Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.
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I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.
The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
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