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In this 1983 documentary, Australian actors Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown talk enthusiastically about the reviving Australian film industry.
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In this 1983 documentary, Australian actors Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown talk enthusiastically about the reviving Australian film industry.
This clip shows actors Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown talking about the Australian film industry of the 1970s and early 1980s. Thompson describes what he sees as the distinctive qualities of the industry and Brown attributes the success of Australian films overseas to the fact that they had something to say.
Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown are interviewed separately. Jack is seen sitting inside in front of a door.
Jack Thompson I remember saying to someone once – they said, you know, ‘Will you leave the Australian industry? Will you go and work somewhere else?’ I’ll go and work on a film anywhere in the world – wherever there’s a good script, and a good director, I’d love to go and work. But I will come back here to live and to remain a part of this industry that has a sense of cohesion, a sense of modesty, a sense of being young and a sense of a cresting wave. And I trust, that as we grow older and more sophisticated in our industry, that we never lose that feeling. Because, if we do, we will lose a lot of the special qualities that make Australian film.
Bryan Brown is interviewed on a balcony outside, looking across to the ocean.
Bryan Brown I think the element that makes – makes our movies, uh, popular overseas is that, outside of everything, there’s a lot of heart in our movies. I think that whether we tell the story well, um, indifferently or- or badly, there’s still a earn- a- desire on the part of the filmmaker to get something across, um- it’s not, uh, out to impress or to have some – some eff- or not – it’s not starting looking for the result. It’s actually having something to say. Now, whether you tell that well or not is another matter. But the feeling that people are trying to say something in the movies is what’s touched people, I think what’s got people on side.
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