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Crocodile Dundee doco
Transcript
00:00It's the biggest movie ever made outside of a major studio.
00:04Action!
00:06Blockbuster.
00:07Through the roof.
00:08Michael J. Crocodile Dundee.
00:14Action!
00:16It's sensational.
00:18That's a knife.
00:22That's a knife.
00:26Right at the start, John wanted to make a movie.
00:28We'd never made a movie.
00:29We grew up in gravel, and in gravel you learnt to have a go.
00:31So, we were having a go.
00:34He was the brains of the outfit.
00:35John said, you know, we're going into show business.
00:37The Paul Hogan show was huge.
00:39Good evening, viewers.
00:40Gravitas, Swagger, those guys had it in spades.
00:44Now, nobody knew anything about Australia, really.
00:46G'day, America.
00:48We wanted to make a movie that appealed to people from 7 to 70.
00:50Here's to Crocodile Dundee.
00:52I virtually wrote it walking down the street.
00:54Laughed my frock off.
00:55Laughed my frock off.
00:56I said, well, now there's an opportunity, and I think we should grab it.
01:00There was one significant naysayer.
01:02It was his view that the script was a load of bollocks.
01:04It's stuffed.
01:06Linda freaked.
01:08She suddenly recognised, well, hang on, I'm working with an amateur here.
01:11Ah, nothing like a double bourbon to start the day off right.
01:14I wasn't prepared for what it really was.
01:17I get a phone call from Packer.
01:19Ian put in some money and then pulled it out.
01:21Left us with a shortfall.
01:22But John, he loved to solve problems.
01:25Hulk said, let's go make a movie.
01:29Crocodile Dundee is a good film.
01:32Corroboree and dance.
01:33Enjoy it.
01:34You have to follow your heart.
01:35And they did.
01:36I love you!
01:38Love.
01:41There's probably never been anything so large across the spectrum.
01:46From larrikinism to the rest of the world, that was Australian.
01:49This was a terrific Australian film.
01:53Oh, mates.
01:55He did take a bullet for me, John.
01:57She's done a great job.
01:58Thanks, really.
02:00I miss my mate.
02:02The house dropped.
02:04It changed my life.
02:12But, you know, if you've got the ability to make people laugh
02:15and forget their woes for a bit,
02:17what a job.