Personally, I don't care if the story is true or not. What I can say is that since I've first seen this movie 20 yrs ago, I keep re-watching it once per year or so. To this day, it remains one of the most enchanting and beautiful films I've ever seen; the landscape, the music , the excellent performances - I seriously cannot find a flaw. If only modern movies had that dreamy quality...
More creepiness: Last year, a portrait in the National Gallery of Victoria was identified as that of Lucrezia Borgia (the only painting of her declared authentic). It was purchased over forty years ago by the Felton Bequest, with the former Director of the National Gallery, Sir Daryl Lindsay, on the board. His wife, Joan Lindsay, wrote "Picnic at Hanging Rock". After appearing as the iconic Miranda, Anne Louise Lambert went on to play Lucrezia Borgia on the BBC series "The Borgias".
There was a little boy who fell to his death in Mt York on the western edge of the blue mountains in NSW back in about 1895. The grief was on display for many decades after, when the family erected a cross in his memory. This cross could be seen for miles around and everyone could see it when driving through. It was taken down in the late 80s. Everyone who used to see it, knows the story. I go to Mt York regularly as I live nearby. There is a Hanging Rock aura to Mt York.
Even though it's was based on a brilliant fictional book and movie, I'd still love to see the Rock and set. My grandmother thankfully introduced me to this movie before passing away and I had to get the book. It's such a page turner and one that invokes so many emotions from each character. Shame the author passed away before my time, I would have loved to hear more about her inspirations for this story and if there would have been a potential for a sequel.
There are many interviews with Lindsay in which she discusses the genesis and writing of the book. As for a sequel, you're joking, right? Why can't people cope with a piece of writing (or film) as a self-contained work?
Wow I can't believe the comments in here. It's just a movie and a great one at that. I guess it takes an open mind and a creative perspective to appreciate the aspects of the human imagination.
Whether it is true or fiction, the fact is that any one can go missing in the world and not been seen again. The Bermuda Triangle is one of those mysteries. However, as an author myself, I can understand Joan Lindsay's emotional drive in following Anne Lambert into the Rock in her character, whether or not Joan knew something that no one else did. It's really easy to feel a deep part of your characters, as an author creates them and they grab their hearts.
Beautiful film. One of my favourites. I remember seeing it as a young boy and being drawn into the whole mysterious power of it. But it's not a true story.
Beautiful caring moments between Albert and Mike as they try to find those girls. Leda and the swan imagery throughout this novel paints a picture of a monolithic force (like chronos time) ready to destroy innocence (the swan),.
A similar story, a mysterious disappearance of some kids come to pass in Japan during World War II is connected with the Hanging Rock affair in Murakami Haruki's novel "Kafka on the Shore". Both of they had remained unexplained, both were put down as a supernatural thing.
I'm still at a loss for why people think the novel and film were based on any actual historical event. St Valentine's day in 1900 didn't even fall on a Saturday. The only school for young ladies was in Woodend, Clyde School, and that didn't arrive until 1919. Lindsay attended the school when it was in St Kilda in Melbourne, before the move to Woodend. The homestead used for the school in the film was Martindale Hall in the Clare Valley, near Mintaro, several hundred kilometers away in South Australia. I've been there. It's spooky when you recognise the location but see the changes since the film was made. And that is kind of the point. I was conflating Martindale Hall with Appleyard College and because of the paranormal aspects of the movie that occur out of view (thus increasing the creepiness of the mystery) it gave Martindale Hall that sense of disquieting malevolence. Something that applies to Hanging Rock by many magnitudes greater, which is why people tend to feel a sense of spooky malevolence, watching them as they traverse the rock. Something that quickly gets dispelled when you bump into tourists every couple of minutes or so. There can be so many people clambering about on Hanging Rock at times that trying to feel any sense of mystery about the place becomes a lost cause. Most of the mystery surrounding the publication and film was little more than a clever plan to develop interest and intrigue about the story on the part of Lindsay, herself. The only guaranteed realistic parts of the film are the existence of Hanging Rock (Mount Diogenes), Mount Macedon and Woodend. It's fiction, people. Also: the publication of the 18th chapter, which provides the "solution" to the disappearances, is not very highly regarded and has not seen publication since 1987, though you can probably find the chapter if you google it. Of greater argument, for and against, are the cutscenes of the film's original ending, in which Mrs Appleyard climbs the rock and encounters a vision/phantom of Sara before throwing herself from the rock, which can be seen here: czcams.com/video/6hChZEMQXFg/video.html
As far as I know, NO philologist has ever proven beyond doubt that Joan Lindsay wrote that 'not very highly regarded' 18th chapter. It was published several years after her death, so Lindsay was conveniently not around anymore to either autorize or deny it. There's no manuscript. There's no annotated typoscript. There's no contemporary correspondence with her editor. There are no diary notes. There's no contemporary copyright transfer. There's no mention of it in her will, neither of its existence, nor of any conditions to its publication. There is just plain NOTHING that connects Joan Lindsay to that badly written '18th chapter'. I's day it is a hoax, as there have been so many hoaxes in the history of literature. This issue certainly deserves philological scrutiny, and I wonder that this has not yet been conducted. I guess the editor wouldn't be too enthousiastic about it - and that's a great motive to want to do it.
