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I appreciate Howard Hawks’ films…Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, and Rio Bravo are astounding pieces of entertainment. As I was watching Australia, the original Baz Luhrmann movie with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, I kept thinking…man, Baz must really like Hawks’ movies, too.
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As evidenced by the films above, the mismatched couple who fight and fight until they realize they’re perfect for each other (look Distinguished Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, and Moonlighting as other examples of the earn) and the group of underestimated misfits who near together to fight inappropriate are two expansive elements broken-down again and again by Hawks. Throw in a bit of John Ford’s The Searchers and its hard view at racism leading to inhuman deeds and mix well and you have…Australia.
The pickle recent audiences may have with Luhrmann’s current movie is it’s very, very earnest. This is straight ahead narrative storytelling with its heart on its sleeve and hat and boots with never a wink to the crowd in the theater to say “ain’t these people quaint”. You either select in or you don’t. If you do, like I did, you’re in for a hell of a drag.
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This, I feel, is the flip-side to The Shadowy Knight. Fine and dismal are trapped in something akin to a battle and an embrace in Nolan’s Gotham City. You root for Batman, but he does stuff that is on the gross side of freedom and civil rights. The Joker is pure crazy, but he’s the most mesmerizing character in the film. In Australia, there are estimable guys and awful guys and you are either really profitable or twirl your mustache irascible. The main villain actually may be a bit too two-dimensional in that aspect, but it didn’t wound my overall enjoyment.
Why? Well, tale melodrama is hard to pull off…I’m talking about the precise stuff here. The new BBC production of Bleak House is a stout example. There are very pleasant and very, very awful people in that account, but the acting is so extraordinary you rarely if ever fetch yourself rolling your eyes (like whenever I’ve watched Smallville…see: awful sage melodrama) . Kidman and Jackman sell their characters…the displaced Englishwoman and the rough-hewn “Drover”. They are thrown together unprejudiced to, initially it seems, thwart a scandalous cattle baron from monopolizing the beef industry in the country. But the other tall legend, the main one in fact, centers around Australia’s “lost generation”. These were Aboriginal children who were fathered by white men who didn’t claim them. They were taken by the government, the mothers had no rights, and handed over to the church to be taught to “act white” and then work in the servant class. Nullah, played by the astounding child actor Brandon Walters, is one of these “creamies” who has been hidden on the ranch now owned by Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) . Lady Ashley discovers what is going on, is paralyzed by the law, and works to withhold him hidden as well. Why the Drover cares so powerful about Nullah becomes certain later in the film (no, it’s not what you reflect…that would be too easy) and Jackman’s experience with stage and musical work does him proud here. He can do earnest better than almost any actor alive when he needs to and his later employ of the f-word (the only curse I can remember from the entire film) hits so hard, in fair the upright emotional moment, that it kills. Russell Crowe was originally cast as the Drover but backed out. If Crowe had done the film, and I have liked him in other things…the Napoleon-era British navy film that I can’t remember the name of lawful now, it would not have worked. Crowe never loses that bit of edge and the Drover, at one point, really has to fully demolish down and become completely vulnerable. Jackman shines at that point.
Anyway…a warning, the movie is long 2 hours and 40something minutes, but I didn’t realize that until I had left the theater. I saw it alone…I was out of town at a pediatrics meeting…and that’s a gracious thing. I didn’t have to mask from Holly the few times the movie hit me a bit too hard and do that cough-throat clearing thing we dudes do to conceal up a stray flow.
I was looking forward to seeing this movie when it was release leisurely last year given all the hype, and was not dissappointed!
Director, Baz Luhman, has served up a slab of nostalgia ala Australian style with all those fair elements we adore from films of the 40’s and 50’s, breathtaking, sweeping landscapes, beautiful costumes and two blooming actors in Kidman and Jackman who find the essence of the film. It nostalgia in every sense of the word, in every frame. The acting style reminds us of Bogart, Grant, Bacall and Dunne. The tale is tale in every arrangement and unbiased resplendent. I loved the salute to “The Wizard of Oz”a really nice touch!
Of course we all know how it’s going to waste. Watching Australia was like eating a box of Quality Street chocolates. Obvious I know what I’m getting, but I collected cherish it.
For those of you who want to exercise a few hours (and I mean a few; it’s almost 3 hours) being completely entertained then thisis the movie for you. I only wished they had inserted an interval on it’s theatrical release and made the whole event at the movies a precise nostalgic experience.
I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like this movie, unless you objective aren’t up for a feel beneficial describe. I want to peek more movies being made like this!!!! Well done to all!!!
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