There are no doubts, insecurities or moral weaknesses to be found here. Eric Bana: Yeah, its really honest. Years later, when Abel is older, he returns to the bay and plays with Blueback again, but when his mother passes away he returns to his studies about the ocean. While Abel is away his motherfearlesslyfights off thesemenand makes the bay a national park tofinallyprotect Blueback and the bay from danger. Blueback. Looking back, Winton says some books have been much easier to write than others. Thats really important. I think [author] Tim Winton has a theory that if you show, and make people care about the world, they're more likely to want to take care of it. it was while there that he began his first novel An Open Swimmer. that people are seen as writing either for children or adults - and that And there have been plenty of those: his 15 books In one of the most moving scenes of Winton's 1997 novel Blueback, the protagonist Abel cradles his ageing mum in the water that she loves. Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. "The Perth that my grandparents knew, and that my parents knew, was a foreign place to me, and my children never saw it. "They had no idea She dubs her googly-eyed, big-lipped new friend "Blueback," promising her mom to. 'idealist' is a perjorative term - a lifetime of journeying in a religious South-East Asian section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. This is the most time weve spent on camera together, right now! "It's a period of 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.. She said shed never spent time in Western Australia before and the experience, overall, was wonderful, if not incredibly rare. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, Blueback is quite a classic here in Australia. And I just knew something wasn't right.". Perhaps it's that simplicity which makes Blueback so powerful for readers young and old. 4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining read with solid message. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. 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. And, you know, Robs very upfront about the fact that theres no point being ambiguous. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday. * preventing people from overfishing in the area that they own. I just wish the action above the water line was as mesmerising. 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. 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. Then, curious, she hand-feeds it another. Its a scenario taken from Tim Wintons 2009 young adult novel, Blueback with one or two changes. There is no discernible "Connolly style" in any of his films, just extreme competence, humility and a love of storytelling. But in some ways, only just. The talented writer he has published 29 books for adults and children including Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath says he wrote the bestseller Blueback within a week. She asks him isn't he sick of never having money . Abel Jackson has lived by the sea at Longboat Bay ever since he could remember. ABC RN's on-air writers' festival is back! And to see the fish, which was a puppet, really come to life. On the one hand, it's a time when students should be challenged by texts more complex than anything they've experienced at primary school. And I probably would have been sort of nervous to scuba dive if I wasnt pushed to because of this film., She went on to say how surreal it felt to be underwater for 20 to 30 minutes, likening it to going into outer space. Tim Winton recalls a recent moment when he led his elderly mother to the beach, to help her into the water. Tim Winton (based on the book 'Blueback' by) Stars Mia Wasikowska Albert Mwangi Ariel Donoghue See production, box office & company info Coming soon Releases March 3, 2023 Add to Watchlist Added by 2.1K users 6 User reviews 24 Critic reviews 57 Metascore Videos 4 Trailer 1:03 Watch Teaser Trailer Trailer 2:00 Watch Official Trailer Featurette 3:36 Winton has written about the way the book mirrored subsequent events. Thank you to Penguin Books Australia. These three strands of story are woven against a backdrop of the fight to preserve the womens community and the surrounding ocean from the predations of over-fishing and a boo-hiss property developer. And now I see people being Bana and Wasikowska were fascinated by how the filmmakers used elements captured by a specialized team of underwater camera operators. Starring Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Crimson Peak), Eric Bana (The Dry, Dirty John), Radha Mitchell (London Has Fallen, Pitch Black), Liz Alexander (The Secret She Keeps), and newcomers Ariel Donoghue, Ilsa Fogg, and Albert Mwangi, Blueback is a coming-of-age story, through and through. There was also state-of-the-art mechanized puppetry created by Creature Technology Company, who were behind King Kong: Alive on Broadway and the popular arena show version of How to Train Your Dragon. I love the fact that our characters are part of the environment that we're portraying. And I just thought the girls did an amazing job. Between 2000 and 2003, he was famously instrumental in the campaign to save Ningaloo Reef from a resort development. Its a real challenge of how you create the journey of an audience of a relationship between a young person and a marine creature. And its just, I think its a real triumph, and I think the audience can tell when things are CGI, and theres something really special about about our fish, because its so physically real, and for the cast to be able to interact with it. If you live your life with your gaze vigorously averted, As VFX (visual effects) developed, Connolly - who describes himself as more an "analogue" filmmaker - was ready. In 1997, he was named a Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, and has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. Tim Winton was born on the 4th August 1960 in Western Australia is a famous Australian Author. 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. each of my first three books, and that was for years and years of my life, for The writers of Blueback are Robert Connolly and Tim Winton. And the more that we take care of it, the more its a two-way street. lead a Pynchon or a Salinger existence and become completely anonymous. This book constantly explores sustainability as Abel and his mother are striving to protect the environment. 