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wendy so i got that going darling

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welcome to vintage video where we'll be

reviewing every major film release of

the 1980s in real time

i'm patrick o'reilly i'm jesse bayless

and i'm richard wells and today marks

the 40th anniversary of the release of

my brilliant career on

february 1st 1980. it was written by

eleanor whitcomb

and directed by jillian armstrong and

released by g-u-o

film distributors did not look up what

that stands for this time

and i think we mentioned last week that

fatso was

uh directed by one of ten working female

film correct directors in the world

and this is another example of that

another female film director so

presumably is this one of the two

another of the other ten

film directors guo stands for greater

union organization okay

maybe maybe i did look it up and then i

decided that was just intensely boring

it was really small but then it says pty

i'm assuming that's

party limited i don't know i just like

that the word that tripped you up was

the organization

yeah it's organization we're gonna work

one of these days richard's just

learning how to read ladies and

gentlemen

um this film was adapted from a book

written by miles franklin who was 16

when she wrote it in 1901

it's written by a 16 year old sequel

book

my career goes bung has never been

adapted for film

i did not make that up um yeah so

when we get into it we start in possum

gully australia in

uh 1897. it's dusty

there's a windstorm in fact happening

right away and she seems to be ignoring

it while she's

uh discussing to herself her plans for

her future i don't know if this is

supposed to

be taking place at the end of the movie

or at the beginning

like is this is this i think this is the

beginning it's

we're setting her up here to demonstrate

that she is

either or potentially both uh willfully

disobeying

her her parents by not listening to

their calls

you know to to help you know button up

the house because the winds are blowing

because they have like 12 kids that are

out in this dusty field or that she's

just totally oblivious to the world

right and she being uh our our

protagonist sabila

who is known as sib by her her siblings

they referred her as sib that's a really

lazy nickname

yeah hey sib it's like you can't

remember my name

oh wait that's kind of short for my name

yeah it's not like we would say bro

yeah exactly yeah that's this that

evolved from this

um so yeah she thinks she's better than

her family basically because they're all

out there working on the animals and

she's like

i'm gonna be better than you she's

directing this letter to like

her fellow countrymen like it's just

like an abstract letter to

the world i guess see that's why i

thought that the scene

after watching the movie i thought that

this scene was a flashback

and then it cut to the before

i i don't think so because i mean i

think throughout the movie in theory

she's writing

the story in which we're saying i think

it actually works either way though

because i i feel like she ends up in the

same place where she starts the film

yeah um but uh spoiler alert

but um so she yeah she's at this

crappy house in the middle of nowhere

with her parents and her

eight siblings uh working on a dust farm

on the verge of starvation probably how

does one farm

dust fairly carefully i feel like it

doesn't have to be careful at all well

if you're not careful then you can die

from

lung cancer from the dust all that dust

blows away when you have a big storm

yeah and then when you lose the whole

harvest he lost the whole harvest

i believe it is a cattle ranching and

possible i don't know if they were they

were milking cows but i don't know if

the milk was for them or for

so they are wrestling some bovine in

this scene

um but then she's complaining to her

sister about how

she has to live here and her sister's

