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ZULU on TV
Alan
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For those of you who haven't seen it before, ZULU is on Sky Drama tonight at 10pm.

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Mel


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So what's this film about then?

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Alan
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You wouldn't like it. It's about Imperialists brutally subduing a peaceful nation.

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Peter Ewart


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I suppose it would be lacking in decorum a little to say that the film opens with a Vicars & Tarts party at a wedding reception?

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Steve Moore


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Great film, I love the bit where the officers go on the tiger hunt.
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Sheldon Hall


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A tiger! In Africa?
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Mel


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Oh, yes, the tiger hunt. Thanks for that Steve. I remember the film now.
Africa? I thought the film was completely shot at Pinewood with a lifesize painting of the Drakensberg as a backdrop?

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Talking of backdrops,
I had always thought that the hill featured in the opening "Isandlwana" scene in Zulu looked like a matt painting and had, perhaps, been added to the scene in post production.
I was pleasantly suprised when I saw the hill from the Mont aux sources hotel. The set location was just a few hundred metres down the road. Here is a photo of the scene I took in 2002.



(click on the photo for the full size.)

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David Glynne Fox


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Hi Mel,
Thanks for that. I always thought the mountain used as Isandlwana in "Zulu" was Siphezi. We learn every day.
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Bill Cainan1


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Siphezi featured as "Isandlwana" in "Zulu Dawn".


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That's where CGI would have been great in 'Zulu Dawn', as for all the other failings in the film, the scenes showing Mt. Isandlwana, would have been stunning, and add what was very much a significant feature on the real battlefield, giving a better sense of the battle's location.

Next film maybe ! Very Happy

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David Glynne Fox


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Bill.
Of course it was, silly me. One has to watch it two thousand times instead of one thousand to let it sink in to the addled brain.
Hope you are well.
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David

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