Attack of the Maori

[den]

I noticed the clones in Attack Of The Clones were maori actor, whose name escapes me right now. I thought it was cool hearing the Kiwi accent coming from those helmets.

Definitely North Island, possibly from Orcland. Whaddaya reckon, Miche?

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[charles.livejournal.com]

Temuera Morrison. From Once Were Warriors

yes...

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

there are latino groups up in arms in the US because they say he looks latino and therefore the shot of thousands of clones eating lunch in the cafeteria and then marching around is an obvious reference to migrant workers and playing up peoples fears of said migrants.

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[dwaggie.livejournal.com]

dear lord.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

bloody hell.

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[chezmax]

There has been much too much reading into this movie. I say we shoot the next person who tried to infer some sort of cultural slamming from the film.

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[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I believe it. I figured the actor was Latino, myself.

The migrant worker thing is rather silly, though. If you're cloning from one person, of course all the clones will be the same race.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

ah. so THAT's the accent. It's been driving me nuts.. it's beautiful.

Attack of the Maori

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

There are three Kiwis of note in that film:

Jango Fett, played by Temuera Morrison, who is probably the guy you mean in your entry. He's not from Auckland, he's from the Arawa people that live round Rotorua. The Morrisons are a family of note -- they've been in showbiz since the 30s or 40s.

Boba Fett, played by Daniel Logan. Watch out for this kid.

Amidala's personal guard captain guy who's name I forget, played by Jay Laga'aia, a Kiwi of Samoan (or Tongan, I forget) descent. Best known in Oz for the work he did on Water Rats.

And yeah, it was lovely to hear those unfettered Kiwi accents. :)

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[mmmetta.livejournal.com]

oh that's that guy's real name. i keep thinking of him as 'tommy' from his waterrats role :-)

[mmmetta.livejournal.com]

me, i say bring on the army of the clones.

noone noticed that the naboo army in the first prequel were largely maoris? i guess i'm kinda used to the whole maori-army thing after watching herc and xena :-)

the third prequel is also made in sydney, so i daresay there'll be more maoris in it too :-)

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Bound to be. There are lots of Kiwis living in Sydney, and a not insignificant number of them are Maori.