Yle's new take on Mannerheim stirs a hornet's nest

[Dowly]

The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has aroused controversy by producing
a movie about national hero Marshall C.G.E. Mannerheim, to be released in
September. The title role will be played by an African.http://yle.fi/uutiset/yles_new_take_on_mannerheim_stirs_a_hornets_nest/6257902?origin=rss

Oh really? What exactly did you think the reaction would be, YLE? :doh:

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24902529.jpg

[CCIP]

Is Hitler going to be in the movie too? Cause we already have a great casting for that... :D

http://i.imgur.com/j1pvt.gif

[Dowly]

Well, apparently the movie will be a romance of some sort.:rotfl2::rotfl2:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Surprise, surprise... who could have imagined... :roll:

Either Yle intentionally wanted to stir the pot or their staff should reserve appointment with psychiatrist. :nope:

[Penguin]

I am looking forward for the Winter War scenes in Kenya :D, however I think the Finns would be more enraged if Mannerhem would be portrayed by a Swede :O:


Is Hitler going to be in the movie too? Cause we already have a great casting for that... :D

http://i.imgur.com/j1pvt.gif

pff, what an amateur!
here's the real deal, he also speaks überperfect German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xUnA0JCG4

[August]

So this actors name is really Telley Savalas Otieno?

A Black guy, named after a Greek-American, portraying a Finnish General?

Man you gots to love multiculturalism! :)

[darius359au]

ummmmm...... it's nice to know human stupidty is universal! , I like the bit where the producer was saying he was "Suprised by the reaction" ,what did he think was going to happen when they came up with the idea :doh:

[the_tyrant]

:doh:How do you even try to film Kenya as Finland?

[kiwi_2005]

okay that's just insane... in the membrane. Fins rise up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijB8wnJCN0

Edit: Actually Thunderstruck is more appropriate. Going insane in the membrane is pointed at Finnish Broadcasting Company. Thunderstruck is the Fins reaction!

Sorry man been youtubing last couple of hours sometimes saying it with music is better than words :)

Thunderstruck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHO4V9vWRY&feature=related

[Dowly]

Trailer:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1637310

Nope.. still don't get it. :doh:

[Penguin]

Trailer:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1637310

Nope.. still don't get it. :doh:

Cool, at 0:17 you can see him wearing the modern German uniform! :haha:

[Schroeder]

Cool, at 0:17 you can see him wearing the modern German uniform! :haha:
Yep, that's the current German camo uniform.
Please tell me that's all just a big joke.:damn:

[antikristuseke]

I am at a loss for words, except these ones, these came easy.

[CCIP]

I don't know, this seems like it could be pretty awesome if you just pretend that the movie is actually a black comedy (ha ha see what I did there...) about a Kenyan paramilitary who suffers from split personality disorder and has constant delusions that he is, in fact, Mannerheim. But he is important enough that the people around him eventually give up and play along. This is his story of actually turning into Mannerheim.

It's kind of like the Truman Show but backwards.

or something :doh:

[antikristuseke]

Yes CCIP, but that would make sense and the it is against the finns national character to do so.

[Hottentot]

As someone on another forum so well put it:

Budget: small.
Amount of publicity: High.
Amount of outrage: Extreme.
The number of people going to see it, despite of promising not to: oh come on...
Profits: High.
Conclusion: Con of the year award nominee, 2012.

As a more personal opinion, I was surprised at first. I, like probably most people, thought "WTF". Then I started more and more finding the amount of holy outrage by different groups far more amusing than any emotion this film could have provoked in me. The more this develops, the more I'm laughing. People can be so hilarious sometimes when they are being serious.

[August]

I, like probably most people, thought "WTF". Then I started more and more finding the amount of holy outrage by different groups far more amusing than any emotion this film could have provoked in me. The more this develops, the more I'm laughing. People can be so hilarious sometimes when they are being serious.


At least you Finns don't have films depicting your past presidents as vampire hunters or nazi werewolf killers,...yet. :)

[Oberon]

I'm still waiting for the film version of Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter... :hmm2:

[Hottentot]

At least you Finns don't have films depicting your past presidents as vampire hunters or nazi werewolf killers,...yet. :)

I don't actually think that would cause nearly as big fuss. Mannerheim is one of the most "legendary" (in every sense of the word) Finns. He is a mythical hero. No president has such status and likely won't ever have.

