DiCaprio pulled off the very best depiction of a real soldier Hollywood has produced in a very, very long time. This performance is extraordinarily under appreciated. Dude hit this role out of the park.
Lmao....I have a Lab pit mix he barks at the black Jehovah's witnesses. I had a pitbull mixed with a German Shepherd....now that pup was something else.
@@FrWiy-cf6vz actually its not. If you followed the plot he was drafted into a South African SADF battalion at a young age, hence the South African accent. Also I am South African so I know this accent a mile away. Rhodesian accents were softer than ours, with more of a British flavour because they had no interaction with Afrikaans.
@@jangulherme2243 "The standard infantry weapon was the Belgian FN FAL rifle as produced in South Africa under license as the R1 rifle and supplemented by the H&K G3 rifle that came from Portuguese forces. However, other weapons such as the British L1A1 ('SLR') variant of the FAL were used by reservists and the British South Africa Police."
Rhodesia had gotten the G3 from the Portuguese, and that was generally the extent of the bulk of their aid. BSAP did operate the M16A1 very late in the war after they were smuggled in, but they werent from Portugal. There are no records of the AR-10 entering Rhodesia.
I like towards the end of the movie Archer actually stuffs extra magazines in his pockets. I've seen too many movies where the hero takes a gun but no spare ammo.
@@culturalliberator9425 Mugabe slandered his own name the way he handled his opponents. That took Bush League to an entirely different and more needlessly disturbing level.
@@EJ-bq1nuits like saying black americans arent american? Dutch settlers were exiled to south africa so forced to go there , africans were taken as slaves so forced to go there. I see no difference , a black guy living in europe for decades is more european than any south african , and a white man living in africa for decades (or even centuries) is far more african than any american or european black person.
@@content_enjoyer4458 I saw a video of an ukie in a trench with his RPG-wielding friend holding an entire BTR + dismounts at bay by blindfiring his AK-12 wildly at the ruskies automatic fire + many magazines is very useful when fighting a 2v~10 fight
@@reynaldoflores4522 Cecil Rhodes was a horrible individual. There were horrible things that went on in Rhodesia before the war, and the terrible things that happened after don't justify the former, not that you said they did, it's just a common argument.
I met a white guy once around London with a heavy accent that sounded like south african. When I asked him where he was from and he said Zimbabwe, I then replied back "you mean Rhodesia?" His eyes lit up like someone had just put a 24 carats diamond in front of him.
What I really like about the film is how correct his CAR-15 rifle is. From the look and layout to the noise it produces. CAR-15s had moderators on their barrels, sort of a cross between a flash hider and a suppressor. It didn’t suppress the noise a great deal and it didn’t fully stop muzzle flash but it worked well enough for both and they did change the sound of the rifle when it was fired so much that when CAR-15s went into the civilian market in the US the ATF freak out stating that the moderators were suppressors and needed to be a regulated item under the NFA and Colt had to pull civilian production to “hollow out” the baffles to be compliant. (ATF sucks)
As cools as his rifle is, its not a real production gun. Its a franken-gun. Its got an M16A2 receiver, 10inch barrel off the GAU-5/XM177E1, and what looks like XM177 moderators with the porting chopped off
@@masonbartelt9959 But that's common setup for CAR-15 from mid-80s onward. Delta and Seal guys also use similar setup. It was the transition period from CAR to actual M-4 carbine.
@@manchesterunitedno7 The M16 lower reciever would've been accurate for SOG teams in Vietnam, as theres more than a few photos of XM uppers on M16A1 lowers. But post war it doesn't make any sense to take a lower without a buffer tube, get it smithed for a buffertube, and then mount that on an antiquated upper, rather than just using the original lower reciever and stock assembly. Its more than likely these were just cobbled together from various parts the armorers had on hand
@@totenfurwotan4478 check world map lQ and james watson research bell curve explains it all. if u let low lQ in power this is what happens democracy or marxism is just elite using media or political puppets to control dum masses
@@borger99 Why imagine when there are plenty of real-world examples being colonized by the PRC right now because their governments are corrupt and they have no industrial base or military?
You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man, the taller he stands. To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind.
When I was a kid I used to go to an Army surplus store that was owned by a man who had served in the Rhodesian Army. I wish I'd taken advantage of all of the Rhodesian camo he had! Should have bought it while the getting was good!
Rhodesia: 84 Soldier Zanla Communists trained by the USSR: 5000 Combatants + unkown number of Mozambican combatants Results Rhodesia: 4 injured Soldiers Zanla 1028 to 2000 K.I.A + 30 combatants from Mozambique also K.I.A
The Rhodesian military were ruthless, efficient, and cunning. They basically never lost a battle. But they lost the war. Some of the best soldiers of the 20th century.
You can thank Heath and Thatcher who were both milk drinking cowards, Wilson Callaghan etc for the betrayal. the latter two socialist ideologues which is some defense I suppose. But also the jealous imperial ambitions of the United States.
