Bad Boy Bubby

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

All he needs is love.

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.

Date of release
1993-09-01
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (324)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Crime, Drama, Comedy
Director
Rolf de Heer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$808.8K
  • Filmed in: Australia
  • Awards: 5 · Nominations: 6. Including: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival; AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; AACTA Award for Best Direction; AACTA Award for Best Editing

Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian 1993 crime black comedy-drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer, and starring Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, and Carmel Johnson.

Production

Shortly after graduating from film school, Rolf de Heer collaborated with Ritchie Singer on the idea of what would eventually become Bad Boy Bubby. For most of the 1980s, de Heer collected ideas and wrote them on index cards. In 1987, he took a hiatus from making Bubby index cards, but in 1989 he resumed work.

After he heard a rumour about the reintroduction of the death penalty to Australia, de Heer was angered and rewrote the ending so that Bubby would be executed at the end of the film. This ending was scrapped when the rumour proved false.

Filming took place in Port Adelaide between 30 November 1992 and 16 January 1993.

The people with cerebral palsy Bubby meets are not actors, but actual disabled people. Hope, who was raised Catholic, found the scenes where Bubby curses God in front of Angel's parents difficult to film.

Director de Heer describes the film as one large experiment, especially in the method used to record the dialogue: binaural microphones were sewn into the wig worn by leading actor Nicholas Hope, one above each ear. This gave the soundtrack a unique and claustrophobic sound that closely resembled what the character would actually be hearing. The film also used 31 individual directors of photography to shoot different scenes.

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