Why are there so few movies set in Australian cities?
There's a bunch but the city setting is usually less important. The Babadook is set in Adelaide for example. At a guess, our cities don't impart a very strong atmosphere onto movies the way famous American cities do. Weirdly, books have done a better job capturing this. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner is famous for being very Melbourne.
>>217463932because you'd think the movies are set in china or india and not australia
>>217463932The government requires their quota of abo shit and red dirt
>>217464077You reminded me of Mr. Nice Guy which is a Hong Kong kung fu film with Jackie Chan set in Melbourne.
>>217463932because australia is gay>t.australian
>>217464116It's hard to find out what the exact quotas are because they keep changing every couple of years. But I found there's a new five year plan called 'Revive' and the first section in the 100+ page official document is titled 'First Nations First' lmao. So it's more of the same.
Ausgods are too busy being ripped surfer chads to care about nerd shit like movies
>>217464234more like ripped to shreds by Bull Sharks
>>217464234>surfer chads95% are vaccinated cucks
>>217464234We should just pay foreigners to make films about us. Americans have a superior vision of Australia than any actual Australian.
>>217464275Well that’s what retards get for swimming in the Brisbane and Logan rivers
>>217463932Because Australian cities are even more soulless than American cities. Australia has it's amazing natural landscape to make up for it.
>>217463932Australia lost a war to birds that can't even fly
>>217464302I suppose there's one school of thought which says films should try to embody and reflect the lives of people who live somewhere. And a pretty major chunk of the population live in big cities.
>>217464309>Australia lost a war to birds that can't even fly. Also to rabbits. Also to toads.
>>217464049Jesus is the babadook really set in SA? I live in Adelaide and while I recognised it as Australian I didnt clock it was Radelaide.Which suburb is it set in desu bet that fuckin retard kid is from salisbury
>>217463932Americans would rather film in australia but pretend it's elsewhere
>>217463932X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013)
>>217464365IMDb says Marion, Glenside, Goodwood, St Peters and North Adelaide. I always heard Adelaide is the hottest city in the world. You guys must be struggling this summer.
>>217464302>Australia has it's amazing natural landscapeFudking red dirt >i love a sunburnt country Get fuck cunt
>>217464439Coastal Australia is beautiful. No one lives in the outback. Checkout Cairns.
>>217463932Does Australia have much of a domestic media industry? This is a question about TV not film, but does Australian TV have any meaningful amount of domestic production or is it just imported shows from I would guess America and Britain?
>>217463932because Australian cities are boring
>>217464309It is a misconception that we lost, once every one realised that sending soldiers on trucks after them was a waste of time we fell back on the ‘ol reliable bounty system, it worked on the Tasmanian Tiger and the Tasmanian Abo and it sure as hell worked against the mass numbers of Emu’s
>>217464506These days it's mostly reality and panel shows.
>>217464411Yeah we had a few days in a row of 42+ but its chilled the fuck out the last week or two.Hope your doing okay unless you live in Melbourne in which case fuck off poofter
>>217464506Nothing notable these days but Neighbours was a well regarded sitcom.
>>217464049>>217464536Ironically the best use of an Australian city in film has probably been in The Matrix, when they were trying to capture a generic worker-drone busy aesthetic.The urban fabric in Australian CBDs is just too soulless and boring, and we're missing that medium density layer between straight city and the suburban.
>>217464439The vastness is what makes it amazing. You guys have a huge empty space bigger than most countries. That in itself is beautiful.
>>217464581>panel showsWhat are Australian panel shows like? Is it just Australian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2z-AdzgKjY
>>217463932Australia is a mining colony where old people migrate to to retire.
>>217464506>$1.1 billion was spent on Australian titles, up 14% on last year. This increase was largely driven by investment in a number of high-budget theatrical features and subscription TV and SVOD titles.>$654 million was spent on 32 Australian general TV/VOD drama titles, 1% down on 2023/24, with a decline in volume (titles, total hours) in 2024/25.So it looks like films are in and TV is stagnating a bit.But the government has some new policies which require broadcasters to have 55% of their content be Australian as well as requirements on streaming companies to invest locally.It could be good but it's also pretty anticompetitive and will likely lead to bottom of the barrel slop like what we already have.
>>217464506It's pretty much like Britain but worse, almost everything produced is reality tv but even more lurid and foul. Then you have the state broadcasters (ABC and SBS) which are just a poor man's BBC.One state government is trying to steal Hollywood projects to film here, they've had some success with capeshit (one of the Thor movies I think) and the new Max Max stuff but it does shit all for the local industry imo.
>>217464671>But the government has some new policies which require broadcasters to have 55% of their content be Australian as well as requirements on streaming companies to invest locally.They've basically had rules like this for ages, broadcasters and streamers just fund utter slop to meet the requirements.It's one reason reality tv is so big here, the costs for it are so extremely low and because everyone's being forced to make cheap content it floods the market.
What is New Zealand tv like? Is it even more dire than Australian?