@@flavivsaetivs5738the short answer is because the world was against them, they had no major foreign support adequate to compete with their foes, and they lost. Both the USSR and Britain were backing their enemy, so it was a matter of time. Good soldiers can’t beat superior logistics
@@domdom6624 lmao research b4 u talk garbage. rhosesia was bread basket of afrlca now in zimbabwe they starved , import food and also bankrupt they dont even use their own money no more
@@domdom6624 they also went and begged the white farmers to come back and teach them, its good that they are getting back on their feet. The people deserve some peace after all the turmoil. Hopefully it lasts instead of devolving back into racial/tribal bullshit.
Hey mate, could you elaborate more about the unit you're mentioning? I've been trying to get to know more about the Rhodesian Armed Forces from the time of the bush war, but it has been hard. Was the 32 BN SADF some sorte of recon special operations unit from the time? Thanks!
So many people missed that little clip in the movie and what the implications of that was. People have always been “how does Leo know how to fight” etc etc. RLI 💯🍻
He is Rhodesian, but I think when his parents are killed he starts his military career in South African Defense Force. And ends up in the storied 32 battalion where he meets the colonel.
As a child I saw titanic and I saw gangs of new York Blood diamond was the first time I actually enjoyed DiCaprio Of course by the time inception came out I was a true fan I even watched what's eating Gilbert grape
Rhodesia was not even a generation away from being a very powerful and equal opportunistic country. The younger white generation was all for equality and prosperity. There are some really good documentaries on this. One documentary is just raw footage of groups of Black and white students being personally interviewed, and both groups were very very well spoken and educated. The black students wanted equal job opportunities and the white students from their POV agreed and explained their reasoning.
They were so close to finally civilizing subsaharan africans. So fucking close. And it was all thrown away. I will forever hate NATO for their treachery.
I grew up in N Rhodesia/Zambia, it produced some tough men and women it did, my Dad and uncle Bill Williams being some of them ! RIP Bill ! His ex wife Kathy and daughters still going strong ! My Dad once spent a day bailed up a tree by a wounded Cape buffalo once, he was lucky the district commissioner happened to drive by and shot it with a single shot marlin rifle, otherwise I maybe wouldn’t have been born !
There was no "poverty line" before the genocidal maniacs who can't survive without destroying the planet and the people and animals that live on it showed up 😂 some people want to live in harmony with the world, is that so shocking?
@@EJ-bq1nu the poverty line only exists because they were removed from power. sounds like you are seething, particularly delusional and unrealistic statements
It was so prosperous? You do realize it would’ve turned out like any apartheid state, right? The whites owned the government, the land, and the wealth. It was never meant to be.
If they were actually competent maybe they could have held onto their little ethnostate a bit better, but alas. Now at least edgy teenagers can wear their flag to signal that they're a future school shooter.
I remember when I saw this in Theatres , and was like.. he’s the first guy in a movie to use and AK like a trained professional lol Not firing from the hip and spraying around, or shooting it in the air lol
I work at a Range, we had a guy come in that built a clone that’s pretty much a exact replica of that CAR15 used in Blood Diamond. It was a absolute pleasure too shoot.
Fun fact. The Rhodesian soldiers who wore booty shorts were often spotted despite their camo because of how starkly white they were in contrast to the surrounding vegetation. Imagine not being able to tan in the tropics lmao
Love this movie. It tells a great fictional story framed by real events. Characters are well written. The action scene are exquisite. DeCaprio gets most of the soldiering stuff spot on. His gun handling mimics a professional soldier. At least far closer to it than 95% of movies. I had people say his efficient killing is way over the top, but it is not. That is exactly what happens if untrained men get into a gunfigth with trained professionals: They die fast and in great numbers. During my active duty I could eliminate 4 targets on 70m in less than three seconds while moving. Its the same like everything else in life. If you train something again and again and again you reach a level that seems impossible to the people who never put in the effort. Just having a rifle doesn't make you a warrior.They portrait this very well here.
@@mercb3ast John Wick? I never had a dog, my wife is alive and my car is less cool. I also never tried to figth alone. What I did have is a couple of years of active service including deployments. This Chong Li is rigth, bricks don't shit back insurgence do. So thanks for your opinion.
Leo's south african accent was spot on, he's definitely lived there at some point. It's not just the accent but he has the mannerisms too, for example the tutting and saying "neh" and "ja" instead of "no" and "yes"
@lambeezy5014 sorry this reply took so long I haven't been doing alot but the conversation was interesting he talked a little on his service and more about moving to the states after the war and he had a book that his daughter and son made talking about his service and the history rhodesia and it was very cool and he had that look to him like he saw some things he probably wish he didn't
Rhodesia was once a wonderful and beautiful country with well fed people, just like South Africa was once the worlds fastest growing economy and a nuclear power. I wonder what changed?
@@somethinghappened3721 what specific social factors changed? Did those social factors directly impact the economic ones? What actions caused Rhodesia to go from the breadbasket of Africa to immediate famine? What caused Johannesburg to massively increase it's crime rate? Why are nice office buildings in Joburg now garbage and sewage dumps? What happened to cause South Africa to become a third world country over night? Because that is literally what happened. They went from the fifth largest economy and a nuclear power to poverty faster than any country in the world has ever done it
@@mayureshrasam1708 It didn't break up. The Rhodesian government gave up after the entire world cut them off from outside trade and resources, held a free election to replace the government, and then the British got mad that Mugabe, the communist terrorist, didn't get elected and demanded he be put into office. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, most of the whites moved to South Africa or overseas if they could manage it (no European country would take them in as refugees), and the entire country went to shit, with money so worthless that it took a stack of $100 trillion bills to buy an egg, everyone starving in a country whose white farmers had fed most of the continent only a few years prior, and Mugabe murdering everyone he didn't like. Rhodesia got betrayed by literally everyone, and they had every right to be pissed about it.
