Its a shame they did not organise this exhibition prior to the Launch of the movie, (which I havn't seen) it may have helped put BOS* I think I'd realy be more interested in seeing a three and a half hour movie about that hatbox
Thanks for the shots. I saw the film for the first time last night and I enjoyed it. The only bit of costuming I didn't like was Hugh's hat, which you see in the window above. Everyone else had great hats. I particularly liked the way the Aboriginal culture was woven into the story.
I haven't seen the movie yet either - I will though, it's been on my list for a while, and I'm not really a "hat guy" but I for one love the look of that hat. I have no idea of it's authenticity or whatever, but to me it looks extremely adventurous. I assume it's Akubra? Now to me Hugh's pants look too narrow for that time period.
The movie is more about a precocious Aborigine boy than either Kidman or Jackman's characters. Unfortunately he is perhaps the most annoying child ever put into a film, and spends the duration of the story yammering on in a stereotyped Pidgin English that makes him sound like a Native American character in a 1950s western movie. ("Gotta get cheeky bulls into big bloody metal ship!") Kidman and Jackman's characters are basically there to usher the kid's story along-- largely preventing it from becoming, as Luhrman had hoped, the "Australian 'Gone with the Wind.'"
The movie will also be somewhat insulting to anyone familiar with Australian-- or world-- history, as part of the climax and the death of a major supporting character hinge on a depiction of the Japanese engaging in a land invasion of Australia following the bombing of Darwin.
Australia was pretty lame. Apart from Nicole's riding apparel and that first suit (which I did love), it was nothing to it at all, not for me at least.
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