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Luc Roeg was actually sun-burnt in the scene where the aboriginal boy treats his back by rubbing him with fat from a wild boar. Director Nicolas Roeg thought it would make a good scene for the film so he picked up the camera and shot it.
Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall .
Luc Roeg was actually sun-burnt in the scene where the aboriginal boy treats his back by rubbing him with fat from a wild boar. Director Nicolas Roeg thought it would make a good scene for the film so he picked up the camera and shot it.
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Nov 29, 2021 · Here's what the events of the ending of Nicolas Roeg's acclaimed 1971 movie Walkabout, starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil, really mean.
- Jeff Litton
May 18, 2010 · Contrasting Roeg’s stance with that of the white population of the country, he observed: “Australians—the most urbanized people in the world—are full of fear, full of anxieties about the sun and the sea and the creepy-crawlies and what they call the ‘bities’—snakes, spiders, box jellyfish, crocodiles, kangaroos bursting through ...
There were shots in Walkabout, such as the sun transforming into the moon in a dissolve, that could easily have been in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the landscape looks lunar in parts. Do you have a favourite scene or indeed film of your father’s works?
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We revisit Nicolas Roeg's 1971 coming-of-age classic, 'Walkabout' (now available at SBS On Demand), and the questions it raised about race, civilisation and sexuality.