well actually this is not only an interview to Anne Lambert, but an entire review of the story of Hanging Rock's mystery with several members of the cast...
@@unciclistacontraelsistema8620 oh thanks for telling me i thought she saw a shadow of joan and the shadow saying that to her.. but i know now that she was really there. thanks!
@musashi7272 By odd coincidence, the National Gallery of Victoria recently identified one of its paintings as the only authentic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia...it had been purchased in the 1960s by the Felton Bequest, which at the time had Sir Daryl Lindsay (Joan's husband, and former director of the National Gallery) on its board...and in 1980 Anne Louise Lambert played Lucrezia in the BBC series "The Borgias"
I have read recently that there have been some strange events occur there and in the surrounding areas. I heard that water runs uphill, balls roll uphill, and watches stop suddenly. It has been continually suggested that a time portal or a space time warp could impinge on the Bermuda Triangle. Could a space time warp or wormhole impinge on Hanging rock?
Joan Lindsay wrote about what "really" happened, which was wisely dropped from the novel. Ultimately--something I think that Peter Weir intended--the viewer or reader takes a Rorsach test and interprets what happens on a purely personal level.
You had better written "Joan Lindsay ALLEGEDLY wrote about what "really" happened". It is far from certain that this "Secret of Hanging Rock' was actually written by Lindsay herself. The alternative is that Lindsay's editor had it written without Lindsay's knowledge or permission. It was published four years after Linsday's death. Nothing of substance points at her authorship.
People who can't look beyond the plot and take the mystery of the disappearances literally are completely missing the point of the book and film. Lindsay states quite clearly at the beginning that it's not important. it's a brilliant examination of so many issues concerning the Australian experience, and particularly more universal themes of time, nature and the human condition.
Does anyone know what it is that makes Australia such a mysterious place? I can't describe the feeling I get watching the bush or travelling though it's deserts. Like it's all a mystery...I feel so drawn to it...
I think it's because it's very, very old - the most ancient of all the continents - and has the pervasive feel of a time and place that hasn't existed for millions of years. A lot of people also get freaked by the fact that it's so enormous, yet empty - there are literally thousands of kilometres of unpopulated land in some areas, and a lot of people struggle to comprehend the concept of such a vast nothingness. Throw in the fact that the flora and fauna are so completely unlike anywhere else on earth, and it's geographic isolation, and it all adds to that 'otherworldly' feel.
This is a complex multilayered story probably a masterpiece of Joan Lindsay whole life experience written into a beautiful, haunting literary form and further enhanced by Peter Weir under Joan Lindsay's direction into a movie.The more I learn about it , the more I think it's a masterpiece.
This show is unfamiliar to me but i know Anne Louise Lambert best in her role in Sherlock Holmes episode "The Abbey Grange" as Mary Frazier of Adelaine.
I came upon this movie over ten years ago when it followed something else I was watching on TCM, and I became intrigued. I remember thinking "I hope this movie ends like I think it might end" and it did.
@JackRussellTerrier2 - They are long dead because the writer had enough sense to realise that she'd written a classic and that people will be reading it a hundred years from now or more.
