SHAME THEY GOT THE NAME WRONG

Danm.

Thats horrible. Stupid movie crew could't get the name right? That is pretty lame, I mean how der der der can you be to make a war movie based on a TRUE event and get the event's name wrong. It would be like the movie crew of El Alamein spelling it El Alamien.

Huh? The movie is called "Kokoda" not "The Kokoda Track" or anything else! Also, the Kokoda Trail is what the Americans more commonly call it - the Aussies predominately called it and call it the Kokoda Track. So unless you and your uncle are seppos, I'm not sure what the problem is.

I have seen this movie, and I can honestly say I believe the filmmakers must have the GREATEST respect for the soldiers who fought on the Track/Trail to have made this film and depicted the soldiers as they have.

Oh, and here is a quote from Peter Fitzsimon's book "Kokoda" (he uses "Track" in the book)-

"On the subject of the Kokoda campaign, there is a continuing discussion about whether it is the Kokoda Track or the Kokoda Trail, with many passionate adherents on boyth sides. It has been explored so often I won't go into it again here, if only to say I have plumped for "Track" on the simple grounds that every Digger I spoke to referred to it as that, and if it was good enough for them..."

Also, in Paul Ham's 'Kokoda', he says the following:

"Where I formally identify it, I use 'Kokoda Track', because that is the preferred name of the Isurava Memorial and most soldiers". It then goes on and says that some Australian War Memorial research papers have used the term 'Trail'."

So as you can see, there are arguments for both sides of the fence, although with regards to the movie I think it is of little consequence.

I believe the name is correct the americans refer to it as a trail.
australians have always referred to it as a track which is the way aussies talk.eg
americans blazed a TRAIL through the old west.
australians sing "theres a TRACK winding back to an old fashioned shack"
"follow the TRACK through the bush" TRAIL is an american term.

The Australian Military calls it the Kokoda Track. But the local name for it is 'trail'.

I have a feeling, that at the beginning of the movie, that it was an American soldier narrating (not sure, it was the impression I got) so logically he would call it a trail, but when Aussies talk about it, it's a track.
At Mt Dandenong National Park in Melbourne there is a walking path commemorating the soldiers who fought in Papua New Guinea, and that is called the Kokoda Track.

Its the track you dickheads, as Peter Fitzsimmons wrote "The Diggers called it the Track and if it is good enough for them, then it is good enough for me".

What we do in life, echoes an eternity!

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It looks like it's just one of those things. Full of conjecture - like tossing a coin. But I have to admit,'Track' has been pronounced officially since 1972 as stated. I presume, to at least have consistency 'down in this part of the world'. The following site shows well, the name's pro's and con's from the historical viewpoint, < http://www.kokodatreks.com/history/thekokodatrail.cfm >. Pre-war it was Kokoda Road from one end and Buna Road from the other. 'Road' ???'!
Some official Army awards conferred later during WWII use the '... Trail'.
For me this thread, as has been observed/inferred, may be incorrectly titled. I have not seen the movie so I don't know how the scriptwriters were told to 'play' it.
The aspect to always bear in mind, as we all well know, is that any English speaking movie made outside the USA and for release there, has GOT to lean toward their (your?) sentiment to get the money out of their (your?) pockets so that the movie may be financially viable in the first place!
e.g. British, 'Dangerous Moonlight' becomes the more dramatic 'Suicide Squadron'; Kirk Douglas in the Australian, 'The Man From Snowy River', would you believe !( At least not the main lead but leading enough !)
And many others.
The producers, 'Rising Sun Films' (?) avoided stirring debate by not using either names - at least in their titling and publicity. Just the bare 'Kokoda' - the village name.
It IS an important issue here in Australia, because if the result of the struggle had gone the other way it could be that we here would now be living a very different life!!?? And many, many Australian families, as in all war's inherent tragedies, suffered the loss of loved ones in the mud of its dreadful battle-location, not battle'field'! Defending us, their families, not all that far way!
That could be how someone would indelibly remember their Dad or been told of their Grandpa. "He died on the Kokoda Trail."