Humor In Red Dog

To come to conclusion, the film known as Red Dog must be included into the 2016 film festival, it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt that it provided a fair and accurate representation of mateship, elegant, beautiful and meaningful representations of the landscape and lastly a just illustration of the Aussie male, making the film very well deserving of being included into the film

The little character stories included throughout the movie are very significant to the personality of the character. These emotions of the characters were captured by the director Kriv Stenders in the movie Red Dog, The stories of the miners really give the audience a glimpse of who they are deep down. The movie is set in the Pilbara, Western Australia. The inhabitants need a friend to share the feelings of loneliness and loss, to provide a sense of purpose. Red Dog helps the miners to create a sense of community. Vanno, Jocko and Peeto are unique their stories are portrayed throughout the movie.

Although released over 17 years ago, Rob Sitch’s comedy The Castle remains an incredibly popular film that portrays an ‘Aussie Battler’ family, the Kerrigans, in suburbia. Film writer Ian Craven states that the Kerrigans possess “the qualities of a simple good-heartedness family, with human decency and dignity”, all of which can be easily recognized by the audience throughout the film. The Castle takes a satirical look at Australian suburbia in order to manipulate traditional stereotypes, gender constructions, themes, identities, ideologies and cinematic techniques as a means of altering the positioning of the audience.

As a society in the ‘land down under’, certain personality profiles are viewed as the class clowns of the community, just by the way they act. Chris Lilley’s cleverly produced mockumentary, Summer Heights High (SHH), adopts these stereotypes presenting them as immensely exaggerated representations. Lilley’s show comprises of Ja’mie King, a snobby and manipulative private school girl, Mr G, a self-absorbed drama teacher, and Jonah Takalua, a rebellious 15 year old boy of Tongan descent, commonly associated with the phrase, “Puck you miss”. Although SHH is socially accepted as Australian comedy by the blokes and sheilas of ‘Straya, foreign countries don’t always align with our satirical gag shows.

Jocko, Jack, Maureen, Peeto, and Vanno are established as certain people in the beginning of the film, and Kriv Stenders, through red dog, has changed that. Red Dog is important to each character for a different reason, though equally important, and slowly, each character finds a way to be cheerful . Red Dog impacts them all through loyalty; he is a friend for everyone. Trust; Red Dog helps everyone in the community to trust each other. Lastly, friendship; through the film the community of Dampier become friends and are kinder to each other.

The disturbing scene where different nationalities badger their opinions on each other shows poor communication and horrible stereotyping. This is an example of antilocution. Pino's Italian slang, Mookies black talk, and Korean obscenities are all mixed together to show how communication grows impossible among different

'Red Dog'- an Aussie drama\comedy film released in 2011, tells the true story of a red stray kelpie dog that existed in Western Australia during the 1970s. Set in a working mine, the “Pilbara Wanderer” was known for his ‘hitchhiking', travelling around the globe from person to person, perusing great loyalty, adopting people and bringing the community together. This classic Aussie movie has shown the loyalty of dogs and the sense of community spirit.

This is the question that needs to be asked when selecting a movie for this year's film festival. Hello Selection Panel, I am here to present to you "Red Dog". There are many films here today that want to represent Australia but none represent the large open deserts and its many people in "Red Dog". "Red Dog" is the most capable movie of representing Australia's many cultures and landscapes as it represents a community in Australia that is has strong tie through their dog. The mateship shown between people from many different pasts is sown perfectly in the landscape of Australia.

Most Australians seem to enjoy The Castle and everyone will have a different reason for loving it. Some will find it funny, some will enjoy the battle of the average Aussie against a large and powerful organisation and others will say it shows Australian values of fairness and mateship, but for many it will also be about a decent man who loves his family and his home. This movie is full of exaggerations of behaviour and language that Australians can relate to. It also uses selective bad language for effect to highlight that most Australians do swear in certain circumstances.

“Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free” I lulled the words over in my mind as I stared out at the bulga (mountains) from inside my car. The view of the mountain range was captivating beyond expression- the mellow, yellow rays of the setting guwing (sun) shed a soft light over the beautiful landscape. Clear grassy plains contrasted with the dense green shrubbery of the bush, this was my nura (country)- I loved it. Into the opening stumbled a young gubba (white man). He carried a rifle and prowled the area waiting for a dingu (dingo) to hop past.

Over the years, films have been using stereotypes to portray humor through its characters and environment (3). Stereotypes are associated with almost everything and everyone no matter how people classify themselves. For further clarification, stereotypes are associated with people, groups, races, ethnicities, objects and locations. The Longest Yard (2005) by Peter Segal, perpetuates the use of stereotypes to portray its characters and environment through racial, gender, and prison stereotypes. These specific stereotypes are shown throughout the movie and are examples of stereotypes that have been passed down for generations. Films use stereotypes so that they are able to appeal to a larger target audience (3). The purpose of this paper is to analyze common stereotypes of racial, gender, prison, and athlete stereotypes in the film The Longest Yard.

I recommend for the Australian film festival this year the 2011 drama-comedy ‘Red Dog’. Now I know everybody thinks that it’s pretty easy to make a bunch of people tear up, you literally just need to get any random off the street put a dog in the movie and make it die at the end. Seems pretty simple doesn’t it. But making the audience cry isn’t everything; you need to make the people watching the film feel like actually apart of the society or relationship. I believe red dog is not only very accurate towards a local Australian society but it makes you feel like you’re are actual apart of the community of

Fair dinkum, gotta love the great outdoors” is a phrase that that we like to think sums up, all of Australian males. But does it really? Contrary to the international belief and even sometimes to Australia’s own citizens, this stereotype is almost completely wrong. The statement that portrays all Australians as “tough Aussies who can tame a bronco, no worries mate” may have been true at one point in the Australian culture but does not apply now.

In “One for the Road” by Stephen King, Gerard Lumley is an example of the ignorant stereotype because he wouldn’t listen to any of the locals. First, he burst into the bar freezing to death. He was pale and unfamiliar to the locals. Second, he tells the bartender, Tookey, that his wife and daughter were trapped down the road in his car. “Where did you go off the road?'

Where the Red Fern Grows tells about a man named Billy Colman, whose mind drifted away back on his boyhood memories when he got his dogs. The young Billy was a boy who wanted two coon hunting dogs of his own more than anything in the world. He worked very hard by selling wares and saved money to pursue his dreams. After two years, he finally had enough money for two dogs. Billy made a difficult journey to get his dogs. He loved his dogs very much and spent almost a whole time to train his dogs. Eventhough there were many problems came to him and his dogs, they could passed them. This strong bonds between them finally reached the climax when Billy joined the coon hunting championship and won it. In this