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| IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 out of 34,260 votes |
“Australia” 2008 by Baz Luhrmann – Movie Goofs
“Australia” Plot Summary
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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“Australia” Goofs List
- Continuity: At the end, when King George is waiting for Nullah to come on walkabout, the position of the spear he is holding changes angles several times – from straight up to 45 degrees from his body to straight up again.
- Continuity: When The Drover (Hugh Jackman) rescues the children, he is holding the youngest one as they enter the water. When the camera cuts back, he’s holding a rifle. Then he is holding onto the raft with the others without a gun, and the action continues to switch between him holding and not holding the gun.
- Continuity: When it starts to rain and you see Hugh Jackman with his coat off and over his shoulder, there are brown mud spots all over his shirt sleeve and jacket. In the very next shot the spots are gone and he appears to be wearing a clean shirt.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the screening of _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_, the first time it is seen in sepia. The two additional times they show the movie, it is in color. Famously however, the first 18 minutes of the film were shot in sepia (while Dorothy is in Kansas), with a transition to color once Dorothy arrives in Munchkinland.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Nullah “pulls up” at Faraway Downs and prepares to dismount from his horse, someone is holding the horse by a visible lead line (third rein).
- Crew or equipment visible: As Nullah gallops back to Faraway Downs after mounting the horse in the waterhole, there is a dust trail visible in front of his horse. Evidently someone is galloping ahead of him to ensure that his mount will follow, since Nullah is obviously too small to control an animal safely at speed.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Right at the end of the movie, when Nullah is about to go walkabout, in one scene he commits the cardinal sin of looking directly into the camera. Although it could be argued he’s looking at Drover, but Drover’s too far away beside a tree, and the angle of view is wrong.
- Factual errors: Earlier reported that Drover sees the burnt shoes of the children on mission island and that all boys were accounted for. In fact, it is never mentioned that all the boys survived the initial attack and the burnt shoes may have been those of children killed in the attack.
- Continuity: Nullah’s pinto pony, which has distinctive markings, changes to another pinto (possibly several) throughout scenes and from scene to scene, probably to accommodate a stunt rider.
- Plot holes: When the Japanese patrol arrives at the beach, they cannot see the 30 foot sailboat close enough to shore that little children could walk or easily swim out to it.
- Plot holes: The policeman, Callahan, and his men arrive at Faraway Downs looking to take Nullah and don’t find him. However, while they are driving up to the ranch, Nullah and his mother can be clearly seen climbing the water tower ladder as the truck is facing in that direction. As they are leaving, two of the policemen are seen sitting in the bed of the truck as it pulls away. People on the station are running toward the water tower in obvious distress, Jackman climbing the ladder to retrieve Nullah and his mother, in full view of the policemen in the truck bed as it is no further than 50 yards away, yet, the truck makes no response to the obvious activity in full view of them.
- Continuity: Drover begins lassoing a horse in a circular corral holding the lasso in the rope with his right hand. In obvious continuous motion, we see it in his left hand after a cut, then back to his right hand after the next cut.
- Continuity: In the scene in which Sarah first meets Nullah, she is speaking to him with her left hand near her chest. In obvious consecutive action, it suddenly appears at her side after a cut, then, after the next cut, suddenly back near her chest.
- Anachronisms: Lady Sarah Ashley’s mount – the last before she leaves England – has what appears to be a freeze brand on his shoulder. Freeze branding was invented in the 1960s and used as ID for valuable horses in the 1980s.
- Continuity: During their trip to Darwin the group is resting at night, when suddenly Fletcher’s guys pour out the gasoline and light it up. When the fire is lit it is pitch black and the stars can be seen. Then the stampede starts and suddenly it is in the middle of the day.
- Anachronisms: During the film Lady Ashley and Nullah view a newspaper in Australia advertising the “The Wizard of Oz”. Later in the film a sign in Darwin indicates that the year is 1939. It is highly unlikely that the newspaper or the showing of the “The Wizard of Oz” occurred in 1939 because the it was actually released in Australia during April 1940.
- Factual errors: When the Drover gets into the pickup truck to leave Faraway Downs, he gets into the left-hand seat and drives away with the steering wheel on the left-hand side. Australian vehicles are typically equipped with steering wheel and driving controls on the right-hand side because Australian traffic drives on the left-hand side of the road.
- Factual errors: Japanese bombing of Darwin includes a shot of a naval warship exploding. The ship exploding is an older US battleship with the distinctive tripod masts. The USS Peary which was destroyed during the first raid of the bombing of Darwin was a Clemson-class destroyer.
- Continuity: When Lady Ashley, Drover, and the children are reunited on the wharf, a military ambulance seen behind them is also shown in other battle scenes at different locations in the same time setting. The hood ID numbers are the same.
- Continuity: When Lady Ashley tells Drover to either stay at Faraway Downs or never return, Drover slams the white gate shut behind him as he storms out. In the next scene the gate is wide open again.
- Factual errors: Maitland is shown being murdered in the Faraway Downs “billabong”. A billabong is a small lake of stagnant water when cutoff from the river. The scene and subsequent map show it just to be a pool attached to the river.
- Anachronisms: Late in the movie the barman can be seen with crates of Victoria Bitter. This beer or “VB” as it is known is the local beer in the southern state of Victoria was not available in other areas of Australia until the 1970s.
- Revealing mistakes: In an early scene, the Drover’s truck is running beside some bounding kangaroos. The leg action of the kangaroos does not match the speed they are moving at – the swing backwards is stopping too soon.
- Factual errors: The Japanese planes are shown dropping torpedoes on land based targets. While maybe appropriate for the ships in the harbor, no pilot would use a torpedo for a land-based target.
- Anachronisms: In the first “tent” scene between Grover, Sarah and the Aboriginal stockmen, Grover speaks to Sarah whilst cleaning his teeth. A close inspection of his toothbrush reveals that it is not 1939-vintage. It has dark bristles in the centre and white bristles around the outside. Also the toothbrush has an oral-dynamic shape, with a pointed end. In 1939 toothbrushes were not this sophisticated. They were rectangle-shaped with white bristles.
- Continuity: In the ball scene, Sarah suddenly appears in a close-up with her make-up redone. Her lipstick was the most obvious change.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Sometimes during the attack scenes, the aircraft wheels are retracted; other times the wheels are extended while dropping bombs or firing at ground targets. This is not a goof, since the planes with extended landing gears are expected to be Aichi D3A “Val” bombers. This kind of plane had fixed landing gears. Other Japanese planes were Mitsubishi “Zeke” (or “Zero”) fighters. The “Zekes” were embarked aircraft with retractable landing gears.
- Anachronisms: At the charity ball the song ‘Aquarela do Brasil’, composed by Ary Barroso in 1939, is heard. The song was first recorded later that year in Brasil by Aracy Cortes. It became an international hit after it was sung by Carmen Miranda in the movie “The Gang’s all here” in 1943. It’s most improbable the song could have been orchestrated, arranged and performed by a band the same year it was composed in a far away spot such as Australia.
- Continuity: In the scene where Sarah and Nullah first meet in the house, Nullah’s shell necklace disappears and reappears from shot to shot.
- Continuity: In the scene when Sarah asks Flynn to tell her all about Faraway Downs and Fletcher, Flynn pulls out of his stock a full bottle of rum. In the close-up shot when he is opening it, it’s another kind of bottle, not entirely filled with rum. In the next scene, he is again holding the (opened) former bottle.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the scene when Drover storms away from Faraway Downs after his argument with Sarah, the traces of the came
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