|
Actors: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
|
|
| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Zulu |
|---|
In 1879 a group of about a hundred British soldiers are in Africa. A group of 4000 Zulu tribe members decide to attack the British post. They are a strategic group with a lot of agility and intelligence. The outnumbered British soldiers then try to defend the post at all costs. The battle takes two days and both sides suffer heavy casualities. 11 of the British soliders ended up winning the Victoria Cross.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
|
In 1879, the Zulu tribe attacks a British Military Hospital. A two day battle insues where about 100 British soldiers held out against 2,000 Zulu warriors. 11 of them would end up winning Victoria Crosses.
-- Eoin Bilke, Resident Scholar
|
ZULU, a Stanley Baker production, is a movie cowritten and directed by Cy Endfield in 1964. Musical score by John Barry.
The film presents the heroic defense of an army hospital by 100 british soldiers against 4000 Zulu warriors in 1879 South Africa.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
|
17 FREE Sci-Fi Ebooks!
FREE "How to be happy" Ebook!
| Analysis of Zulu |
|---|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about
books by breaking them down into many different literary
elements, all of which are searchable (click here). |
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 56.7%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 13.3%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Setting
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Black Africa
Prairie?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- run over
- stampeded
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
|
| Most similar reviews by Gordonator ranking |
|---|
| Gods and Generals
|
| Gettysburg
starring Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliott, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Cooper Huckabee, Patrick Gorman,
|
| Glory
starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Raymond St. Jacques, RonReaco Lee,
|
| The Four Feathers
starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou
|
| Vera Cruz
starring Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jack Elam
|
|
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
|
