Australia Movie Analysis

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Background: The movie Australia was based off a true story. The movie is set in remote western Australia, in an indigenous community, it is shown on the movie that there is an English master with his wife still in England running the station. The husband does not really have that much to do with the place as he has indigenous family keeping it all intact, he has a chef, and I am pretty sure he does not pay any of them but just gives them a place to stay. He has got a Chinese chef, and very frustrating neighbours who will do anything such as starve his animals on the property to buy the land. There are famous actors who play ironic roles, they are Australian, this factor is game changing. The audience would never be as persuaded if the couple was not Australian Originally. There is also a big heritage factor about his movie, which is that there is an indigenous elder who lives on the property ad he helps them and protects the indigenous people who live there. It is illegal what they are doing there having the indigenous people on …show more content…

It has a strong way of telling the city livers that living in the country is not easy and this movie portrays that. The first paragraph in the document us about the plot where she states what happens which is a good outline of the story. Fiona has stated main aspects of the movie by explaining them with a lot of impact and detail and emphasises the historical background of the movie. The origin of this movie has got a lot of detail behind it, as some of the first-hand information could have a twist on it but for saying that we still see that the movie director has made sure that the true Australian themes come out, this shows that they have a good original morals and priorities, the origin f the movie obviously was not to make money but to leave a stamp on people as it did too me, which makes me very passionate about

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