Australia Page #11

Synopsis: In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
Director(s): Baz Luhrmann
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 35 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG-13
Year:
2008
165 min
$49,420,849
Website
4,550 Views


Come on. Leg 'em up.

They're little fellas. Come on.

Bring those little fellas up to the front.

You cursed me, you little creamy.

Oh. Oh.

When I said that no one

could get out there...

I'd forgotten about you, Drover.

That no matter.

We gonna go back Faraway Downs.

Yes, he's right. With the water up,

it's the safest place in the north.

These are, after all-

Extraordinary circumstances.

Extraordinary circumstances.

Thank you, Emmett.

I'll see you mob in Faraway Downs.

[Children Laughing]

Here, fellas, make some room

for the kids, will ya?

- Can you help me, please?

- In you go.

Right-o! That's it. They're all on.

Let's get out of here.

Come on. Let's go.

All right, kids, hold on.

Mr. Fletcher!

Mr. Fletcher.

Neil.

We gotta go.

Go and tell Callahan

there's looters everywhere.

Go and tell Callahan!

- I've got the keys to the car upstairs.

- Right-o.

Come on, Mrs. Boss. Hurry up.

Nullah!

I got gulapa magic.

No one can hurt me.

- [Sarah] Nullah! No!

- No!

- [Screams]

- [Panting]

No! No!

[Gasping]

[Weak Gasp]

[Screams]

Nullah!

Nullah, you all right, little man?

Nullah, please. Come on. Please.

Come on.

There. That's it.

No bullet. Me gulapa.

[Laughing]

[Nullah Narrating]

King George teach me...

the rain will fall,

the grass grow green...

and life, it begin again.

Let's go home.

There's no place like it.

[Nullah Narrating]

One thing I know.

Why we tell story

is the most important of all.

That's how you keep them people

belong you...

always.

Oh.

Mrs. Boss, I sing you to me.

Here.

- [Grunts]

- [Chuckles]

[Aboriginal Language]

And I will hear you.

[Animals Calling, Faint]

## [Acoustic Guitar]

## [Man Vocalizing]

## [Woman Vocalizing]

# Sing and I will hear you #

# No matter where you are #

# A song to light the darkest night #

# And guide me from afar#

# And I will never#

# Be afraid #

# Now I know you're somewhere #

# You're everywhere to me #

# The warming of the sun #

# Upon the earth beneath my feet #

# And when the rain falls down #

# You tell the story #

# And I will hear you #

# Always near you #

# By the Boab tree ##

[Man] # From the sunburnt plains

of far-off north Australia #

# Came a fella born to ride

the wide, brown land #

# Oh, he grew up running wild #

# But soon by all was styled #

# As the country's greatest

ever-drovin' man #

# Though his legend rode the winds

from Broome to Darwin #

# They loved and loathed him

right from end to end #

# For when the Drover gave his heart #

# To a girl whose skin was dark #

# From that day on

he was no white man's friend #

# So goes the Drover's story #

# You will hear it near and far #

# And in the end

it's all he'll ever own #

# It says the outcast is a free man #

# lfhe sleeps under the stars #

# Makes the blanket

of the southern skies his home #

# But the Drover is a man

of constant shadows #

# Haunted by his pain

his past and name #

# For every mile he rides #

# What he cannot hide #

# Is the longing in his heart #

# To love again #

# So goes the Drover's story #

# You'll hear it near and far#

# And in the end

it's all he'll ever own #

# It says the outcast is a free man #

# If he sleeps under the stars #

# Makes the blanket

of the southern skies his home #

# And makes the blanket

of the southern skies his home #

# His home ##

## [Woman Vocalizing]

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Stuart Beattie

Stuart Beattie (born 1972) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. His screenplay for Collateral (2004) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay and Saturn Award for Best Writing. Beattie attended Knox Grammar School, in Sydney, New South Wales, where his mother, Sandra, was a languages teacher; and later Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. more…

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