Joan Lindsay was there all right and she wanted everything to be as true to her story as possible. Nothing strange about that even if this author perhaps did more than most authors in this respect.
it isn't really a fictional story cos its funny how in the film and wat was written in the book is happening even to this day have any of you heard of David paulides and his missing 411 books? if you havnt then I suggest you do and I think youll have a different opinion
@99fruitbat It's supposed to be the chapter that her publishers wanted deleted. I just cannot believe that Joan ever wrote that rubbish. Totally silly and a total waste of time, but yes, you're right- someone made money by selling us the so-called "solution". I bought mine in an op shop for 50 cents!!
ITs very true rocks them rocks have got hell of lot Kangooroos bouncing around above and about on them rocks they bumb into you are going to fall, allways wear wellies.Trancing flim vison and sound scary scary and the ending the voice over the last secounds in a big Fosters Aussie accent THEY WERE NEVER EVER SEEN AGAIN and you can hear a can of beer opening.I then went bed puzzled.
I really enjoyed the film but both the school and story are fiction, and I don't agree with the marketing strategy used to imply that it was a real event. The real story is about this being a watershed break out event for Australian cinema. Peter Weir took a somewhat bland novel and transformed it into an intense mystical experience. Before this Australian movies were considered low budget low brow productions that had about as much depth and significance as a ruckus at the local outback pub on a Saturday night. Weir showed the world that on occasion Australian movie makers could play with the big boys on the international scale.
Well, this happens, and thank goodness it does: du Maurier's "Rebecca, " "Don't Look Back, " King's "The Shining" to Kubrick's masterpiece. Common denominator in appreciating all: Jungian psychology. I mean, "Don't Look Now." Oops. 😊
@@AnubisDark My thoughts also, like, what if it was your daughter? Gee, why don't you go camp out at Hanging Rock by yourself for a few nights and make it real??? That is cold....:/
When will Australia finally admit that the so-called "18th Chapter" is a sham? Joan Lindsay never wrote that chapter. There is no material evidence: no manuscript, no typoscript, no annotations, no will, no signed document in which she transfers any rights of that 'chapter' to her editor. Lindsay's presumed authorship is purely based on hearsay by those who made money from its publication. That 'chapter' is not in Lindsay's style at all, and is in direct conflict which what she vocally and fiercely advocated: that her novel was intended as open-ended and that no 'solution' exists to the mystery. It is high time some Australian PhD student did some thorough philological and biographical research into this sham.
kwv4865 Yes, I want Australians to do the work, because 1. Joan Lindsay and her literary heritage are Australian, and it is therefore apt that scientific research into her literary work is done by Australian academics; and 2. doing philological work typically means doing archival work and making personal inquiries on the spot, which is pretty hard for a guy living in Europe, as compared to a guy living in Australia, or even better, in Melbourne, where Mrs Lindsay was stationed. I am just offering a (very) plausible hypothesis and would be happy if some Australian PhD stole it and turned it into a good dissertation. He/she would write literary history (or rather, rewrite it).
kwv4865 This is called metaphor, dear. Just like when 'England' declared war to 'Germany', or when 'Russia' needs to withdraw from the Ukraine border. Do all Russians need to withdraw, then? All 140 million of them?
I aren't your dear as you don't pay me. Have a nice life thinking you speak for all of Australia and changing subjects when you cannot back up your claims with evidence
I read the so-called "missing chapter" and it's a load of bollocks. I just cannot believe that Joan Lindsay wrote it- not her style at all. It sheds no light whatsoever on the mystery and is a total waste of time.
I agree. It is high time some Australian literary scholar or philologist took the trouble to prove (or refute) its authenticity. My bet is that this chapter was not written by Lindsay. It is probably a hoax.
+MrAnswerification ... calm down. He mentions it in this video. Joan Lindsey "presents" the story as possibly fact in a style that it's up to the reader to decide whether it's fact or not. Part of her great writing.
+yakidk89 This news story never states the fact that the story is fabricated it deliberately confuses the issue to milk the hype, common current affairs trick.