like i know you're better than all of us

and then she gets a letter from grandma

saying hey well but no she

that the letter it comes after her

parents basically tell her

they're like hey you're good for nothing

we don't want you we've sold you off to

be a servant somewhere and she's

basically refusing to go

yeah and then like just in the nick of

time you know granny says hey come live

with his head instead

correct yeah yes okay it happens again

later okay it does happen twice then

yeah

okay i didn't remember that in the

beginning um but yeah she gets a letter

from grandma inviting her to

cadegate which is like the downton abbey

of this movie

yeah basically or one of the downton

abbeys yeah one of the two downton

abbeys the dueling cause she goes to the

larger abbey

later yeah which is sounds more like a

burger joint than

a downton abbey to me because it's

called five bob

or something like that um but yeah so

literally getting off the carriage in

category she's

hit on by uh frank hodden

who uh is he reminds me of my

brother-in-law

in terms of his looks um he's very uh

fancy gentleman mustachioed his hair is

parted down the middle um always fond of

a sing song

yeah like in a parlor but the most

boring possible sing songs

this this is towards the beginning of

people just saying

really terrible things to sib like

directly to her face

throughout the whole movie this is a

recurring like

horrible theme where people just you

know ridicule her

left and right saying the most atrocious

things in casual conversation

as if it didn't mean anything one of the

first harshest things she's sitting on

the

carriage with him and he says i mean

you're not you're not at all like them

this is bossy or you're on mrs bill

there's

indeed like just like just slaps it off

completely it actually reminded me of um

what is that the hbo show is a gentleman

jack yeah

she reminds me of that character yeah a

little bit i wrote i wrote down a couple

of the moments when they were just

totally insulting her to her face and

one of them was uh a plane looks never

stopped anyone from being

intelligent or witty or making friends

i like those like my nose is the wrong

shape i know

the one was just stop looking in mirrors

her aunt just like

helpfully drapes blankets over all the

mirrors in the house like oh well you

don't have to see this gross specter of

a person fixes everything

i have a plan you never make me more

than middling ugly

we'll see but first of all no more

looking in mirrors

but yet she gets hit on immediately upon

arrival right

yeah and uh and the next day

she's like reading a book under a tree

and he gives her a bunch of flowers and

he's not even like 15 20 steps away

before she just

hucks him into a lake yeah just like

okay whatever

not interested well and didn't he didn't

he propose by basically saying hey looks

aren't everything

marry me right but also the night before

when when her aunt is covering up all

the mirrors she's literally saying

like yes i know you're you're a sad

because no one loves you and wants to

marry you

and the next day like a guy's literally

trying to propose to her already and

she's like what no i don't want that

it's like i want desperately for someone

to propose to me but just not this guy

well but also not anyone like like

she's

she's really adamant that that marriage

is not for her

and that she wants to pursue her career

and she you know at the beginning she's

not

she's she's interested in writing but

she was also you know fantasizing about

all these other potential careers that

she could have she wants to be a pianist

or

arts or opera like she has she's all

these fancy

things that she would like to do but she

has no none of the means to even get

started on any of them or an actress but

that's why she's against high society

where her grandma is

she's here for grandma's makeover to

make her into a fancy woman basically

it's grandma eye for the weird girl

[Laughter]

