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17.12.09 # Soundtrack # 16 Comments
The Invictus soundtrack.
Nelson Mandela: “How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do? How do we inspire those around us?”
Matt Damon: “…I think he wants us to win the World Cup.”
At last, a film arrives to prove that rugby is the key to socio-political harmony.
Clint Eastwood has had an awful lot of critical acclaim recently for a body of directorial work that is a mixed bag at best, and drowning in sentimentality. The mewling melodramatic yukkishness of Million Dollar Baby, the unengaging if well spirited Flags Of Our Fathers, the it’s-subtitled-therefore-meaningful Letters From Iwo Jima (which wasn’t that bad, but certainly wasn’t that good), and the enjoyable cranky vigilantism of Gran Torino. Now we’ve got Invictus, which is essentially Goal, but with two A-listers, a different shaped ball, and Nelson Mandela.
That’s not necessarily a recipe for disaster (Cinderella Man, for instance, was Goal with boxing gloves and the Great Depression, and was pretty good for it), but it doesn’t exactly set the pulse racing either. Imagine the pitch: Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon make post-apartheid South Africa feel warm and fuzzy through the cunning use of team sports. I think it’s fair to say that this ain’t Unforgiven. And how many more times is Morgan Freeman going to play a president?
The thing with Eastwood is that melodrama is absolutely the right word to attach to his recent works. Melodrama literally means drama with music, drama in which the music conveys in heavy-handed broad strokes the emotions being expressed. Letters From Iwo Jima, for instance, is all brooding strings, right the way through, compared to the more subtle scoring of, say, Band Of Brothers. The soundtrack for Invictus, which remember is a film in which Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon heal racial wounds by winning the World Cup, is sanctimonious sentimental balderdash with an African vocal choir attached to it for that Ladysmith Black Mambazo feel. And fair enough, African vocal choirs do sound good, in a Circle of Life sort of way, but there’s no disguising the sanctimonious sentimentality. At least half of the Invictus soundtrack is aurally offensive. I don’t care how much truth and reconciliation you attach to it, it still sounds like Jo’burg X Factor.
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Or as mp3s here
Invictus Soundtrack (Songs / Score) – Track-Listing
1. 9,000 Days – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
2. Invictus Theme – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
3. Colorblind – Overtone
4. Siyalinda (The Waiting) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
5. World In Union ‘95 – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
6. Madiba’s Theme – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
7. Hamba Nathi – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
8. Thanda (Love) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
9. Shosholoza – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
10. Inkathi (Time) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
11. Olé Olé Olé – We Are The Champions Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
12. Enqena (Anxious) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
13. The South African National Anthem – Overtone
14. Ukunqoba (To Conquer) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
15. Victory – Soweto String Quartet
16. Xolela (Forgiveness) – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
17. The Crossing (Osiyeza) – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
18. 9,000 Days (Acoustic) – Emile Welman
19. Khumbula (Remember) [Amazon MP3 Exclusive] – Overtone with Yollandi Nortjie
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Can anybody tell me why there were three Goal movies?
Well it was planned as a trilogy right from the start (premier league football, champions league football, world cup football) so my guess is that they secured their funding before the first film was actually shot and released. I haven’t seen the figures, but I can only assume that the whole franchise has been a massive financial flop.
I wonder what the mood was like by the time they were shooting the third?
What’s the song that played when mandela came down in a helicopter to greet the rugby team at their practice and gave damon a poem.
it’s called colorblind!
A beautiful movie indeed. In fact one of the highlights for me was the harmonious choral music. I am curious to learn your reasons for referring to the music as “aurally offensive”.
wolaaaaa
esta demaciado
buena la peliculaaa
me podrian deciiiar
como se llamaa la cancion
q escuchaba Mandela
para sentirse bn era
algo asi de africaa
es cuando invita a tomar
el te al capitan
de rubig
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y otro favoor
alguien
me podriaaaa
ayudar
a encontrar
el poemaaa
q le da al capitaan
xfitaas jejeje
graaciaas
wenaz vibraaz
I loved the songs they chose for the movie. really beautiful
What is the name of the song that is played when the south african rugby team arrive at soweto ?
I want to buy the soundtrack in South Africa, where
hi wie nennt sich das lied das die fans am ende singen wo es nochmal um alles geht ..wo die mannschaft nur noch 7 minuten zu spielen hat?
can anybody tell me which is the song of “Invictus” played when the team trains in the field on the mountains?thank’you
INVICTUS WAS A GREAT MOVIE YES IT INSPIRED SA TODAY ARPATIED IS DEAD THANK GOD EVERY ONE IS EQUAL COULD ANY ONE PLS TELL WERE I CAN GET THE CD OF INVICTUS. I CRIED WHEN MR. MANDELA WAS FREED BECAME PRESISENT I WAS SO HAPPY. I LIVE IN CANADA BUT I HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED PRESIDENT MANDELA. THERE WAS A MOVIE I SAW CRY FREEDOM STEVE BIKKO WAS KILLED BY SA POLICE WELL I FELT A SHAME TO BE WHITE BUT IF I LIVED IN SA I WOULD JOIN THE STRUGGLE TO FREE SA. MORGAN FREEMAN U PLAYED A GREAT PART U SHOULD HAVE HAD ACEDMY.
I NEW CHANGE WAS COMING WHEN DESMOND TUTU WAS HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
What was the song freeman and damon were talking about when freeman first invited him to his office for tea and the started to whisper the song.