Personally, I don't care if the story is true or not. What I can say is that since I've first seen this movie 20 yrs ago, I keep re-watching it once per year or so. To this day, it remains one of the most enchanting and beautiful films I've ever seen; the landscape, the music , the excellent performances - I seriously cannot find a flaw. If only modern movies had that dreamy quality...
Eleni, have you seen the Australian film "Walkabout"? I think you might enjoy it.
I've been to Hanging Rock, it's eerie. There is definitely some strange energy there.
Mate. It is a story
More creepiness:
Last year, a portrait in the National Gallery of Victoria was identified as that of Lucrezia Borgia (the only painting of her declared authentic). It was purchased over forty years ago by the Felton Bequest, with the former Director of the National Gallery, Sir Daryl Lindsay, on the board.
His wife, Joan Lindsay, wrote "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
After appearing as the iconic Miranda, Anne Louise Lambert went on to play Lucrezia Borgia on the BBC series "The Borgias".
It was so beautifully filmed, cast was perfect, the music was perfect, and the pre movie advertisement was perfect. it convinced us all
It's great that such a fantastic book ended up in the hands of Peter Weir. I don't think any director could have done it better.
There was a little boy who fell to his death in Mt York on the western edge of the blue mountains in NSW back in about 1895. The grief was on display for many decades after, when the family erected a cross in his memory. This cross could be seen for miles around and everyone could see it when driving through. It was taken down in the late 80s. Everyone who used to see it, knows the story. I go to Mt York regularly as I live nearby. There is a Hanging Rock aura to Mt York.
Poignant film. Its mystery still resonates to this day. Whether it was true or not, the legend still persists.
Even though it's was based on a brilliant fictional book and movie, I'd still love to see the Rock and set. My grandmother thankfully introduced me to this movie before passing away and I had to get the book. It's such a page turner and one that invokes so many emotions from each character. Shame the author passed away before my time, I would have loved to hear more about her inspirations for this story and if there would have been a potential for a sequel.
There are many interviews with Lindsay in which she discusses the genesis and writing of the book. As for a sequel, you're joking, right? Why can't people cope with a piece of writing (or film) as a self-contained work?
Wow I can't believe the comments in here.
It's just a movie and a great one at that. I guess it takes an open mind and a creative perspective to appreciate the aspects of the human imagination.
Whether it is true or fiction, the fact is that any one can go missing in the world and not been seen again. The Bermuda Triangle is one of those mysteries.
However, as an author myself, I can understand Joan Lindsay's emotional drive in following Anne Lambert into the Rock in her character, whether or not Joan knew something that no one else did. It's really easy to feel a deep part of your characters, as an author creates them and they grab their hearts.
Beautiful film. One of my favourites. I remember seeing it as a young boy and being drawn into the whole mysterious power of it. But it's not a true story.
We all love an unsolved mystery... and this film is the cherry on top of the cake. Excellent movie magic!
Beautiful caring moments between Albert and Mike as they try to find those girls. Leda and the swan imagery throughout this novel paints a picture of a monolithic force (like chronos time) ready to destroy innocence (the swan),.
A similar story, a mysterious disappearance of some kids come to pass in Japan during World War II is connected with the Hanging Rock affair in Murakami Haruki's novel "Kafka on the Shore". Both of they had remained unexplained, both were put down as a supernatural thing.
Thanks so much for posting this and the other video about Hanging Rock!
:)
Thanks for sharing this, really interesting.
I'm still at a loss for why people think the novel and film were based on any actual historical event. St Valentine's day in 1900 didn't even fall on a Saturday. The only school for young ladies was in Woodend, Clyde School, and that didn't arrive until 1919. Lindsay attended the school when it was in St Kilda in Melbourne, before the move to Woodend. The homestead used for the school in the film was Martindale Hall in the Clare Valley, near Mintaro, several hundred kilometers away in South Australia. I've been there. It's spooky when you recognise the location but see the changes since the film was made. And that is kind of the point. I was conflating Martindale Hall with Appleyard College and because of the paranormal aspects of the movie that occur out of view (thus increasing the creepiness of the mystery) it gave Martindale Hall that sense of disquieting malevolence. Something that applies to Hanging Rock by many magnitudes greater, which is why people tend to feel a sense of spooky malevolence, watching them as they traverse the rock. Something that quickly gets dispelled when you bump into tourists every couple of minutes or so. There can be so many people clambering about on Hanging Rock at times that trying to feel any sense of mystery about the place becomes a lost cause.
