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Thread: The Final Quarter / The Australian Dream (AG documentaries) and related discussion

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    Quote Originally Posted by S.S. Bleeder View Post
    I know it conflicts with your bigoted views 05 but people are allowed to have opinions without being labelled as racists.
    So you didn’t think the comment about good natives etc was possibly just a touch racist ?

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    So you didn’t think the comment about good natives etc was possibly just a touch racist ?
    Yes, that's my point. Bloods05 was inferring ("Maybe his ghost still haunts us") that I was racist just like the guy who made those comments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S.S. Bleeder View Post
    Yes, that's my point. Bloods05 was inferring ("Maybe his ghost still haunts us") that I was racist just like the guy who made those comments.
    I'd get that seen to if I were you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S.S. Bleeder View Post
    Of course. I feel the same about the haka but that is more for show, provided they don't invade their opponents personal space.

    This was worse. Running right to your opponents in a threatening manner and pretending to throw a spear at them? Its completely disrespectful. Why does the opponent have to stand there politely and take it all for the sake of not offending a culture?
    I guess you'd have to ask the Bombers players if they found it "completely disrespectful", and if they felt they had to
    "take it all for the sake of not offending a culture". My guess...… nope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S.S. Bleeder View Post
    Of course. I feel the same about the haka but that is more for show, provided they don't invade their opponents personal space.

    This was worse. Running right to your opponents in a threatening manner and pretending to throw a spear at them? Its completely disrespectful. Why does the opponent have to stand there politely and take it all for the sake of not offending a culture?
    Brilliant humour. Love it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S.S. Bleeder View Post
    And rightly so. It was a terrible look. Stack has every right to participate in an indigenous dance but performing an act of aggression and intimidation like that was completely out of line especially when his opponents are unable to retaliate.
    They were able to retaliate and defend themselves. The Essendon player knocked away Stack's invisible spear with his invisible shield! You must have missed it.
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    I'll go with Titus on this one.....

    "The highlight of the night was the war dance performed before the game as part of Dreamtime at the ‘G.

    Richmond’s Sydney Stack even threw an imaginary spear at the Essendon players, but there was no outcry like when Adam Goodes did it towards Carlton supporters.

    Perhaps that’s progress, or perhaps it’s just the fact everyone knows Essendon players have had plenty of experience of sharp objects being poked into them."


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    I'll go with Titus on this one.....

    "The highlight of the night was the war dance performed before the game as part of Dreamtime at the ‘G.

    Richmond’s Sydney Stack even threw an imaginary spear at the Essendon players, but there was no outcry like when Adam Goodes did it towards Carlton supporters.

    Perhaps that’s progress, or perhaps it’s just the fact everyone knows Essendon players have had plenty of experience of sharp objects being poked into them."

    He's wrong about that, we've had one outcry here.

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    Throughout the discussion on the upcoming The Final Quarter, there has been mention of a second documentary addressing the Goodes situation. Some details have been released today. It's a venture between Goodes himself and Stan Grant. Grant was instrumental in trying to keep the conversation going after Goodes bowed out of the public spotlight.

    "The Australian Dream", which is the name of this second film, was a tag Grant used frequently in the articles he wrote and speeches he gave. Unlike The Final Quarter, which relies purely on archival footage, this film features Adam reflecting now on what he went through. There are some more details, including a very brief trailer, in the SMH article below.

    The film itself will open the Melbourne Film Festival in August.

    https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...29-p51sgh.html

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    Hope they show The Australian Dream somewhere in Sydney.
    Can't wait to see it.
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    He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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