And thus the holy outrage is all the more hilarious to follow.

[August]

No president has such status and likely won't ever have.

Oh yeah what about George Washington, "Father Of Our Country"? I'd say he'd have to be at least Mannheims equal in the hearts of our countrymen although they haven't made a zombie hunter movie about him,... yet! :)

But I wonder if this really is supposed to be "your" Mannheim being depicted. The scenes in the trailer link Dowly posted look awful tropical.

Could this possibly be something along the lines of the movie "The Last King of Scotland" which was about Idi Amin?

[Hottentot]

Oh yeah what about George Washington, "Father Of Our Country"? I'd say he'd have to be at least Mannheims equal in the hearts of our countrymen although they haven't made a zombie hunter movie about him,... yet! :)

I was speaking about the presidents of Finland. For what it's worth, we don't generally tend to be as...uh, enthusiastic about our politicians as (based on this forum) you guys over there. :03:

Though now that I think about it, I actually made a silly contradiction right there in my previous post: Mannerheim in fact was president at one point, so I guess technically one of our presidents has achieved such legendary status then. :)


But I wonder if this really is supposed to be "your" Mannheim being depicted. The scenes in the trailer link Dowly posted look awful tropicalThat we'll have to see once the movie is out. What is certain is that it won't be a historical depiction, but that's fine by me because it never claimed it would be.

[Kongo Otto]

Soon in a Theater near you:

The Second World War - The Movie
Duration: 265 minutes
Dolby Surround
Director: James Cameron
Cast:
Jackie Chan as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Samuel L. Jackson as Hermann Göring
50 cent as George S.Patton
Jet Li as Erwin Rommel
Cate Blanchett as Adolf Hitler
Chuck Norris as Franklin "Roundhousekick" D. Roosevelt
Kenneth Brannagh as Bernard Montgomery
Robert Pattinson as OSS Vampyre
Dame Edna as Eva Braun
Robert Pattinson as Admiral Yamamoto
Bruce Willis as Winston Churchill
Dolph Lundgren as The Pope Pius XII
Denzel Washington as Admiral Nimitz

Special appearance:
Kristen Stewart as Joseph Stalin
Al Murray as The Pub Landlord

Rated: PG-13

[Oberon]

Samuel L. Jackson as Hermann Göring

"Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherlovin' Spits on this motherlovin' Reich!"

[Kongo Otto]

"I've had it with these motherlovin' Spits on this motherlovin' Reich!"

:har::har::har:

[Penguin]

Soon in a Theater near you:

The Second World War - The Movie


:haha:

This is about the only way I could ever imagine having a threesome with Hitler and Stalin.

[Dowly]

@Oberon :rotfl2::rotfl2:

[August]

I was speaking about the presidents of Finland. For what it's worth, we don't generally tend to be as...uh, enthusiastic about our politicians as (based on this forum) you guys over there. :03:

I see your point but remember Washington was a General before he was a President. Now I don't know that much about Mannerheim but from what I read here him and Washington were very similar figures in our respective nations history.

[Dowly]

Now I don't know that much about Mannerheim but from what I read here him and Washington were very similar figures in our respective nations history.

I would agree on that. :yep:

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I see your point but remember Washington was a General before he was a President. Now I don't know that much about Mannerheim but from what I read here him and Washington were very similar figures in our respective nations history.General Mannerheim
- Imperial Russian Army general
- Commander of the Whites in Finnish Civil War
- Regent of Finland
- Commander of the Finnish Armed Forces
- President of Finland

I don't know much of George Washington but I agree. :yep:

[Kongo Otto]

Soon in a Theater near you:

The Second World War - The Movie

:haha:
This is about the only way I could ever imagine having a threesome with Hitler and Stalin.

But only if the Soundtrack was made by Ron Jeremy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgEMUyNSKBk)! :har::har::har:

[TLAM Strike]

I'm still waiting for the film version of Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter... :hmm2:

Didn't 'Dr. Who' do that one already? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_and_Claw_(Doctor_Who))

[Sailor Steve]

Aye, and a grand adventure it was!