Mateship
Mateship is an icon that is represented all over Australia in the media and everyday lives. Good morning/ Good afternoon today I will be talking and identifying about two Australian iconic movies on how they represent mateship. The movies I have studied are Crocodile Dundee and Red Dog I will analyse and explain the beliefs, values and attitudes that foreground in both of these films I will also support the grade of agreement that these films have on the Australian identity.
Crocodile Dundee is an Australian iconic film; Michael J, ”Crocodile Dundee” is an Australian crocodile hunter that lives in the outback of Australia and owns a safari business with his best mate Walter Reilly. In the start of the film Mick Dundee has gotten attacked by a crocodile when he was on one of his hikes in the bush. When New York reporter Sue finds out about the attack she immediately flies to Australia to interview Mick. Towards the end of the trip reporter Sue invites Mick to come to New York City and because Mick has never been anywhere but Australia he finds that it is a whole lot different to what he is use to. Whereas in Red Dog it is a story of a
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From the very start of the film you can see the mateship between Walter and Mick, how Walter is always there for Mick with whatever he needs and helping him out. Answering Sue’s questions so Mick doesn’t have to, taking Mick home after he’s too drunk to. Mick believes that everyone he meets is like family to him for example when he goes to New York City he says hello to everyone thinking that he will see them again. Mick’s attitude towards people is that he thinks everyone are mates or that they know each other because he is so use to knowing everyone and being in such a small community he doesn’t understand that it is a whole lot different. Mick values people because where he is from there aren’t really a
The film Jindabyne, is a story about death, marriage, and race in an Australian town in New South Wales called Jindabyne. In the film, four men go fishing, and one of them discovers the dead body of a young indigenous girl. Instead of reporting what they found to the police immediately, they decide to stay and continue fishing. They decide that there is nothing they could do for her, so they tie her legs to a tree and continue with their fishing, reporting the death only when they return home. After they are done with their weekend of fishing and report the incident, conflict starts, as the men are criticized for not respecting the dead. Through the story of the town’s reaction to the four fishermen’s response to the dead girl, the movie shows Australia to be fragmented and divided over white-indigenous relations.
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Thus, this creates connotations to patriotism and pride towards the country the reader lives in. Coupled with the large image of Australia filled with smaller images of people of all ages, and race, sporting the Australian flag, influences the reader to enter the article with a positive attitude towards Australia Day, as it seems to put this day in high esteem, which consequently convinces the audience, before even commencing to read, that the day is about ‘unity’ and not division. The smaller images of a non-traditional and traditional stereotypical Australian prove that race play no part in this celebratory day, creating the sense of Australia being an accepting
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Hello . My names Ellie and I’ll be talking about two Aussie movies that both contain mateship . These two movies are red dog and crocodile Dundee . Mateship has been shown through the actions of the characters throughout both of these iconic films. Mateship has been betrayed as an icon throughout both of these films. Mateship has been shown through the actions of the characters in both films through there tone of voice used with each other, the way the characters have a friendly nature to each other, the actions of body language that show that they all get along and the honesty in each character from both films. Mateship was shown in crocodile Dundee with Mick’s happy nature and kind attitude. Mateship was shown in red dog with the way the town all came together to keep red dog out of trouble. These
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Using the movie Love Jones I will talk about the characteristics of male/male and female/female relationship as they are portrayed in the film. Then I will talk about how different the female/male relationship is and focus primarily on their communication styles. There is some harsh vocabulary included in my essay but only in quotations that I have taken from the movie itself to communicate what was going on in the scenes I have chose to talk about.
Mateship in Australian Films Mateship has long been a major aspect of the national image as projected by Australian films, yet the moralities of mateship and the image of men as mates did not go unchallenged. Australian cinema as a significant part of the whole industry of image-makers in the country. the way it portrays mateship, the single most important mythic element. in the cultural identity of Australia, is worth analysing. This paper reviews the historical background of mateship in Australia and its contemporary development.
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