Once Were Warriors
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Sep 17, 2026
Jeff OstermuellerHOST
Not
Dave GreenHOST
Once Were Warriors.
Dave GreenHOST
Just Warrior.
Dave GreenHOST
Yeah.
Aaron WoodsHOST
He deserves it.
Beau RyanHOST
This is like We Were Warriors.
Beau RyanHOST
I reckon we give them all a key.
Cat LynchHOST
I think so, too.
AndrewHOST
yeah.
LucyHOST
How about Once Were Warriors as a film review? It's harrowing but essential watch in my opinion.
LucyHOST
Cheers all, Pete G from New Plymouth.
AndrewHOST
That's a very interesting thought.
FredUNKNOWN
actor.
Tom O'MahonyHOST
There's actually a Maori guy there who was in Once Were Warriors.
Tom O'MahonyHOST
He's played a ton of terrorists.
Tom O'MahonyHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gav RobertsonHOST
Anyone who knows this movie knows.
Gav RobertsonHOST
Are you talking Once Were Warriors? You're kind of losing it.
Gav RobertsonHOST
No, he'll be saying, Warriors, come out and play.
Gav RobertsonHOST
And this is
Jeremy TorrieGUEST
And, uh, yeah, we just, we were at a film festival, um, literally last night.
Jeremy TorrieGUEST
Uh, Many Wounds is, uh, my contemporary re-imagining of Once Were Warriors, the classic Maori film from 1994.
Jeremy TorrieGUEST
I held the remake rights for 15 years before we were able to get into production a couple years ago.
Jeremy TorrieGUEST
And, uh, you know, we shot a very personal story, um, because of what I witnessed and survived in my own household with, uh, my mother and her partner at the time, who was, uh, schizophrenic and, uh-
DuncanHOST
New Zealand is home to the oldest purpose-built cinema in the Southern Hemisphere, the Victorian Theatre in Auckland.
DuncanHOST
During the silent era, several films adapted Maori legends such as Hinemoa, while others dramatized the events of the Maori-British wars, such as Rui's Last Stand.
DuncanHOST
Geoff Murphy directed several hit films, including Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu, and The Quiet Earth.
DuncanHOST
Sam Neill made his acting debut in the 1977 dystopian thriller Sleeping Dogs.
DuncanHOST
The first New Zealand film to gain int- international recognition was The Piano, which won three Academy Awards in 1994 and launched the careers of director Jane Campion and actor Anna Paquin.
DuncanHOST
Another local filmmaker named Peter Jackson gained a cult following for his comedy horror films before he eventually directed the epic fantasy series Lord of the Rings.
DuncanHOST
While the Rings trilogy was mainly produced with foreign funding, Jackson used local crews and locations, which greatly strengthened the New Zealand film industry and attracted other large scale productions such as The Chronicles of Narnia and the Avatar series.
DuncanHOST
The country's biggest filmmaker in recent times is Taika Waititi, who made several local comedies before moving on to big budget Hollywood superhero films.
ViliHOST
And then here he talks about a couple of times when what would happen when his dad went out drinking and preparing for his dad to return home drunk.
ViliHOST
And then he also talks about watching a New Zealand movie that really illustrated what he was going through at the time.
ViliHOST
Yet for all his faults in those days, my father was a hard worker, a mechanic.
ViliHOST
He always put food on the table and us kids never went hungry.
ViliHOST
Those nights we would try and go to bed early, snuggle up and try and block out the ranting and the raving.
ViliHOST
I can still hear him yelling for someone to cook him something.
ViliHOST
Years later, when I went to see the New Zealand movie Once Were Warriors, I got really choked up.
ViliHOST
As I watched the film, I found myself reliving my childhood.