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Storylines in Baz Luhrmanns Australia (2008) Senses of Cinema
2024-11-04 20:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Lisa French July 2010 Key Moments in Australian Cinema Issue 55As the landscape teems with the dust of a thousand cattle stampeding towards him, Nullah (Brandon Walters) takes a stand on the edge of a precipice. At this moment, it is not just courage and the strength of his ancestors that he summons, but this vista recalls certain storylines running through Australian cinema. By storylines I am referring to the way in which stories move through culture or are retold in our films and the conversation that Baz Luhrmann is having both with, and about, Australian cinema in his feature film, Australia (1).This key moment immediately follows an aerial shot of the majestic landscape as the cattle charge towards the abyss. It recalls classic Hollywood westerns, but is also a magnificent feat of CGI technology that simultaneously denotes cinema as a transnational, internationalised art form (something particularly relevant to the practice of Luhrmann himself, who works across a range of...
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