Australia: The Movie (the game)

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So, Baz Lurhman is making a new movie called "Australia". It's apparently an epic story with a huge budget and superstar cast about a stockman (Hugh Jackman) and (I kid you not) and english lady (Nicole Kidman) running a cattle station during World War Two.

I and Cam got into a discussion about the particular variety of terrible it was likely to be and started making predictions. I thought it'd be fun to get other people to do the same, then when it comes out we can see how right/wrong we were. Join in!

• The Lady will be strong willed and feisty.. yet fragile
  
• The Stockman will be tough and no-nonsense.. yet gentle and with a passionate heart
  
• There will be a scene where she tries to dosomething with a cow (like milking) and fails utterly. He will laugh, and then help her.
  
• There will be a mean banker trying to repossess the property (since confirmed by further reading on wikipedia)
  
• There will be an arrogant city person who thinks they know better than the simple country folk who will be proven wrong (probably either the banker or the Lady)
  
• There will be little to no resemblance to actual cattle farming, country life, real history etc
  
• The epic timescale will leave no time for complex or interesting plots, so there'll just be lots of contrived melodrama
  
• There will be a quirky Token Aboriginal Australian who will be mistreated by the Bad Guys but be treated with anachronistically modern respect and decency by the Good Guys. (on further reading: a token magical aboriginal australian. Who sings)
  
• There will be a sad moment as we reflect on how badly aboriginal people are treated, but overall the whole thing will be ignored
  
• We will have an emotional moment watching a cow either die or be born (or both!)
  
• There will be cardboard cutout Evil Japanese Caricatures
  
• There will be an evil englishman (my theory, Cam disagrees)
  
• It will end with whoever is left alive all old and nostalgic in a bittersweet meditation on loss (also my theory)
  

Comments

Not sure this fits but...

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

She'll retain her amazing super good looks, even after working several incredibly tough days/years on the farm. This may or may not be with a dirt streak smudged attractively across her cheek.


Actually this may be under bears little to no resemblance...

Re: Not sure this fits but...

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Oh but at least it has David Wenham in it, I like him.

And my grandmothers friend (I think the wife of the principal that was brilliant and used to run that school up north till Ravlich pressured him into getting fired/quitting, if that helps) actually wound up looking after the children chosen for that film (I think she was a teacher or teachers assistant near where the kids were being picked) and got flown absolutely everywhere and got to hang around with Nicole Kidman while it was being made. I thought that was cool, though I'll be surprised if anyone else cares, especially as I am too tired to remember the details of it...

Re: Not sure this fits but...

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That is pretty cool.

Re: Not sure this fits but...

[alias_sqbr]

Ha, yes :)