@Swindle1984 Rhodesia got betrayed because it was treating the majority African population as second citizens. African nationalism was on the high and colonialism was ending. It was never going to last the way it was. Mugabe was a crook though
@@Swindle1984 I can understand once my Professor went to Zimbabwe ....when he was explaining us economics, he showed us some billion dollar bill plus explain us through an incident over there how it has affected people and rose anti social activities.
@@abcdef-gb4qh I could literally go through hundreds of wars if you want my point was that casualty ratios doesn't equal victory Rhodesia had a extremely good casualty ratio and still lost
Hehehe. I once met a former Rhodesian SAS colonel in NZ🇳🇿. He said he once sold limos to Mugabe. He said he doesn't call it Zimbabwe, he will only call it Rhodesia😊
The British told them to end White Rule in both nations. The largest Black parties were Communists, and as history teaches us, Communist agricultural plans + planned economy + the new rulers having double digit IQs would seem to anyone with half a brain like a recepie for disaster. But alas the snobbish Britbongs with their haughty wisdom and once safe ivory towers, as always, ignored their subjects across the globe. And they wonder why the sun set for their Empire.
Британия, вроде, наоборот хотела избавиться от родезии и юар.После деколонизации Африки европейцами, банкиры и другая элита хотели выкачивать из Африки ресуры, а в юар и родезии было много алмазов.британцы наложили санкции вроде, и правительство не могло торговать, а ссср и вроде сша снабжали черных повстанцев оружием.
Jack Carr has several Rhodesian characters in his "Terminal List" series of thrillers. Recollections of the war are damned impressive, and he talks about the book "Three Sips of Gin" by Timothy Bax. Awesome books.
The only thing that Leonardo lack is a good old FAL
With Rhodesian camo and only iron sights...
and short shorts
And belonging Selous Scouts
R4 yessir 🙌🤝🇿🇦
@@111222333daniel The old classic FAL, They also came originally with wooden furniture in the 50s.
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?"
"Do we?"
Classic
He asked a question and said bye in Dutch simultaneously
Haha yea i Noticed that to but that would be a weird goodby for that setting like avoiding her question
@@brianmead7556 given you my all now i'm nothing. nothing.....
DiCaprio pulled off the very best depiction of a real soldier Hollywood has produced in a very, very long time.
This performance is extraordinarily under appreciated. Dude hit this role out of the park.
One of the few actors I've seen who can shoot on screen while actually looking down his sights. Once you see this, you cannot unsee it.
Yeah he flinches at every shot but hey, i would too if i wasnt wearing earpros
@@nvm7047 that was pretty funny
supposedly super operator, flinching with a 556 like it was a Carl Gustav
@@decespugliatorenucleare3780 kid you would be flinching too. Not hearing shit is no joke. And ears bleeding also
@@nvm7047 Yeah but isn't he also wounded at that point?
@@decespugliatorenucleare3780 it’s still loud as fuck. Wear your ear pro
"You're dead, Archer!"
"Yeah, yeah!" *continues his shooting*
That one exchange always make me cackling.
I love that scene, I wish I could be sardonic as fuck to people shooting at me.
No accent 'yeah, yeah's like a South African accent
Lol ikr it’s like “Yeah I know dude but I sure as shit won’t lay back and go down without a fight, fuck you.” “Shoots”
That might be the most Rhodesian scene/dialogue ever filmed
Ja, ja...
Both of my dogs are Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They bark at the black mailman.
Lmao....I have a Lab pit mix he barks at the black Jehovah's witnesses. I had a pitbull mixed with a German Shepherd....now that pup was something else.
Bro my German shepherd and Belgian Mallinois as well
Based dog
I have a jack Russell always barks mad at Muslim women in the ninja suits.
Based
Only American actor that got the South African accent right. Well done boet!
It’s Rhodesian
@@FrWiy-cf6vz actually its not. If you followed the plot he was drafted into a South African SADF battalion at a young age, hence the South African accent. Also I am South African so I know this accent a mile away. Rhodesian accents were softer than ours, with more of a British flavour because they had no interaction with Afrikaans.
Matt Damon did pretty good in Invictus, no?
@@BrandonM true, he had it almost perfect.
This dude has watched like 3 movies in his life I think
they even got the portuguese-borrowed armalite guns right. Well done.
Incorrect... we got the G3 from the Portuguese.
@@jangulherme2243 incorrect... Its called the ar 10
What do you mean, its obviously a FAMAS.
@@jangulherme2243 "The standard infantry weapon was the Belgian FN FAL rifle as produced in South Africa under license as the R1 rifle and supplemented by the H&K G3 rifle that came from Portuguese forces. However, other weapons such as the British L1A1 ('SLR') variant of the FAL were used by reservists and the British South Africa Police."
