When We Were Kings

When We Were faggots order by Leon Gast is a docu handstary slightly the boxer Muhammad Ali and the culture of drab pack. The medical specialty is utilize as one of the shipway to provide information for the interview almost what is happening within the film. The music helps the audience establish what it was like back in the 1970s. It alike shows African-American singers and how they are exalted of their heritage like BB King and crowd browned. The music also functions as a symbol to bemuse information across, for illustration The succuba. The documentary songs relate to the theme of racial relationships and African-American identity. Setting The film is batch in the 1970s within Zaire, Africa when Mobutu Sese Seko was in charge. It shows that the village life is very misfortunate and crowded as it was a second world country because it was still developing. thither were power struggles e. g. Belgian Congo and also Mobutu was ruthless as he killed 10% of the crim inals in Zaire. Even though this was either happening within the country the battalion of Africa were proud to be African.They showed this through the 3 day musical festival, where they had there handed-down singing and leaping. The film shows footages of the African children and women dancing to the tucker of the drum in their traditional clothing. During the 1970s it was an insult to call African-American people African, but when Muhammad Ali came to Africa he axiom how African people were proud of their heritage and that Africans and Americans divided similar loves for things like music.Ali so make he should be merry to be African and apart of this evoke impertinently way of life. The documentary depicts Ali to be the virtuoso in Zaire as he is seen as someone rest up for the African people. Similarities between Africans and African-Americans African-American people were seen unequal to white people. Their cordial status was seen as unworthy and down the stairs th e standards of white people. The musical performances, from jam Browns screaming, soul singing and dancing, to B. B. Kings sweat, smooth strumming on the Lucille, stimulate both the Africans and Americans who travelled there. The music fall in and influenced the people within Zaire to finder the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Muhammad Ali started to realise that black and white people arent more different, they care and love similar things much(prenominal) as education and music, specifically, the drums. The drums provided a wiz of communication and rhythm between the twain different cultures.The drum was the oldest instrument that the Africans apply and now the African-American singers like James Brown uses it in his songs. it in his songs. Miriam Makeba mommy Africa Throught-out the film Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) is singing the song Am Am Pondo. This is used to symbolise Succubus. Succubus is a women who has sexual intercourse with men in their sleep , until the tire out. This symbol was used since this is how Ali won agaist Foreman, as he permit Foreman hit him until he became exhausted and then he striked with one punched and knocked him out.George Plimpton tells the legend of the witch doctor who predicted that a women with vibe hands or a succubus in Zaire would take subscribe of George foreman and that he would not adopt the boxing match as the succubus will take all his potency and then bring Ali to victory. The filmmakers illustrate this by having Miriam Makeba perform the succubus. Everytime Foreman was shown on the documenty Miriam Makeba would be singing Am Am Pondo in the backgroud to indicate the Foreman does not lead in Africa and that he will get caught in Africas trap or being cursed by a female Succubus. African children and women dancing to the beat of the drum in their traditional clothing. During the 1970s it was an insult to call African-American people African, but when Muhammad Ali came to Africa he saw how African people were proud of their heritage and that Africans and Americans shared similar loves for things like music. Ali then realised he should be glad to be African and apart of this exciting new way of life. The documentary depicts Ali to be the Hero in Zaire as he is seen as someone standing up for the African people. The film is he