and uh and then what is she doing in the

tree she's like

just pulling stuff out of the tree i

think she's picking flowers or something

or fruits or something

or something yeah she because she's

collecting them in her dress but they

right they seem to be very

light and i don't know if it's like a

like a fragrant kind of flower yeah i

mean they kind of look like a little

honeysuckle or something

but it doesn't look like it's like

something that needed to be done or that

anyone asked her to do she's kind of

like

free range just like wandering around oh

yeah she's a shiftless layabout

yeah exactly um but while she's working

in this tree she is approached by

sam neil as harry beechum and uh the

first thing he does is kneel behind her

she's on the top of like

this ladder reaching up or is she on a

ladder or is she just climbed into the

tree

she's above a ladder she's sitting on a

branches but he kneels in the foreground

and we just see him kneel and i was like

oh i know that

neil not just because it's samuel but

because it's the exact same position

that he's in when he's looking at the

giant pile of

triceratops poop in jurassic park sam

neil has a specific

meal yes okay it's called the sam neil

that's what they call it so he kind of

hits on her there a little bit

he he helps her down from the tree by

like grabbing her around the waist under

her skirt

yeah yeah he gets a little fresh with

her yeah but then she

you know she plays along with him she

puts on some sort of irish accent and

sort of pretends to be a servant girl

and she won't tell them her name or

anything right and she'd be in coy

yeah and uh and he's like oh don't i get

a reward for helping you down

and uh so they kind of part ways without

exchanging any information

until that evening when both of her

prospective suitors arrive at the party

at category at the same time

um and it turns out that harry beach him

is harry beach him who is like a

childhood

friend yeah um who he did he say he

recognized no neither one

said he didn't she said she didn't yeah

nobody recognizes anyone

and then uncle jj shows up who is my

favorite character he's the best

he's so great he's just like he's he's

the least judgmental person in the whole

film he just doesn't carry

and you can tell that he like genuinely

loves her and thinks that she's the

funniest thing

well the the the aunt and the uncle uh

yeah they're both gay and gussy and

uncle julius are both just

really like a fun group yeah compared to

the grandmother

and so hadn't tries to like lead the

party in one of his dumb sing songs

that's like yeah it's like that's

literally the alert

the most boring is is there are there

more lyrics to that song

i guess not that was actually the first

public domain song ever

it was public domain at the time um

but then used that in a disney movie too

what movie did they use that in

you're right i'm hearing it in like this

tarara boom day

it's like an older character i want to

say jungle book or something

ah i don't know it'll come maybe it's in

aristocats

somewhere oh that sounds right

yeah it's also like the howdy duty

song

that's what it's originally from well no

it's probably the howdy duty probably

used it because it was public domain

music

um but yeah so he's singing that and

boring everyone to sleep

and then uh sib decides she's gonna

start singing like some

drinking song which is like equally

boring by today's standards

but right everyone in the room is not

shocking yeah they're not appropriate

yes jj thinks it's funny where did you

hear that it's like well in the pub of

course

yeah you know because she used to drag

her and he's like drinking father out of

the pub

she's full of surprises this one like

laughing about it but everyone else is

just like oh she might as well be like

singing like a theme song from a famous

porn or something

yeah do porns have theme songs i don't

i've never seen one

i've never seen one my dear wife

anyway um so the next day

less than 24 hours after meeting him uh

hodden proposes to her

uh he meets her by this gate

outside of a goat paddock and he's just

like

so you know looks aren't that important

to me uh

we should just get married or what looks

aren't everything and harry is gone

like oh that other guy left so what are

you gonna do

huh are you gonna wait around for

another like 12 hours for someone else

to show

no you're going to marry me right now

and she just shoves him over the

gate into the paddock um and she goes

back to the house because she doesn't

want to marry this guy

and he's an idiot and then she gets an

invitation

she she's her her aunt is trying to set

her up with people

and i may have coordinated this thing

with

with hotten i it's not really clear do

you think that she

like the aunt was trying to make that

happen the aunt not the grandmother i

think

possibly because she does to give her

like a lecture like

stop trying to set me up with people

like stop trying to marry me off

because she's like starting to suggest

other suitors that she could you mean

the young

the younger aunt gussy or something no

no gussy is the older aunt

oh okay and helen is the helen the the

the younger

okay who i was trying to figure out how

is she an aunt

yeah her mother's sister but she see

they look like they're the same age well

that's the thing though is that

in in the 1890s you just kept having

kids forever

you have 12 kids and then there's you

know there's 20 years

you know between them um but yeah so

she's like you can stop

trying to marry me off and she's like oh

well then i guess you don't want this

invitation to

to five bob to go see

yeah five bobs burgers and goats or

whatever

and uh yeah when she gets the she's

of course she's instantly like yes i'm

gonna go and it just gets to her like on