Rhodesia had gotten the G3 from the Portuguese, and that was generally the extent of the bulk of their aid. BSAP did operate the M16A1 very late in the war after they were smuggled in, but they werent from Portugal. There are no records of the AR-10 entering Rhodesia.
I like towards the end of the movie Archer actually stuffs extra magazines in his pockets. I've seen too many movies where the hero takes a gun but no spare ammo.
Same , its so fucking annoying
I've seen it in scarface, but that suffers from "drum magazine capacity for a standard mag" syndrome. 🙄
@@spaceinaspace8452 Yes as we know It takes about 2 or 3 seconds to empty a magazine on full automatic
Name of the movie?
@@slin2903 blood diamond , great movie
i know this film is realistic because he introduces himself and the american instantly corrects him on his own history
His own history isn't world history. Rhodesia got rekt, wakey wakey!
@@tony16991blacks lost in the end
@@KC-ms9kp replaced? No you’re just showing how low down you are for the whole world to see
💀💀💀
@@user-zz6vo3de1iand whites are losing now. Lol
"I'm from Rhodesia"
"We say 'Zimbabwe' now, don't we?"
"Do we??" *Mugabe-inspired ethnic cleansing intensifies*
"Rhodesians" were invaders. Got what was coming to them
Lol😂
Slander to the Gabe name.
Hey when you run a country for decades and don’t give 95 percent of the citizens basic rights… they might be pissed when they come to power
@@culturalliberator9425 Mugabe slandered his own name the way he handled his opponents. That took Bush League to an entirely different and more needlessly disturbing level.
As a South African I can say he nailed that accent. Bravo!
No such thing, you're European
@@EJ-bq1nuits like saying black americans arent american? Dutch settlers were exiled to south africa so forced to go there , africans were taken as slaves so forced to go there. I see no difference , a black guy living in europe for decades is more european than any south african , and a white man living in africa for decades (or even centuries) is far more african than any american or european black person.
@@EJ-bq1nulet me guess you’re a black American
@@enzocarneiro6748 Not "black" whatever tf that is and definitely not "American"
@@EJ-bq1nu in this rhetoric, an african cannot be scottish, correct?
This movie took him from pretty boy to not only action star but serious actor. Well done.
TIA Danny, TIA.
ya ya
and the film is?
@@mario9763 Blood Diamond
He already was a damn fine actor in 'The Departed' mate!
Obviously you havnt seen the basketball diarys
Name of the movie is ‘Blood Diamond’ for those curious
Thank you
Thx
thank you very much
I'll watch right now!
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I liked how he used semi auto on all his shots. Most action movies would just have him shoot full auto.
You know any other way to use it in action? reality is very different from Hollywood
Depends on the weapon, AK´s are not very precise in full auto, quite the contrary you just waste bullets@@content_enjoyer4458
@@content_enjoyer4458 I saw a video of an ukie in a trench with his RPG-wielding friend holding an entire BTR + dismounts at bay by blindfiring his AK-12 wildly at the ruskies
automatic fire + many magazines is very useful when fighting a 2v~10 fight
@@content_enjoyer4458 to the head? nonono, not at all lol, centre mass is where you're always trained to aim generally
"We say Zimbabwe now, do we?"
*Pulls out a FAL*
"DO WE?"
And it's Salisbury, NOT Harare.
Mr. Cecil Rhodes would agree.
@@reynaldoflores4522 Cecil Rhodes was a horrible individual. There were horrible things that went on in Rhodesia before the war, and the terrible things that happened after don't justify the former, not that you said they did, it's just a common argument.
An armed Rhodesian with grudge and nothing left to lose is a devastating mix indeed.
I don't think I want to be on the receiving end of this stick.
Without his country, home and family he dies as a broken man...
But dont be sad... RHODESIANS NEVER DIE
Not really, they got completely shit on despite having equal numbers, superior training and more weapons.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lpdamn right
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp mad and black
I met a white guy once around London with a heavy accent that sounded like south african. When I asked him where he was from and he said Zimbabwe, I then replied back "you mean Rhodesia?"
His eyes lit up like someone had just put a 24 carats diamond in front of him.
⚡️⚡️
@@NikolaTesla-nb5nm My fiance's father is from Rhodesia. He's a cool dude. Has some crazy stories.
Nice ethnostate fanfic
Well Done Brother 🔥🟢🦌🟢
My wife was born in Umtali in 75 - you dare not call her a Zimbabwean. Rhodie through and through. My Zimbo Bimbo. :)
What I really like about the film is how correct his CAR-15 rifle is. From the look and layout to the noise it produces. CAR-15s had moderators on their barrels, sort of a cross between a flash hider and a suppressor. It didn’t suppress the noise a great deal and it didn’t fully stop muzzle flash but it worked well enough for both and they did change the sound of the rifle when it was fired so much that when CAR-15s went into the civilian market in the US the ATF freak out stating that the moderators were suppressors and needed to be a regulated item under the NFA and Colt had to pull civilian production to “hollow out” the baffles to be compliant. (ATF sucks)
for a country based on freedom the ATF sure sounds like an Autocracy
As cools as his rifle is, its not a real production gun. Its a franken-gun. Its got an M16A2 receiver, 10inch barrel off the GAU-5/XM177E1, and what looks like XM177 moderators with the porting chopped off
@@FurnishedIglooPretty much. Thanks, Roosevelt.
