Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) Directed by Phillip Noyce Writing credits Doris Pilkington (book) Christine Olsen (screenplay) Cast: Molly...Everlyn Sampi Daisy...Tianna Sansbury Mr. Neville...Kenneth Branagh Gracie...Laura Monaghan Moodoo...David Gulpilil Molly's Mother...Ningali Lawford Molly's Grandmother...Myarn Lawford Mavis...Deborah Mailman Constable Riggs...Jason Clarke Dormitory Boss...Natasha Wanganeen Mr. Neal...Garry McDonald Police Inspector...Roy Billing Miss Thomas...Lorna Leslie Original Music by Peter Gabriel Fred Gilbert (song "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo") Non-Original Music by Stephen Foster (song "Old Folks at Home") (uncredited) Cinematography by Christopher Doyle: The Legend of Drunken Master (Interview with Christopher Doyle): newyork.tribe.net/thread/50...4666ef71e2 Brad Shield (additional photography) Based on true events, "Rabbit-Proof Fence" is a moving story of racial prejudice, agoraphobic desert vistas, and amazing endurance as three girls walk 1,500 miles to find their mothers in 30s Australia. These are the shocking facts behind the movie: during the early years of the 20th century, white Australians panicked about the supposed disaster of an "unwanted third race" of "half-caste" Aborigine children. Special detention centres were set up across the continent to keep the mixed race children from "contaminating" the rest of Australian society, and orders were given to forcibly remove "half-caste" children from their families. It was a disastrous, racist policy that brought about the misery of the so-called "stolen generations". source: www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/...review.shtml Stolen generations So how come Noyce wound up in the Outback with this crazy woman, sleeping on an old aborigine woman ’s floor? What was the true story that moved him to tears and took him back to Australia for his first film there in more than a decade? Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the story of "half-caste" children who were brought up in camps and homes, in an attempt to "advance" them into white society - as domestic servants and farm labourers. What made a misguided policy into a heart-breaking one was the element of compulsion. Thousands were forcibly removed from aboriginal mothers between 1900 and 1971. The "stolen generations" had become the subject of fierce debate in Australia, but the expat director knew nothing of the controversy. The politics interested him, but what really fired his imagination was the story of three children who run away from a camp and attempt to walk home over 1,000 miles of inhospitable country - The Great Escape, with three cute little girls up against everything the state and nature can throw at them. For more info and full text: newyork.tribe.net/thread/60...7b0cacd764 trailer: www.apple.com/trailers/mi...f_fence.html current pic: Tianna Sansbury and Everlyn Sampi in Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) - Unsubscribed , posted 03/23/05 |
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