the carriage with sam neal already like

he came to retrieve her i guess um and

when they pull up

um his mother is standing on the porch

and is just like

oh there's no resemblance to the family

a pity

oh you're ugly why is my son oh darn i

thought you were

i thought you were going to be pretty or

something and she even said something

like yeah i'm sorry

sorry i look like this sorry this is my

face

what's wrong with your face what's wrong

with your face

what's wrong with your face

um and then she kind of leans into that

whole kind of talk later she says

i think ugly girls should be strangled

at birth by their parents

it's bad enough to be born a girl but to

be born ugly and clever and then

augusta's like oh clever are you

you're clearly talking about yourself

when she goes i better be

because i have nothing else going on

there has to be something i'm good at

oh there's sure to be right right like

you know you're not actually clever but

you've got to have something figure out

a talent you can probably like

tie a cherry stem and a knot in your

mouth or something

that's worth being alive but but i like

then then like they're up drinking all

night he's like

another glass of pork won't hurt us yeah

like aunt and gusie's the best

yeah um and then uh the next morning

she's out

on a canoe or like a little raft with

with

beecham and uh decides it would be funny

to tip the whole thing over

right um and so they go into the water

and he like thinks he's rescuing her

but they're both fine they're just

completely wet and they come very close

to kissing but then just

don't yeah and go back into the house

well they and they continually do this

like throughout the film where they they

play rather childish games right

and like i could forgive her because she

generally seems to be a child what is

she 16 or something in this film

yeah well that's how old the author was

when she wrote the story so i think

that's how she's yeah and but he's a bit

older but he still seems to just be

going along with these very

childish they have a very prolonged

pillow fight

it's like the most the most epic ground

covering pillow fight short of the

community episode

it's like it's like three minutes long

it's like 4 17 seven chase each other

across half of australia

yeah yeah it's um you guys didn't hear

it

unless you listened to the last episode

but um when i played the trailer

for this movie it uh is the pillow fight

is described in the trailer so it's like

just a collection of reviews like

so and so it says magnificent so and so

it says extraordinary

and then just one trailer is weirdly

specific and says a delicious pillow

fight far more erotic in its

connotations than

than most r-rated movies managed to be i

have to say that this is the point where

i started really like really getting

into the movie

like i was kind of calm down richard i

know you like pictures

he even grabbed a pillow and put it in

his lap

because he just wanted to be near

pillows yeah because like i was like i

was just like watching i was like will

you guys have sex already

finally you were rooting for something

um

but yeah so they they pillow fight for

like three minutes

and end in like a field and just lay on

the pillows and start talking to each

other

so yeah she she basically that's the end

of their interactions at five bob and

she goes back

to live with her grandmother again right

because he says he's gonna be gone

for weeks right but promises to be to

see her the moment he gets back

right and she's been back with grandma

for a couple weeks and she finds out oh

we have some mail we need to take

over to harry beacham and they're like

she's like oh

is he back already and they're like oh

yeah he's been back for weeks

didn't say anything to you did he she's

like oh well then i'm gonna help you

deliver the mail and they're like no

you're not

cut to her delivering the mail on the

carriage i'm very impressed

she did but she ditched the guy though

so like they said you can't go

unescorted

and she you know she's like oh you got

to open this gate for me and when he

opens the gate for her she just

takes off with the thing that goes on

her own cotton gets off of the horses

and she just leaves him well and then

uncle julius

and and gusty are just like angus he

doesn't think this is funny but

when they get like i think this is

really funny so you had to walk all the

way back in those tight boots

yeah he's just cracking up they're

laughing but i have to say that

the thing that impresses the me the most

about this time period is the

the efficiency of the postal system like

all these letters that keep getting

written and

delivered perfectly yeah it's like it's

really well established she showed up in

the town it was like an amazon

fulfillment center did you see all those

packages

yeah there was a lot of stuff going on

at the same time here's all the stuff

you ordered but these

other things weren't you know in yet so

tell tell your grandma that they're

coming

um so yeah so she confronts

harry because he's like at the

distribution center

and uh and he like takes his mail and

he's like oh yeah sorry

i didn't uh didn't get in touch with you

like no excuse and he doesn't kind of

sluff it off he just kind of says

yeah i'm sorry whatever and

she's like okay fine and she goes back

to her grandma's house

and uh she she has a conversation with

her younger aunt again

what did you say her name was helen

helen and helen just says like

what did you think was going to happen

did you think he was going to propose to

you like

he's not going to i just want to make

sure you understand he's not going to

propose to you because you're

not pretty enough for him and she's like

yeah i know and she's like okay i just

wanted to make sure

that you knew that he's not going to

