Peter Weir
Peter Weir
1)Weir is one of the most important directors of the Australian New Wave.
2) His first major success was Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and continued with notable films such as
3) Gallipoli (1981)
4)The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
He later went on to a successful Hollywood career directing films such as
1) Witness (1985),
2) Dead Poets Society (1989),
3)The Truman Show (1998).
His Australian film The Last Wave (1977)
1) About a white lawyer (Richard Chamberlain)
2) whose life is disrupted when he defends a group of Aboriginals accused of murder.
3) He begins to have bizarre dreams
4) Eventually believes that the Aboriginals killed a man by tribal curse.
5) The film encourages the idea that Australian whites
need to learn from and stop oppressing the natives of their land.
In this clip, strange weather patterns begin to emerge as a sign of the apocalypse.
The following clip foreshadows the oncoming apocalypse in the film as a classroom of young children experience ominous weather conditions.
The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977):
Clip we saw in class Click Here
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