Emerald City

Emerald City (1988)

Due città, quattro persone. Soldi. Lussuria. Tentazione. Avidità. Energia. Ambizione.

Una commedia sulle tentazioni della vita: lussuria, avidità e potere. La città in questione è Sydney e il colore verde indica avidità e invidia nella divertente satira di David Williamson sulle sue industrie cinematografiche ed editoriali. La storia è incentrata sulla famiglia Rogers, vagamente modellata su quella di Williamson.

Data di uscita
1988-12-09
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (15)
Durata
1 h 32 min
Generi
Commedia, Dramma
Regista
Michael Jenkins

Cast

Curiosità

  • Incassi: 192,8K A$
  • Premi: 1 · Candidature: 5. Tra cui: AACTA al miglior attore non protagonista

Emerald City is a 1988 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Michael Jenkins, based on the 1987 play of the same name by David Williamson. Much of the play's dialogue is retained though discussion of off-stage characters is usually replaced with their appearance, and a more conventionally cinematic level and speed of dialogue is maintained. Also, the younger daughter Hannah is omitted.

Production

The film rights to the play were bought by Joan Long, whose first choice to direct was Bruce Beresford. However, he had just filmed an adaptation of the play Crimes of the Heart and did not want to do another play adaptation, so Michael Jenkins was hired instead. According to some accounts, the original draft of the script pared down the dialogue but John Hargreaves and Robyn Nevin insisted it be put back during rehearsals.

We sat down with the piece when it was in script form and we thought, 'This is not going to survive if we approach it too politely', so... we decided we would do it as we did – we were a bit inspired by some of the Cary Grant movies of the '40s when they talked so quickly. So we thought we would pursue that line and feed the information to an audience at a fairly fast rate so that it keeps happening for them. There were mixed critiques.

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