propose to you so

don't expect that just over and over

again hammering it in like

leave him alone and at some point is it

is it is it helen's

husband who left or is it

oh she she tells a story about marrying

for love

right and she said i'm married for love

but then he left me

and didn't even give me like a divorce

so she can't remarry

yeah right so she's trying to teach her

the lesson here that that like you

should

you should be practical about this which

is really funny because she's acting

like she i guess it sounded like she

tells people that her husband is

dead rather than yeah having left her

because it would be less embarrassing to

marry a widow than a divorced woman

or uh separated woman i guess

she's not even technically divorced um

but then there's another party

going on um at five bob again

and so everyone's going to that so she

decides she's gonna go along to that

uh but harry beacham has a new

girlfriend already at this party

yes i believe i believe it's gertie it's

her younger sister

yeah well no no no that was after that

was later

this is a different girl um but yeah so

she goes to this other party

and everyone's really boring and fancy

so she

decides she's going to hang out with the

help and sing all of her favorite

drinking stuff oh yeah that's when we

get to the

the lower decks of the titanic right

exactly spinning around and yeah

and even then again jj is just like oh

cool she knows this dance

and everyone else is just like oh this

is weird because after so she goes in

there to go enjoy herself away from all

the stuffy rich people

and then all the stuffy rich people

parade in and like

sit down like it's a human zoo right

watch

the help go and be you know watch these

silly people dancing

around and but i think jj even starts

dancing with them yeah yeah

so does aunt gussie like yeah i think i

think it was just like

you know that these are the people who

serve us and now they're getting their

time

to celebrate too but it starts as like a

like we're just gonna watch you for

entertainment value well i think that

i i i see and i don't see that i think i

feel i i felt it was just more like

we want to see you guys having a good

time because we we we catered this to

you as well

but it was clearly inappropriate for her

to be tart partaking like they were all

giving her glares

yeah you know and to the point where um

you know harry reddick

literally yeah abandoned his girlfriend

drags her out of the room

yeah he takes her into this like little

cottage next door

and starts lecturing her about what

she's doing and what her plans for the

future are

and uh they're both really mad at each

other in this scene

but by the time he gets to proposing to

her she's already furious

and shooting him down immediately and

just like no it's not

it's not something i ever intended to do

and he like grabs her to like force a

kiss on her

and she smacks him across the face with

this like writing crop

yeah yeah she actually cuts it yeah on

the face and

immediately is like oh like i meant

to hit you but i did i shouldn't have

hit you with this

and i shouldn't hit you so hard yeah i

definitely shouldn't have said it was

illegal

it's too hot today and and it's it's

like she you can see like that she's

like

i don't know what's going to happen next

yeah like is he going to beat me

is like i don't know and to his credit

he takes it very much in stride you can

tell he's furious because

he's sam nail and he can show you with

his eyes when he's mad right

but he's just like puts a rag to his

face

and turns to walk out and she's like

tries to apologize as he's leaving

and they don't really have much more of

a conversation um when she gets back to

her grandmother's house

um she says hey guess what your drunk

dad lost a lot of money

and your family instead of paying off

their debts has sold you

as a teacher to this family

that lives in like a junkyard her and

harry go

wandering about till the wee hours of

the morning oh you're right you're right

so before that happens though like you

you see them in the in the wee hours in

the morning essentially

like having talked all night and like

hashed out their problems and are

you know now he repeats the proposal and

she basically says

give me a couple years to think about it

like a couple days a couple years

literally two years

she wants to go and like you know see

the world and pursue her career

and try to figure out things before she

decides to marry him and and he's like

yeah cool i'll give you your space

in the meantime we can be friends and we

will we will remain friends

mates right which sounds like halfway

between friends and

sexual partners to me but it's australia

so it's completely sexual partners no

there's no non-sexual partners from what

i understand yeah whenever they say good

i might

it's just like it's called the coriolis

effect

i don't know what that means it has to

do with the

rotation whether you're north or south

of the yeah i watched that episode of

simpsons too this is a family podcast

um but yeah so as soon as she gets back

to grandma's though grandma's like hey

guess what you're a slave

uh go to this junkyard governess right

same thing um but she gets it literally

just looks like

a bunch of garbage piled up in the shape

of a schoolhouse

and there's like five kids squeezing

around oh it's more like ten kids

yeah yeah there was a lot of them and it

was all just for this one family

yeah and so she's gonna teach all these

kids how to read

um but presumably this guy with this you

know garbage pile of a hut and ten kids

is well enough off that he is owed a

bunch of money by her father

right yeah well he's got a mud farm see

they had a dust farm

this is a platform that's twice as many

ingredients

[Laughter]