Most of the mystery surrounding the publication and film was little more than a clever plan to develop interest and intrigue about the story on the part of Lindsay, herself. The only guaranteed realistic parts of the film are the existence of Hanging Rock (Mount Diogenes), Mount Macedon and Woodend. It's fiction, people.
Also: the publication of the 18th chapter, which provides the "solution" to the disappearances, is not very highly regarded and has not seen publication since 1987, though you can probably find the chapter if you google it. Of greater argument, for and against, are the cutscenes of the film's original ending, in which Mrs Appleyard climbs the rock and encounters a vision/phantom of Sara before throwing herself from the rock, which can be seen here: czcams.com/video/6hChZEMQXFg/video.html
As far as I know, NO philologist has ever proven beyond doubt that Joan Lindsay wrote that 'not very highly regarded' 18th chapter. It was published several years after her death, so Lindsay was conveniently not around anymore to either autorize or deny it. There's no manuscript. There's no annotated typoscript. There's no contemporary correspondence with her editor. There are no diary notes. There's no contemporary copyright transfer. There's no mention of it in her will, neither of its existence, nor of any conditions to its publication. There is just plain NOTHING that connects Joan Lindsay to that badly written '18th chapter'.
I's day it is a hoax, as there have been so many hoaxes in the history of literature. This issue certainly deserves philological scrutiny, and I wonder that this has not yet been conducted. I guess the editor wouldn't be too enthousiastic about it - and that's a great motive to want to do it.
did joan lindsay visit them on the set? or did anne just hallucinating?
@@michelcouzijn6834 did joan lindsay visit them on the set? or did anne just hallucinating?
@@michelcouzijn6834 If you're right, you're saying that Lindsay's editor, Sandra Forbes, is lying about the excised chapter.
Do not over think it
Austrlaia used to make really good arty farty films like this, and Bony, and Gallipolli
really 70s
The Care Taker Guido is still there and saw him last weekend !!
well actually this is not only an interview to Anne Lambert, but an entire review of the story of Hanging Rock's mystery with several members of the cast...
did joan lindsay visit them on the set? or did anne just hallucinating?
@@sehunoh5481 oh yes, and she met Anne and said: "oh lovely girl, you are my Miranda"...
@@unciclistacontraelsistema8620 oh thanks for telling me i thought she saw a shadow of joan and the shadow saying that to her.. but i know now that she was really there. thanks!
Miss you Miranda always !!
Is it just me or are there faces in some of those rocks.
@musashi7272
By odd coincidence, the National Gallery of Victoria recently identified one of its paintings as the only authentic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia...it had been purchased in the 1960s by the Felton Bequest, which at the time had Sir Daryl Lindsay (Joan's husband, and former director of the National Gallery) on its board...and in 1980 Anne Louise Lambert played Lucrezia in the BBC series "The Borgias"
I have read recently that there have been some strange events occur there and in the surrounding areas. I heard that water runs uphill, balls roll uphill, and watches stop suddenly.
It has been continually suggested that a time portal or a space time warp could impinge on the Bermuda Triangle.
Could a space time warp or wormhole impinge on Hanging rock?
Joan Lindsay wrote about what "really" happened, which was wisely dropped from the novel.
Ultimately--something I think that Peter Weir intended--the viewer or reader takes a Rorsach test and interprets what happens on a purely personal level.
You had better written "Joan Lindsay ALLEGEDLY wrote about what "really" happened". It is far from certain that this "Secret of Hanging Rock' was actually written by Lindsay herself. The alternative is that Lindsay's editor had it written without Lindsay's knowledge or permission. It was published four years after Linsday's death. Nothing of substance points at her authorship.
People who can't look beyond the plot and take the mystery of the disappearances literally are completely missing the point of the book and film. Lindsay states quite clearly at the beginning that it's not important. it's a brilliant examination of so many issues concerning the Australian experience, and particularly more universal themes of time, nature and the human condition.
