Another gem from the nyt: Affirmative action director dies at 75; he was the greatest affirmative action director of his entire country!

By RM
thursday, november 27, 2025 at 2:29:00 a.m. est

Another gem from the nyt:

Affirmative action director dies at 75; he was the greatest affirmative action director of his entire country!

"Lee Tamahori, director of film voted new zealand’s best, dies at 75-

"he reimagined [adapted, in English] once were warriors, a novel about a maori family, as a film that became a worldwide phenomenon. he went on to direct hollywood movies."

I actually saw the damn movie, long ago; it was a piece of garbage, showing how the contemporary maoris essentially mimicked American ghetto blacks. The blurb from box office mojo describes it as, "a family descended from maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts." (Does that bilge sound familiar? once were kings...) The worldwide gross of this thing was about a million-and-a-half bucks (as measured before inflation); probably OK for a cheaply made film- but a "worldwide phenomenon"?!

That the director ended up in hollywood is news to me; he actually directed one of the later James Bond movies!

As for being considered new zealand's best movie (What else is there?)...

All you need to know about n.z. is that their government made a formal public apology to gays for the supposedly "terrible" way they've been treated, and this must have been at least 25 years ago!

-RM


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, november 27, 2025 at 9:56:00 a.m. est

"iconic" nothing film as described by an "iconically" lousy newspaper.

--GRA