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The Trailer For Baz Luhrman’s AUSTRALIA Is Online Now!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Luhrman seems to really divide film fans. I know just as many people who hate his work as I do people who love it. I’m a fan. I think he’s three for three so far, and I love this glimpse of what we’ll see at the end of the year. I think this looks pretty grand, an interesting mix of deliberate artifice and sweeping location work. Luhrman’s one of the guys whose work intrigues me because so far, each of his films has been bold and different.
Color me curious at this point.
Check out Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman right here.
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parp.
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There was a new film from Baz. I love his stuff, and I'm heterosexual too, which probably makes me a new minority group.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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That was a fucking great trailer imo, hope this turns out good :) A bit distracting hearing that one riff from the Romeo + Juliet piano theme chucked into the middle of it though...
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That sure didn't look like a Baz movie. I happen to like his stuff, especially Moulin Rouge. I guess spinning the camera and quick-cutting like mad would harm a film like this, but that shit worked like a charm in MR.
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And if it doesn't have Bill Hunter in it then it doesn't deserve to carry that title.
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Loved the music, great cinematography as well.
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im loving it so far.
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OH GOD IT BURNS
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Looks neat.
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Awful.
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Nicole Kidman looks every ounce of botox and as woeful and unconvincing as ever...pics look nice though..hopefully it won't be stained with that embarrassing cocain driven editing that only underlined what a steaming turd of glitzy over art-directed moronic shit Moulin Rouge was.
Please enough of that shit about him being 'polarising'..that doesn't excuse delusional junk (it didn't make Von Trier's patently silly Dogville any more excusable either) - which is all he's pumped out since Strictly Ballroom (which at *least*) had a little humour and genuine drama.
Next, Canada The Movie..
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What is that orchestration from? It sounds so familiar-
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If this was by any other director I might be excited (it's not a bad trailer). Too bad his Romeo and Juliet was a monstrosity and Moulin Rouge was even worse.
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What's with the Ennio Morricone music in the middle though? Weird. Hated the Oz opening bit with Kidman though and the CG background.
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God damnit, why can't they ever used actors and actresses who are actually from that part of the world! Fucking this is almost worst then every actor in Munich!
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What is the film about? The trailer only shows beautiful pictures, but it doesn't draw the audience in because it doesn't outline a clear story. It looks like Cold Mountain via Far and Away. Still excited to see it.
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...for this. Australian historical movies are all the same. Though wtf @ Series7's post... last time I checked Kidman and Jackman were both Australian.
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ok, so the trailer is kinda muddled, but you get the gist...
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both jackman and kidman are aussies...although kidman plays an englishwoman...and i coulda sworn they were using aboriginal actors as aborigines...and im sorry, but tom cruise is gay...i dont give a shit that he married that skank and somehow fathered a kid...but how could any straight man walk out of a marriage with nicole? an absolutely classical beauty...who only gets more beautiful as she ages...its fucking scary
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and Oscary. Actually the film itself has plenty of elements that could lead me to think it's a frontrunner for the final victory: Luhrrman has been vindicated after his Moulin Rouge! snub, Kidman has been vindicated also for her absence in the last editions... however, the movie will have - from the trailer - passionate enemies, Baz's style is not that mainstream... But the epic scale, plus the fact that no Australian movie has earned the top prize can make the miracle (LotR was US/New Zealand, let's remember).
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Anyway, what a stupid title. Is this a tourist video or something? I can see all the next award-winning movies. "Mali", "Bosnia-Herzogovinia" and my personal favourite "Kyrgyzstan". Is Baz Luhrman suggesting that he's going to make some all-encapsulating comment about Australia in this film? Is he saying that he alone possesses the clearest definative view of the nation?
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Or did EVERY shot of that look ripped from other movies?
New rule: No more hands through grain shots for ten years. Thank you. -
Oh what? He's just a misunderstood genius?
