Casual mentions of Australia in films

[Forward Press]

This is not from a film or a TV show, but it is footage. Neil Young most definitely seems to be wearing the Aboriginal flag on his T-shirt at this concert from 2009.

On a similar note, Sam Neill's character in Event Horizon is Australian, and he asked to wear a modified Australian flag.

It's also a little funny as he is actually a New Zealander from Northern Ireland.

 

[emuboy]

After UK actor Dennis Waterman passed away earlier this week, I remembered Australia coming up in Minder a couple of times. In one episode Arthur Daly went to Sydney, but somehow managed to get himself lost in the bush. And when Dennis Waterman departed the show after 1989, it was said that his character Terry had emigrated to Australia.

 

[worbod]

After UK actor Dennis Waterman passed away earlier this week, I remembered Australia coming up in Minder a couple of times. In one episode Arthur Daly went to Sydney, but somehow managed to get himself lost in the bush. And when Dennis Waterman departed the show after 1989, it was said that his character Terry had emigrated to Australia.

The episode where Terry has emigrated to Australia sees Arthur standing at Terry's doorstep trying to coax him to come outside. With no response, Arthur tries slipping ten quid through the mail slot. Seconds later a passer-by mentions that Terry has headed Down Under, leaving Arthur in a fit that he cannot retrieve his ten pound note.

Dennis Waterman appeared twice at the Logies and once had his Terry McCann character parodied by Paul Hogan during one of his TV specials.

 

[emuboy]

The episode where Terry has emigrated to Australia sees Arthur standing at Terry's doorstep trying to coax him to come outside. With no response, Arthur tries slipping ten quid through the mail slot. Seconds later a passer-by mentions that Terry has headed Down Under, leaving Arthur in a fit that he cannot retrieve his ten pound note.

Dennis Waterman appeared twice at the Logies and once had his Terry McCann character parodied by Paul Hogan during one of his TV specials.

Minder was such a good show. Dennis Waterman appeared in some great TV programs - The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks among them.

 

[Free Agent]

Not a film but this is Miley Cyrus talking with a Aussie accent.

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[emuboy]

A bit of an odd one in a comedy movie released on Netflix today, Senior Year.

I haven't seen the movie yet, which is about a high school cheerleader named Stephanie who in 2002 falls into a coma after a cheerleading accident, and remains unconscious for 20 years, waking up in 2022 to a very different world.

The teenage version of Stephanie is played by Angourie Rice, and the older version who wakes up from the coma by Rebel Wilson. Both Wilson and Rice are Australian and both speak with their natural accents in the movie, plus her bedroom is filled with Australian things. However, the film is set in America, Stephanie's parents are both American so she's not a foreign exchange student or from an Australian family living in the USA, and just how she has her accent is apparently never explained in the movie.

I went to the comments section on You Tube to see if there was any explanation given in the film, but from what those who have seen it were saying, there isn't one offered. Interestingly, both Rebel Wilson and Angourie Rice have convincingly played Americans in the past and in the case of Wilson English girls too.

 

[troybe]

In Along Came Polly, Stiller is doing risk assessment on Bryan Brown, Brown gets to the top of his building preparing to basejump and flys over the edge. The parachute deploys and there is a massive Boxing Kangaroo on it.


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[STFU Donnie]

I caught a bit of Singing In The Rain this morning. In it, Gene Kelly is late catching up with Donald O'Connor, who asks "How did you come, by way of Australia?"

Never noticed it before; I suppose this thread has embedded in my mind.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Don't tell mom the babysiters's dead
Catch Me if you can
War of the worlds "what's the capital of Australia"

 

[troybe]

In Papi Chulo Matt Bomer’s character wears a pink singlet emblazoned with Mate on the front and the Southern Cross on the back

 

[sdfc]

Not a film, but the Kinks album Arthur was about a guy who eventually moves to Australia.

 

[emuboy]

In the 2005 action comedy 'The Pacifier' Navy Seal Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is assigned to watch a large family whose scientist father has been murdered by terrorists, who are still keen to obtain the programs the father has been working on.

One scene features the rebellious oldest daughter Zoe (played by Brittany Snow) and her loser boyfriend throwing a party at the house without permission, with hundreds of teenagers turning up and the scene descending into anarchy, until Lt. Wolf puts a stop to the nonsense. During the party, Zoe is wearing a very short mini-skirt and a black AC/DC tee-shirt.

 

[troybe]

In US Marshals the Feds talk to a bloke who gave Snipes a lift on the back of his F150 there’s a Jayco camper

 

[emuboy]

In the forgotten 1999 crime-drama movie 'Brokedown Palace' Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale play two American girls who have just graduated high school, but instead of going to Hawaii with their classmates for a vacation, they secretly travel to Thailand. There they meet a handsome and charming young Australian man played by Daniel La Paine, who in fact is a drug smuggler who sets the girls up as mules, the two young women thrown into a hellish and brutal Thai prison when arrested at the airport.

