Banter TRTT Part 14: 2022 Goodbye (To 2023)

[Powerade 08]

I didn't know who Angela White was but I do now. I will have to rub one out to her at some point in respect for her contributions to Australian fillum

 

[Dylan8]

I didn't know who Angela White was but I do now. I will have to rub one out to her at some point in respect for her contributions to Australian fillum

 

[HugeJohnson]

 

[JimmyBC]

I was also unaware of Angela White, but I plan to rectify the situation and she will be appearing soon on the big screen in the wank shed.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I can't put Mad Max in with the likes of Felicity and if it is considered Ozploitation, it obviously transcends it. I prefer to put it in with the Australian New Wave, or at least that's what my lecturer taught me. Really it stands on its own two feet or four wheels.

Mad Max is just a super cool film made on the smell of an oily rag and it has an apocalyptic vision that is set within the aesthetics of the Australian landscape.

Sure, Miller babbles on about Jungian archetypes and if you really want to drill down on it, archetypes are not Jungian, they are just archetypes but it has such a cool, Australian swagger that no other Australian film comes near.

It certainly is not a three act writing class but what it does have is a vision, an attitude and a real outback, Australian feel that no other film comes close to. Almost like a film noir where the overarching atmosphere is more important than the plot.

I think someone said nothing happens in the first hour of the film. Mad Max has one of the most iconic and electric opening scenes in cinematic history. Typing about it gives me goosebumps.

Mad Max is amazingly cool.
The interceptor is cool.
Goose is cool.
Toe Cutter is cool.
The action is friggin old school cool.

When I've been to film thingos, lazy Australian directors will always talk about their films saying that the Australian landscape in their film is a character unto itself but in Mad Max it actually is, without the pretentious bravado. It is harsh and sparse and brutal, just like the diegetic world it portrays.

Yes, Wake in Fright is good but like Walkabout, is it Australian?

For the discussion, I also like Muriel's Wedding, the Castle and Jedda. There is another film I must have left out. I will also give a big shout out to the TV show, Mr Inbetween.

In the end, it shows you that if you have a talented bloke with a vision and you throw some money at him, it can work. Instead, Australian films get rewritten within inches of their lives.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Bad boy bubby is the goat

Not bad. I remember when I was younger, me and my mates went around to all of the locations in one night.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I was also unaware of Angela White, but I plan to rectify the situation and she will be appearing soon on the big screen in the wank shed.

Jimmy leaning into the wank shed meme. I like it.

 

[edgie]

Is Wake In Fright Australian? Ffs Is that a serious question?

What Mad Max did, but also many other films from Aus did of the era, was direct cars in certain ways, that no movie from overseas has ever managed.

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[Doctor Feel]

direct cars in certain ways, that no movie from overseas has ever managed.

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Lol

 

[TazD]

Never seen a commodore emote like that before

 

[edgie]

Lol

Nobody shoots a car like an Australian - Tarantino

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[Contested Marx]

My Subaru Liberty just performed the opening act to Waiting for Godot with the neighbour's Kia Sportage

It was perfect

 

[backtozero]

Nobody shoots a car like an Australian - Tarantino

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I think what you mean is HAD ever managed. They've certainly come a long way since then.

Still though, the best car chase scene from that era is in Bullitt.

 

[JimmyBC]

Nobody shoots a car like an Australian - Tarantino

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He loves low budge aussie fare.

 

[Contested Marx]

Tarantino's a bit of a (film school nerd type of) wannabe hack who managed to nail the odd cool bit of dialogue and camera angle just at the turn of the century when cinema had started to become stale

Not to say he's not created some entertaining work

 

[backtozero]

Tarantino's a bit of a (film school nerd type of) wannabe hack who managed to nail the odd cool bit of dialogue and camera angle just at the turn of the century when cinema had started to become stale

Not to say he's not created some entertaining work

I think he creates these characters now that are amped up to 11 and cross the line from cool into annoying. Guy Ritchie is the same. They've become parodies of themselves since the turn of the Century.

 

[edgie]

I think what you mean is HAD ever managed. They've certainly come a long way since then.

Still though, the best car chase scene from that era is in Bullitt.

Fair point. I think specifically he said nobody feels a car with the fetishism of an Australian. Even something great like Bullitt isn't directed in that with the car.

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[edgie]

Tarantino's a bit of a (film school nerd type of) wannabe hack who managed to nail the odd cool bit of dialogue and camera angle just at the turn of the century when cinema had started to become stale

Not to say he's not created some entertaining work

He's to film what Nirvana was to rock music

I think I already made my opinion on that

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[backtozero]

He's to film what Nirvana was to rock music

I think I already made my opinion on that

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Maybe if he'd blown his brains out after Pulp Fiction.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

QT is a hack who is a movie guy who makes movies about other movies.

Some are OK though.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Lol canada drops the 2030 comm games. Shut it down, its done.

 

[sobrave]

Lol

The disrespect for lightning McQueen... I tell you hwhat

 

[JimmyBC]

Watching the House hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena.. UFO's are real chiwigi

 

[sobrave]

Tarantino's a bit of a (film school nerd type of) wannabe hack who managed to nail the odd cool bit of dialogue and camera angle just at the turn of the century when cinema had started to become stale

Not to say he's not created some entertaining work

Hateful Eight was piss
The Hollywood one with Brad pitt and Leo was self indulgent piss
Django was kinda entertaining but not something to blow your load over
Inglourious was just waaaaay overrated.

Pulp is still a genuinely good fillum and a good rewatch.

Reservoir dogs still has it's charms but pretty dated now

Forgot kill bill. Vol 1 was good fun but vol 2 again self indulgent piss

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Is Wake In Fright Australian? Ffs Is that a serious question?

What Mad Max did, but also many other films from Aus did of the era, was direct cars in certain ways, that no movie from overseas has ever managed.

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I'm an auteur theory guy and having a Canadian and a Brit make the best Australian film doesn't really ring true for me.

As I said, Mad Max has a cool Australian swagger than cannot be beat. Quintessential Australiana.