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	Encyclopedia: Once Were Warriors
		Once Were Warriors is exactly that sort of film, providing insight into a troubled strata of New Zealand culture many would prefer to keep hidden: the underclass Maoris.
		Though Warriors revolves around the struggle by one woman to keep her family together amid a veritable deluge of troubles, the film addresses the many factors that contribute to the eroding hope of modern Maori culture.
		Once Were Warriors, published in 1990, was New Zealand author Alan Duff 's bestselling first novel, and the basis for a 1994 film, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Once-Were-Warriors (1035 words)

	Once (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ONCE ONCE (pronounced own-say), or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles, is a eleven.
		Once Upon a Time in the West Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West, 1969), directed by Sergio Leone, is...
		Once Were Warriors Once Were Warriors, published in Maori Heke family and several weeks in their life.
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	“A Child is Being Beaten: Race, Violence and the Imaginary in Once Were Warriors” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once Were Warriors, one redemptive focus is the bonds of empathy formed between a mourning father accused of child abuse and a street kid, himself the victim of violence.
		Once Were Warriors we are offered scenarios in which one character imagines what it is like to be another; eventually, of course, empathy builds into a central concern of the book, and into its overt political message of community.
		Once Were Warriors has centred on its violence: the “reality” of the violence, the way in which it is linked to loving “too much.” Interviews with the actors stress – no doubt truthfully – that real victims of abuse have responded to the film and been able to change their lives.
	personal.rhul.ac.uk /uhle/012/A%20Child%20is%20Being%20Beaten.htm (4699 words)

	Review: Once Were Warriors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once Were Warriors, a New Zealand export, is centered upon the touchy yet timely topic of domestic violence.
		By anchoring Once Were Warriors in the turmoil of a Maori family, director Lee Tamahori takes full advantage of an opportunity not only to dissect the forces that lead to domestic violence, but also to focus on the clash between Maori traditions and modern values.
		Once Were Warriors works, to some degree, on three levels: the visceral, the emotional, and the intellectual, and it is the amalgamation of these that makes this a memorable film.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/o/once_warriors.html (616 words)

	Once Were Warriors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It tells the story of an urban Maori family, the Hekes, and portrays the disturbing reality of domestic violence.
		Beth Heke, descendent from a noble family of warriors, left her village and despite the disapproval of her parents she married Jake da Muss who came from slaves.
		A disturbingly real exposé of the results of poor communication skills, Once Were Warriors impacted strongly on audiences, many of whom recognised and were forced to confront the parallel events in their own lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Once_Were_Warriors (494 words)

	The Sports Network - National Basketball Association
		Jason Richardson led the Warriors with 23 points, including 4-of-6 from beyond the arc, and Baron Davis added 22 for the Warriors, who had a two-game winning streak halted and have lost six of their last eight games.
		The Warriors fought their way back into the game with a 16-2 run, including seven points from Richardson and a trey from Davis, to cut the deficit to 97-87.
		LA is 7-9 on the road this season, while the Warriors are 11-10 as the host.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nba/news/ACN4000416.htm (317 words)

	DVD.net : Once Were Warriors - DVD Review
		With his shattering debut feature film Once Were Warriors, New Zealand director Lee Tamahori proves that he is a true master of the cinematic medium, tackling the emotionally difficult account of the near-disintegration of an impoverished contemporary Maori family torn asunder by alcoholism and domestic violence with astonishing verve and aplomb.
		Once Were Warriors is presented in a screen aspect ratio of 1.66:1, and is not anamorphic.
		The epitome of independent filmmaking at its finest, Once Were Warriors succeeds on every artistic level, demonstrating Tamahori’s prowess for cinematic marksmanship as he scores a devastating hit on each of the picture’s multitude of targets, and is a definite must-see.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=891 (2678 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Once Were Warriors \| Synopsis and Production Notes
		Once Were Warriors is a powerful and deeply affecting story of a contemporary Maori family in urban New Zealand.
		After five years of television and video production, they knew that Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors, a highly controversial and bestselling novel in New Zealand, was exactly the type of story they wanted to make their big screen debut.
		Contrasting sharply with what they considered the usual historic and polite New Zealand film norm, Once Were Warriors is contemporary and controversial.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /warriors/wasynops.htm (716 words)

