A Dream Within a Dream: The Making of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' part 2
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2023
- An in-depth retrospective from 2004 about the making of Peter Weir's Australian classic. For educational purposes only. #retrospective #makingof #picnicathangingrock #australia #behindthescenes #documentary #peterweir #history
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Love the movie and the magnificent Martindale hall is one of my favourite places.
Unbelievable masterpiece by Peter weir
The theatrical cut for me is the best. The 4k restoration looks sublime.
I never knew of all these different versions of the film. Big eye opener. Thank you CZcams, and all those community members that post. ❤
In 2006 I visited the Rock. After spending the day climbing and exploring I watched the movie after dark at the base…..
An experience I’ll never forget
What an experience.
Did you sleep there? Did your watch stop?
A masterpiece, the one film that has perhaps affected me the most emotionally.
Picnic still entrances and enthralls me to this day.
I was living in a small mining town in Tasmania when I saw this - the town no longer exists - but I do remember as a child this movie had been the scariest I had ever seen at that point.
BIG thx! for putting these up.
A mystical evocative tragedy Mystery.
It's about time travel, the Rock is a Portal. Their watches stopping is a subtle clue to this.
Excellent to point out. Thanks for reminding me of this plot point.
Ch 17 suggests this. The girls disappeared at the base of the balancing boulders as I recall, and slipped into another dimension. Too explicit for the published version of the book and any version of the film of course.
Ch 17 was published as a slim volume in early 1985 after the author’s passing. You used to be able to buy it in the store at the Rock. Perhaps someone can tell us if that’s still the case.
@@peterboss3836 I remember buying Chapter 17 at the gift shop and reading it in the car on the way home. My parents took me to Hanging Rock to explore as a special treat during our yearly holiday in Victoria. I was obsessed with the film at that time. I was terrified and awed by the Rock. I have vivid memories.
I once went to Greenough WA & felt it was strange, go & believe it yourself.
What piece of music is played at the very last, when they roll the credits. Liszt, Chopin? It's so lovely I'd love to hear it in it's entirety.
I can see how people who saw and loved the original theatrical version would be annoyed with Weir's Directors cut and really both versions should be sold. I tend to think Weir's shorter cut is the better movie though, was another scene of poor Irma being tortured and interrogated for answers really need? or a very minor characters emotional breakdown in church? they tend to be scenes where we're now getting beaten over the head with the mental toll the mystery had taken on Michael and the schoolgirls, we more effectively capture that turmoil in other scenes.
I don't know, I thought it brought a nice layer of romance to the film for them to have that brief time together, it makes Michael's exit from the film better explained too. In the director's cut he just sort of vanishes which seems a bit abrupt, though you could argue he felt by then he'd done all he could. It also seems kind of natural that she would wish to thank him and that he would later ask what happened as he was so desperate to know. The fact we don't see her reply may mean there's so many different ways a person can view that scene where suddenly they are not looking at each other and he says he's going away, was he upset by what she did reveal, was he upset she couldn't remember like him, or was that always the plan he'd go North? We also see Albert get slightly overlooked too, up to that point Albert seemed to be doing pretty well for himself and seems to more than hold his own, but you sort of see the social class barrier go up when he has to talk to Irma and the teacher in that scene he has, once Irma sets her eyes on Michael Albert becomes an afterthought. Though again you could argue Michael was the one more invested in the rescue so deserved more credit.
When they talked of the beautiful quality of the filming thru bridle vail material I was thinking how hideous high definitions filming is so ugly. Everything is harsh and the color brightness is saver and not real. It is so unpleasant to watch and the subject matter is equally harsh and only saws the worst of humanity. Everything has lost it's beautify when modern technology gets its hands on it.