But we were very lucky, because Western Australia where we filmed was completely separated from the rest of the country. As Winton and his wife held his mother in the ocean, they were both very aware that this was a scene that Winton had imagined, and committed to paper, more than 20 years earlier. Blueback PG. The family film will be produced by Arenamedia and directed by Robert Connolly as the follow up to his award-winning box office hit . The latest film from The Dry director Robert Connolly, starring Mia Wasikowska . Between 2000 and 2003, he was famously instrumental in the campaign to save Ningaloo Reef from a resort development. 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This article was first published in The Weekend I wanted to make the film in an analogue way. There was almost no rewriting, it just came out formed.". "And I'm happy with that. 162 Pages. The puppet they made for this was just amazing.. can". So we had to quarantine for two weeks before we started filming. The blue groper at the heart of Blueback was created by Melbournes Creature Technology Company.Credit:Roadshow. paperback. The Riders, which itself disconcerted many, it looks somewhat Overview : Blueback is an environmental novel for children and young adults. . We did as best we could to made sure that didnt happen. give only this print interview. Mia Wasikowska: No, no, no, no, no, you go first! "It's certainly a celebration of all that feral If there's something ahead that Audiences open to an ecological ocean drama thats gentler, more grounded and certainly more Strayan than James Camerons squillion-dollar screensaver can find an appealing if slight companion piece in the latest Tim Winton adaptation, brought to the screen by writer-director Robert Connolly. A lot of that has to be done by giving things I was only there for two weeks, and maybe you were quite similar? Contents Life and career Personal life Style and themes Environmental advocacy So its a piece of magic, its a little bit of old school filmmaking and puppetry and a lot of beautiful craft work thats gone into it. ourselves. Which has tended to obscure the real And so seeing the film for the first time is like being a normal audience member, but I really love working with young actresses, the young cast were fantastic. This was entered for The Australian/Vogel Awardin 1981. If the sea is ultimately where we come from, and it seems we did, Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, absolutely. And I think by offering some hope, and by offering a positive tail on a lot of these stories, it can make it seem less insurmountable. Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends . 37, the Fremantle-based author has always been an enigmatic figure in Ozlit. Theres Abbys connection to her mother, and, in scenes from the past, the blue groper. While diving, Abby forms a bond with a. Wasikowska plays environmentalist Abby as an adult Abby returns home upon hearing of her mother, Doras, stroke. Winton says the journey of adaptation to the screen has been a long one. children's literature is the little league, adults the big. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. Tim Winton on Blueback, Ningaloo, and 40 years of writing, Australian Defence Force personnel and aircraft will be involved in the evacuation of residents from remote communities in the NTexperiencing significant flooding, Former government services minister Stuart Robert is being questioned at theRobodebt inquiry, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news. Then, curious, she hand-feeds it another. Mia Wasikowska: Thats true. Photo: David Dare Parker. Like to send a message to Tim? Winton spent so many years trying to find a way to finish the story, that some of his children had never seen him working on a different book. The run of successes in Winton's career is the stuff of only the most fanciful of imaginations. I think I think Rob has done a beautiful job of capturing a natural environment and emotional environment where you realize that yeah, we do as humans get more out of nature than nature gets out of us, when it is a wonderful place to be. . And after others told him they were moved to tears by the tale, he thought im Winton was born on the 4th August 1960 in Western Australia is a famous Australian Author. that people are seen as writing either for children or adults - and that His mum had been a swim teacher as a younger woman, but was now too frail to swim on her own. Moving between and integrating these timelines becomes a core structural challenge. Winton says he gets more fan mail about that book than anything else he's written. historic contract we have between ourselves and the future. There is no discernible "Connolly style" in any of his films, just extreme competence, humility and a love of storytelling. Abel swims with Blueback whenever possible and finally the big red jet boat comes into Longboat Bay, both him and his mother are very worried. Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email. It can live up to 70 years. I wasnt as taken in by Wasikowska, who is soft and sullen, reading her lines in a vacant sort of way as if shes mentally some place else. in later but at the time it was very, very hard. An ecological novel on a boy who protects a fish from property developers and rapacious fishermen. The training of the cast was so critical. This beautiful story about a child, their activist mum, a wild blue groper, and the fight to save a reef from commercial fishing operators and developers has now been adapted by filmmaker Robert Connolly (director of Balibo, Three Dollars and The Dry, and producer of Romulus, My Father and The Boys) into a coming-of-age family film for the big screen. lead a Pynchon or a Salinger existence and become completely anonymous. The waters and land of the Bay both sustain and enrich their lives. Winton says he learned a valuable lesson from this "dark, dark time". Blueback is in cinemas around Australia from 1 January, Irreverent review a Chicago criminal goes undercover down under, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. While marine biologist Abby Jackson is out on a boat researching the heart-breaking destruction of coral reefs, she's called back home with the news that . So we had no restrictions in our physical filming, one of the few places in the world where that that was occurring. * preventing people from overfishing in the area that they own. Eric Bana: Yeah, similar experience. I was Blueback releases in select theaters, as well as on digital and on-demand, this coming Friday March 3. At eight, shes already mastered the art of free diving. all my time on, around or under the water. Its a family-friendly, broadly appealing film that expands the canon of coastal Aussie pictures involving interspecies mateship the original and remade Storm Boy, featuring Mr Percival the pelican, and Oddball, featuring a very photogenic Maremma sheepdog that saves a colony of penguins in Victoria. We shot in the middle of the pandemic when it felt like any sort of travel was not really allowed, explained Wasikowska. up; talk about sacred links and the New Age is just so much baloney if it A Western Blue Groper christened Blueback is star of the film based on Tim Wintons book. by Tim Winton December 1, 2022. 100% (1) 100% found this document useful (1 vote) 2K views. People can watch the film and go on an incredible journey to places we went and filmed in. His religious - and social - faith sustains him, he admits, "although at And the more that we take care of it, the more its a two-way street. But as the story unfolds, a metaphor emerges. So its a pretty well-known story over here. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends . Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. So it was it was a lot of fun. Winton has proved a magnet for Australian film-makers. disconcerting. The tale revolves around Abby, a young West Australian child (Donoghue), who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. a master of language who writes unadorned sentences that build in power and Whats going on?. I think there are a lot of examples of incredible women leading the environmental movement at the moment and plenty of examples of men whove done some pretty catastrophic choices on the environment, including our political leaders in this country in the past. tough opposition. Every day while fishing, Abel and his mother would go out and play and feed Blueback. Winton's passion for Ningaloo has only grown in the years since the campaign. Blueback is now screening in cinemas nationwide. Photo: David Dare Parker, [Tim] is just a deeply humanist storyteller its very moving its fun and optimistic, but its also got deep elements about a life lived.. Why indeed? Robert said not too long ago that the environmental movement has really embraced the idea of activism through optimism, which is a fascinating way of looking at it, and something Blueback deals in from start to finish. Blueback puts a very eloquent case for the care of this marine paradise. Much of the story is told in flashback. He produced the anthology film, The Turning (2013), based on Wintons short story collection. The changes that Abby sees in her personal life at the same time things are shifting on not just a local scale but a global one. Blueback. emotions. So I think I think it is a good way forward. We meet the pair when Abby is an eight-year-old, obsessed with diving, then again when she is a teen ditto, just deeper and then with Abby in her 30s or so, working as a marine biologist, when she learns Dora has fallen in ill. He has been to various countries but now resides back in Western Australia. So I think there is tactically, I think its a its a really good, really good way for a lot of people in that space to use. One day he meets Blueback, the biggest and most beautiful fish he's . If Cloudstreet and Blueback were a pleasure, Winton's 2001 novel Dirt Music was something else altogether. For Blueback, he agreed to Oh, this one! Really, it's the An optimistic Robert Connolly hopes his audience is as passionate as he is about these core issues. An inspiring story for the whole family, Tim Winton's best-selling novel comes to life on the big screen. oily self-interest in Government, in terms of reconciliation, and the I liked this film immensely. "We were told by the culture that all the real Australia was elsewhere, it occurred on the east coast," Winton says. On land, Connollys touch isnt so sure. Blueback was originally conceived as an animated film due to the "state of CGI technology" in the late 1990s, and the risks of having "a big, wild fish" in the water with children. Thats really important. Winton is philosophic about that: "I guess it is Expands the canon of coastal Aussie pictures: Blueback is in cinemas from 1 January. Connollys production has notes of the Oscar-winning 2020 documentary My Octopus Teacher, with a protagonist (in the novel a boy named Abel, now a girl named Abby) developing a friendship with the titular character: a wild blue groper who profoundly influences her worldview. It's a scenario taken from Tim Winton's 2009 young adult novel, Blueback - with one or two changes. "My wife left for work at eight o'clock in the morning, and I was wrapping it up to send it to my publisher," Winton says. And then one day he turned up with this polystyrene fish. He laughs, denies he's a romantic. Incredible actors at the beginning of epic careers who learnt how to do their own free diving, learnt how to swim in the ocean, Connolly says of the newcomers. I am delighted by the magic that those performers were able to give., Young actors Ilsa Fogg and Pedrea Jackson on set. Add to Goodreads. Other visual effects came from Soundfirm (Peter Rabbit, Paper Plane) and Surreal World. Blueback premieres in cinemas on January 1, 2023. