The new trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s sweeping romantic action epic Australia is online and it’s got an old-fashioned vibe to it that I’m really digging. Here’s the official plot synopsis for the movie, which will be released on November 18:
A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centers on an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
So, what do you think? Major Oscar-winner or nothing to get too excited over?
Oh yeah – and did anybody else catch the use of Ennio Morricone’s Ecstasy Of Gold right around the 30-second mark? Sweet.
Looks awesomeness. Then again, it’s basically a western.
Looks to be quite the different style from Romeo/Moulin/Strictly. Hope this is as epic and kick ass as it looks here.
Fall movie season can’t get here fast enough.
Not sure about Oscar winner, but definitely looks entertaining. Hugh Jackman is always solid.
I didn’t think this would be something up my alley, but I like that trailer, and Jackman and even Kidman look good here in a Western. I too don’t think it’s in Oscar territory, but it certainly looks interesting. I’ll watch it.
Love it. Really love it. Not to mention I’m getting serious “Gone with the Wind” vibes – it’s something to do with the epic Old Hollywood score and the gorgeous/fake looking skyline shots. *sigh* Only 6 months to go.
The music from about the 30 sec mark is from Patrick Doyle’s epic soundtrack to ‘Henry V’. Lush and spine-tingling. Though not the music for the movie itself. Craig Armstrong is slated for that task, and won’t disappoint. But Doyle’s piece is magnificent.
Thanks for that Gaz. Will have to look that one up. Classic indeed.
If this movie isn’t Oscar material then I don’t know what is. It has wonderful actors, a truly great director, beautiful Australian scenery, an epic love- and adventure story in true Gone with the Wind tradition, and beautiful and emotional music.
I can’t wait to see it. I’m sure it will be the best one out there in quite some time!
I saw this trailer again before Indy (strange pairing if you ask me) and wow, spine tingling all over again. And I particularly love the way the trailer is a story in and of itself, framed by Kidman telling the child a story. This seriously can’t come soon enough.