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The round thing in a box...

posted 19 years ago by gonzo-81
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I'm not quite sure how to interpet this, usually I am a person who reads what I'm about to qrite, and think "lighten up" or "don't take it so seriously", but... I just can't help to get my self all worked up...

Haven't bothered seen the whole movie, nor have I checked who's directed it, wrote the script etc, maybe it's an aussie, but... does this movie try to stupify australians the american style? I mean, here comes the cool americans to back-alley australia, and show's them the miracle of the modern world - Pizza...

Maybe I'm just whining, putting too much into it. Just got a bit irritated...

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[–] Brother_William 18 years ago

The writer and the director are the same person and yes David Caeser is an Australian. Has been one all his life in fact

I'm curious why some-one who has admitted not seeing the whole film and knows nothing about the people who made it should get worked up by a subplot in the film. At the time the film is set Australia had yet to experience the fast food franchises like McDonalds or Pizza-Hut. Yes there were Italian immigrants in the country but for the majority of Australians (which had received a hug influx of British immigrants) Italian food was "foreign" and more likely to be pasta dishes.

So yes I think you're putting too much into it.

[–] jayjay1970 18 years ago

Word to the wise, Gonzo, watch the whole movie and you'll see that it has nothing to do with 'cool americans' showing aussies the miracle of pizza. In fact the opposite is true! The cool americans try to muscle in on the aussie crime scene but get more than they bargained for.

"Well thank you Pal! The day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car." Jake

[–] gonzo-81 18 years ago

Well, first off just feel like mentioning that I didn't get all worked up.. I mean I didn't sit there in front of my tellie screaming "why god why," but that was one of the 100 maybe possible interpertations (please excuse the misspells) possible. I just saw that as an possibility, and was wondering about thoughts from people who've seen the whole movie. I hate people who notice the stuff I did, and start a thread with the subject "this movie is discriminating/racist," however, I never claimed anything, just humbly expressed my opinion. hoping for info/comments from those who had seen the movie.

Cheers

[–] Bantom 18 years ago

At the start of the flick he is is Nam and gets picked up by a chopper delivering Pizza's to the U.S soliders... it's not at all surprising that he hasn't seen a pizza... it's the 60's and he is young and white... he probably grew up in a white family in a white neighbour hood and never experienced anything remotely multi cultural... I'm an Aussie living in a town of 100 000 people and we got our first Hungry Crack's (Burger King) only 4/5 years ago...

however I didn't live in the 60's and I didn't know the character personally... he might have been just a couple of sandwich's short of a picnic.. who knows!

[–] simonkevnorris 15 years ago

There was one scene in the movie where Darcy states that he want's to open up a restraunt that has the "same food all the time as that's what people want". Byran Brown's character states that it will never work as people want to eat different food.....

Maybe Darcy was from Melbourne me may have known what a pizza was.

I think fast food places in the 60s were mainly selling burgers. Maybe in Adelaide it was "pie floaters" (meat pies face down in mushy peas).

In Perth we certainly had 'Hungry Jacks' in the early 70s.

[–] oldmotem 13 years ago

Just to clarify. In the 60s and 70s in the USA, most Pizza was not from the Hut. It was from local Mom/Pop shops run by Italians and Greeks and all kinds of people that just had their own recipe. It has changed a lot since then, but most good pizza is still from local pizzerias (even in small towns there can be FOUR pizzerias). Never mind the chains. Fast food is fast food. Good pizza is LOCAL.
Always has been.