Jesus or Chabal? This is actually Chabal.
I have wanted to post this the entire week, but I thought I would keep it all in for a smashing Friday! I love it when I write stuff like this, because it makes me feel so clever! Seriously, I’m going to pat myself on the back for this because up until now, I have not read anything like this anywhere else.
Do you remember a little while back on my post about surfing being all about weed and sex? Well I mentioned there that I often have loads of pieces of information floating around my head. I never use this information but keep it anyway, because it usually collides inside my head and creates something spectacular. Ladies, gentleman and kids, a collision has just occurred inside my head.
The pieces of information involved in the collision were that of Gerard Butler from the movie 300, Victor Matfield of the Springbok rugby team and Sebastien Chabal of the French rugby side. It’s marvelous. It blew my mind into little pieces.
Obviously the first time I watched 300 I was quite shocked at the size of Gerard Butler because he was gigantic. The first time I saw Victor Matfield in real life( At Tiger Tiger nightclub in Claremont, Cape Town) I was quite shocked at his size. Two metres tall and 110 kg’s or something like that, so it’s all crazy. Then if you have been following this site of late, you will know that I have a mild fascination with Sebastien Chabal, after thinking I saw him at Firemans Arms.
Well I was quite amused then that I found a photo of Chabal looking like Jesus! Seriously, it’s not that he just looks like Jesus, but they have composed the photo to make him look powerful, with the soft lighting!(Mind you, I have not seen Jesus in real life, so I’m not really one to compare. Any real life photos of Jesus, digital please, then send them through to my e-mail) It’s absolute madness.
The reason I link Sebastien Chabal and Victor Matfield to the movie 300, is because I see what they are doing. They obviously watched the movie, and in order to gain the same kind of power and mindset as the boys from 300, they wanted to look like them. Let’s face it, the guys from 300 were completely unstoppable and finished anything in their path. I think Vic and Sebastien want to do the same thing! They have the beards, the angry faces, the size and Chabal won’t even speak English anymore! Taking it to the max, he is the epitome of the SLXS lifestyle!
Butler of 300 and Chabal of France. Seperated at birth?
Small chest. Small six pack. Small guy.
It’s all quite sinister really because it has actually worked! I recall Jake White saying that South Africa will meet France in the Rugby World Cup final. Is it not a coincidence then that these teams are the teams of Victor and Sebastien? You see what I’m saying?! You see that I am right? Yes I am! I AM that good!
Let’s piece together another piece of this intricate puzzle inside my head. The Sasol adverts (Click HERE for a link) for the Springboks have them dressing up as complete demons, just like in 300! The one tag line for the print ads(Appeared on the back cover of Sports Illustrated, September 2007) was “What if 15 had the power of a nation?” . Even more crazy is that Victor Matfield is on the cover of this issue. Clearly playing mind games with the World Cup! The reason I gave the link to Cherryflava in this paragraph is because there are comments below that have some people saying they don’t like the advert.
Personally, I enjoyed it because it was one of those feel good things where we really feel like we as a nation are taking on the teams in the World Cup, rather than just our 15 men taking the teams on. South Africa needs this type of support behind them. We too often just doubt ourselves and we need to have more confidence in our boys no matter what. We need to stand by them. And it’s working, we are going to get to the finals and we are going to win the World Cup! I think the adverts were great and are just what we need to feel united behind our team. We won the World Cup in 1995 with the whole nation behind the team, and we are doing it again. South Africa can do it, it’s just that people like doubting us for some reason. It’s easy to say “We won’t win” because then if we lose, people can say “See I was right”
I don’t think this way and before the World Cup I was telling everyone to bet on South Africa winning, because I know we will.
Anyway, as I said, Sebastien Chabal was trying to do the whole 300 look, and it worked because he has nearly killed some men on the field this year! If I’m correct he has broken the jaw of an opponent already(Click HERE for a link of the man). Our boys in the Sasol ad went for the 300 vibe and it’s working! Victor Matfield took the 300 look more personally (Well he has for a good few months now anyway) and it worked because he is on the team who are going to win the World Cup!
Victor Matfield- Using 300 to his and his teams advantage
So to the people who said it’s stupid to copy 300 for the Sasol adverts, you lose! South Africa are about to lift the cup, thanks to the 300 Gods being on our side!
Did you see how I pieced that all together? I think the movie 300 has a decent part to play in South Africa winning this year! And to Jake White and the team, let’s clean the French in the final and take it home.
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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