The Castle Film Analysis

Princess films are beloved classics that range from the beloved Disney franchise, to live action films such as the Princess Diaries, to historical tales as those seen is polish films. No matter what the format or genre these films typically have a prince searching for his love the princess and contain recurring scenes. The film The Princess Bride offers a new comedic approach to this classic genre. While scholars have explored how princess films are able to succeed through the use ideas such as nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds through the use of comedy. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional

Although released over 17 years ago, Rob Sitch’s comedy The Castle remains an incredibly popular film that portrays an ‘Aussie Battler’ family, the Kerrigans, in suburbia. Film writer Ian Craven states that the Kerrigans possess “the qualities of a simple good-heartedness family, with human decency and dignity”, all of which can be easily recognized by the audience throughout the film. The Castle takes a satirical look at Australian suburbia in order to manipulate traditional stereotypes, gender constructions, themes, identities, ideologies and cinematic techniques as a means of altering the positioning of the audience.

The Gallipoli campaign had a major effect on Australia’s identity and the way the rest of the world saw Australia as a country. The Gallipoli campaign was a trial to test their nationhood. The campaign shown many qualities of the Australian soldiers including bravery, strength, courage, endurance and mateship. All of these qualities reflect on the nation that the troops came from. The involvement of Gallipoli was a major event that has shaped our country’s reputation and the sacrifices made by so many Australians shows the fortitude that many men had to fight for their nation.

The film Gallipoli takes place during World War I's Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archy and Frank. Archy and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Archy is an extremely fast runner who meets Frank at an athletics competition. We can see from the beginning that Archy is eager to join the war. After being turned down because he was underage, he goes to Perth, anxious for someone to accept him into the light horsemen. Frank, however, is skeptical about Australians wanting to join the war. He tells Archy that it's "not our war to fight". Despite this statement, Frank eventually joins up into the Infantry.

This essay explores the popularity of Australian film, both locally and internationally and asks the question: Is there a crisis in the Australian Film Industry? This essay will go through the current issues the Australian Film Industry and will demonstrate examples of those problems.

Blue collar Kerrigan home, is filled with love as well as pride for their modest lifestyle, but their happiness is threatened when developers attempt the compulsory acquisition of their house to expand the neighbouring Melbourne Airport. 3 high view crescent, Coolaroo – not aesthetically pleasing ‘eyesore’ opening shot shows sense of pride (satire) Despite all this, sweet-natured family patriarch Darryl (Michael Caton) believes that he lives in the lap of luxury. Blissfully unaware of his family’s lack of style or sophistication, he busies himself by driving a tow truck, racing greyhounds and constantly adding tacky renovations to the house. Kerrigan clan shares and supports his enthusiasm in every way. Though he has no wish to sell,

Both the films have an overall anti-war theme. In the film Gallipoli, the story warms up with scenes from the life, traditions and culture of Australian countryside from early 1900s showing very typical motivations of young men that led them to join the military. The many different elements of motives that draws or at times even pushes young men into war. A society that expects the men to join up the military to serve the country. The men are attracted to the uniform and famous regiments. There is also the sense of belonging to the British Empire and a bit of anti German propaganda.

Darryl Kerrigan (Michael Caton), the actor who plays the role of the father in the Kerrigan family fantastically, contributing to the high degree the film's success. His role incorporates the appearance, behaviors, and traits, that most Aussies can relate to. Darryl is the illustrious face of the Kerrigan family in the movie, possessing the usual Australian attributes of being devoted, diligent and very family orientated. M.C's character is acted out greatly, enabling the worldwide audience to relate to the obstacles the family faces and the battling journey they endure to keep their "Castle.' Darryl shows courage and bravery that is the basis of the morals, most Australians strive to abide by, portrayed his attitude and perseverance in reaching his goal(retaining his house).

The film “The Castle”, made in 1997 and directed by Rob Sitch and the novel “Butter”, written by Erin Jade Lange and published in 2013, both share similar values and beliefs. However, they differ in the way these values and beliefs are used, and while “The Castle” has an optimistic and bright outlook on the beliefs and values of:

This research will only concentrate on the extent of Americanisation in Australia through the influence on television and the film industry as the aspect of Americanisation covers a wide range from fashion to language. To fully understand the topic of the hypothesis, proper exploration of the definitions of ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ are of relevance. ‘Identity’ and ‘culture’ play an integral role in what an Australian represents as well as how the world views Australians. The meaning of ‘identity’ can be summarized as; ‘The collective aspect of the set of

World War one is strongly linked with the landing of Gallipoli, yet the Australian experience of WW1 is a lot more than the 8 months of the Gallipoli campaign. It can be argued that the experiences of Australian soldiers on the Western Front in 1916, including the Battles of Fromelles and Pozieres, have been largely overlooked in accounts of World War One. The landing of Gallipoli has become legendary and all it represents connects with most Australians. Consequently, the Battles of the Western Front have been overlooked. Thus, most ordinary Australians have only heard of the story behind the landing of Gallipoli. This event has taken precedence in the public’s mind and has been the focal point of war memories and remembrance.

In 1981, Peter weir directed a now iconic film on the mateship, tragedies and the affects that war had on people. In particular he focussed on Australians fighting at Gallipoli. Through his cinematography, characterisation and symbolism, he demonstrated Australians as a bunch of comrades going on an adventure through life and he portrays this perfectly through the two main characters, Archie and Frank. It would be arrogant of us to change this movie in anyway as Weir’s film was a tribute to the soldiers and having a remake just to make money would be selfish and offensive to the men and women who fought in the war.

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The Australian film industry is currently in a point of crisis due to the lack of audiences attending Australian films, hence creating a decline in the revenue received towards our national industry. However, this is not due to the lack of creative talent, it is rather the many underlying issues that don?t allow the Australian public with the awareness and accessibility of these films. These problems are within the distribution, marketing and funding of these Australian films, allowing the national Australian community to not seek for films made by people within their nation due to negative pre-conceived notions and the convenience of going to see a Hollywood Blockbuster. These issues are seen through the poor release of both critically received films, Jennifer Kent?s The Babadook (2014) and Hugh Sullivan?s The Infinite Man (2014), both not gaining a wide audience. Through these issues within the industry, Australian filmmakers have not been able to create the revenue needed for these films to branch out to be easily attained by the public.

‘Gallipoli’ is a movie directed by Peter Weir. It is set during World War 1 at the time that the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps was trying to take the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire from 1914 to 1915. The story of ‘Gallipoli’ follows two young Australian men, Archy and Frank, as they travel from their homes in Western Australia to the harsh trenches of Gallipoli. The significance of the Gallipoli campaign was that it established an Australian image. An image of camaraderie and ‘mateship’.