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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Zulu (1964 film)}} [[File:Zulu_5978.jpg\|frame]] Line 5: '''[[Sergeant Rock\|Colour Sergeant Bourne]]:''' "[[Someone Has to Do It\|Because we're here, lad]]. [[The Remnant\|No one else.]] [[Last Stand\|Just]] [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits\|us.]]" }} A'''''Zulu''''' is a classic war film set during the [[Anglo-Zulu War]]. Based on true events, the film is the story of a [[Last Stand]] that the defenders managed to win. The Battle of Rorke's Drift was the result of the Battle of Isandlwana, at which the British expeditionary force of 2000 sent to crush the Zulus had been massacred [[General Failure\|due to the incompetence of their leaders.]] 139 British soldiers in a farmstead, assigned there to protect colonials and wounded (about one third of the 139) held out against 4-5,000 Zulus for 12twelve hours. The battle is held to this day as one of the very best defenses in all history (Take that, [[Epic Fail\|Little Big Horn]]!). Eleven of the soldiers got the VC, (the highest honour that can be awarded to a Commonwealth soldier), the largest number of this medal ever awarded for a single action. Also notable for being the film debut of an insignificant actor named [[Michael Caine]]~~. Followed fifteen years later by a prequel, ''Zulu Dawn'' about the disastrous Battle of Isandlwana that took place earlier the same day. It starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O'Toole~~. ''Zulu'' was followed fifteen years later by a prequel, ''Zulu Dawn'', about the disastrous Battle of Isandlwana that took place earlier the same day. It starred [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Peter O'Toole]]. {{tropelist}} * [[Becoming the Mask]]: during the ''Men of Harlech'' scene you see dozens of weary demoralized soldiers who enlisted because no one else was poor enough for the job, [[Take a Level In Badass\|converting themselves]] into the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] s that they were singing of. If you look closely at the Zulus you can see how many are obviously youngsters out for the first time. They are becoming a mask too. That may have been [[Fridge Brilliance]] rather then intentional. If every one had looked like a veteran of years of campaigning the message would not have gotten across. But because they were [[Real Life]] Zulus hired for a quick job, probably the first job of many of them, the effect was that a lot of them looked like fearful youths like all soldiers trying to live up to their own image and emotionally flagellating themselves to keep from running. [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "[[Memetic Mutation\|Suddenly, Zulus! Thousands of them!]]" * [[The Cavalry]]: Rather cruelly subverted. A large force of cavalrymen arrive at the fort...then flee when faced with the Zulu army. Line 53 ⟶ 56: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Films of the 1960s]] [[Category:~~Zulu~~Epic Movie]] [[Category:Military and Warfare Films]] [[Category:British Films]] [[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]