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Article: Pale imitations.(Film)(Australia)(Movie review)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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"IF THIS IS SUPPOSED to be a chick flick I don't get it," my regular companion exclaimed as we were leaving Australia (the movie). She was right. Australia is anything but a film about teenage fantasies, even if this was suggested by the early publicity. Director Baz Luhrmann has been only too willing to provide a filmography of influences for the talk shows--Gone with the Wind, The Overlanders and Red River. I was also able to spot homages to Sergio Leone--eyes peering out of the shadow cast by a cowboy hat of course--Crocodile Dundee, and just about any range war western you like to name.
Then there is Luhrmann's use of devices from the women's melodrama (the ...
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