It obviously isn't a movie or TV show, but the Irish folk song 'Black Velvet Band' which was a major hit for the Irish Rovers also mentions Australia, and also has somebody set up for a crime they didn't commit. In the song, the young man leaves his rural Irish home and to Belfast, where he meets and is enamored by a beautiful young woman who ties her hair back with a black velvet band. Unfortunately for the young man, his new girlfriend is a skilled thief, who steals a watch and then plants it on him to avoid being captured herself. The young man is then arrested, tried and sentenced to seven years in Van Diemen's Land for the theft.

 

[phantom13]

A bit of an odd one in a comedy movie released on Netflix today, Senior Year.

I haven't seen the movie yet, which is about a high school cheerleader named Stephanie who in 2002 falls into a coma after a cheerleading accident, and remains unconscious for 20 years, waking up in 2022 to a very different world.

The teenage version of Stephanie is played by Angourie Rice, and the older version who wakes up from the coma by Rebel Wilson. Both Wilson and Rice are Australian and both speak with their natural accents in the movie, plus her bedroom is filled with Australian things. However, the film is set in America, Stephanie's parents are both American so she's not a foreign exchange student or from an Australian family living in the USA, and just how she has her accent is apparently never explained in the movie.

I went to the comments section on You Tube to see if there was any explanation given in the film, but from what those who have seen it were saying, there isn't one offered. Interestingly, both Rebel Wilson and Angourie Rice have convincingly played Americans in the past and in the case of Wilson English girls too.

Year old bump but i did watch this at some point and i didnt even think of it.

 

[troybe]

In Free Guy, Millie has a Tame Impala poster in her apartment

 

[emuboy]

In the 1999 comedy 'Big Daddy', Adam Sandler plays Sonny, an immature slacker ne'er do well, who is forced to grow up and take more responsibility for his young son.

Although the bumbling Sonny does his best there are some rocky moments, such as when he takes his son to McDonalds for breakfast and when the boy insists on watching something called 'The Kangaroo Song', which turns out to be a video of an American guy in a horrendously bad kangaroo costume jumping around with a group of young children while singing a terrible song that is guaranteed to get stuck in your head for days on end. After watching the video, Sonny despairs about how much of a challenge parenthood really is.

 

[troybe]

In The Golden Child one of the henchmen Monkey Man is wearing a Foster’s Lager T shirt or singlet under his open shirt

In Midsommar, Pugh has a small holiday snap with the Sydney Opera House in the background on her wall

 

[emuboy]

In one episode of the classic 1990s sitcom 'One Foot in the Grave' Victor and Margaret Meldrew's house is burgled, and one of the items stolen is their VCR.

Several weeks later this the perpetually grumpy Victor Meldrew receives an unexpected telephone call from one of the burglars (voiced by the late John Challis) who robbed the house, asking for verbal directions or even better the manual on how to set the timer on the video. This is because he is out stealing or fencing stolen property most nights and doesn't like to miss the Australian soap opera 'Home and Away'.

Needless to say, Victor Meldrew is anything but pleased about getting a phone call from the man who stole his VCR asking for directions to set the timer so he can record and watch 'Home and Away'.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Chris from pet shop boys was in Neighbour..
Asking 2 old ladies were the recording studio was.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

In Midsommar, Pugh has a small holiday snap with the Sydney Opera House in the background on her wall

So THAT'S where things started to go wrong! SBS were showing Midsommar/Hereditary back to back the other night. Good night in!

Is there anything Toni Collete can't do?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

A bit of an odd one in a comedy movie released on Netflix today, Senior Year.

I haven't seen the movie yet, which is about a high school cheerleader named Stephanie who in 2002 falls into a coma after a cheerleading accident, and remains unconscious for 20 years, waking up in 2022 to a very different world.

The teenage version of Stephanie is played by Angourie Rice, and the older version who wakes up from the coma by Rebel Wilson. Both Wilson and Rice are Australian and both speak with their natural accents in the movie, plus her bedroom is filled with Australian things. However, the film is set in America, Stephanie's parents are both American so she's not a foreign exchange student or from an Australian family living in the USA, and just how she has her accent is apparently never explained in the movie.

I went to the comments section on You Tube to see if there was any explanation given in the film, but from what those who have seen it were saying, there isn't one offered. Interestingly, both Rebel Wilson and Angourie Rice have convincingly played Americans in the past and in the case of Wilson English girls too.

Just re-read this! Still haven't seen the movie but here's an explanation;

Waking Up With a New Accent: Foreign Accent Syndrome Is a Real Thing

After brain trauma, some wake up with a whole new accent

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Groucho]

A couple of Australian wine references.
In Frasier , Niles and Frasier have to have a taste off to see who can become “Cork master” at their wine club. The first wine, which they both get right, is “Australian Shiraz”.
In Northern Exposure , Adam Arkin plays an angry scruffy looking hermit who turns out to have once been a Michelin level chef. He decides to put on a fine dining banquet for everyone but is mad that the only wine available is “Australian wine” he rants on about it until you hear someone on the table say “actually it’s pretty good”.