Good answer.
Does anyone know what it is that makes Australia such a mysterious place? I can't describe the feeling I get watching the bush or travelling though it's deserts. Like it's all a mystery...I feel so drawn to it...
www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/Australia-Reports-Uncanny-Creatures-Sightings-Extraordinary-Encounters/B00AG20CQY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1489126346&sr=1-2&keywords=weird+australia
www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/YOWIE-Search-Australias-Bigfoot-Tony-Healy/B004OYTUNG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1489126385&sr=1-1&keywords=yowie
www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/Indigenous-Australia-Dummies-Larissa-Behrendt/B007MF15T6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1489126420&sr=1-2&keywords=indigenous+australia
Finally .... A "Past life" ? :)
I think it's because it's very, very old - the most ancient of all the continents - and has the pervasive feel of a time and place that hasn't existed for millions of years. A lot of people also get freaked by the fact that it's so enormous, yet empty - there are literally thousands of kilometres of unpopulated land in some areas, and a lot of people struggle to comprehend the concept of such a vast nothingness. Throw in the fact that the flora and fauna are so completely unlike anywhere else on earth, and it's geographic isolation, and it all adds to that 'otherworldly' feel.
This is a complex multilayered story probably a masterpiece of Joan Lindsay whole life experience written into a beautiful, haunting literary form and further enhanced by Peter Weir under Joan Lindsay's direction into a movie.The more I learn about it , the more I think it's a masterpiece.
The music is what makes it eerie. Play some Frank Sinatra or music by The Partridge Family and the mystique will disappear.
Wormhole or time portal is my guess
This show is unfamiliar to me but i know Anne Louise Lambert best in her role in Sherlock Holmes episode "The Abbey Grange" as Mary Frazier of Adelaine.
I think the story is very much true
i too want to be the rock custodian !!!
I came upon this movie over ten years ago when it followed something else I was watching on TCM, and I became intrigued. I remember thinking "I hope this movie ends like I think it might end" and it did.
@JackRussellTerrier2 - They are long dead because the writer had enough sense to realise that she'd written a classic and that people will be reading it a hundred years from now or more.
Some people believe "The Princess Bride" is a true story too, and that Guilder and Florin were real countries. :^P
Amazing how it's a hill and not some haunted house.
im confused did joan lindsay visit them on the set?? or did anne just seeing her hallucination?
Joan Lindsay was there all right and she wanted everything to be as true to her story as possible. Nothing strange about that even if this author perhaps did more than most authors in this respect.
Can't you get her right???
LAMBERT!!!
AKA.. when Australia made "good" movies.
But the 80's gave us BMX Bandits!!
ha ha ha
Every shoolboys fantasy back in the Seventies.
it isn't really a fictional story cos its funny how in the film and wat was written in the book is happening even to this day have any of you heard of David paulides and his missing 411 books? if you havnt then I suggest you do and I think youll have a different opinion
@99fruitbat It's supposed to be the chapter that her publishers wanted deleted. I just cannot believe that Joan ever wrote that rubbish. Totally silly and a total waste of time, but yes, you're right- someone made money by selling us the so-called "solution". I bought mine in an op shop for 50 cents!!
@JackRussellTerrier2 they mean from the 1900's.
ITs very true rocks them rocks have got hell of lot Kangooroos bouncing around above and about on them rocks they bumb into you are going to fall, allways wear wellies.Trancing flim vison and sound scary scary and the ending the voice over the last secounds in a big Fosters Aussie accent THEY WERE NEVER EVER SEEN AGAIN and you can hear a can of beer opening.I then went bed puzzled.
Guido?
I really enjoyed the film but both the school and story are fiction, and I don't agree with the marketing strategy used to imply that it was a real event. The real story is about this being a watershed break out event for Australian cinema. Peter Weir took a somewhat bland novel and transformed it into an intense mystical experience. Before this Australian movies were considered low budget low brow productions that had about as much depth and significance as a ruckus at the local outback pub on a Saturday night. Weir showed the world that on occasion Australian movie makers could play with the big boys on the international scale.