@@masonbartelt9959 But that's common setup for CAR-15 from mid-80s onward. Delta and Seal guys also use similar setup. It was the transition period from CAR to actual M-4 carbine.
@@manchesterunitedno7 The M16 lower reciever would've been accurate for SOG teams in Vietnam, as theres more than a few photos of XM uppers on M16A1 lowers. But post war it doesn't make any sense to take a lower without a buffer tube, get it smithed for a buffertube, and then mount that on an antiquated upper, rather than just using the original lower reciever and stock assembly. Its more than likely these were just cobbled together from various parts the armorers had on hand
rhodesia=bread basket of afrlca
zimbabwe=basket case
It’s amazing how a small change can make such a massive difference
@@totenfurwotan4478 check world map lQ and james watson research bell curve explains it all. if u let low lQ in power this is what happens democracy or marxism is just elite using media or political puppets to control dum masses
@@totenfurwotan4478 imagine if they never were colonized to begin with, how much better off they'd be.
@@borger99 😂 we don’t need to imagine. We already know where’d they be. Just like the sentineleze
@@borger99 Why imagine when there are plenty of real-world examples being colonized by the PRC right now because their governments are corrupt and they have no industrial base or military?
“CAUSE WE ARE ALL RHODESIANS!”
And now, no ones a Rhodesian. Because it doesn’t exist.
AND WE’LL FIGHT THROUGH THICK AND THIN
@@solovevkiril KEEP OUR LAND A FREE LAND
@@starsjosephfrost FROM THE ENEMIES COMING IN
WE’LL KEEP THEM NORTH OF THE ZAMBEZI
@@solovevkiril ‘TILL THAT RIVERS RUNNING DRY
“I’m from British Malaya.”
“We say ‘Malaysia’ now, don’t we?”
There’s no plot armor here
African militias can’t shoot for shit
this is one of my favourite Far Cry 2 feeling media out there. Great movie!
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You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man, the taller he stands. To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind.
And Rome's One Fire playing in the background.
What's a "Far Cry 2 feeling"? Lmao
Learned about this movie through Far Cry 2.
It’s a phenomenal film that tells a great fictional story while teaching about real events.
Movie name?
@@boi4055 Blood Diamond
@@Awfulfeature thx
Far Cry 2 was brilliant
The end sucks though
When I was a kid I used to go to an Army surplus store that was owned by a man who had served in the Rhodesian Army. I wish I'd taken advantage of all of the Rhodesian camo he had! Should have bought it while the getting was good!
Rhodesian brushstroke is sexy as hell
A lot of us have such regrets. Like being aware of bitcoin back when it was worth cents and not buying a few bucks worth on a lark.
Hell yeah. Rhodesians basically perfected camouflage, even painted their weapons in ways that are still practiced today.
@@bigbunduru5136rhodesian camouflage was so good that you cannot find it on the map either
Rhodesian camouflage, so good you can't even find it on a map
-Me: *Sees an attractive woman*
-My brain inmediatly creating fake scenarios: "I'm from Rhodesia"
Rhodesia: 84 Soldier
Zanla Communists trained by the USSR: 5000 Combatants + unkown number of Mozambican combatants
Results
Rhodesia: 4 injured Soldiers
Zanla 1028 to 2000 K.I.A + 30 combatants from Mozambique also K.I.A
which battle ?
@@mayureshrasam1708 IIRC it was Operation Eland
got it thank you my Friend from Rhodesia@@anaoricofag1950
The Rhodesian military were ruthless, efficient, and cunning. They basically never lost a battle. But they lost the war. Some of the best soldiers of the 20th century.
Some of the best damn farmers too.
You can thank Heath and Thatcher who were both milk drinking cowards, Wilson Callaghan etc for the betrayal. the latter two socialist ideologues which is some defense I suppose.
But also the jealous imperial ambitions of the United States.
How did they lose no battle yet lost the war?
@@flavivsaetivs5738 I know, crazy right. Go research that shit.
@@flavivsaetivs5738the short answer is because the world was against them, they had no major foreign support adequate to compete with their foes, and they lost. Both the USSR and Britain were backing their enemy, so it was a matter of time. Good soldiers can’t beat superior logistics
Rhodesians when fighting rebels or insurgents:
*dies and gets expelled from country*
@@domdom6624 *said country collapses without them and plunges into famine*
@@Bolognabeef Nope, black farmers are rising up to the challenge. Zimbabwe was a net exporter last year.
ruclips.net/video/aiiyC6WHFSM/видео.html
@@domdom6624 lmao research b4 u talk garbage. rhosesia was bread basket of afrlca now in zimbabwe they starved , import food and also bankrupt they dont even use their own money no more
@@domdom6624 they also went and begged the white farmers to come back and teach them, its good that they are getting back on their feet. The people deserve some peace after all the turmoil. Hopefully it lasts instead of devolving back into racial/tribal bullshit.
"so anyway, I started blasting"
This clip only gets funnier the longer Zimbabwe remains a failed state.
“Do we?” At the end is a absolute crack up
His character was supposedly in 32 BN SADF.
My cousin was actually in that unit.
