I just got home from seeing Australia at the movie theater. It's definitely a Baz flick. You've got the outside filmed inside, loads of attractive stuff to look at, love, and, above all, a mythic/fairy tale feeling overall. This stuff is larger-than-life, guys. And, if nothing else, you know this, because the drover is just that, The Drover, i.e. a man with no name. Oh yeah, and there's voice-over and magic.
Now I won't say there's nothing to nit-pick, because there are certainly imperfections. (Like, why did __ have to die? That was pretty pointless.) But, at its heart, it's the kind of movie that I like. It sucked me in.
Why'd I like it? Because of how its over-the-topness balanced with its realism. It seems like the two shouldn't fit, but they do. The fact that I have a crush on the continent of Australia itself doesn't hurt, granted, but even aside from that, it's good Baz stuff. He's good at making fairy tales real. Instead of fantasy versus reality, fantasy becomes reality. It's like magical realism all over again.
I think I'm going to have to watch my all-time fav. Baz movie, Moulin Rouge, again soon.
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I <3 Baz too, but my favorite that he did is his rendition of Romeo and Juliet. I love how he updated it but kept the "old" language. It's really amusing. Plus, Mercutio is a hottie.
Hmm. May have to take myself to a movie over the holidays. And take my Moulin Rouge DVD with me when I housesit. It's been far too long since I watched it.
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