Australia: The Movie (the game)

[alias_sqbr]

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

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

We'll be shown just how darn good the stockman is by his breaking in an unbreakable brumby.

[alias_sqbr]

Yes!

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

I'll be very surprised if there isn't a Snowy River horse stampede at some point, too.

[alias_sqbr]

Oooh, maybe...I see stampede of cows myself.

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there'll be horses too. The helicopter shots will show a perfectly flat cattle station, but for some reason a herd of horses will need to be ridden down a steep mountain.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

correct.. well, sorta. they herd cows through the town.

it was on the news a while back that the people who live in the town got shitty with all the filming and refused to move their cars out of the main street during filming so many of them got damaged by the cows going through. of course you couldn't see the cars because of the cows, so no actual need to move them (other than the risk of damage) anyway!

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. I will watch closely for cars amongst the cows should I ever watch the movie :)