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1. • • Through the looking glass we meet Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis), a former chess champion who is released from a mental institution provided a family member look after him; this family member comes in the form of Ariki, Genesis estranged gang member brother.
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   Does Ariki play Genesis in the Dark Horse?

   • Ariki has played father to Genesis for long enough and the time has come for Genesis to take his place—if he can muster up the right amount of courage. The Dark Horse is one of those films that reminds you why you became so enamored with cinema in the first place.

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   What happened to Genesis & Ariki?

   • Genesis is taken off to jail for disturbing the peace, and then released into the custody of his older brother, Ariki (Wayne Hapi). Ariki is entrenched in Maori gang-culture, the house filled with scary-looking drunk tattooed guys who stare at Genesis with contempt.

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   Who is Ariki & Mana in obstacle character throughline?

   • One of these staunch detractors is Ariki (Wayne Hapi), brother to Genesis and father to Mana. Father and son both hand off the Obstacle Character Throughline as they challenge Gen's positive mental attitude. Ariki and Mana feel themselves stuck in gang culture without a future to look forward to.

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   What gang culture is Ariki based on?

   • Ariki is entrenched in Maori gang-culture, the house filled with scary-looking drunk tattooed guys who stare at Genesis with contempt. Genesis seeks out an old chess buddy, who runs an after-school chess club for local kids and offers his services as a coach.

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   Was there a real genesis 'Dark Horse' Potini?

   • It helps to know that there was a real Genesis “Dark Horse” Potini, and he did have that movie-perfect name. He was a Maori, a chess prodigy and, unfortunately, a man with bipolar disorder. He died in 2011, aged 48. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

   Here's rooking at you, kid: The Dark Horse remembers chess champ

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   Who is Ariki in objective story throughline?

   • While some appreciate Genesis and the other facilitators attempt to engage the children in positive Physics, there are some within the Objective Story Throughline who prefer their young not to be entranced by fanciful dreams. One of these staunch detractors is Ariki (Wayne Hapi), brother to Genesis and father to Mana.

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   Apr 1, 2016 · Ariki is entrenched in Maori gang-culture, the house filled with scary-looking drunk tattooed guys who stare at Genesis with contempt. Genesis seeks out an old chess buddy, who runs an after-school chess club for local kids and offers his services as a coach.

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   Apr 14, 2016 · It helps to know that there was a real Genesis “Dark Horse” Potini, and he did have that movie-perfect name. He was a Maori, a chess prodigy and, unfortunately, a man with bipolar disorder.

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   Both Ariki (Wayne Hapi) and Mana (James Rolleston)--brother and nephew to Genesis respectively-- provide the Obstacle Character Throughline perspective needed to challenge Genesis.

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   One of these staunch detractors is Ariki (Wayne Hapi), brother to Genesis and father to Mana. Father and son both hand off the Obstacle Character Throughline as they challenge Gen's positive mental attitude. Ariki and Mana feel themselves stuck in gang culture without a future to look forward to.

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   May 4, 2016 · When he’s released from the mental hospital, he is remanded into his brother, Ariki’s (Wayne Hapi), custody whose lifestyle as part of a violent gang does not exactly help Gen’s recovery. Looking for something positive to do as suggested by his therapists, Gen asks to be involved with the Easter Knights, a local chess club for ...

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   Mar 31, 2016 · When Genesis was a child, his older brother, Ariki, described chess to him as a war game, then vividly characterized the pieces. That’s what Genesis does for the chess-club kids, too, with wit and ingenuity.

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   Mar 27, 2016 · You see the damage done in the intimidating scowls and propensity for apparently unfeeling violence of Genesis’s brother, Ariki (Wayne Hapi), and the other members of his gang, as well as in Ariki’s dark little cave of a barely furnished house, with its water-stained walls and cramped backyard.