Jerusalema Goofs!

December 20, 2009 by Brown Shuga

This article was first published in October 2008 on my TVSA Blog, Shuga’s Blogiwood but it was aired on MM1 tonight so I thought it would be nice to revisit. Enjoy!

I went to see Jerusalema twice! The first time it was to find out what it was about and the 2nd time I went because I had missed the first 15 minutes the first time and I also went to look for goofs. I wasn’t disappointed.
I wouldn’t mind going out to watch it again but I kinda suspect I’d want to go for the 4th, 5th and 6th time so I’m gonna chill and wait for the “official” DVD to come out. Yeah, it’s THAT good!

If you haven’t seen the movie, there might be spoilers here so …..

My best moments were during Lucky Kunene’s childhood. Jafta Mamabolo did a splendid job and it really makes me proud to know that we have such talented young actors in the country.

About the goofs..

They honestly take NOTHING away from this brilliant movie but I thought it would be interesting to chat about them and ask the Academy of Motion Pictures not to to nitpick when making the decision…..

LUCKY IN 1997

mLUCKISH
LUCKY IN 2007

Yeah, big up on getting it right with the casting because Jafta could easily pass as Rapulana’s brother mara people don’t age LIKE THAT in 10 years bathong, unless we’re talking babies. I’m tempted to demonstrate this point with a pic of me taken 10 years ago vs one taken now but I don’t wanna offend abantu abaguga kakubi so I will leave it at that. lol.
If Lucky Jnr was 16, there is no way Lucky Snr is 26! He looks at least 34.

This is Lucky jnr with his best friend Zakes jnr…

Zakes Jnr

This is Lucky with Sithole (lawyer) and his best friend Zakes on his left (our right)

zakes snr

Ja I know people change and stuff but Zakes snr is too dark. When they were young Zakes was lightskinned but 10 years later it’s Lucky who’s light skinned.. and Zakes ke mnyamane! Haikhona bandla.

What makes their “transition” so questionable is Nazareth…

Nazareth

His character in 1997 and 2007 is played by the same person and the make up artist did an okay job coz there were later scenes where he appeared kinda old.

This scene below is way too hilarious for me…especially that “Hi Jacking” sign because they stood there exactly for that reason!

Hi Jack Spot

Oh, and the morale of the picture is to tell you ukuba that cute Mercedes on the right was not yet available in 1997. Same as the gorgeous one they delivered to that guy who bought the jacked cars.

numba numba t

I’m not sure what year we moved from abo OKE (Welkom), OM (Kroonstad) and Number Number T (Transvaal) to bo ma FS and GP and even if we had already changed our car registration plates by 1997 but all I know is that there is no way we could have been on the T’s in 1997. Green car’s plates TTZ293GP.
What’s interesting in Jerusalema’s 1997 scenes, is that some cars have the GP registration, while others are still number number T. Maybe that was during the shift…mara T yona…

THE STORE ROBBERY…

Siyaya Hi-Ace Taxi

During the robbery where Nazareth gets arrested and young Lucky shot, Nazi and his crew are using a Siyaya Taxi and shame Siyaya was only introduced in 2001. Ngo 1997 besishaya ngalezi….

hi ace
Pic was taken in KZN….I suspect!

Lucky, who is shot on the leg, and Zakes manage to get away from the robbery with this stolen beetle. Nothing wrong there…except……

burn car

……a scene and a half later, after first saying goodbye to his mom and later girlfriend at the station, he’s RUNNING to climb onto the train…..
No hospital visit, we don’t know what happened to the bullet and the wound but our man is running after a train! Looking cute too in that red sweater!

chelse

After Zakes gets shot….Lucky follows the shooters’ car. On FOOT. And he reaches their destination at the same time as them. Okay, no big deal.
What is a big deal is that when they enter Tony Ngu’s club, it’s night time….

crew

They walk in, start shooting…Tony Ngu is running…Lucky chases him till they get to the roof and voila, when they get outside, it’s already MORNING.
Meaning the shootout took the whole night? heheheheheh.

Tony Ngu, the Nigerian from the Ibo Tribe aka Jews of Africa, who escaped discrimination and oppression in Nigeria and came to South Africa, only to find the xenophobic attitude towards makwerekwere.

Well, what can I say, Malusi Skenjana’s nigerian accent is as good as mine! The woman who calls in on AK’s YFM show could teach this guy a thing or two.
I don’t know why they didn’t use a Nigerian to play this role, flop flop flop and I couldn’t ignore this!

he got cute lips

…and speaking of his lips, there are scenes where he has a little black mark on the right of his mouth and on other scenes the mark is not there…….

There’s a scene where Lucky jnr and his friend go to an Absa ATM, don’t know about Absa but there were no mobile ATM’s back then.
Lucky is calling his girl from jail he is using a telcom card phone but there is no card in the slot. (spotted by a reader)

Like I said, these little goofs do not take anything away from this movie’s brilliance and I really hope those of you who haven’t seen it would make a plan to do so because it is something we should all be proud of. Tsotsi is WACK compared to this movie.

I also liked Lucky junior he really looks like Rapulane and he killed that part and I wanted it to stay like that. I hated it when he grew up. I didn’t really understand some of the parts during 2007. For the first I watched it until finish and second time I watched it until the end of Lucky junior. I just loved that part and those love scenes between Lucky junior and his girlfriend. I would have done him too in high school…lol BTW there is alot of shooting it the movie maan. I swear I jumped a couple of times when there were shooting scenes scary stuff I tell you.

Tik-line on Mon, 21st Dec 2009 10:27 am

i dont think i’ll be watching this movie anytime soon, I’ve picked it a couple of times but just could find the energy to watch it…donno why I enjoyed White wedding though

tee on Mon, 21st Dec 2009 11:18 am