- Green Bay Packers and leave out the contribution of ....... Brett Farr?
- New England Patriots and forget about ....... Tom Brady?
- Tour de France and not mention ......... Lance Armstrong?
- Modern day golfing legends and forget ..... Tiger Woods?
But we used your haka your culture your Kia Kaha and your national sport to make our movie.
These great young men deserve better, than an untitled picture in the credits at the end of the movie. So much for integrity and character building.
Religion saves the main character in the movie, but where is the religion in leaving out the most important people and contributors to this so called true story.
Gratitude, recognition, appreciation, telling the whole story, and not just the part that is easy to tell, honesty and integrity seemed to be forgotten religious values in respect to the boys from the land of the long white cloud.
If the invisible import players from NZ are legitimate and on the up and up, then why leave them completely out of the movie. It would have helped the script writer and production, nicely tie in the Haka, Kia Kaha and the Maori connection.
The coach would have had to share some of the limelight with the boys from NZ.........can not have that can we!!
To tell the whole story would mean admitting that it was a lot more than just good coaching that created such a dominating team. it really was just as much about winning at any cost.
HR .... please extend your hospitality beyond just providing room & board for these young men from NZ every year.
Take some of the money from the movie, that they helped you earn, and pay for their air fares next season. It's the least you can do, in light of their overwhelming contribution to your many national championships.
What would Jesus do?
2 comments:
I am not sure if you really watched the movie. 1st, there were polynesians on the team (remember the spit...) and this helped to show the polynesian influence on the success of the team. And second, the movie was just that, a movie - and it told a story of teamwork. It did portrait a great coach, but the real story was how the boys on the team rallied together and played as a team. The movie wasn't geared toward a mauri audience, so naturally some things in the movie are much different than real life.
Lester thanks for the comment.
Your right it is just a movie.
Much different than real life is absolutely right.
The truth of the matter is that the real life story is a huge moral contradiction.
Kicking a player off the team because he cheated on a test at school verses recruiting players from New Zealand every year and sneaking them into the public school system.
If the coaches applied the same rules to themselves that they apply to the players, there would be no coaches on the team.
You can't have one flavor of integrity for players and another flavor for the coaching staff.
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