Well, this happens, and thank goodness it does: du Maurier's "Rebecca, " "Don't Look Back, " King's "The Shining" to Kubrick's masterpiece. Common denominator in appreciating all: Jungian psychology.
I mean, "Don't Look Now." Oops. 😊
I bet they (the characters) fell through a crevice in Hanging Rock. That's why nobody was able to find them. Scary...
I was so disappointed when I learned that Hanging Rock was fiction. It's still a sensational film and novel but I so wish it was a true story.
so, you wished someone really disapeared just for the sake of it ? how cold
@@AnubisDark My thoughts also, like, what if it was your daughter? Gee, why don't you go camp out at Hanging Rock by yourself for a few nights and make it real??? That is cold....:/
It felt like when you found out Santa Claus wasn't really real to me
A
All characters from the book are long dead after only 67 years?
In 1900 they were teenagers and adults then add 67 years
The Blair Witch got them.
So this wasn't a real story?
blanque No. The story is fake. But a masterpiece.
@coralarch Read this also and found it very dissapointing,seemed to have been dashed off in a bit of a hurry....milking the cash cow mayhaps ?
I’ve been there a lot. It’s just a bunch of rocks.
So is the Blair Witch then.:P
Tarot card? The hanging man.
This story is fake. But a masterpiece.
picnic at hanging rock is based on a true story
*The Grays*
fullstop
It was a Alien abduction
The movie was...okay, i guess....I certainly do not understand all the rave reviews below.
@MondoBeno Moron.
This is sooo scary do u believe that it happened I do
The story of the missing girls is completely made up but who wants to admit it the myth is too good.
When will Australia finally admit that the so-called "18th Chapter" is a sham? Joan Lindsay never wrote that chapter. There is no material evidence: no manuscript, no typoscript, no annotations, no will, no signed document in which she transfers any rights of that 'chapter' to her editor. Lindsay's presumed authorship is purely based on hearsay by those who made money from its publication. That 'chapter' is not in Lindsay's style at all, and is in direct conflict which what she vocally and fiercely advocated: that her novel was intended as open-ended and that no 'solution' exists to the mystery.
It is high time some Australian PhD student did some thorough philological and biographical research into this sham.
What is wrong with some, they claim something is a "sham" and yet want others to do the work?
PS how can a country admit something? Ah they want all Australians to admit something?
kwv4865 Yes, I want Australians to do the work, because 1. Joan Lindsay and her literary heritage are Australian, and it is therefore apt that scientific research into her literary work is done by Australian academics; and 2. doing philological work typically means doing archival work and making personal inquiries on the spot, which is pretty hard for a guy living in Europe, as compared to a guy living in Australia, or even better, in Melbourne, where Mrs Lindsay was stationed.
I am just offering a (very) plausible hypothesis and would be happy if some Australian PhD stole it and turned it into a good dissertation. He/she would write literary history (or rather, rewrite it).
kwv4865 This is called metaphor, dear. Just like when 'England' declared war to 'Germany', or when 'Russia' needs to withdraw from the Ukraine border.
Do all Russians need to withdraw, then? All 140 million of them?
I aren't your dear as you don't pay me. Have a nice life thinking you speak for all of Australia and changing subjects when you cannot back up your claims with evidence
you guys its just a myth
I read the so-called "missing chapter" and it's a load of bollocks. I just cannot believe that Joan Lindsay wrote it- not her style at all. It sheds no light whatsoever on the mystery and is a total waste of time.
I agree. It is high time some Australian literary scholar or philologist took the trouble to prove (or refute) its authenticity. My bet is that this chapter was not written by Lindsay. It is probably a hoax.
I take a small amount of comfort in knowing that stupidity is not exclusive to the United States.
Great movie but this is disingenuous TV trite. The Picnic at Hanging Rock story was 100 percent fabricated.
+MrAnswerification ... calm down. He mentions it in this video. Joan Lindsey "presents" the story as possibly fact in a style that it's up to the reader to decide whether it's fact or not. Part of her great writing.
+yakidk89 This news story never states the fact that the story is fabricated it deliberately confuses the issue to milk the hype, common current affairs trick.
It is all fiction. Good story though.
Miss you Miranda always !!