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词条 The Naked Bunyip
释义

  1. Synopsis

  2. Production

  3. Release

     Censorship controversy 

  4. Footnotes

  5. References

  6. External links

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| director = John B. Murray
| producer = John B. Murray
Phillip Adams
| writer = John B. Murray
Ray Taylor
Phillip Adams
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| starring = Graeme Blundell
| music =
| cinematography = Bruce McNaughton
| editing = Brian Kavanagh
| studio = Southern Cross Films
| distributor = John B. Murray
| released = {{start date|df=yes|1970|11|12}}
| runtime = 136 minutes
| country = Australia
| language = English
| budget = $35,000[1]
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The Naked Bunyip is a 1970 Australian documentary film directed by John B. Murray. The film explores sex in Australia using a fictional framework.

Synopsis

The Naked Bunyip is a sex documentary and a blend of fact and fiction; "[it] incorporates the fictionalizing of the 'real' that had been a feature of tendencies in French 'new wave' and the American avant-garde narrative cinema." Graeme Blundell plays a shy young man who works for an ad agency, and the agency hires him to survey about sex in Australia. The film consists of "unrehearsed and unscripted" interviews as Blundell's character investigates a variety of sexual experiences, all except for the "normal" heterosexual experience.[2]

Among the people interviewed are Dame Edna Everage, Jacki Weaver, Aggy Read, Harry M. Miller, and Russell Morris.

Production

Phillip Adam and John Murray decided to make the film after much study of the Australian film industry at the time, noting the popularity of 16mm travel documentaries shown in public halls in the suburbs and the country. They decided to make a comic film about sex as the most commercial option. Finance was provided almost entirely by tyre dealer Bob Jane and it was shot on 16mm.[1][3]

Release

Murray chose to exhibit The Naked Bunyip himself rather than use a distributor, often using his own equipment, hiring theatres directly and handling his own publicity. This proved successful and the movie ended up running for two years in cinemas.[4]

It led to director Tim Burstall also deciding to use the direct approach for his comedy film Stork in 1971.[5] The Naked Bunyip was the stepping stone for Australian film distribution in the 1970s, leading to Australian films' presence at international festivals and the US release of Mad Max in 1979.[6]

Censorship controversy

The Commonwealth censors insisted on five minutes of footage being removed but the producers refused, simply blacking out the offending images and bleeping the soundtrack. On the black footage, Murray inserted a picture of a bunyip performing a parody of the forbidden action. Murray also previewed the film without cuts to censors, angering the censor. This led to a debate about censorship which helped lead to a reform of censorship standards.[1][7]

Footnotes

1. ^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p252-252
2. ^{{Harvnb|O'Regan|1996|p=240}}
3. ^John B. Murray 'Prelude to a Screening', AACMI website, 2008 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328100156/http://www.acmi.net.au/2AE73511596043D3BAD7250AB452790A.htm |date=28 March 2012 }} accessed 20 September 2012
4. ^Paul Martin, 'The Naked Bunyip Q and A', Melbourne Film Blog, 21 Sept 2008 accessed 20 September 2012
5. ^{{Harvnb|MacFarlane|1988|p=23}}
6. ^{{Harvnb|MacFarlane|1988|p=32}}
7. ^'Film Censorship 1970-1971: The Naked Bunyip (1970)', Refused Classification: Film Censorship in Australia accessed 20 September 2012

References

  • {{cite book | last=MacFarlane | first=Brian | year=1988 | title=Australian Cinema | publisher=Columbia University Press | isbn=0-231-06728-3 | ref=harv }}
  • {{cite book | last=O'Regan | first=Tom | year=1996 | title=Australian National Cinema | series=National Cinemas | publisher=Routledge | isbn=0-415-05730-2 | ref=harv }}

External links

  • {{imdb title|id=0125943|title=The Naked Bunyip}}
  • The Naked Bunyip at Oz Movies
  • John B. Murray, 'Genesis of The Naked Bunyip ' at Senses of Cinema
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