Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Australia :)

OMG! have just been to see Australia, it was so so good!
Australia is a 2008 Australian epic romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kiman and Hugh Jackman. Well the basic plot is; In 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kiman) travels from England to northern Australia to force her husband to sell his faltering Australian cattle station, Faraway Downs. Her husband sends an independent cattle drover (Hugh Jackman), called simply "Drover", to Darwin to transport her to Faraway Downs.
Lady Sarah's husband is murdered shortly before she arrives. Meanwhile, cattle station manager Neil Fletcher is trying to gain control of Faraway Downs, so that Lesley 'King' Carney can have a complete cattle monopoly in the Northern territory, which will give him negotiating leverage with the Australian army. Fletcher also claims to Lady Sarah that the murderer of her husband is an Aboriginal elder with magical powers, "King George"The childless Lady Sarah is captivated by the young boy Nullah, who was born to an Aboriginal mother and an unknown white father. Nullah tells her that he has seen her cattle being driven onto Carney's land — in other words, stolen from her. Because of this, Fletcher mistreats Nullah and threatens him and his mother, after which Lady Sarah fires Fletcher and decides to try and run the cattle station herself. When Nullah and his mother hide from the white authorities by entering a water tower, his mother drowns. Lady Sarah comforts Nullah by singing the song "over the rainbow" from Nullah tells her that "King George" is his grandfather, and that like "King George" he too is a "magic man".
Can’t you just see how i feel in love with this film. Its sooooo good, and it has so many twists, keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Definitely worth seeing!!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Danni,

    It's great that you think the film is so good. What I'd like you to do is write a follow-up post that uses all of the textual analytical skills you've learnt last term.

    So, examine camera angles, mise-en-scène, costume, lighting, sound, issues of representation, gender and narrative.

    These have all been covered in the classes with Mrs Francis.

    It would be useful to see how you get on and will be good practice, since you joined us so late in the term.

    S

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