	Chalmer Davee Library - International Film Collection - Study Guides - Once Were Warriors
		Once Were Warriors was the feature film debut for director Lee Tamahori, who had worked as an award-winning television commercial director since the early 1980s.
		Once Were Warriors was a huge success in New Zealand: the highest grossing film in the country’s history, its box-office takings surpassed even Jurassic Park.
		The beginning of Once Were Warriors very economically introduces us to each member of the Heke family and the milieu in which they live.
	www.uwrf.edu /library/media/ifc/oncewerewarriors.html (2333 words)

	‘Once Were Warriors’ (R)
		BEFORE A screening of "Once Were Warriors" last year, director Lee Tamahori warned Toronto Festival moviegoers about the violence they were about to witness.
		Assessed only for its moments of barbarity, "Warriors" is something to avoid at all costs.
		ONCE WERE WARRIORS (R) -- Contains scenes of disturbing brutality and violent sexual assault.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/oncewerewarriorsrhowe_c00d75.htm (389 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Once Were Warriors [1995]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once Were Warriors pulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a disenfranchised people digging down deep to find their pride.
		Like all great films, Once Were Warriors is about many things, but I think that this film is essentially about identity and being, or failing to be, a man (for Jake and his sons).
		Like all great films, Once Were Warriors is about many things, but I think that this film is essentially about being, or failing to be, a man (for Jake and his sons).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RCKI (1006 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Once Were Warriors \| Deseret Morning News Web edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Once Were Warriors" is the most horrifying film in recent memory, an uncompromising indictment of domestic abuse told as the story of a poverty-ridden Maori family that is struggling under the fist of its brutal patriarch.
		As the title suggests, the Maori people were once warriors, but there is no outlet for that fearsome heritage in modern-day New Zealand.
		Heartbreaking, frustrating, an observation of domestic violence and a tribute to the wives who ultimately refuse to remain victims, in the end "Once Were Warriors" demonstrates that women are the real warriors.
	www.deseretnews.com /movies/view/0,1257,1359,00.html (446 words)

	Once Were Warriors
		Like “Whale Rider,” “Once Were Warriors” is a film about the Maori, the original inhabitants of New Zealand who settled there more than a thousand years ago.
		The Maori were once great warriors; however, the strength of their civilization was not based on their fighting skills but rather on their connection to each other (their community), their spiritual ties to their ancestors, and their spiritual unity with the earth.
		Once were warriors by Jazmin Johnson, 2005, Jul 28
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Once Were Warriors (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is a scene early in "Once Were Warriors" where he gets into a fight in a bar and inflicts incredible damage on a muscle-bound thug who seemed, until he met Jake, able to whip anybody in sight.
		Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, as Grace, the pretty teenager, is also important to the film; she reflects a hope and optimism that somehow shines even on the family's cloudiest days, and although her runaway boyfriend's hideout under an expressway seems grim, they are able to make it into a refuge where laughter and dreams are possible.
		"Once Were Warriors" has been praised as an attack on domestic violence and abuse.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19950303/REVIEWS/503030304/1023 (651 words)

	VERSAILLES - LoveToKnow Article on VERSAILLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the ground-floor of the central buildings are the halls of celebrated warriors (once the anteroom of Madame de Pompadour), marshals, constables and admirals, and the suite of rooms known as the Dauphins Apartments, now given up to historical portraits.
		The Galerie Basse, once known as the Gallery of Louis XIII., leads to the rooms surrounding the Marble Court, a series of which contains many plans of battles.
		In the window openings are the names of soldiers killed while fighting for France, with the names of the battles in which they fell, and there are more than eighty busts of princes, admirals, constables, marshals and celebrated warriors who met a similar death.
	92.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VERSAILLES.htm (2274 words)

	Once Were Warriors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the film Once Were Warriors we're presented with a family where each member has a dysfunction.
		She is given the look of innocence at first, but once the alcohol and the verbal abuse kick in, we see otherwise.
		Once Were Warriors is a hard film to watch, and is not easily forgotten.
	www.davegunn.com /oww.html (514 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Once Were Warriors \| Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once Were Warriors has won more than 15 international film awards.
		In an interview with Lee Tamahori, the director discusses his portrayal of the Maori in Once Were Warriors.
		Check out the complete Once Were Warriors cast and crew list, cast biographies, and filmmaker biographies.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /warriors (112 words)

