Talk:Walkabout (film)

message: The statement that "since the Protection of Children Act 1978 permitted the distribution and possession of indecent images of people over the age of 16; however, the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the age threshold to 18 which meant the actress' age was a factor when the film was re-submitted in 2011" is wrong. There is a prohibition on indecent images of children under 18. But there was no indecency at all in the movie. Nudity is not the same as indecency.Royalcourtier (talk) 04:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just poor phrasing. The section clearly states that the "BBFC reviewed the scenes in the context of the new law and deemed them not to be "indecent" and passed the film uncut". I have changed the wording to "potential indecency" to make it clearer. According to the source used in the section, the BBFC did not check the film for potential indecency originally because the actress was over 16. When the age was raised to 18 the film had to be checked for indecency because the actress was only 17 at the time. Betty Logan (talk) 07:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure if it's true that possession of the film would have become illegal if it had been refused a certificate.  Is the statement based on any decided legal case?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gomez2002 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You are probably correct that if the BBFC had withdrawn the rating on grounds of indecency then it would not automatically have become illegal, this would have required the prosecution of someone who owned a copy. It is certainly correct that it would have been illegal to sell a copy though so I will re-phrase it to that effect. Betty Logan (talk) 22:57, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nudity not the same as indecency 

message: I may be imagining this, or thinking of some other film, but I thought I read somewhere that Jenny Agutter's swimming scene used a stunt double for safety reasons.  Having your female lead actor swallowing pond water and getting dysentery would not be good news, and film producers (or their insurers) often insist on doubles to do the risky bits.  I don't doubt that Jenny Agutter did some of the scene, but was the actual swimming done by someone else?  Grateful if anyone could confirm my recollection.81.146.36.77 (talk) 16:43, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would she only do part of the scene? It wasn't exactly dangerous. You can clearly tell it is her in the water and she doesn't mention a stunt double here: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/09/how-we-made-walkabout-jenny-agutter-nicolas-roeg-luc-roeg. Betty Logan (talk) 17:14, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stunt double? 

message: The only reference to Yolngu is in the Categories. I believe actor David Gulpilil is a Yolngu man but that surely needs to be referenced in the article to warrant a Category? Sterry2607 (talk) 07:08, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: He is, according to his article, but that doesn't warrant the category here, so I've removed it. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:30, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yolngu 

message: I think it's relevant that the girl's accent is upper/middle class English rather than Australian. If they'd wanted an Australian actress for the role I'm sure they could have found one. It amplifies her narrow experience of the world, hence her inability to communicate even the most basic things like her need for water to the Aboriginal boy. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 23:23, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect it was more the case that the director specifically wanted Jenny Agutter since he had approached her a couple of years earlier about the role. Sometimes actors play characters of other nationalities and their accent is not necessarily intrinsic to their characters i.e. Michael Caine playing a cockney Nazi in The Eagle Has Landed, or Sean Connery having a Scottish accent while playing a Russian submarine captain in The Hunt for Red October. Given that the children's father in the film speaks with an Australian accent it's not even clear what their nationality is supposed to be. If you have reliable sources to back up the assertion that Agutter was cast because of her accent then I think that would make an interesting addition to the article, otherwise it would just appear to be editorial speculation. Betty Logan (talk) 03:04, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: She says they are "English" in the film, though confusingly she says they are from Adelaide. Also the elocution lessons early in the film definitely suggest a well to do background. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 13:24, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think she says they are English, the girl simply states "English?" while attempting to communicate, as in "Do you speak English?" As for the girl's elocution my mother attended a girl's grammar school in the 1960s and elocution lessons were on the curriculum, and her father was a plumber! I confess I don't know what the format of education was in Australia in the 60s, but the apartment they lived in did not suggest a well-to-do background, and the father appeared to be in a fairly ordinary white-collar job. If sources discuss the role of class in the film, or touch upon the accents of the children, then I think that would make an interesting addition to the "themes" section and it would then be appropriate to draw out details pertaining to that in the plot summary, but without sourced commentary it would be projecting an interpretation on to the story.  Betty Logan (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The accents