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Nor is there anything surprising in the fact that his workers are a callous bunch with a taste for illegal spearfishing. "It's a period of So yeah, I hope people feel educated and inspired, and they want the natural world to be a bigger part of their life., Id love audiences to feel what I felt when I read the script, which was that sense of being really inspired and appreciating the connection we have to the environment, added Wasikowska. Blueback was originally conceived as an animated film due to the "state of CGI technology" in the late 1990s, and the risks about "a big, wild fish" in the water with children. he'd better have another look at it. A feature film adaptation of Tim Winton's 1997 novella Blueback (Penguin) has received production funding from Screen Australia in its latest funding round.. Writer/director Robert Connolly of Arenamedia will work with producers Liz Kearney and James Grandison on the adaptation, which follows a young girl (changed from a young boy in the novel) who befriends a wild groper while diving, and . His love for the natural world is echoed in his conservation work. Winton draws his main inspiration from the landscape he knows well. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. awkward in that I don't know who it's for. She meets ol mate Blueback as a youngster (played as a child by Ariel Donoghue and as a teenager by Ilsa Fogg) and, as an adult (Mia Wasikowska), becomes a marine biologist caring deeply about the state of the reef. If you weren't aware of the realities of what you held to, Throughout his childhood, Abel and his mother Dora have depended on Longboat Bay for all that they need. He's quickly become one of my favourite film-makers working anywhere today. moral arms. Through the Western Australian Regional Film Fund and support of the State Government of Western Australia, Screenwest is contributing to the new feature film Blueback, based on Tim Winton's best-selling book. faith against the current in the least religious country in the world has been You know, this is an actual life-size mechanical, human-operated thing. Two jam-packed days of conversations with writers you love and others you're going to love, on August 6 and 7 on your radio, online and ABC listen. Blueback sa prevodom| Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl's power to change the world. But in some ways, only just. Eric Bana: I got to meet the fish in its early gestation period, as a polystyrene cut-out while it was being developed, and saw all the work that was going in by the amazing company that brought Blueback to life. Australian author Tim Winton has published dozens of novels, short story collections, plays, children's books, and non-fiction works in a career that spans four decades. Blueback by Tim Winton. The storytelling came via stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Eric Bana (The Dry, The Forgiven), and a young cast including Ilsa Fogg, Pedra Jackson and Ariel Donoghue. The journey allows her to recall her younger self (played by Donoghue) and the experiences she had befriending a blue groper. "That book just slipped out," he says. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. Blueback Tim Winton 3.93 3,094 ratings285 reviews From the author of the bestselling novel The Riders comes a bewitching fable sure to delight readers of all ages. Even when the day came to submit the final manuscript, Winton wasn't convinced he'd nailed it. It reaches a length of up to 1.7 meters and can weigh 40 kilograms. So I guess it was a period when I was in my 20s when I wanted to try and capture that.". Abby is played as a child by Ariel Donoghue. I think that they teach it in a lot of school curriculums at the moment, actually. Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2013. strongly-held views, he has restricted his public utterances to reluctant, "There's an uneasy encounter between art and commerce which I don't know I would recommend Blueback. I love the fact that our characters are part of the environment that we're portraying. "Every day was special, his mother always told him this, but it all became much more precious the day he first shook hands with old Blueback" (page 10). * only taking a few abolone from each area, leaving the rest to bread and grow. he has been to various countries, but now resides back in Western Australia. Connolly and his editors do a sublime job of getting these three eras to talk to each other. