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is it me or, is Greg Mclean really hate foreigners?


I really liked the first movie,
but the second one emphasized on the "hate towards foreigner" kinda bothers me.
am i being too sensitive here? or is Greg Mclean a foreigner hater and trying to make that freak a hero?

the first Wolf Creek was great, but the second one kinda has that expression which reminds me of all the racial attacks happened in Australia in all those years, and very often the offender got away with it.

still liked the movie tho.
not a great movie, but interesting enough for me to want to see wolf creek 3.


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That's kind of silly, for a couple of reasons. For one, it is already established that the written character's motivation is to rid Australia of foreigners that disrespect the land. It shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. Also, what does a character he wrote have to do with his personal beliefs? This isn't a documentary, this is a work of fiction, and a fictitious character. If every author wrote his bad guys in his own image, the world would be far more *beep* than it already is.

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I bet this is Pauline Hanson's favourite movie ^_^

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Totally agree I found his character quite offensive saying lines like nazi @#$! And pomy !^#^ .I have not seen the first wolf creek movie so do not know what his motivations were in that movie. Thank god he didnt cast any coloured victims in this film!

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Thank god he didnt cast any coloured victims in this film!


What a ridiculous and offensive statement.

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Totally agree I found his character quite offensive saying lines like nazi @#$! And pomy !^#^ .I have not seen the first wolf creek movie so do not know what his motivations were in that movie. Thank god he didnt cast any coloured victims in this film!


Agree with this, I just thought it was a bit unnecessary really. I know Mick's not supposed to be a nice character, but it just pushes past the boundaries for me. He could have been just as great/vile a character without going there.

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I know, I mean beheading a man in front of his girlfriend and then attempting to rape and torture her is one thing, but calling people a culturally insensitive name is just going too far.

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I think that Mick, the Character created by Greg Mclean,is very hateful.
The writer had to find a motivation for his killer character which is totally
fine with me.

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Honestly, that didn't bother me as badly. Not because I'm Australian but there are other reasons - 2 of them in particular
1. In the original film it was said that he hated tourists. It was also clear he had been taking people for a long time. Him being a racist shouldn't surprise people that much considering all the diabolical *beep* he did in the first film and they were Australian tourists.
2. Even if you were to ignore that, there is one thing you can't. These are all the motives of the villain. As in the one guy you shouldn't root for. Lets attach one of Mick's motivations to something else he did in the movie - if Mick wants to cut someone's dick off and make him his bi-weekly rape victim, that doesn't mean that Greg McLean does too.

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It's definitely a theme he's interested in (evils of imperialism) but that doesn't mean he believes it, in real life...

He did seem a bit too in love with his villain in this one, though, and seemed to want to give him more 'justification'... Should've just left him as a psychopath, without giving any reasons (or if you do give reasons, give better ones, not ones that are flexible!)






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You would have a point if the main character is a normal family man who spouted that xenophobic nonsense but he is a crazed psycho who hates tourists which are mainly foreigners.

In the TV series, Mick has interactions with Aboriginal Australians and while he killed them, it wasn't out of racism but because they got in the way. I haven't read the books but I recall reading a review which said that part of Micks childhood was living in a Aboriginal settlement so while his is xenophobic, he isn't racist, at least not towards those who lived in the same outback environment as he did.

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