The two-part Channel 9 biopic Warnie, recapping Shane Warne’s life on and off the cricket area is over, with many viewers questioning whether or not it was wanted in any respect.
The controversial present was commissioned simply six months after Warne’s dying in March final 12 months and has been extensively ridiculed as a cheesy, tone deaf and pointless tribute to the late spin king.
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Warnie has been criticised by Warne’s ex-wife Simone Callahan, who informed the Herald Sun: “I haven’t wanted to read into too much about it, but I think it’s a bit unkind and mean spirited to be honest.”
Episode 1 coated Warne’s early profession and his varied off-field scandals, whereas Monday night time’s second episode centered on the legspinner’s sexual escapades, together with his romance with Elizabeth Hurley.
Michael Clarke and Kevin Pietersen featured with questionable casting and bleached hair, however there was one factor that significantly irritated viewers — Warnie’s incessant voiceover that may solely be described as painful and unlikeable.
During the present’s opening, actor Alex Williams as Warne says: “They gave me a state memorial. Me, the boy from Black Rock.
“Thousands and thousands of people showed up. I had rock stars, film stars, some of the biggest names in the world and everyday people from every walk of life. It was mind-blowing.
“Villain one day, saint the next, and yet no matter what, I always pulled a crowd.
“So, how did that happen? What does it say about you guys?”
Speaking on SEN, former Australian wicketkeeper and Warne’s ex-teammate Ian Healy stated the voiceover inaccurately portrayed Warne as cynical and up himself.
“I was a little annoyed with the first voice-over bit of Warnie speaking about his life and how he got a state funeral and his attitude,” Healy stated.
“They didn’t have his attitude right. They made him out to be too cynical and sarcastic. He was not like that at all.
“‘After my life and they did that for me, all those things and tributes, how does that make you all feel?’. That’s not Warnie. They missed him badly there.
“So that got me annoyed. I watched about the next 20 minutes and it was OK.”
Veteran News Corp cricket journalist Robert Craddock thought the content material of the present was correct however stated it was “too soon” after Warne’s passing.
“I just felt it wasn’t right, it was too soon,” Craddock stated.
“I’m not as hysterically critical of it like social media where we have to take the extreme and bag it to the nth degree.
“Knowing that the family was suffering through it, and knowing what Warnie had given to Channel Nine over the years, I was surprised it was on our sets less than two years after his passing.”
Entertainment reporter Peter Ford stated Warne’s dad Keith was disenchanted by the best way his son was depicted.
“The main thing is he feels they didn’t portray the growth of Shane from the larrikin teenager to the mature adult who wanted to make a difference in the world,” Ford stated on 3AW.
“He’s not angry, he’s just disappointed by the result.”
Cricket followers additionally weren’t impressed that Warnie was broadcast on Channel 9’s major channel, relegating the ultimate day of an exciting girls’s Ashes Test to secondary channel 9Gem.
CODE Sports’ Lachlan McKirdy tweeted: “Just a reminder, the women’s #Ashes Test which is set to go down to the wire is on one of Nine’s secondary channels while #Warnie gets the main channel treatment.”
For the document, Australia gained by 89 runs, largely due to Ash Gardner, who completed with 12 wickets for the match.
A spinner steering Australia to victory, now that’s some Warne would have been pleased with.
As for this biopic, not a lot.
Source: www.news.com.au