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, Blueback is quite a classic here in Australia. Read more. Penguin Books Australia 13K subscribers The documentary Island Home accompanies Tim Winton's 2015 book Island Home: A landscape memoir. A simple but effective way of. He's unabashed. "I've had a great experience working with Tim in the past, and his work, and I feel like this is a novella he wrote over 20 years ago that remains on the school syllabus around Australia and lends itself wonderfully to a screen adaptation," the director said. Whether it's the majesty of the ocean in Breath, or sparse salt lakes of The Shepherd's Hut, Tim Winton is recognised as one of the most lyrical observers of the Western Australian landscape. * making the coastal area they own a National park, stopping deforestation so that industries or parks could not be made; Later still, he mentions magic moments "when it's happening, when you I also feel the universality of it is beyond gender. times I'm not sure whether it's a balm or just another prickle under the I was so proud of it when I saw it. Tim Winton on Blueback "I don't know whether books like Blueback make a difference, but in an innocent way, it's discussing these things - we have been taking from the sea and the land for so long, it's time for us to give something back. * Blueback is published by Macmillan as a hardback, by Pan as a So why should I be anxious about categorisation?". "I reckon it took me ten years to not feel bad about doing well.". and species have been eroded this century at an unimaginable rate. If you could recommend just one film from your careers that you want people to see above any others, what would it be and why would it be that? Also, its a role that subsumes itself to the women who drive the story, which I think is also another fantastic quality that he has as an actor.. '," Winton says. Reading Blueback has made usmore aware of the environment around us. Winton has written about the way the book mirrored subsequent events. Ningaloo with Tim Winton will reveal a bewildering diversity of wildlife, including one of the only whale shark aggregation sites, the world's largest humpback whale nursery, a sea snake hotspot, and a refuge . In one scene, adult Abby, during a moment of melancholic reflection, casts her gaze towards sand dunes, before Connolly cuts to teenage Abby walking across them. You were both obviously very committed to the project because a small film shooting during the restrictions caused by the pandemic cant have been an easy or straightforward for either yourselves as actors or the cast and crew, especially shooting on location where there are so many more variables than there are on a closed set. from the sea and the land for so long, it's time for us to give something Ilsa Fogg plays the teenage Abby in Blueback. While Abel is away his motherfearlesslyfights off thesemenand makes the bay a national park tofinallyprotect Blueback and the bay from danger. "Perth was just being bulldozed," Winton says, referring to the many old buildings that were demolished in the 60s and 80s. 40 pages. I feel like everything that is being explored here has been relevant for a really long time. Eric, did you meet the star of the show Blueback at all during your time on set, or was he being a diva and refusing to interact with people who werent direct scene partners? Tim Winton's novel Breath (2008) is a modern bildungsroman set in the sleepy beach town of Sawyer, Western Australia in the 1970s. Blueback is a love letter to Western Australias Ningaloo Reef and the sea creatures that make their home there. Despite being a fish, rather than a person, Blueback is very much a key character in the novel. Mia, did you spend much time or have a lot of discussions with Robert, Ilsa, or Ariel at all to try and create a through-line of sorts for who Abby becomes from the first act to the last, or was your approach to more focus on where she was during the time you were playing her? Yet he still believes there is a place and indeed, a very important one for art and writing. Donate to InReview today. Winton says he was a little shocked when he learned the lead character was no longer a boy called Abel, but a girl. I mean, its one of the great things about when you really come in and do a supporting role is you dont get to see the rest of the film. I wanted to work with the real, natural world. We meet the pair when Abby is an eight-year-old, obsessed with diving, then again when she is a teen - ditto,. And I love the dynamic between between Macka and Abby. Blueback. He would have discovered an unpretentious Neither Mitchell and Wasikowska can do much to enliven dialogue that is more bound up with the life cycle of a groper than the shifting emotions involved in being human. Thanks for signing up to the InReview newsletter. Blueback, the new film from director/writer Robert Connolly (The Dry, The Slap, Paper Planes), delivers a big message about ocean wildlife that's perfectly woven into a heartwarming tale about an unlikely friendship. But, when Abel leaves his mother to go to a boarding school his mother has an encounter withbusinessmen who are trying to get her to sell the bay. I have some ideals, even if these days By instinct an outspoken man of We again assembled an incredible cast and showing off another very, very interesting part of part of Australia, in another thriller. Eric Bana makes a regrettably brief appearance as a genial abalone diver who retains Doras friendship despite his delinquency in harvesting a few more molluscs than he should. Its also a story about family at the end of the day, and its hard to imagine theres anyone wholl watch the film that wont find at least one element they cant relate to on some level, which can sometimes be a difficult balance to strike when it comes to independent productions that also wear their localization as such a proud badge of honor like Blueback does, which is a testament to how the film turned out. something to the future, to define limits on what we'll exploit and how we'll And more. It tells the story of a young boy named Abel Jackson, who grows up in a small coastal town in Western Australia. Mia Wasikowska and Eric Bana love that Blueback delivers a passionate message about friendship and the beauty of the worlds oceans. YouTube. 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