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

http://yle.fi/uutiset/yles_new_take_...902?origin=rss

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

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/24902529.jpg

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

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

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

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

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:


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

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! :)

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:

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

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=XlHO4...eature=related

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:

Yep, that's the current German camo uniform.
Please tell me that's all just a big joke.:damn:

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?