but uh yeah so she's teaching these

terrible

kids and the mom the whole time is like

my kids are stupid you're never gonna

get them to learn a thing i don't even

know why we bothered to drag you out

here

you're not even worth the debt that you

owe us right and they're horrible to her

they are yeah but she loses her

and beats the crap out of one of the

kids and then the mom like comes over to

see like oh why is my kid screaming

and sib is just staring her down like if

you interrupt this spanking

i'm just gonna murder you like what she

looks really mad well plus you just you

take away you would take away

all of her any kind of authority you

would guarantee that i am not worth the

money that i'm supposedly paying off if

you interrupt this process

and so she turns around and then the

kids are immediately like you're great

we're going to listen everything you say

and they all learn to read

yeah right they learn to read the

literally like the newspaper that's

lining their house like insulation with

newspaper and they're reading a story

off of the wall but they come to love

her

they do it's like mary poppins but in

garbageville

if mr banks was a carpenter yesterday

spoon full of garbage makes the medicine

garbage is the interesting

like uh not theme what's the word i'm

looking for

uh the interesting plot device anyway is

like when she's at her first home she's

got a piano and the piano is just a

little awesome

it's a bad piano she can play it well

but it's badly tuned and judy davis to

her credit

uh learned to play right all her own uh

parts that she played but then when she

gets like to the fancy household it's a

really nice

you know well-tuned piano and when they

get

when he gets to like the junkyard family

it's like it's like

barely a harpsichord it's like it's like

it's like a string to piano

yeah like i mean but like not more like

a plucking string like a harpsichord

but it's just making like this really

grinding noise when she's trying to play

the

it's like she's actually taking a step

down from where she started yeah

but she but she becomes friends with the

kids essentially right and

so close with them in fact well she

wasn't she was just chatting right

with one of the eldest boys but the

parents misinterpreted it as

look we know our son's hot but you can't

marry

our son because he's making a lot of

progress with the rich family over the

hill

and she's like that is embarrassing and

gross that you think i would fall in

love with your garbage son

but she doesn't say that she lets them

fire her yeah she lets them fire her

and relieve her father of his debts so

that she can go back to

her house the dust the slightly better

piano farms yeah

so yeah she goes back and uh harry meets

her there by now he's dating her sister

well that's what people had been saying

yeah right but i mean he's been

he's been taking her on dates when when

she became a servant

the her family sent the next option to

grandma for

you know finishing school how about this

one

and she has a newer model no offense to

judy davis a little bit more attractive

than judy davis and isn't getting the

same comments from everyone like

probably ugly like it was just like oh

this one is an actual like

we could we could bag harry beach him

with this one let's set them up

um and uh but she's well well humorously

enough though

like he like she she found out through

the grapevine i guess that he had lost

the farm or no he told her that yeah

that was it he told her that night that

he was losing everything because

you know and he was going up north to

like take care of the properties up

there because he was losing

the five bob's burgers right yeah but he

managed to rearrange everything he put

some fries to the side

he started another burner and he saved

the place so he's not losing his family

fortune

and things are progressing with her

sister presumably through the grapevine

anyway

and she thinks oh well you know what my

sister's a much better fit for you

anyway and we're still friends

and that's fine right and he says no i

still want to marry you

it's been a couple years presumably i

don't know how long it's been but

well that's what she asked for he's like

saying he's living up to the promise

that they made to each other

that after two years like i would do my

thing you would do your thing

and how did your brilliant career work

out yeah teaching garbage people how to

read

it's like did you figure out what was

wrong with the world and she says yeah

it was me

yeah the moral of the story is

don't be an independent woman that's

what's wrong with it

but we say she turns him down again she

