Friday, April 18, 2014

Rewatching classic Australian films: Crocodile Dundee

The most commercially successful Australian film in history may linger fondly in the memory, but it plays awkwardly now

Its been almost three decades since Paul shrimp on the barbie Hogan first doffed his iconic Akubra hat and graced the big screen, wrestling wild animals, sipping pots of beer and comparing knife sizes in the role that defined his career. But given the oafishness of his character, graced" hardly seems the right word.

Back in 1986, when Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee became a local and international box office sensation (the film that bears his name is to this day the most commercially successful Australian feature in history), Hogan and director Peter Faiman extracted laughs from the story of a Tarzan-like rube with a small brain, a big heart and a bigger knife.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/apr/18/rewatching-classic-australian-films-crocodile-dundee

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