7 – Film Review Assignment – Rachael Negus 7M
The Not-So-Silver Brumby
Galloping through the great Australian landscape, she spots Man riding bare horseback, scouring the hillsides, determined. This Australian film may show the bright side of our mountainous country but does it really show the bright side of our acting? The Silver Brumby is a 1993 film production of the colour blind John Tatoulis and is based on the ancient book by the tedious Elyne Mitchell. It combines an extremely confusing storyline with an equally confusing use of language.
When attempting to reassure her daughter Indi, Elyne Mitchell tells her the story of the almighty Thowra, a glorious “silver” stallion. Indi gets swept up in the story and follows Thowra’s life as her mother writes it. Thowra is taught all the secrets of the wild by his mother and becomes ready to lead a herd of wild brumbies. But, none of his mother’s lessons can prepare him for what lies ahead whether it be his own kind or ours.
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It is aimed at an adult type audience as it uses complex language and themes younger audiences may not understand. This production had a high expectation as it features experienced actors such as Russel Crowe and Caroline Goodall. It also won the APRA Music Award for the Best Film Score in 1994 and the Children’s Jury Film – Feature Film in the same year, but both were undeserved. The film does not provide the expected plot and use of characters that would make it more appropriate for younger
The hard-working ranch father loved his son but also lived by a realist unlike his son, “Last chance son, you had better pick a horse that you have some hope of riding one day” (Harrison 500). Kenneth’s mother Nell was very supportive to her son’s dreams and hopes of owning a colt. An author of New York times Rebecca Mead states, “We see private bedroom conversations between Rob and Nell, in which the mother, who recognizes her son’s dreaminess as an admirable sensitivity, not as an irritating handicap, challenges her stubborn husband’s rulings”. This support for her son is shown when the little filly is injured and Ken’s mother makes a poultice for the injury every
The unrealistically hilarious Australian film, Bran Nue Dae, by director Rachel Perkins encompasses the adventures of Indigenous teenager Willie Johnson. After being shipped off to a Catholic boarding school in Perth to become a priest, he spends the entirety of the film travelling home to Broome with two hippies in a kombi van and his homeless, alcoholic uncle, Uncle Tadpole. Good morning/afternoon Miss Radunz and class. The aim of this presentation is to analyse the negative depiction of the two social groups, Hippies, portrayed by Wolfgang and Annie, who are stereotyped as unpredictable and obsessed with freedom. And Musicians, who are stereotyped as vain and self centred, which is represented by Lester. Using these stereotypes effectively
Estrella is a young foal born on ship headed towards the new world. The Spaniards throw her, her mother and several of the other horses overboard near a piece of land as their supplies run low. Her mother, Perlina, does not survive the swim, and Estrella finds herself surrounded by older horses who have only know the world as tamed creatures. Driven by the advice of her mother and her unbiased view of the Earth, Estrella becomes the herd leader. Along the way they re-encounter humans and make observations
I am Fiona Collins with Infilm here today to convince you that the classic 1981 Australian film The Man From Snowy River deserves to be included in your Hall of Fame. I shall educate you all in this film’s cultural and cinematic value with regards to its portrayal of Australian values. We will delve into the cultural context, plot, characters and settings, and how they were able to be directed into the film by George Miller, making the Australian values paramount. This 100 minute adventure produced by Geoff Burrowes and staring Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thorton, Kirk Douglas and Jack Thompson generated a massive following in which it held the title of Australia’s most popular film for five years. Additionally it received two prestigious awards: Montréal World Film Festival 1982 “Most Popular Film of the Festival” and the AFI’s 1982 “Best original Music Score”. These awards cement the successful reception of the film, reinforced greatly by
Australian people and culture are often stereotyped in the media in different forms, one of them being film. The two films being examined, ‘Red dog’ (2011) and the ‘Sapphires’ (2012), are an example of the Australian identity but from different points of view. ‘Red dog’ shows the kind and positive side which exemplifies mateship and loyalty. The film ‘Sapphires’ ,which takes place in the 1950’s through to the 1960’s, shows a negative and racist view towards the indigenous people. Both the films show different aspects of the Australian identity, not all insights of the films accurately represent contemporary Australian identity as the Australian identity has changed by the evolution of people and their lifestyle.
In surveying Australian film production over the last century, what visibly occurs is a general evasion of Aboriginal issues and an absence of any balanced representation of Australia’s notable Indigenous population. But I need to add, that things are changing. Several recent films seek to redress this imbalance and provide a substantial Indigenous storyline.
In the film industry, we see all different types of films and movies, but there’s always guidelines on what needs to be followed by stereotypes that have been built by society. In the film “The Bronze Screen” it gives us a better understanding on how the system is set up for film making but especially for Latinos in the film industry, Latinos are seen as a minority group who don’t have a lot of changes on making into the big screen, the film explains how Latinos are put in movies to fill the stereotypes that have been made by society but to be specific by the white people.
The film has a clever dialogue which resonated with young movie lover that found it to be exciting and
In All the Pretty Horses, a feminist reader would take issue with Alfonsa’s character, and how she uses her power in attempts to control others, even though in her childhood she was controlled and oppressed herself; a feminist would make sense of these issues by understanding how Alfonsa’s past influenced her actions in the present.
Making its debut 1982, The Dark Crystal, created and directed by puppeteers Jim Henson and Frank Oz, was a fantasy film that involved intricate puppeteers and animatronics. Aside from The Muppets and Sesame Street, which involves more comedic skits to relay their message to its viewers, The Dark Crystal was a different kind of muppet movie because it used fantasy, fiction and action to tell its story. With this change in Jim Henson’s usual way of story telling, the fantasy aspect of the movie becomes associated with the narrative patterns and functions of Propp. As the story line progresses throughout the film, some of the 31
Good Morning/Afternoon, members of the Australian Film Commission. In todays’ seminar, I will delve into the attitudes and beliefs that are present in the typical Australian film to evaluate how they support aspects of the Australian Identity. Using unique cinematics, Kriv Stenders, “Red Dog”, has successfully portrayed the Australian idiom of mateship and the severity of the Australian ‘outback’.
This movie mad a lot of money. You can look at it from two different view points a child’s view point of it being funny and a nice entertainment or looking at it from a working view point and you seeing it as being apart of
The cinematography of this film features numerous close-ups of its adolescent protagonists as well as point-of-view shots acquired predominantly from their perspective, thus making the viewers position themselves firmly on the boys’ side of
Thus, many adults had a problem with this movie. The movie is addressed to not only children but adults as well. My adults are stubborn and don’t like things that are not how they see it. These parents have metathesiophobia. Also, those adults believe that the kids should not be watching these types of movies that shows them how to be rebellious. These parents focus on the parts of the movie that were irrelevant like how Elsa ran away. Other adults who see the positive difference between the old Disney movies and the new Disney movies encourage their kids to watch it and recommend other parents to watch it with their kids. It is parents like those who have helped changed the perspective of the medias role in our socialization. Media has always been negative towards women and the role they have in the world. But movies like “Brave” and “Frozen” are helping change those perspective in a positive way.
The audience of this movie has a very wide range. However, I think majority of the viewers