John Barry - Walkabout (1971) main title theme

[praesepe2006]

The photo from 1.37 to 2.07...wow.

[YuwTuwb]

@praesepe2006 - she's thinking of the past, the time when she had her most real experience! 

[YuwTuwb]

Beautiful - this always makes me feel deeply emotional.

[TheGmcFilms]

Saw a little snippet of this film tonight on the telly and it brought back so many memories of the film education i experienced back then, In those days the BBC played Fellini, Fassbinder, Nic Roeg, Bertolucci, Peter Weir, Antonioni, Sergio Leone...The list was endless. I was about ten or eleven when this was shown and its one of those films you never forget. Mind you, you ask most fifteen to twenty year olds today who those people are above and they do not have a clue...Sad really...G...

[Sheri451]

I own this movie, the remastered version. I saw the features in it. I love the music of this movie. My dream is to someday go to Australia. It's such a beautiful country.

[NaturalBornArsehole]

@Sheri451 Walkabout was an interesting and kind of dreamy look at the Australian outback. I think you should seek out another Australian movie from 1971 called "Wake In Fright" directed by Ted Kotcheff. This was a more realistic look at how Australians relate to their natural environment. Although it was shunned at the box office upon release, it is now widely regarded as among the most important movies ever made here. And yes, even though we can be horrible, Australia is still beautiful.

[Sheri451]

@NaturalBornArsehole Yes you're right.Is the population of the Kangaroo going down? What do they kill them for? The meat?

[NaturalBornArsehole]

@Sheri451 Australia is a country that goes through cycles of drought and wet periods. And it is this that causes kangaroo populations to wax and wane. The notice at the end of Wake In Fright about kangaroos being endangered is a quaint reminder of misplaced concern. A few years ago, farmers were complaining that kangaroo numbers were in plague proportions and requesting a cull. Kangaroos are culled to keep the populations manageable, for pet food, for fur and also for human consumption.

[Sheri451]

@NaturalBornArsehole Here in America, they have wolves on an endangered list. 

[NaturalBornArsehole]

@Sheri451 I forgot you have wolves in the US. It's your Grizzly Bears that hog the limelight for most of us foreigners. I myself have a fascination with the Gila Monster. I think they're cute in a reptilian sort of way.

[Sheri451]

@NaturalBornArsehole 

[Sheri451]

@NaturalBornArsehole Don't they look like a lizard?

[NaturalBornArsehole]

@Sheri451 Yes, they're a very unique type of lizard. One was featured in an old Humphrey Bogart movie; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[Sheri451]

@NaturalBornArsehole I'll have to look that up.