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Yeah I know I was just fucking around. And still mad that movies like Munich get made with no one from the cast actually being of that culture or race. I know its not needed for every movie ever made to have matching people to their characters, but certain movies should have people of that nationality. Like would this movie be the same had Brad Pitt been the lead in it?
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I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. Loved Romeo and Juliet, still do. Neosamurai, agreed on the hands-through-grain shots.
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That I don't think I've sat all the way through Moulin Rouge yet. I remember when I bought it years ago and kept watching it and something would come up and I would never finish it. But since that time I had watched Strictly Ballroom all the way through.
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Strictly Ballroom? great.
Romeo + Juliet? great.
Moulin Rouge? a fake weepy mess.
Don't get me wrong, MR had its moments: it *looked* great. at times it even *sounded* great. but i had difficulty with buying into the tragic love of grinning Ewan MacGregor and the android Kidman.
Lurhman's first film had geniune chemistry. The second was electric. But Moulin Rouge? all shine and only a fake ticking heart.
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you fucking useless, camp bastard! When I hear that majestic theme, I want to think of Tuco running through the graveyard, not one of your coulerful, candfloss aboinations.
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Pressed Enter before correcting my spelling mistakes. GIVE US THE ABILITY TO EDIT!
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WORD!
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That song isn't from Romeo + Juliet - It's the St. Crispin's Day Theme from Henry V
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.. sums up Luhrman's work pretty well.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id_jIZTH4zA
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Thanks, shame I spelt each of those words incorrectly. Why is the Backspace key so close to Enter? I'm gonna find that Qwerty guy and kill him!
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To either be a huge hit this holiday season -- or a bomb.I really like Luhrman's "red curtain" production design style, though in Australia things appear more toned down and "realistic" looking. Hopefully, this will be better than Moulin Rouge -- which had great production design and music, but a very middling story.
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How can it be set prior to World War 2 yet after the attack on Pearl Harbour?
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If I want to see Hugh and David back together, I'd rather see another "Van Helsing" movie...NOT A CHEAPQUEL, UNIVERSAL.
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He's got big balls using "ecstacy of gold" in this trailer. The original use of it is so iconic for me that i dont think this film will live up to it. Also, does anyone else think that Kidman looks like a witch? I can never forgive her for that rubbish advert she did (i think it was for perfume or something). Not only was it cheesy as mickey mouse's lunch, but i couldn't help but wishing death on all those involved in the production. in short, Nicole Kidman looks like michael jackson.
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If they ever get around to re-making ANY of the Eastwood spaghetti westerns or if “The Dark Tower” ever becomes an HBO mini-series Hugh Jackson is the man.
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it looks beautiful and Baz can sure tell a story but Kidman no longer looks human.
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Hugh Jackman is a actually a GREAT shout for Roland Deschain! I never saw it before but i completely see little alternative now. Good shout evil chicken. Although i would say Viggo Mortensson could do the business too. Might be a little too close to the aragorn persona though!? Thoughts?
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It's been eight years since Gladiator, stop it already!! Otherwise, the trailer looks gorgeous, although Nicole is looking ever weirder these days. I'll give it a whirl.
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I'm in.
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The reason the music sounds so familiar is because it samples a piece from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. It's from the scene when Tuco first enters the graveyard.
Here is the youtube link to the scene, just in case you don't remember, or want to watch one of the greatest scenes in movie history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzJqHsDAnSY -
I gotta agree with the "looks like a witch" comments. She's been hitting the Botox hard, and it's not a good look for her. Or anyone, for that matter. Sheesh, that forehead of hers is like granite now.
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what a great trailer. hand through wheat or no, i'll see this film.and yeah, Jackman would make a pretty badass Roland in a Dark Tower movie.
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I'm not interested at all (and not just b/c of the hand through the wheat). I don't care for the title either. With that title it needs to be set around the time that OZ evolved from a penal colony into the beginnings of a nation. Ya heard?!
