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Zulu! (ish)

A little offering that has nothing to do with snow! Although I may be trapped for days.

Zulu!(ish)

Voice Over : By a strange twist of fate, a time vortex has opened up and Prince Harry and Ross Kemp have been transported back in time they arrive in Natel, South Africa, 1879.

Sounds of musket fire and Zulu chanting.

Ross Kemp : Welcome to my new show "Return to the Zulu Wars". We are here at the mission station at Rorke's Drift. Let me tell you, Michael Caine is nowhere in sight and quite frankly I'm shitting myself.

Prince Harry runs on looking very flustered.

Harry : Persistent little buggers aren't they?

Ross : There's just so many of them.

Harry : Yes, must be good breeders. These colonial types always are.

Ross : What?

Harry : Whopps! Must control myself when TV cameras are around.

A spear flys by.

Ross : God it's so much worse than Afghanistan.

Harry : Yeap, it's not very British is it?

Ross : What's not?

Harry : Letting these natives get out of control. I bet they've never even seen a cricket match.

Zulu chanting and singing.

Ross : Oh f**king hell they're forming up again. Hundreds of them.

Harry : Sing.

Ross : Mr Singh? Another of your foreign friends? is he here as well? You better watch what you say.

Harry : No, I think they'll find this army can sing better than that.

Ross : Here they come!

Harry leaps up

Harry : Come on men sing. Put the fear of God into them. Sing.

Ross : Sing

Voices are heard singing Deutschland Uber Alles.

Harry : Good job that time vortex stopped for a few hours in 1939. My friends in Berlin were most helpful. Hans! Send in the Panzer's!

Hi Bigfella.

The concept is reasonable and could be made into a series of sketches covering other similar conflicts from history.

Instead of the opening voice-over, could the characters stumble [confused] from a tardis-like military tent? Their arrival could be super-imposed on original "Zulu" film footage, thus setting the scene.

Unless of course, you're writing for radio, in which case the dialogue would need to be more descriptive of events.

Geoff.

"Voices are heard singing Deutschland Uber Alles. "

That's quite funny, actually.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ February 2 2009, 5:59 PM GMT

"Voices are heard singing Deutschland Uber Alles. "

That's quite funny, actually.

:) I thought so!

I thought it would have been funnier if Harry had taught the Welsh chappies to sing Nazi songs rather than bringing Nazis.

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'Although I may be trapped for days.'

That's quite funny, actually.
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