Decades after Babe, The Castle and Muriel’s Wedding became hits, the head of the country’s screen producers’ association has declared we should be making more funny films.
They are familiar lines from classic Australian film comedies that have become part of national vernacular: “That’ll do, pig”, “Tell him he’s dreaming”, “You’re terrible, Muriel.”became hits, the head of the country’s screen producers’ association, Matt Deaner, declared that Australian filmmakers should be making more comedies.
The comedy that made Paul Hogan an international star was released 38 years ago, four years before Margot Robbie, who drove the global smash comedyYet as far back as 2008, the head of the Film Finance Corporation, Brian Rosen, was lamenting that the country was favouring making small, dark films “that appeal to about 100,000 people and no-one else”.
A sequel planned: From left, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving in The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.Government agencies trying to drum up funnier films is probably not the solution. New Zealander Leanne Saunders, from the South Australian Film Corporation, said that when the New Zealand Film Commission launched a program to encourage more comedies, it brought out a guru to run a workshop and the show “that came out of it was slated as the worst TV comedy ever made”.
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