162 Pages. Longboat Bay is like a paradise because of the crystal clear water, the way that the sun is always up and the different and the unique types of fish that are there. Nor is there anything surprising in the fact that his workers are a callous bunch with a taste for illegal spearfishing. Later he tells me Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Read more. Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Because I think as human beings, we do respond to that positivity as well. moved by how moved they were by it.." Moved too by the money they offered, Photo: Roadshow, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, InDaily uses cookies. But we were very lucky, because Western Australia where we filmed was completely separated from the rest of the country. Once Bremer Bay was decided on as a film location, the magic started to unfold. environment everything is about balancing the books, of looking after He helps his mother each day and loves to dive. ", Blueback is subtitled "a fable for all ages", a marketing ", The focus of Blueback is unequivocal - a call to environmental and Winton says he gets more fan mail about that book than anything else he's written. So its a pretty well-known story over here. Adapted from Tim Wintons book of the same name (Winton also shares screenwriting credit here), no doubt ocean life and the environment are depressingly pertinent topics these days. I feel like everything that is being explored here has been relevant for a really long time. It could be the right film at the right time, theres definitely a gap in the market seeing as its the first major underwater movie to release since Avatar: The Way of Water. and in eighteen different languages.Some of his works have also been successfully adapted for stage, screen and radio. 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. Blueback is a love letter to Western Australias Ningaloo Reef and the sea creatures that make their home there. winner of the 1981 The Australian/Vogel Award. This means there will be more next time; It reaches a length of up to 1.7 meters and can weigh 40 kilograms. back. 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. Actually, we already know thats not going to happen. Blueback. This is his last interview, after two months in Australia promoting his 29th book, The Shepherd's Hut, and flying around the country for a sold-out . The film has a natural rhythm and energy to it, shared Bana. And we can see that Erik Thomson is up to mischief even before he turns up in a white suit. The family film will be produced by Arenamedia and directed by Robert Connolly as the follow up to his award-winning box office hit . moral arms. If three hours of the new Avatar is more than you can stand, you might find this fable of family and the ocean far more to your taste. 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. Much of the story is told in flashback. While diving, Abby forms a bond with a. So I think I think it is a good way forward. yearning for yesteryear perhaps? As a writer, I normally have to fight for every sentence, but Blueback felt like a gift and continues to feel like a gift, he says, revealing its the one book he still gets most mail about, although it was first published in 1997. behave; the other is in terms of community - what are we prepared to give up Ahead of the release, We Got This Covered had the chance to talk to Bana and Wasikowska about the project, the difficulties of shooting on location during the pandemic, their own thoughts on the perils of climate change and much more, which you can check out below. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. I liked this film immensely. Interestingly, in southern Australia, the Western Blue Groper is the largest carnivorous bony fish species found living on reefs. Eric Bana: Yeah, I have to recommend Blueback today. The fish has a profound impact on Abel and Nora's lives. Get InReview in your inbox - free . Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was from the Waratah National Park, wherever that was, but it wasn't where we were.". 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. I am delighted by the magic that those performers were able to give., Young actors Ilsa Fogg and Pedrea Jackson on set. Its a film about young people having great agency for change, [and] the inspiration they get from their parents, so even though I changed the gender I feel its a film for all young people., Melbourne-based actor Eric Bana on a mission. three children have enjoyed the same, mainly because I was lucky enough to be Other visual effects came from Soundfirm (Peter Rabbit, Paper Plane) and Surreal World. I got a lot of grief from my daughters about the idea that I was making another film where the hero was a young boy after Id made Paper Planes. 37, the Fremantle-based author has always been an enigmatic figure in Ozlit. Theirs is a simple life. And what that meant was there was a process getting in, but once we were there, they were COVID free at that time. "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. Blueback / Tim Winton Children's novel published 1995. Blueback intertwines three decades in the lives of mother and daughter Abby and Dora. It gives to us, and we give to it. Blueback is an adaptation of a novel from best-seller Tim Winton (The Turning). "It's certainly a celebration of all that feral So we had no restrictions in our physical filming, one of the few places in the world where that that was occurring. I wanted to work with the real, natural world. I want audiences to have immersive experience, noted Bana about what he hopes people walk away with. by Tim Winton December 1, 2022. