It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Her courage inspired a nation.
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The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Keywords: 1990s, abandoned-prison, apartheid, archive-footage, athlete, based-on-book, birth-of-a-nation, black-president, bodyguard, cape-town-south-africa
His people needed a leader. He gave them a champion.
He was a prisoner who became a president. To unite his country, he asked one man to do the impossible.
Francois Pienaar: Times change, we need to change as well.
[last lines]::Nelson Mandela: I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul. / I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.
Brenda Mazibuko: You're risking your political capital, you're risking your future as our leader.::Nelson Mandela: The day I am afraid to do that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.
Nelson Mandela: Forgiveness liberates the soul.::Nelson Mandela: It removes fear.::Nelson Mandela: That is why it is such a powerful weapon.
Nerine: [after Francois returns from his tea with President Mandela] So, what's he like?::Francois Pienaar: [pauses] He's unlike any person I've ever met.
Hendrick Booyens: [This is likely an 'in' joke as Matt Damon said something similar when meeting Francois Pienaar for the first time] He's not as big as he looks on TV.
Jason Tshabalala: There are four Special Branch cops in my office.::Nelson Mandela: Why, what did you do?
Nelson Mandela: The Rainbow Nation starts here. Reconciliation starts here.
Nelson Mandela: Forgiveness starts here too.
Nelson Mandela: [as match is about to begin] Perhaps we should make a little wager?::New Zealand PM: All your gold for all our sheep?::Nelson Mandela: Well, I was thinking more along the lines of a case of wine.
The greatest Superhero movie of all time! (not counting all the others)
[after Aunt Lucille farts through Rick and Jill's conversation, Hourglass breaks through the window]::Hourglass: Sorry to drop in uninvited.::Rick Riker: It's okay. We were hoping someone would open a window. It was getting stuffy in here.
Uncle Albert: With great power comes... ow!::Rick Riker: Great responsibility? Try to breathe!::Uncle Albert: I can't. You're kneeling on my balls!
Uncle Albert: [to Rick about a book on puberty] There are mood swings, fluid retention, and once a month you'll bleed from your vagina.::[awkward pause]::Uncle Albert: This may be the wrong book.
Rick Riker: I'm not wearing any diamonds.
Rick Riker: [during a prolonged conversation with Jill while plummeting from a rooftop] This is a really tall building.
Lou Landers: [before death] Oh fuck.
Uncle Albert: God, Lucille! How could you take her away from me! I can't live without her! Lucille! Snookie lumps!::Undertaker: I'm sorry, there's been a terrible mistake. This is your wife.::Uncle Albert: [sees Lucille in other casket] Ah!::Undertaker: She is this man's wife.::Uncle Albert: Give me five minutes.
Tom Cruise: [clapping with each syllable to emphasize his point] Old MacDonald had a farm and Bingo was his name - o.
Uncle Albert: [lovingly] Your thighs look like warm cottage cheese someone threw up on a hot sidewalk.::Aunt Lucille Adams: And you've always had a tiny penis.::Uncle Albert: Well, what does it matter when you're in love?
Priest: We are gathered today to say goodbye to Lucille Adams.::Mourners: Goodbye!
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James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later, now married to Gloria and father of three children (Chris, Brett, and Natasha), James has nothing but shame and regret, as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him, leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by spying on imprisoned African National Congress Leader, Nelson Mandela. In the restrictive high security prison his job is to censor all written and verbal communications between prisoners, their visitors, and correspondence. James is uncomfortable when he witnesses Caucasian police and security officers' brutality against civilians, including infants, and tries to understand why Nelson became a rebel. This leads him to examine the 'Freedom Charter', a banned document, reportedly known to incite violence against 'whites'. And when he does read this document, he changes his mind about Nelson's freedom struggle. Soon he, himself, will be alienated by his very own peers. Isolated, he receives death threats over the phone and has to face the trauma of the 'accidental' death of Brett. In addition, he and his family are kept under close watch by the security forces amidst tight economic sanctions by the international community, and growing unrest by the natives who continue their fight for equality, and freedom for Nelson Mandela.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, african-national-congress, apartheid, based-on-book, freedom-fighter, husband-wife-reunion, nelson-mandela, political-prisoner
Based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela's prison guard
Winnie Mandela: When I married you, I knew I was marrying the struggle.
Nelson Mandela: [in prison, to his visiting wife, speaking Xhosa; subtitles read] Tell him that all of us in here agree he should escalate the armed struggle. The country must become ungovernable.
Nelson Mandela: I have not touched my wife in twenty-one years.
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Starting in Archer's Oxford days this bizzare comedy maps the 'truth' about Archer's rise, fall and eventual re-rise to power. The story is told in 2009 as Archer helps someone write an unofficial Biography a few year's after Archer's release from Prison.
Keywords: british-royal-family, character-name-in-title, fantasy-world, politics, prince-william, princess-diana, spoof
This story is based on real events, only the facts have been changed
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Indeed a tribute, this movie tells the story of Princess Diana's last year, from May 1996 to her fatal accident in August 1997. It focuses on her love affairs with a Pakistani heart surgeon and with Dodi Al Fayed, on her battle with the press, her charity work, and her relationship with her sons. Many scenes re-enact well-known images and moments from this year, and the movie ends on the note that Diana was about to accept Dodi's proposal of marriage when the accident occurred.
Keywords: british-royal-family, character-name-in-title, marriage-proposal, mother-son-relationship, portrait, prince, prince-william, princess, princess-diana, royal-romance
South African Prime Minister D. F. Malan: [1948 opening narration; South African police raid & bulldoze a Black shantytown] Mr. Speaker, today South Africa belongs to us. Where we shall be introducing legislation to implement our policy which we call Apartheid-the separation between the races. Races will live and travel separately. Education will be separate for all groups at all levels. Work fitting for the White man will be reserved for him and him alone. Apartheid rests on three unarguable foundations - Afrikaner Experience, Scientific Proof that the White man is a superior being, and Biblical Witness. Apartheid represents divine will.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before being elected President, Mandela was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela went on to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to the establishment of democracy in 1994. As President, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, while introducing policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa.
In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his Xhosa clan name; or as tata (Xhosa: father). Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades.