1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Break the flick with ben o'she on ninety six A FM. 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Can I been good to see you. Good morning guys, 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: We've got an interesting one for you today. Okay, So 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: do you remember a few years ago, back to twenty sixteen, 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: there was a documentary that came out called Hotel cool 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: Guardi that made a few headlines and so it was 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: basically there wasn't much to it. They basically took a 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: camera crew out to Coolgardi in the wa Goldfields, to 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: the pub in town there and basically filmed what happened 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: over the course of a couple of weeks when two 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: finished backpackers arrived in town. So Fly on the Wall 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: doco about what these backpackers experienced serving beers at the 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: pub and the sort of conversations they had with the 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: blokes who came into the pub, which, as you can imagine, 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: a lot of mining blokes, a lot of old timers 16 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: from the Goldfields who probably hadn't met too many finished 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: backpackers in their lives, and so we're very excited to 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: have at what they called and they put it up 19 00:00:58,560 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: on a sandwich board at the front of the pub 20 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: said fresh meat at the pub time and so a 21 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: lot of people, a lot of people who watched it, 22 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: certainly in the gold Fields and in original Wa and 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: maybe Australians would have looked at it and gone, well, 24 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: you know, that's just a country pub. That's just what 25 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: happens in a country pub. That's called ghardi. But when 26 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 1: the documentary was screened in big cities and especially big 27 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: cities around the world, it created a furor. People were like, oh, 28 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: this is you know, rampant misogyny, sexism, sexual harassment, this 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: is not okay, which, of course it's not okay the 30 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: fifties and so it was at a film festival at 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: the time of its release, and sitting on the jury 32 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: panel of that film festival was Ossie director Kitty Green. 33 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: So do you remember a couple of years ago there 34 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: was a film called The Assistant starring Julia Garner from Ozark, 35 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: the blonde American actress with a really curly blonde hair. 36 00:01:52,280 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: You recognize it instantly. His favorite in this film, The Assist, 37 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: and she played the assistant of a film production company 38 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: in the US. It was basically like a Weinstein like 39 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: me too kind of situation, but you never saw the 40 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: Weinstein figure. He was just this voice in another office, 41 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: and it was her kind of story as psychological. It's 42 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: really good. It's a really good, kind of understated thriller 43 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: about that era of sexual harassment in the workplace anyway, 44 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: And so Kitty Green, the director of that movie, watched 45 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: Hotel col Guardi and thought, you know what, this would 46 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: be a great fictional movie. So she's basically done a 47 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: remake of the doco called The Royal Hotel, set in 48 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: a pub in the outback, very similar to the cool 49 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: Guardi Hotel, but instead of finished backpackers, it's us backpackers. 50 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: She's cast her good mate Julia Ganer as one of 51 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: the backpackers, Hannah and Jessica Henwick, another American actress who 52 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: was in the Matrix Resurrections just recently as live and 53 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: these two backpackers arrive in town as temp jobs working 54 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: at a pub to earn a bit of holiday money, 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: and then they go through a very similar experience to 56 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: what we saw in the doco, you know, as they're 57 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: pouring the beers, the blokes on the other side of 58 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: the bar a sort of wolf whistling at them and 59 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,679 Speaker 1: trying to chat them up, mostly pretty harmless, in a 60 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: kind of a low key sexual harassment kind of way. 61 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: But then on top of all of that is maybe 62 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: the idea that there's a bit more menace involved. And 63 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but anytime I see 64 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: a movie that's set in the Australian outback involving foreign backpackers, 65 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: I immediately that Wolf Creek, Wolf Creek actually happen. Usually 66 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: end well, It doesn't usually end well. And Wake in 67 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: Fright was another film sort of setting the outback of 68 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: a very very amazing film too, And so you know 69 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: that that's in the back of your mind as you're 70 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: watching this film, like, where is it going to go? 71 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: Is it going to go into a territory that's going 72 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: to be really grim? Please tell us John Jarrett's not 73 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: in it. Well, John Jared's on it. But there is 74 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: another Ossie icon in it. Hugo Weaving, who plays the 75 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: publican of this hotel, can be creepy. It's in this 76 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: he's kind of like battling his own demons with the 77 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: drink and he's got it. That's he's reached this point 78 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: of his career where he's playing only playing kind of 79 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: like drunk reprobates. He does it so well though he's 80 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: fantastic in this and and this menacing mood that comes 81 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: over the film is supplied by really one of the 82 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: pub patrons who's played by Daniel Henshall. And so if 83 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: you've seen the movie Snowtown, so Snowtown is an amazing film. 84 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: It is one of the most grim Australian movies. I 85 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: struggle to recommend it to people, even though it's so amazing. 86 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: It is a dark, dark film, and so Daniel Henshall's 87 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: character in Snowtown was hard to watch, and so he 88 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: brings that some of the most unlikable people. And I 89 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: don't know how film more old Dan Henchell. I don't 90 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: know how he ever gets a job anywhere else, I know, 91 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: except for playing these type of rocks. And so he's 92 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: playing this character who is sort of always hanging around, 93 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: sort of leering at the girls, and when they go 94 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: upstairs to the pub to sleep at night, he's sort 95 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: of just hanging around in the corridors loiter. He's loitering, 96 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: and so so you get this sense of growing dread 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: about what's going to happen in the movie, as well 98 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: as these girls trying to you know, sort of enjoy 99 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: their outback experience, and the live character is a bit 100 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: more naive and outgoing, and Julia Garner's character, Hannah is 101 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: you know, she's a bit more suspicious of all of 102 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: these Aussie blokes. And so it's that kind of like 103 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: light and shade that you get in the film. And 104 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: in the end it kind of, you know, works its 105 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: way to a conclusion that is pretty sort of satisfying, 106 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: I guess in the end. But it's you know, it's 107 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: a fascinating insight into what goes on in Australian country 108 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: pubs and probably a few Australian city pubs as well. 109 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: And it'll make audiences ask, you know, like, what are 110 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: we willing to accept as part of Ozzie society? Is 111 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: this behavior acceptable? Is it just you know, like you know, 112 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: just harmless or is there something more going on? It 113 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: would be interesting to see how audiences react. All right, 114 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: very interesting. How many backpacker you give? Well, we'll see 115 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: how many survive. But I'm going to give this one 116 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: three and a half. Okay, it's a good one. It 117 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: sounds good. Thank you, Ben, Thank you guys.