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). (including five prize-winning children's novels) have been critically and Like the excellent, more adult-oriented Breath also based on a Winton novel this wholesome and modestly affecting coming-of-age story is set on the west coast of Australia, in a fictitious community called Longboat Bay. Mia Wasikowska: I did manage to crossover with the girls in Western Australia by maybe only two days when I was at the end of my filming period. Is that something you guys can relate to having witnessed first-hand the environmental impact on Australia and the world thats been ongoing throughout your lives? There was almost no rewriting, it just came out formed.". If the sea is ultimately where we come from, and it seems we did, in later but at the time it was very, very hard. But it's just a whole other way of seeing the ocean, and it made it less scary, I guess, in some strange way, to really be immersed in it.. 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. 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Throughout the inevitable rise in interest in him, he has guarded his emotions. I've never really had that experience before. And then one day he turned up with this polystyrene fish. Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email. They said, Youve got two daughters, Dad! Mia Wasikowska: I mean, I hope its inspiring. Probably towards the end of this year would be a rough guess. The blue groper at the heart of Blueback was created by Melbournes Creature Technology Company.Credit:Roadshow. Like to send a message to Tim? Here are a few thoughts for you to think about: Turning lights off in rooms we aren't using, Drying clothes on the line not in the dryer, "Up and down they went hanging on the each breath taking a couple of abalone from each clump leaving the rest to breed and grow". "And I don't think it's worth going mad over, or tormenting your family.". The film could be described as unflinchingly earnest but in a good way, because its not often these days youll find a movie that doesnt have a cynical bone in its body. The latest film from The Dry director Robert Connolly, starring Mia Wasikowska . Some Blueback fodder that should pique audience interest: Creating Blueback, the hero of the film, was an undertaking. In the book, for example, Abby . Winton's first novel, an open swimmer won an award and it marked the beginning of Winton's literary career. The boy befriends the fish, a blue grouper while diving for abalone, his family's trade. Winton: an affable, plain-speaking man of unaffected intelligence and deep So it was it was a lot of fun. A simple but effective way of saying: she is remembering. So what did Bana whose international career goes back to 1997s The Castle bring to the project, when cast and crew found themselves filming off Ningaloo Reefs warm waters with whale sharks and oceanic manta rays? "It was a lovely experience to write. Adapted from Tim Wintons best-selling 1997 novella of the same name, co-writer and director Robert Connolly tells the environmentally-conscious and emotionally-driven story of the unlikely lifelong connection forged by young activist Abby and the titular wild blue grouper, which goes on to inform, inspire, and define her entire life. He felt indebted to the teachers and mentors who'd helped him to succeed, who didn't get the same accolades themselves. The blue groper at the heart of Blueback was created by Melbournes Creature Technology Company. And I was like, Whats with the polystyrene fish? And, and somebody in my office said, Ah, thats Robs next project.. But then I've always hated the idea Winton's first novel, An Open Swimmer won an award and it marked the beginning of Winton's literature career. Its very exciting to take the audience there.. [As Jacques] Cousteau said: If you can make people fall in love with something, theyll care for it., I hope the film can inspire an activism about the health of our oceans.. It should be required reading in creative writing classes: Winton is 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. The series will be narrated and written by renowned, award-winning Australian author and conservationist, Tim Winton. Set across three distinct time periods that sees Ilsa Fogg and Ariel Donoghue also play Abby at different points, Bana lends support as the roguish abalone diver Macka, who ends up having a huge impact on the inspiring conservationist. 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. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/tim-winton-blueback-ningaloo-and-40-years-of-writing/101297058, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article. On the other hand, however, the English teacher may find themselves . cover-awkward-bases tactic. Blueback by Tim Winton Year 7 Background Abel Jackson lives for and from the sea. Mia Wasikowska: Yeah, absolutely. Abby is played as a child by Ariel Donoghue. So we had to quarantine for two weeks before we started filming. Tim Winton has published twenty-nine books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Later still, he mentions magic moments "when it's happening, when you It was gigantic. 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. We see that with the character of Abby and the amazing relationship she has with her mother and how she's bought up, continued Bana. He has been to various countries but now resides back in Western Australia. Few writers have been as welcomed or as sought after. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Eric Bana: I sort of knew Robert was developing it, because we have an office together. It's a beautiful piece of old school craft. On land, Connollys touch isnt so sure. The supporting players are given even less to work with. "And she came home at four o'clock and I was still there unwrapping it, wrapping it. Like the groper, which will spend its life in one place if it can, Dora is devoting her life to the welfare of her own home. Report abuse. cataclysm to learn the value of sacrifice. - Filmoviplex. But no really, really excited. So it is universal, and then also quite focused locally. Born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1960, he is the author of several novels for adults, including Shallows (1986), a novel set in a whaling town, and Cloudstreet (1991), the tale of two working-class families rebuilding their lives, both won prestigious Miles Franklin Awards in Australia. Abc RN 's on-air writers ' festival is back to protect the environment that we 're portraying the! 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