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This however, while it looks like something I will like, just screams "bomb." Hope I'm wrong, though. I actually like Baz, and I think this looks great (granted, I know nothing about the actual history it's probably distorting beyond recognition). Get over the hand through wheat shot, people!
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Damn you to hell!
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A movie about Australia? Shouldn't it include some racist club-going rednecks with bad British accents and a bastardized culture that's part Jerry Springer part "Go!"?
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this looks so fucking good!
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Gallipoli, The Proposition, and that other western with Magnum PI
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1. Gladiator
2. 300
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
i'm sick of frakking wheat fields. -
Predates DANCES WITH WOLVES by a dozen years.
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Seriously, how can she act with all that plastic surgery?
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...full of Brits who aren't pale and thin cuz they eat more cows =0p
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Seems to be a ridley scott thing sorta, I think it was in Kingdom of Heaven as well.
This movie looks good but the music didn't seem fitting. Scruffylooking, just because America enters the war doesn't mean it exists everywhere (and just cause America isn't involved doesn't mean it's not happening either.) -
As an Aussie and a proud one, a movie called "Australia"is a pretty big deal and yes very unimpressed. Though agree with others, is Hugh auditioning for Roland ? Though I don't think he is fucked up enough to play Roland.
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check out this youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRT8FKtV4wg
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May 19, 2008 7:24:38 PM CDT
IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS YAHOO SERIOUS AGA
by ryanmurray
He put the bubbles in beer, afer all!
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bah!
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Right as he give the St. Crispians day speech. Truly a breathtaking musical and dramatic moment.
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And this is coming from a huge Baz Luhrman fan. Mark my woids, by this time next year, "sounds like a bigger bomb than Australia" will enter the studio executive vocabulary.
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When I first read about this film I could have cared less, but the trailer looks pretty good.
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I believe it's suposed to span 7 years, from 1935 through to the Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942. (The Japs dropped more bombs on Darwin than they did on Pearl Harbour).
Also... didn't Atonement have a "hand through long grass" -type shot as well? I might be mistaken. -
It's the music from the St. Crispin's Day speech, it's used in trailers all the time.
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Here's your chance to do an "Alexander" on another Baz Luhrmann project, Ollie!!! But you better, like, get moving and stuff...
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So it's just a small one then..
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Harvey blew a load all over Nicole Kidman during a nude scene with her
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Look left of center: "DARWIN EVACUATED" "Thousands Flee as Fighter Jets Swarm the Sky". Then examine the trailer at 00:00:30 to 00:00:34. Attention to detail at its finest!!
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I'm sure grain played a large role in that movie, surely Harrison Ford dipped his hand in some wheat at some point. Man this could be a whole subgenere.
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Wasn't Keitel cast in the role Sydney Pollack ended up playing? If so I don;t imagine how he would have found himself in a nude scene with her. But if it's true, can you blame him?
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Like she did with Golden Compass?
I was looking forward to this as Lhurman`s vision and style is very hyper realistic ,but with the vaticans performing monkey on board I think I`d rather watch a piece of wood,because that piece of wood has more emotional dig than the incredibly over-rated Sister Mary....ahem Kidman! -
I had no idea what a common cinematic motif it was. There's a PhD in there somewhere, I reckon. But it still pisses me off!
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... on Darwin as they did on Pearl Harbor, which is the figure I heard. Killed a lot less people though (between 200-300) as there was just a lot less people and a lot more space compared to Pearl Harbor.
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The story with Keitel in Eyes Wide Shut is that he was originally cast to play the part Sydney Pollack played, and there was a scene where he was supposed to be masturbating behind Nicole Kidman's back. He got a little too into it, and he jizzed in her hair. She walked off set, and it became a "he goes or we go" with her and Tom, and it's bye bye Harvey. All his shot scenes were destroyed, and the scene was cut out. Really funny story if it had any truth to it.
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