Hey mate, could you elaborate more about the unit you're mentioning? I've been trying to get to know more about the Rhodesian Armed Forces from the time of the bush war, but it has been hard. Was the 32 BN SADF some sorte of recon special operations unit from the time? Thanks!
@@tyfcl000 SA. DF. South. African. Defense. Force.
It's a shame, he should've fought for a better cause
@@iceman5117 and what cause was that, since you know so much.
@@AYEcorolla the best possible option? Volunteering and fighting with the ZIPRA
So many people missed that little clip in the movie and what the implications of that was. People have always been “how does Leo know how to fight” etc etc. RLI 💯🍻
He is Rhodesian, but I think when his parents are killed he starts his military career in South African Defense Force. And ends up in the storied 32 battalion where he meets the colonel.
far as i remember he was a military contractor, working in sadf
What movie is this
@@---tx9xx blood diamond
@@Bryan-uw1ny This is correct
The only actor who actually looked through the scope
As a child I saw titanic and I saw gangs of new York
Blood diamond was the first time I actually enjoyed DiCaprio
Of course by the time inception came out I was a true fan
I even watched what's eating Gilbert grape
Me too, first time I really enjoyed a DiCaprio was Blood Diamond
Jokes aside, I love this movie. The vibe and the story in this movie is really great and really underrated.
whats this movie?
@@JMMS1952 blood diamond
@@JMMS1952blood diamond
@@JMMS1952 "Blood Diamond"
@@JMMS1952 blood diamond
Have this on loop in the background all day
well written story, great acting, great dialogue, great action, great theme.. the only bad thing about it.. it was too short
"No mein fuer, Im from Arizona."
I knew Leonardo was a badass when he shot Imhotep at 0:22.
Not gonna lie, I ugly-laughed at this comment. 😂
Underrated comment
And you knew he was a real badass when he shot two downed enemies
@@darthvader7684 dead check ;)
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?"
You mean 'Occupied Rhodesia'?
This is such an awesome edit. Blood Diamond has been one of my fav movies since it came out. Props to you
Try "GAME FOR VULTURES". Amovie about getting helicopters into Rhodesia.
Rhodesia was not even a generation away from being a very powerful and equal opportunistic country. The younger white generation was all for equality and prosperity. There are some really good documentaries on this. One documentary is just raw footage of groups of Black and white students being personally interviewed, and both groups were very very well spoken and educated. The black students wanted equal job opportunities and the white students from their POV agreed and explained their reasoning.
can you tell me the names of these films?
What about Ian Smith and those in power?
They were so close to finally civilizing subsaharan africans. So fucking close. And it was all thrown away. I will forever hate NATO for their treachery.
@@rustyshackleford1508Uhh, Zimbabwe isn’t in the Sahara desert. No civilization is in the Sahara desert because it’s inhospitable.
@@davidlauderdale7147 "Subsaharan" means all the parts of Africa below the Sahara. You know, the actual black parts.
I grew up in N Rhodesia/Zambia, it produced some tough men and women it did, my Dad and uncle Bill Williams being some of them ! RIP Bill ! His ex wife Kathy and daughters still going strong ! My Dad once spent a day bailed up a tree by a wounded Cape buffalo once, he was lucky the district commissioner happened to drive by and shot it with a single shot marlin rifle, otherwise I maybe wouldn’t have been born !
Your uncles name was William Williams?
this is a work of art! god bless the green & white
Dead nation fr
racist
@@kartertaylor6080 and after Rhodesia all of Africa is now a total poverty hole
Bunch of racists who couldn’t win a war is all they ever were
@@kartertaylor6080Starving people fr fr.
Holy shit I'm obsessed with this edit, i think I've seen it 50 times.
whenever i think about Rhodesia, i try to keep my feels North of the Zambezi
RHODESIANS NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
_John Edmond has entered the chat_
They did though
@@tony16991 they didn't, they were winning the war. they left due to lack of support
“Archer you’re a dead man”
“Ya Ya”
Damn that's an awesome edit
rhodesia was so prosperous economically and as a nation, now zimbabwe is 3rd world with 87% of its population under the poverty line
There was no "poverty line" before the genocidal maniacs who can't survive without destroying the planet and the people and animals that live on it showed up 😂 some people want to live in harmony with the world, is that so shocking?
@@EJ-bq1nu the poverty line only exists because they were removed from power. sounds like you are seething, particularly delusional and unrealistic statements
It was so prosperous? You do realize it would’ve turned out like any apartheid state, right? The whites owned the government, the land, and the wealth. It was never meant to be.
I love it!
Rhodesia has mostly been forgotten but I believe there are some great points of history there that needs to be remembered.
Nah it's in the ash pile of history where it belongs
@@danparadis3810 Where in said ash pile? Is it next to the idiots that starved to death after kicking out the actual competent people?
If they were actually competent maybe they could have held onto their little ethnostate a bit better, but alas. Now at least edgy teenagers can wear their flag to signal that they're a future school shooter.
@@danparadis3810Nah that's where you belong
@@danparadis3810 is that where the 6 million are too? Or was it 6 billion? I forget
If I were born 30 years earlier I would have volunteered in a heartbeat.
They lost so you’d probably be dead by now
@@Jason21012 The Rhodesian armed forces were absurdly effective and had many survivors actually ,they mostly just left the country.
