I know it's just a movie, but is everybody in Australia so crude?
Just wondering.
No, we're not...not all of us.
We are a fully functioning society with a spectrum of people making it up.
I think that our crudest element have more prominence than in other countries that I know.
Film-makers like to put those people on screen here because they think that makes it more authentic and Aussie but it makes many people wince. We refer to those characatured Aussies as "real ocker types". But then I suppose it is authentic to lots of people especially in the latest generation who pay attention to the media.
Have patience, we're a young country trying to find outselves and we're still in flux about what is normal. We're also the best cultural melting pot in the world.
I'm trying to think of good movies with nice Aussies in them, maybe Lantana...I think it had some educated characters in it but I can't remember if they were sweary or not.
I just don't think that polite Aussie's are cinematic...no one outside Oz would get their head around it if you put my aunts and uncles on screen. It wouldn't be quirky or downunder-ish would it?
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whipthedog
13 years ago
I work in the Australian building industry and I can assure you that there is more bad language and vulgarity in one Australian movie ,than i would hear in a full year at work. Any wonder that Australian films do poorly at home, and internationally. People do not want to hear that crap every time they see a movie.
I think it time Film Australia stopped funding crap movies that are only made for the ego of those involved.
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ssidaway
8 years ago
What a load of *beep* *beep* Australians ARE crude, and if you work in the building industry, you must be sheltered in the office or you work alone. The tradesmen in Australia are some of the most foul mouthed sweary types there is, I only work in a supermarket, and every second word is *beep* or *beep* Just go out into the suburbs of any major city, or even visit a country town. We just like swearing. Maybe you don't, but you're the odd one out
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agera
13 years ago
Film-makers like to put those people on screen here because they think that makes it more authentic and Aussie but it makes many people wince.
How embarrassing for you. I can imagine how you must feel. I live in a "flyover" state here in the US and while my neighbors may not be terribly sophisticated, they are not at all the crude, bigoted haters or ignorant inbred rednecks the movies would have you believe they are.
Anyway, don't feel bad. I was thinking just last night while I watched
Noise how Australians are one of the people who really "get" movies, how in the cinematic world, you all simply cannot be beat. I was really surprised recently to learn the population of Australia. How can such a small population produce so many world-class film figures? Everyone from Robert Krasker to Peter Weir to Rose Byrne and all the people in between. You all should be proud.
"The night was sultry."
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