healey
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