Not only is it superbly done with high production values, but it's funny and catches the ocker stereotype brilliantly. I loved it, my students really liked it, but as we watched I became aware they didn't 'get' it all.
Very few Australians really speak like that all the time, and even fewer do so now than they did 4o years ago. Watch a bit of Smiley, or Paul Hogan Show, or even Kingswood Country, and you'll see characters, albeit exaggerated to the nth degree, speaking and behaving that way.
But with globalisation, the invasion of U.S. media and TV, and our own knee-jerk reaction to the 80s cultural cringe, our kids no longer even recognise half these expressions or idioms.
Nor did they 'get' all the Aussie jokes and references.
Which is sad. It's part of our history, part of our culture, and although I never spoke like that (despite last Sunday's post) I used some of those terms and could recognise the historical references.
We're homogenising. And I think that's fair dinkum sad.
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Thanks for this link, Steve. Yesterday, at my brother's birthday, we connected it to the big screen and it was much enjoyed by all.
It's pretty good, isn't it? I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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