@@anothernamlesscommenter352 keyword “survivors”. Meaning a lot of them died or ran off. Thanks for proving my point.
We beat those racist white supremacists pamberi nechimurenga ✊✊ comrades
The only reason you guys did anything was cause of the soviets you ain’t shit
I remember when I saw this in Theatres , and was like.. he’s the first guy in a movie to use and AK like a trained professional lol
Not firing from the hip and spraying around, or shooting it in the air lol
whats the name of that movie?
@@fridericusrex6289 Blood Diamonds
That’s an M16, not an AK
@@tylerclayton6081 there’s a scene in the movie in the diamond pits where he uses an AK
I work at a Range, we had a guy come in that built a clone that’s pretty much a exact replica of that CAR15 used in Blood Diamond. It was a absolute pleasure too shoot.
awesome
That few seconds of scene is what pushed me over the edge to get an AR.. lol
Fun fact. The Rhodesian soldiers who wore booty shorts were often spotted despite their camo because of how starkly white they were in contrast to the surrounding vegetation. Imagine not being able to tan in the tropics lmao
fun fact: they wanted to be spotted so they could kill more commies!
you mean how light their skin is
Fun fact: the apes you worshipped adjusted the rear sights to 10 because they thought it meant more power, not elevation
London is Pakistan
@@Bigbigpoopiyo what?
Love this movie. It tells a great fictional story framed by real events. Characters are well written. The action scene are exquisite. DeCaprio gets most of the soldiering stuff spot on. His gun handling mimics a professional soldier. At least far closer to it than 95% of movies.
I had people say his efficient killing is way over the top, but it is not. That is exactly what happens if untrained men get into a gunfigth with trained professionals: They die fast and in great numbers. During my active duty I could eliminate 4 targets on 70m in less than three seconds while moving. Its the same like everything else in life. If you train something again and again and again you reach a level that seems impossible to the people who never put in the effort. Just having a rifle doesn't make you a warrior.They portrait this very well here.
Ok John Wick.
As the MMA Champion Chong Li once famously said, "Very good, but brick, not hit back".
thats not john wick thats your average US army or marine rifleman.@@mercb3ast
@@mercb3ast John Wick? I never had a dog, my wife is alive and my car is less cool. I also never tried to figth alone. What I did have is a couple of years of active service including deployments. This Chong Li is rigth, bricks don't shit back insurgence do. So thanks for your opinion.
What could have been if the West did not throw Rhodesia under the bus.
Whoever made this. You made my day.
FAL would have been awesome to see but that M4A1 camo with an old school mount and aimpoint is still sexy as hell
The CAR-15 will never not be beautiful
This edit makes me proud of being a Rhodesian even tho I'm not
Leo's south african accent was spot on, he's definitely lived there at some point. It's not just the accent but he has the mannerisms too, for example the tutting and saying "neh" and "ja" instead of "no" and "yes"
Got to meet some rhodesians at a gun show not too long ago it was cool listening to the guy speak
where did the conversation go?
Didn't happen quit larping rhodieboo
@lambeezy5014 sorry this reply took so long I haven't been doing alot but the conversation was interesting he talked a little on his service and more about moving to the states after the war and he had a book that his daughter and son made talking about his service and the history rhodesia and it was very cool and he had that look to him like he saw some things he probably wish he didn't
Rhodesians never die is what they say 🟩⬜️🟩🙋🏼♂️💪🏻
Average white Rhodesian citizen before 1979
Average white zimbabwean citizen after 1979 : 💀
@@eleven99 Still died even after being supplied by israel lul
@@thecrow7549 Rhodesians Never Die, Sh!tskin!
@@14MCCXIX88 of course, if they survive they'd create the "Draka century"
@@14MCCXIX88 is that why only 28,732 white people are in zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Occupied Rhodesia
Nope Rhodesia doesnt exist and isnt recognised by any country cope seeth and mald
@@nkvdofficer5047 same thing for the soviets
@@jackmeyers yeah i know but im not coping about it on the internet
@@nkvdofficer5047 Actual commie larper 😂
@@nkvdofficer5047 Your mom would be so dissapointed to see you LARP on the interweb
Rhodesia was once a wonderful and beautiful country with well fed people, just like South Africa was once the worlds fastest growing economy and a nuclear power. I wonder what changed?
🤔
Is equality worth death, famine, war and chaos? I guess thats every africans countries question lol
Socioeconomic factors
@@somethinghappened3721 lmao
@@somethinghappened3721 what specific social factors changed? Did those social factors directly impact the economic ones? What actions caused Rhodesia to go from the breadbasket of Africa to immediate famine? What caused Johannesburg to massively increase it's crime rate? Why are nice office buildings in Joburg now garbage and sewage dumps? What happened to cause South Africa to become a third world country over night? Because that is literally what happened. They went from the fifth largest economy and a nuclear power to poverty faster than any country in the world has ever done it
My friend is from Yugoslavia, no hes not from serbia or bosnia, hes from Yugoslavia.
Based
Based
Based? Based upon what? 🤨
@@L0rd_Ju66y cause Rhodesia was an example of white superiority in clear sight. Now, Africa is 100% black and we all know how sh** thing are there.