	Warriors once were known, but not now - League - www.smh.com.au
		The New Zealand Warriors have gone so far downhill for so many reasons that the team they will field against the Roosters today bears only a passing resemblance to the one that played in the 2002 grand final.
		The Warriors, with a team looking markedly different because of injury, suspension and players having left the club, are battling to avoid the wooden spoon.
		Reminded that the current form of the Warriors was awful, with four straight losses, Wing said: "There's still a genuine rivalry between us and them that sprang up in that year we met in the grand final and which hasn't disappeared.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/28/1093518166004.html (453 words)

	Once Were Warriors (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest.
		In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
		I picked up Once Were Warriors because, like most other people, I had seen the movie and was expecting a riveting tale.
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		ONCE WERE WARRIORS Director Lee Tamahori, Producer Robin Scholes, Script Riwia Brown.
		The point seemed to me to be not that these were frustrated warriors - the women too - but that they were vulnerable, powerful and believable human beings many of them possessed of an exhilarating tenacity to survive, love and prosper in the face of potentially blighted lives.
		Warriors felt true, too, in the number of casualties generated by a system genocidal towards people without the appropriate Pakeha 'qualifications' and its understanding towards the limited options available and how people use them.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/once-were-warriors-star (881 words)

	Once Were Warriors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But above and beyond these elements, Warriors strikes out at the ignorance of the individual within the social structure, pointing the finger at those who choose to live reactive lives rather than taking responsibility for their actions, thereby worsening the circumstances around them.
		Even the gentle and talented daughter Grace is not safe from the influences her father brings into the house, pushing the bleak circumstances into tragedy within a few heart-breaking scenes.
		In spite of the many grim elements of Once were Warriors, the film manages to rise above mere social commentary.
	technoculture.mira.net.au /sponce.htm (392 words)

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		Once Were Warriors offers the audience the concept of masculinities, wherein there are many forms of which are shaped in large part by the complexities of male social position, identity, and experience.
		The essence of the marginalized masculinity, as with other constructions, is performance; and within the greater contemporary societies, this performance has grown increasingly violent.
		Once Were Warriors is a film that forces you to reevaluate society as well as yourself.
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	Branica Store :: Once Were Warriors
		Once Were Warriors is a movie about a poor Maori family.
		For some reason, Once Were Warriors managed to break down my defences and open the floodgates.
		Each scene was acted out to its utter potential, each line (especially the line "once were warriors") reflects true and pure emotion of the characters, actually, I'll call them people because they were nothing short of it.
	www.branica.com /wwwinfo/store/630358490X/Once_Were_Warriors.html (1059 words)

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		Opening on what looks like a lovely landscape, the camera pulls back, revealing that it's a billboard, an advertisement for an imaginary other universe, one which is immediately contrasted with its urban setting: the buzz, trash, and traffic that fills a New Zealand city street.
		Based on a novel by Maori writer Alan Duff, _Once Were Warriors_ traces the story of Beth Heke (Rena Owen), a mother of five, married to the extremely volatile Jake (Temuera Morrison).
		At the boys' home, Boogie learns to rechannel his frustrations into ancient warrior rituals, beautiful, fiercely disciplined demonstrations of self-control in the face of surrounding chaos.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/once-were-warriors-fuchs (904 words)

	Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel
		New Zealand's original inhabitants, the Maoris, are people who once were warriors.
		Visually, "OWW" is like a battered truck with a supercharged engine that allows it to roar away at demon speeds.
		"OWW" is, in a sense, a terrifying picture, with more lamentable, in-your-face episodes that I will not give away.
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/oncewarr.htm (975 words)

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		Once Were Warriorspulls no punches, literally and figuratively, but despite the rough going, Tamahori gives us a rare and important insight into a disenfranchised people digging down deep to find their pride.
		Once Were Warriors is a film that will never leave you after viewing.
	www.scifind.co.uk /details-B00005OKVO.html (735 words)

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