| 词条 | Duet for Four |
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| name = Duet for Four | image = | image size = | caption = | director = Tim Burstall | producer = Tom Burstall Tim Burstall | writer = David Williamson | based on = | narrator = | starring = Michael Pate Wendy Hughes Diane Cilento | music = | cinematography = Dan Burstall | editing = Edward McQueen-Mason | studio = Tim Burstall Nominees | distributor = Greater Union | released = 1982 | runtime = 97 mins | country = Australia | language = English | budget = | gross = | preceded by = | followed by = }} Duet for Four is a 1982 film directed by Tim Burstall. PlotA middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business. Cast
ProductionThe script by David Williamson was originally commissioned by Hexagon Productions in the wake of the success of Petersen (1974). Tim Burstall asked Williamson to write a script on a mid life crisis even though he was young at the time. Williamson wrote the script in eight days under the title The Toy Man but Hexagon decided not to make it, even though at one stage it was announced as a vehicle for Jack Thompson.[1][2] In the 1980s Williamson's reputation remained high and Burstall decided to make it. Burstall: I was going through a mid-life crisis of some sort and thought – 'What is the nature of work? Have I wasted my time? Am I doing the right thing?' That sort of thing. And toys was the industry we decided to use because it was being taken over by the Yanks. It was a sort of image of what was happening in film at the time. I don't think the picture works very well.[3] The title during shooting was Partners. The film was shot in Melbourne and Queenscliff. According to David Stratton the movie features some in jokes about the Australian film industry of the early 1970s.[1] Finance was partly provided by the Australian Film Commission and Victorian Film Corporation.[4] Wendy Hughes later described making the film as "one of my most enjoyable experiences" but thought "the role I was playing... seemed more a part of the early 1970s, when in fact it was written".[5] References1. ^1 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p116 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46459490 |title=Fertile year for this film-making team. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=6 November 1974 |accessdate=25 February 2013 |page=27 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^Interview with Tim Burstall, 30 March 1998 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115011440/http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Tim+Burstall&bl&PHPSESSID=b84a60315abeb35485367633c6533d29 |date=15 November 2013 }} accessed 14 October 2012 4. ^Adrian Martin, 'Duet for Four', Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford University Press, 1993 p97 5. ^Richard Brennan, "Wendy Hughes", Cinema Papers, October 1982 p431 External links
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