He killed an awful lot of them.
2006-08-20 09:29:11 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, but he gave an embarrassing performance.
2006-08-20 09:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by Chriatian IV 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dont know if Michael Caine in person was a racist or not.
The film is a portrayl of an actual historic event, The Zulu Wars. Therefore, the character he played, a British Army Officer, would have killed Zulu's. Does that make him a racist? If it does, I suppose that means that every soldier who kills someone of a different race is a racist too.
2006-08-20 16:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are talking about the Film "Zulu" - Michael Caine was just an actor. Whether you like the part he played or not, he was enacting "someone's life" of those times - a part of bringing alive the stories from the past.
Shaka Zulu was an amazing leader & man - If Michael Caine was a soldier of the British Government- therein lies your answer.
2006-08-20 17:05:45 · answer #3 · answered by Student 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Caine's character did make a racist comment in the film about "damn blacks," to which he got a good ticking off from a white African ally. It's a good journey for his character to go on as by the end Caine is totally terrified by the Zulu onslaught and he learns some respect for them. (Michael Caine has said that when he reads scripts, he flips to the end to see if his character has changed, if it hasn't, he doesn't do the movie).
2006-08-20 17:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I dont believe Michael Caine is a racist. But all of the English in Africa during that period were in effect racists:they believed in their own superiority and didnt get to find out much about the indiginous people who already owned the land. They moved in and took over, as the Romans did in England when the British were similarly undeveloped in their society.
2006-08-20 23:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by Pan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Michael Caine was an actor in Zulu.
2006-08-20 16:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by marineboy63 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He played the part of an imperialist, who most likely was a racist, I read allot of (too many) books on the Zulu wars. Incidently the soldiers at Rorkes Drift were from the Warickshire regiment, hardly a Welsh boy in sight, in fact there were more Irish than Welsh.
2006-08-20 16:39:39 · answer #7 · answered by Richard H 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Whats the obsession with Michael Caine this evening
2006-08-20 16:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by finnykid 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Black Hawk Down, King Kong (new version), and The Temptation of Christ are more modern versions of Hollywood racism.
Are actors responsible? If the script is explicit enough... Yes.
But not in every case... usually it's left to editing to determine how racist the images used in a film turn out.
2006-08-20 18:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the part played by michael caine was a pivitol one as was the part of the real officer he portrayed. the empire had turned its back on the slave trade, however i think intitutionalised racism must have exsisted, if you look at The Royal Welsh Fusileers battle honours you may be surprised. once the story got the hollywood treatment
the real story would not be as filmy, LF
2006-08-20 17:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by lefang 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He killed them because he was defending himself. But near the beginning wasn't he upbraided by Lt Chard for disparaging the British soldiers' black allies killed the day before? So he may have been more racist than the other characters.
Anyway it's still a great movie.
2006-08-20 16:39:41 · answer #11 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