Cringe LARP. Heckin epic ubermensch lost to poorly trained African rebels armed with 40 year old guns, and their daughters got BLACKED as a result.
@@fibber2991 didnt lose militaristically lol, it was a political defeat signed by a traitor. cope bbcel
The best role he’s ever done to be honest!
My favorite DiCaprio performance.
The movie was good, his performance was a pleasure to watch.
As a white Rhodesian Scot, I approve of this content
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?" is the single most offensive thing you could say to a Rhodesian. Or anyone, really.
how many countries it broke off into ?
@@mayureshrasam1708 It didn't break up. The Rhodesian government gave up after the entire world cut them off from outside trade and resources, held a free election to replace the government, and then the British got mad that Mugabe, the communist terrorist, didn't get elected and demanded he be put into office. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, most of the whites moved to South Africa or overseas if they could manage it (no European country would take them in as refugees), and the entire country went to shit, with money so worthless that it took a stack of $100 trillion bills to buy an egg, everyone starving in a country whose white farmers had fed most of the continent only a few years prior, and Mugabe murdering everyone he didn't like.
Rhodesia got betrayed by literally everyone, and they had every right to be pissed about it.
@Swindle1984 Rhodesia got betrayed because it was treating the majority African population as second citizens. African nationalism was on the high and colonialism was ending. It was never going to last the way it was. Mugabe was a crook though
@@Swindle1984 I can understand once my Professor went to Zimbabwe ....when he was explaining us economics, he showed us some billion dollar bill plus explain us through an incident over there how it has affected people and rose anti social activities.
@@mayureshrasam1708 In both Zimbabwe and Venezuela, I'm a millionaire/billionaire. Which means I might be able to buy a can of soda in either country.
The best edit.
Get's the point across perfectly
Love that music, classic. 🙏
What’s the movie
@@josepigroyper370 Not sure
@@josepigroyper370 blood diamond buddy
Knowing the history of the bush war and why this was freaking awesome.
Blood Diamond was such a beautiful movie
Great job Leo
Sounds like a wonderful place for a vacation
It is. Beautiful county 😊
I'm from the white summer boy
A good history lesson on strong men allowing weak to take over and create problems
Seems to be *the* reoccuring problem for society, doesn't it.
Well at least what follows usually turns out greater.
@@zombiefinatic7033 people never learn from history unfortunately and love listening to comfortable lies.
I am sure many many readers wish Rhodesia existed right now , and a number of natives there as well- I believe it was beautiful and bountiful once .
*Rhodesians are built differently*
they lost
@@lt4109 they had like a 1 to 10+ casualty ratio
@@abcdef-gb4qh so did the us in Vietnam you think we won that war
@L T the US side in vietnam had a 1:2 casualty ratio if you count south vietnamese casualties
@@abcdef-gb4qh I could literally go through hundreds of wars if you want my point was that casualty ratios doesn't equal victory Rhodesia had a extremely good casualty ratio and still lost
This is the best video I have seen on youtube
Hehehe. I once met a former Rhodesian SAS colonel in NZ🇳🇿. He said he once sold limos to Mugabe. He said he doesn't call it Zimbabwe, he will only call it Rhodesia😊
Sounds like a loser who ran away and is still coping
The ending was gold. “Do we”😂😂
I'm but a simple man. I see an old Delta Carbine i click and like.
The back ground music from the first scene fits surprising well with the actual song
Всë таки не могу понять. Почему Великобритания бросила Родезию на произвол судьбы? Почему бросила своих сыновей? Ведь у Родезии были все шансы выжить.
А все просто: Родезия, как и Южная Африка, перестали бриташек поддерживать.
The British told them to end White Rule in both nations. The largest Black parties were Communists, and as history teaches us, Communist agricultural plans + planned economy + the new rulers having double digit IQs would seem to anyone with half a brain like a recepie for disaster. But alas the snobbish Britbongs with their haughty wisdom and once safe ivory towers, as always, ignored their subjects across the globe. And they wonder why the sun set for their Empire.
Потому что куколды
Британия, вроде, наоборот хотела избавиться от родезии и юар.После деколонизации Африки европейцами, банкиры и другая элита хотели выкачивать из Африки ресуры, а в юар и родезии было много алмазов.британцы наложили санкции вроде, и правительство не могло торговать, а ссср и вроде сша снабжали черных повстанцев оружием.
Jack Carr has several Rhodesian characters in his "Terminal List" series of thrillers. Recollections of the war are damned impressive, and he talks about the book "Three Sips of Gin" by Timothy Bax.
Awesome books.
That was so touching!
Correcting someone else on the name of their home is so entitled.
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?"
Yes, but very quietly and with as little details as possible.
Its a long way to Mukumbara
Alright Cyno jokes.
Cyno : What's the country much Roads?.
Tighnari : What?.
Cyno : Roadesia.
When Tighnari was mad and strangle him.
Gotta love those South African mercenaries deadly and skilled as hell
Great edit.
least combat experienced Rhodesian
Rhodesian soldiers were the best though
Then why is it the country now Zimbabwe not Rhodesia
@@letmedie4524 economic and political factors
I identify as Rhodesian.
the return of the LARPer...
with a vengeance!