>>217464721yes. it's fill of actors who barely make a living on the shitty salaries/wages they get paid, and sometimes, if they're good looking/talented enough, they'll go to hollywood, and if they're lucky, become successful. karl urban is an example. if they fail, they come back to nz and star in the longrunning soap shortland street (about a hospital). it's a very gay situation and i am frankly appalled by them and also feel sorry for them.
>>217464707When I was looking up articles on it, they all said they wanted to improve the quality of the programs and then launched into a bunch of stuff about First Nations stories and shows that reflect Australia as a multicultural and multiethnic nation.So I guess we're going to get MAFS but with more browns and Asians.
Contemporary Australia just reads like a combination of the worst aspects of the US and UK.
>>217464768Yeah the problem is that when you go into media production with an agenda, whether that is simply to make Australian content or to fill it with blacks and browns, you don't make good stuff. It's hard to put a finger on exactly, but you just know when you're watching something and there isn't an creative desire or inspiration behind it, they're just making it because there's certain boxes they had to tick for funding and a job.
>>217464686>It's pretty much like Britain but worse, almost everything produced is reality tv but even more lurid and foulWe actively import the worst shit from the US and Britain.Australian Family Feud, Pawn Stars Australia, The Real Housewives of Melbourne, The Australian Taskmaster, Australia's Got Talent, Australian Idol, The Great Australian Bake Off, MasterChef Australia, Love Island Australia, etc etc.This shit is so bad they have their own wiki pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_television_series_based_on_American_television_serieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_television_series_based_on_British_television_series
>>217464803In terms of cultural output, yeah absolutely, it's not just that we have the worst of both but that we're such a small country with diminishing output, and it's impossible for artists to support themselves given how crazy expensive things are now here. Also really confused cultural programs run by old fuck donors and government grants.But I think we still have a great lifestyle if you're fit and the best sporting culture in the world by far.
>>217464819>and there isn't an creative desire or inspiration behind itI know what you mean.It's weird that these things aren't even part of the discussion. All the big groups involved in shaping the future of Australian art seem solely motivated by sociological issues instead of being motivated by good art. Whether it's the people in the government or screen Australia or whatever. I must have read a half dozen articles and they always make quality take a backseat to some agenda. But in other countries, propaganda can still be kino. The USSR was super politicized but they still had Tarkovsky.
>>217464803We have our problems, especially with housing, but the US and the UK have very deep, almost irresolvable issues that are far more serious.
>>217463932Australia doesn't really have major cities like other countries, you have small CBD's where noone actually lives then just endless expanses of extreme low density suburbia.Also frankly, much of Australia is upper-middle class by US/European standards, the streets are all super clean, no litter, everything is well maintained etc Doesn't do well with a lot of the stories you want to tell for Television/Movies. Sitcoms like Kath and Kim, Utopia etc work well, but you can not do a serious crime/action drama in Australian suburbia.I live in Europe now and honestly most of Australia is basically a gated community paradise compared to this continental dump lmao.>>217464506It used to but not anymore. Largely got obliterated by the Liberals in the 2000s and early 2010s on the orders of Murdoch and Packer who wanted to just import US media. On top of this you had George Brandis as arts minister who put a bunch of bizarre restrictions and cut a lot of funding to creative industry and the arts and basically sent anybody who worked in that field (including myself) overseas.On top of this, Australian arts funding is controlled by a bunch of hyper incompetent bureaucrats in Canberra and Melbourne, who need to tick and double check every box created by bad faith HR types who just come up with more and more bullshit to justify their jobs. Also these people are ultra paranoid of ANY bad/hostile media so basically make it that you have to be as woke and accommodating to every group possible or god forbid they might get one negative article from The Guardian about them.Another thing with Australia is cultural. Australia is basically a cultural wasteland, arts and culture are not valued by the general public, low density suburbia makes it hard to do the sort of events that would help grow and fund the grassroots side of the industry, tall poppy syndrome makes people hate/look down upon arts/culture people.
>>217464649100% but instead of smug Eton/Oxbridge "oh i'm just so silly haw haw" types like Max Fosh, it's smug Canberran press gallery types with some Melbourne ethnic who over compensates for their ethnic heritage by being super bogan.
>>217464763NZ still has a better culture industry than Australia funnily enough, a large part is because half of AAA Hollywood spend a lot of time in private estates on the South Island.Hence why you see Maori shit all over Hollywood film/tv these days.
>>217465022>arts and culture are not valued by the general publicNot just not valued but seen as a waste of time and the kind of thing only pretentious wankers care about.
>>217464858Fucking retard normalfag
>>217464362And the Chinese, Indians and communists.Also we lost a battle to Cockroaches.
>>217464900It's too abstract to talk about, and even you could try to talk about it and it wouldn't change anything. So much of it comes down to conditions and money, younger people don't have the time and space necessary for kinos and the organisations running productions won't provide them with the resources because they're all cheaping the fuck out.>The USSR was super politicized but they still had Tarkovsky.He was active in very early USSR though, they became utter shit later on.A lot of these issues have basically come with the march of capitalism and the arts becoming increasingly commodified and production becoming cheaper and shittier.
