De geruchten gaan al dat Morgan Freeman wel eens genomineerd zou kunnen worden voor een Oscar voor zijn rol als Nelson Mandela in Invictus. Strictly_GetDomain(‘(http://www.invictusmovie.warnerbros.com/)
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In Nederland nog niet in de bioscoop, reden te meer om het boek te lezen waarop de film gebaseerd is: ‘Playing the enemy’ van de Britse journalist en schrijver John Carlin.
Het boek – net als de film overigens – is een ode aan het leiderschap van Nelson Mandela en hangt dat grotendeels op aan de finale van het wereldkampioenschap rugby in Johannesburg in 1995.
Carlin omschriijft het boek als volgt:
‘Stripped to its essentials, politics is about persuading people, winning them over. All politicians are professional seducers. They woo people for a living. And if they are clever and good at what they do, if they have a talent at striking the popular chord, they will prosper. Lincoln had it, Roosevelt had it, Churchill had, De Gaulle had it, Kennedy had it, Martin Luther King had it, Reagan had it, Clinton and Blair had it. So did Arafat. And so, for that matter, did Hitler. They all won over their people to their cause. Where Mandela – the anti-Hitler – had an edge over the lot of them, where he was unique, was in the scope of his ambition. Having won over his own people – in itself no mean feat, for they were a disparate bunch, drawn from all manner of creeds, colours, and tribes – he then went out and won over the enemy. How he did that – how he won over people who had applauded his imprisonment, who had wanted him dead, who planned to go to war against him – is chiefly what this book is about.
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