does

you know because the whole thing is like

and i like that she keeps repeating the

the logic of why do we have to get

married

why does that have to be a part of it

can't we just be

in a relationship with each other why do

we have to like tie each other into like

this marriage for my value and i can't

have a career or anything i literally

just have to

and they hammer on it every every

location that these people have

10 12 kids each there's just piles of

kids tumbling out of the cupboards

but yeah so she's like i don't want to

turn into a kid factory

i just want to you know write books and

be myself

and he's like okay then we're still

friends

and she writes a book and sends it off

to a publisher

so i could tell you you know i really

enjoyed this movie

actually yeah but the biggest flaw of

this movie

and you're going to think i'm pretty is

was casting sam neil

i would say sorry sweetie and i'd give

you this ring yep

and i would leave with dr alan grant

this is i mean otherwise it was a great

movie you know

it's just not realistic when you cast

such a handsome man

but kudos to writer eleanor whitcomb and

director jillian armstrong for having

this story and putting it together there

there was like this obviously the book

was controversial when it first came out

and i don't think it was much less

controversial in the 80s

but um well it was uh they held the

i guess the estate held back publishing

right until like 10 years after

miles death yeah uh so it ended up

coming out in the 50s or 60s yeah in the

60s and so they had like a resurgence

but the director who when she directed

this film was 29

um and she also directed the little

women in 1994

the uh wynonna writer kirsten dunst

claire danes one oh okay

and the writer eleanor whitcomb this was

her second

and last screenplay after the getting of

wisdom

in 1977. so she only wrote two movies

but this one did really well for

everybody demian did well

in australia and everything yeah and

here

um and uh judy davis actually won

two baptists for her performance in this

movie because the baftas have a best

actress and a best newcomer and she won

both of them for this performance

which doesn't happen very often um this

is judy davis's second

movie ever it was earlier

um yeah she does yeah uh but this is

actually one of her more famous films

apparently in her career i didn't

realize that i've known her from other

things but

um this quote was great uh

that although it prepared her to start

him she was miserable during its

production and can't stand to watch the

film today

oh interesting yeah um she's been in

five woody allen movies which is why

you're not as familiar with her because

oh yeah

you can't stand his movies most of the

time don't don't spoil it for everyone

wait till we get to

it missed a lot of the big ones already

but you know like a you know like she's

like i like her in barton fank and

and she's and the ref i think is always

like one of my favorite

like you know comedies yeah christmas

comedies and

she also played heda hopper on feud

betty and joan which was from the guy

that does the american horror story

shows and stuff like that but he did a

show that was about

betty davis and and joan crawford joan

crawford

fighting yeah yeah and i just bring it

up because uh in our last episode

richard had referred to her judy davis

eyes

she was actually played an actress in

the betty davis story

on that show so that was an interesting

connection sam neil is our first

marvel cinematic universe actor yeah in

any of the movies we've discussed so far

i racked my brain about it okay are you

coming up with who he played well

i we discussed it recently so i'm not

going to spoil it for richard

in the marvel cinematic universe he's

been in the marvel cinematic universe

wow it's he's the only one that i can

think of

we'll call it a cami it's a cameo

with a director who he's worked with in

the past i don't i don't have it

thor ragnarok oh my god i can't believe

i forgot

about the play and liam hemsworth right

matt damon as loki yeah for the second

time in his career

oh i can't believe it because he's also

loki in the movie because the hump for

the wilder people

yeah that movie is great um

but yeah this is only samuel's fourth

movie um

he's been in the last couple that taika

ytt did although i don't think he's in

jojo rabbit

which is unfortunate because in two

years after this one he would be well i

guess one year

well because this was released in 79 but

released in the u.s in 80 which is

that's why we're reviewing right now but

uh the next year 81 when he did

possession

