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Publié le 25 mai 2011 il y a 12A par Anonyme - Fin › 1 juin 2011 dans 12A
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Morgan Freeman has been cast as God — twice — so he evidently has no trouble projecting moral authority. The challenge of portraying Nelson Mandela, then, was not the size of the halo, but knowing the performance would be measured against the real, familiar Mandela, and his myth. "If we can say any part of acting is hard, then playing someone who is living and everybody knows would be the hardest," Freeman said in a phone interview.

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Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in "Invictus."
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The role has defeated actors as varied as Danny Glover (the 1987 TV film "Mandela"), Sidney Poitier ("Mandela and de Klerk," 1997, also for TV) and Dennis Haysbert ("Goodbye Bafana," 2007), in vehicles that were reverential and mostly forgettable.

But as someone who studied Mandela over the course of three years while he replaced an apartheid regime with a genuine democracy, I found Freeman's performance in the film "Invictus," directed by Clint Eastwood, uncanny — less an impersonation than an incarnation.

He gets the rumble and halting rhythm of Mandela's speech, the erect posture and stiff gait. There is a striking physical resemblance, enhanced by the fact that Freeman, 72, is just a few years younger than Mandela was in the period the film covers. More important, Freeman conveys the manipulative charm, the serene confidence, the force of purpose, the hint of mischief and the lonely regret that made Mandela one of the most fascinating political figures of his time. This is not, as the film's screenwriter, Anthony Peckham, put it, "Rich Little doing Mandela in Vegas."

It's hard to say whether Americans at this moment in their history crave a 130-minute parable of racial reconciliation built around a 1995 World Cup rugby match in South Africa. Audiences and movie critics will render their verdict on "Invictus," which reaches theaters Friday.

But we could probably do worse, as an antidote to the cynicism on the noisy margins of our political life, than spending a couple of hours watching Mandela calculating how to knit together a grotesquely divided society.

The story of "Invictus," drawn from John Carlin's book "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation," begins with the newly inaugurated president of post-apartheid South Africa looking for ways to enlist his fearful white minority — with its talent, wealth, resentment and capacity for insurrection — in the business of governing a democracy. His inspired stratagem is to embrace the Springboks national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression

Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

question :
"invictus" received bad critics : true /false ?

ma réponse: True (l.16):"spending a couple of ours watching Mr. Mandela calculating how to knit together a grotesquely divided society."



"invictus" deals with the apartheid in South Africa : tue or false

ma réponse :"the newly inaugurated president of post-apartheid South Africa looking for ways to enlist his fearful white minority"



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Anonyme
Posté le 25 mai 2011
Invictus received bad reviews
a critic: c'est une personne =un critique
le mot qu'on trouve le plus souvent pour une critique de film c'est REVIEW
Ceci dit la réponse à cette question n'est pas dans ce texte. Il faut chercher sur Internet ou dans les magazines de l'époque.

Question 2
It deals with South Africa after the abolition of apartheid, after Mandela was elected President in 1994 by the black majority ( one man one vote*)and how he tried to reconcile the Blacks and the Whites. He wanted every South African , Black or White, to support their rugby team in the 1995 world cup which was hosted in South Africa .They won it.

* jusqu'à la fin de l'apartheid les noirs d'Afrique du Sud n'avait pas le droit de vote. Dès qu'il ont pu voter ils ont voté pour un des leurs et ainsi Mandela fut élu

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