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Freedom is an IDEAL to which am prepared to die.................SHALL WE BEGIN
I must watch this movie lol...hiyo trailer imeni inspire sana LOL
I must watch this movie lol...hiyo trailer imeni inspire sana LOL
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Fixed Point Hiyo black Nativity lol...nilikuwa nachekaje sasa...........
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Nimeiona BelindaJacob na pia kuipenda wazee wamefanya vitu vyao, itafutie muda kaa hujaiona. Ni kweli ina scene nyingi za kuchekesha.
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Sawa nitafanya hivyo Heaven on Earth usisahau pia best man nayo imetoka wiki chache zilizopita nayo nimeipenda pia kuna baggage claim nayo ni nzuri.
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Jamaa amecheza vizuri sana ni Oscar performance wasipompa Oscar Feb 2014 watakuwa hawajamtendea haki. Mie sijaiona nimeona trailer tu ila jamaa yangu kanihadithia kasema ni bomba sana, movie ilipokwisha audience walipiga makofi kama dakika tatu kuonyesha appreciation yao. Natarajia kuiona wiki ijayo.
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Jamaa amecheza vizuri sana ni Oscar performance wasipompa Oscar Feb 2014 watakuwa hawajamtendea haki. Mie sijaiona nimeona trailer tu ila jamaa yangu kanihadithia kasema ni bomba sana, movie ilipokwisha audience walipiga makofi kama dakika tatu kuonyesha appreciation yao. Natarajia kuiona wiki ijayo.
Kweli mkuu, Elba deserves an Oscar.
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Idris Elba: In the mind of Mandela
By Ingrid Randoja - on December 24, 2013
Would it surprise you to learn that Nelson Mandela is a fan of the violent, drugs and cops TV series The Wire?
It's true. And perhaps even more surprising is that Mandela himself recommended that Idris Elba - who played The Wire's notorious drug kingpin Stringer Bell - play him in the bio-pic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The film is based on Mandela's autobiography of the same name.
Of course, Nelson Mandela has nothing in common with a fictional TV drug dealer; but the man who spent 27 years in prison, helped tear down South Africa's apartheid rule and became his nation's first black president, saw something of himself in Elba.
That's quite a compliment.
"Yes, it is," says the 41-year-old actor during an interview in Toronto where Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Dressed in blue, knee-length shorts and a striped blue and white T-shirt that shows off his fit, six-foot-three frame, the London, England, native exudes magnetism. On screen, that magnetism is only amplified - whether he's playing an angry London police detective in the British TV series "Luther," a heroic military leader in Pacific Rim or a watchful Norse god in the Thor films.
Sitting across from Elba you're struck by another thing; he looks nothing like Nelson Mandela. Physically transforming himself to play Mandela was difficult enough, but Elba also faced the challenge of portraying the icon through a 50-year period, which required him to age into the elderly, white-haired Mandela who's so familiar to us.
"Before we started filming we were designing the prosthetic works and so on, but we were also dedicated to not doing a complete looky-like," says Elba in his cockney accent.
"The younger Mandela, not many people know who he was at the time, and that's great because it gave us artistic license to create that person. We mapped out this journey on film, so by the end of the film the audience goes, 'Ah, there's the guy we know."
"I studied his idiosyncratic behaviours, how he moves and walks, and all that stuff," adds Elba. "When he was younger he was very much a go-getter, but when [he] got older he moved less, talked less, kept his face a lot stiller. I observed all of that, and just wanted to make it right."
The film begins in the 1940s when Mandela is working as a lawyer in Soweto. A failed early marriage gives way to a second marriage to social worker Winnie Mandela (Naomie Harris) and a political career that grows increasingly militant as Mandela and his fellow ANC party leaders demand the end to South Africa's dehumanizing, racist apartheid laws.
Some Mandela supporters are upset the film highlights Mandela's human flaws, especially the younger Mandela's womanizing. But Elba says it would be wrong to gloss over the man's imperfections.
"[Mandela] was a hotshot lawyer in a booming Soweto at the time," he says, "there were no other black lawyers. He was this tall, enigmatic man and had a lot of lady attention [laughs]. Although he wanted to step into this world of doing the right thing, and being an activist and saving the country, nothing was going to top that."
Attracting attention has never been a problem for Elba, who regularly finds himself included in celebrity "Hottest Men" and "Most Beautiful People" lists. Currently single, Elba does have an 11-year-old daughter named Isan from his four-year marriage to American makeup artist Kim Elba. He splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, Atlanta (where Isan lives with her mother) and London.
It was Isan who inadvertently helped Elba fine-tune his portrayal of Mandela.
As the film recounts, Mandela spent 27 years in jail, mostly in a tiny cell inside the Robben Island prison. Elba felt he also needed to step behind those prison bars.
"I spent a night on Robben Island, which was very unorthodox," says the actor. "They said, 'Take your cellphone in case you get panicky and want to get out. The security guard will let you out.' Well of course I said yes, and when they walked away, locked the door, I checked my cellphone and there is no service whatsoever. I was stuck."
"But then in the morning, when I did get service, there [were] all these messages and my daughter had gotten sick in Atlanta, badly, an asthma attack, and my presence was requested. And it just broke my heart."
He says the incident gave him a tiny bit of perspective on what Mandela had experienced. "Once the chants of activism and revolution had gone, what's left is a man sitting in a cell for years and having no power. It came to me. This was not just me doing a performance, I had to be, you know?"
Throwing oneself into such an iconic - and important - role can spoil an actor, and Elba admits it's going to be hard to top this performance.
"This is the pinnacle, the real pinnacle," he says thoughtfully. "I've had interesting successes in television, interesting characters, I think, but now with film, there's never going to be another Mandela role. What does one do next?"
"I like making films, and I love to work, but I just sorta have to try and be careful. I don't want to deface this character, this role, this work in Mandela, by just being in some stupid film."
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hizo movies unazo home? itabidi tutafutane........
mimi pia napenda sana black american movies, na ninazo za kumwaga
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yap ninazo si tulisema tutatafutana my sis usijali ni kubadilishana tu
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Fixed Point, BelindaJacob & Heaven on Earth hii movie nayo ni bomba sana, Dicaprio kafanya vitu vyake ila ni ndefu sana masaa matatu. Kama nafasi itawaruhusu itafuteni na hii pia.
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