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(ETHEREAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
(METALLIC BANGING, CLANKING)
(BRAKES HISSING)
TRAIN GUARD:
Alice Springs, last stop.
ROBYN:
'Dear Sir, I am planning towalk across the Australian desert,
from Alice Springs to the Indian
Ocean... a distance of 2,000 miles.'
(HORN BEEPS, ROCK MUSIC BLARES)
'The trip will take
six-to-seven months.'
D*ckheads.
'I arrived in Alice
Springs over a year ago.
There are herds of feral camels roaming
freely throughout Central Australia
and my idea was to capture a few
and train them to carry my gear.'
Diggity, stay.
'The trip wasn't conceived
as an adventure,
in the sense of something
to be proved or conquered.
And when people ask me why I'm doing
it, my usual answer is "why not?".'
I was wondering if
you had any work.
- What kind of work?
- Behind the bar, anything.
Ask the missus. She's out the back.
Got a place to stay?
I was planning on
camping somewhere.
Got a tent?
No.
One meal per shift is provided,
rent's deducted from first week's
pay, the loo's down the hall.
Great. Thanks.
I have a dog.
the purity of the desert,
its hot wind and
wide, open spaces.'
Alone?
Yeah, well, I'll need to train
and... then there's
Diggity, of course.
You go right ahead, love.
Go right ahead.
'But mainly I was bored
of life in the city,
with its repetitions,
my half-finished,
half-hearted attempts at jobs
and various studies.'
(WOMAN SPEAKS IN
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE)
'And I was sick of carrying around
the self-indulgent negativity
that was so much the malaise
of my generation, my
sex and my class.'
- Come on!
- (WOMAN SHOUTS)
'The decision to act was in itself
the beginning of the journey.
I believe when you've been
stuck too long in one spot,
it's best to throw a grenade
where you're standing, and jump...
and pray.'
Hey. We are closed today.
Your plan is ridiculous.
Kalahari in 1935...
that wasn't so ridiculous.
Nothing's in the blood.
I'm a hard worker.
You can work for me for
eight months... for free.
I'll show you how to train them.
After that, I give you...
two wild camels.
And that will be that.
So... do we sign a contract?
I'm good to my word.
You can stay here.
I'll clean out one of the sheds.
That's OK, I'll find my
own place. Thanks.
(HAMMERING)
Misch-Misch, Khartoum,
Ali, Fahani and Aba.
(CAMEL GRUNTS)
And these are my new
wild bulls... Dookie and Bub.
(GRUNTS)
What's wrong with him?
Nothing's wrong with him.
He's in rut. He's a bull.
Those other males are bullocks.
These are still bulls.
(BRAYS)
Die haben eier.
In rut season, they become
extremely aggressive.
Very dangerous.
He doesn't look very dangerous.
He's young. He will learn.
(CAMEL BELLOWS)
- Hey, Dookie.
- (DOOKIE BELLOWS)
Hey, Dookie. Hello.
(BELLOWS)
Hey.
- (CLICKS TONGUE)
- (GRUNTS)
(CLICKS TONGUE) Come on.
(BELLOWS)
So you want to play
with the camels?
Always watch the animal.
Watch how he thinks.
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
- (SWITCH CRACKS)
- Let him know who's boss.
Come on. Try it again.
(CAMEL BRAYS)
- Careful.
- (BRAYS)
(GROWLS)
(LAUGHS)
Hurry up. We open soon.
Are you finished?
Yep.
What's that?
Sorry.
Take off those shoes.
You must toughen the feet.
There are two species of camel.
Neither is native to Australia.
Some of the first camels
brought into the country
were for the Burke and Wills
expedition in 1860...
Louder. More effort!
Today there are over 50,000
feral camels across Australia.
(PENSIVE PIANO MUSIC)
Hey! Goldie!
Here, Goldie! Come on.
Hold it.
Wait.
(ALARM CLOCK RINGS)
(CLOCK TICKS)
'If my trip was inspired by
anyone, it would be my father.
Africa in his youth
and was happiest on his
own out in the bush.'
(CLICKS TONGUE)
'When I was young, he showed
me a tree on our property
marked with the letter L by the
explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.
In 1848, he attempted to
cross Australia to the ocean
with 7 horses and 20 mules.
He disappeared and was never found.
I remember imagining
Ludwig alone in the desert
with the animals,
and it sounded like a dream.'
(CAMEL BRAYS)
Yeah?
Can we talk about my trip?
My camels?
(CHUCKLES) Your camels?
Yeah, our deal.
I've tried to talk to you
about it already... twice.
I need you to get
up early tomorrow.
I want the camels in by five.
I've been here for
I don't have to do sh*t for you.
You're fired.
I'm going to talk
Gladdy's gone! And I
want you gone, too.
I want all b*tches
gone from my sight.
'The early settlers
needed beasts of burden
better suited to the harsh
climate of the outback,
so they imported camels.
When trains and cars came along
and there was no longer
any use for them,
the camels were set free.
But instead of perishing,
they flourished.
Now Australia has the largest
feral camel population
in the world.
(SIGHS)
Hey. What do you think, Dig?
Home sweet home, eh?
(BANGING)
(BICYCLE BELL RINGS)
(BANGING, MEN SHOUTING)
You must be mad, girly. You
know that's about 2,000 miles?
Six months of hard walking.
It gets tougher if
you get an injury.
No it's easy enough to get lost,
run out of water, food...
You don't have to be
unlucky to die out there.
I just want to be by myself.
MAN:
Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi!(CAMEL BRAYS)
Well, we don't train these
camels for kiddie rides. Hm?
We catch 'em, we sell 'em.
(CAMEL BRAYS)
So, will you help me out?
I can teach you how to break one.
The rest of it you
do in your own time.
You'll hire me?
Anyone who can put up with
deserves a chance.
Come back tomorrow. See how you go.
'I went to work for a camel
wrangler named Sallay Mahomet.
He came from a long line
of Afghan cameleers.'
Righto! Arms up, you've
gotta look tall.
Stand tall, arms up.
'He offered me one wild camel for
a month's work at half pay.'
Robyn, shut the gate.
(PENSIVE PIANO MUSIC)
(CAMELS GRUNT)
You'll have to break her.
Thanks.
SALLAY:
You've earned it.You're an odd girl, Robyn Davidson.
(CAMEL GRUNTS)
(POP MUSIC BLARES)
(HORN TOOTS)
WOMAN:
Rob?We know you're here!
You can run but you can't hide!
What are you doing here?
How did you find me?
Well, I asked around.
I guess there's not too many
camel ladies in this town.
Mm. I hate that. It makes me
sound like a crazy woman.
Hey, come on.
- Hi.
- How ya going, Robbie?
This is Peter, Bernard, Annie
and Annie's mate Rick.
He's out from the States.
I love your place. I didn't
realise how big camels are.
It's like a cow and a
giraffe mixture...
(CHUCKLES)
RICK:
They're beautiful.Going to invite us in?
Yep, come in.
(SIGHS)
That's what I have,
that's what I don't have.
Plus I need two more camels.
Mostly I just need money.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
Money, money, money.
The eternal, uh... the
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