that's the beginning of the crazy sam

neil trilogy

you know how much i love that movie that

movie is incredible we're going to hit

all three of the

insane ones if we keep this podcast

going because when does in the mouth of

madness

hit mid 80s i would say 84 85

which is another fantastic film and then

event horizon is in the mid to late 90s

yeah

but um like you know most of the actors

i feel like i recognized them but i

didn't really know any of the parts when

i looked them up

but i didn't know who played the

character of horus

i couldn't figure out who it was uh but

the actor david franklin i liked because

uh he was on farscape

oh yeah and he was one of my favorite

characters on farscape and i was

racking my brain like like horus who was

horse

but he was probably i think wasn't horus

one of the kids

yeah i i was like listed as the brother

as one of her brothers

from the farm oh from the farm yeah

because he would have been in his his

teens yeah he was young because he was

in the matrix reloaded as the maitre d

yeah it could have been it could have

been one of the the garbage children or

her brothers

it could have been yeah yeah it could

have been either one um and he also

played miklo braca on farscape

that's the character i'm talking about

that's who you're practicing is great i

don't

know any of that show he also apparently

played

he wasn't an assistant director he

played an assistant director

in crocodile dundee in los angeles

um but one other credit that i thought

was really interesting

um you had uh

who was it max cullen was mr mcswat the

father of the garbage kids

um he played travis hudson in x-men

wolverine he played the old farmer

there's a scene where wolverine is very

injured and he comes upon this farm in

the middle of nowhere right right right

his farmer and his wife take him in so

they get killed don't they right they do

they get murdered

but mr mcswat is the father of the

garbage children and then the woman who

played

sib's mother played heather hudson the

farmer's wife

which is i mean it's a big australia

connection like there's so many

australian people and new zealanders

and in both of these movies so that

they tend to group together take away tt

casts almost exclusively

australian end why was there a bunch of

australian people in the wolverine

jackman's australia hugh jackman

gravitates towards that okay

um well far escape was all a new zealand

oh it was i believe it was a new zealand

australian production

yeah and um i think we we looked it up

at

sam neil like grew up in new zealand but

he was born in

europe somewhere and moved to new

zealand when he was a kid yeah

or something like that yeah that's why

he was born in like ireland or something

and that's

also probably why taika got approached

for the thor movie is because chris

hemsworth is from australia

um but yeah it was great i i did enjoy

this film

well i always like me a good pastoral

drama with a strong-headed woman

yeah yeah far from the madding crowd i

i love that book oh okay yeah it's very

similar it's very it's

similar to that i mean she's not a she

wants to be a writer and not an

independent farmer but you know very

similar though they have

she wanted to be an independent farmer

and madding crowd yeah

she well she has her own farm yeah but

she

but she brushes off the the advances of

of the men

because she wants to you know it's nice

that nowadays everyone can work that

dream out on their farmville account

waste their own strawberries um

but yeah um for me

letterbox twice this goes on top yeah i

would agree

i fully agree with of the four movies

we've watched so far this is

by far the best yes of course oh i liked

it way more

it took a while like when i was i i

watched it in two

two parts in the first part it's not

that long a movie but it actually kind

of drags a little bit in places yeah i

was like i was like oh boy this movie's

just wait taken it's time to get any

kind of attention

but my second viewing of the second half

i was like all right i'm really

i'm really kind of getting into this

things here now so we're all putting

this on top

yeah for our litter box list okay cool i

would say it's a it's a worth watching

for me yeah i think it's worth watching

absolutely absolutely all right so three

thumbs up for worth watching

um i think that's everything for this

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becoming a national celebrity in the

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about that and we will leave you now

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excuse me dr becker

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