(Part 1) The art of romantic comedy (on ABC Radio National)

[wattlesong]

Scripts are the first step, appropriate funding is another.

As a nation, we need to decide whether we want our own culture, or just to buy it all lock, stock and stinking barrel from Amerika.

Well done abc rn.

[tippngthevelvet]

Excellent piece on Australian culture.

Women will go to a film chosen by their male partner, but men are disenclined to return the favour. It is to men that we must address the issue of Australian cinema and romantic comedies.

I am one who believes that the pictures on radio are much more vivid than those on the screen. However, watching Fran's pas du deux with two hands here is something I have never conjured listening to Breakfast.

Thank you ABC RN for all the joy you bring me.

[SmileFromBehind]

Audiences need to support the Australian cinema, the governments need to support good scriptwriting and film funding, and we need to take back our own culture - or are we all just screaming sport consumers?

[SmileFromBehind]

Australians have allowed the appetite of 14 year old males to dictate the films we make. We don't support Australian cinema, and then complain about te paucity of it.

I recall the real golden age in the 1970s: Picnic at Hanging Rock and Caddie, and ABC series such as Certain Women and Rush.