Safran’s film looked up to the skies, evoking the wonderful flying creature as a symbol of eternal beauty, its wings flapping in hearts and minds as much as in the universe. Suffice to say that Seet doesn’t get the balance right, creating an experience more depressing than optimistic. Without revealing how the film’s conclusion unfolds, the moral question at the core of it (a simple one, about business versus conservation) is placed in the “too hard” basket, with one key character abdicating themself of moral responsibility by handballing an important decision to somebody else.īut the biggest downer involves the fate of one of the principal characters, which will not be disclosed here. Photograph: Matt Nettheim/Stormy Productions Trevor Jamieson as Fingerbone Bill, with Finn Little as Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingley. The protagonist receives friendship and spiritual counsel from local Indigenous man Fingerbone Bill (the naturally charismatic Trevor Jamieson). This beloved character – a fixture of our national cinema and literature – is a gregarious human-loving bird, preferring to point his long schnoz in the direction of people rather than the water. We observe his young self fostering motherless baby pelicans, one of whom becomes the family pet, Mr Percival. But, as the grown-up Kingley explains to his granddaughter, the conversations between them forming a bedtime story framing device, “one day the world came to me.” That past involves Kingley as a child (the fresh-faced Finn Little, who has great presence) living on Ninety Mile beach with his father Tom (Jai Courtney, delivering a fine performance as a reserved but not unemotional man).įather and son are cut off off from the world. Seet and the cinematographer Bruce Young (who recently shot the excellent Blue Murder: Killer Cop and the laughable Bite Club) indulge in fish-eye style compositions, with blurry edges that evoke a dreamy past. It is a strikingly surreal opener, with a rich cinematic texture that comes and goes throughout the rest of the film. The room’s floor-to-ceiling glass window shatters and everybody exits except for Kingley, who, as if in trance, walks towards it, noticing a pelican outside perched on a light post. There are intense grey clouds, rumblings of thunder and heavy rain. In a meeting room high up in the building, Kingley observes a grey and foreboding metropolis – starkly contrasting the glistening aqua water and silky sand dunes of Coorong, South Australia, where much of the film is based. Ī second movie adaptation, starring Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, with Trevor Jamieson reprising his role as Fingerbone Bill, was released in January 2019.Morgana Davies and Geoffrey Rush in a scene from Storm Boy. Ī children's video game by the name of Storm Boy: The Game, following the story and including a few mini-games based on its events, was released in late 2018 on several platforms. The Sydney Theatre Company performed Tom Holloway's stage adaptation in 20 in collaboration with Perth's Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Trevor Jamieson played Fingerbone Bill in the 2013 production, while Jimi Bani played the character in 2015 (apart from three performances, where Shaka Cook stood in owing to an unforeseen family commitment). The Bell Shakespeare Company toured Australia with the play Storm Boy in 1996, with Trent Atkinson in the title role. The film was advertised with the tagline "Every year has its special film, this year it's.Storm Boy". The film starred David Gulpilil in the role of Finger Bone and Greg Rowe in the title role. The 1976 film adaptation Storm Boy won both the Jury Prize and Best Film at the 1977 Australian Film Institute Awards. The story then concentrates on the conflict between his lifestyle, the externally imposed requirement for him to attend a school, the fate of the pelican, and the relationship of the boy, and later his father, with Fingerbone. After he releases them, his favourite, Mr Percival, returns. He names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival. After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues the three baby pelicans and nurses them back to health. Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean. The 1976 film adaptation Storm Boy won the Jury and Best Film prizes at the 1977 AFI Awards. The story has been dramatised several times. The story, set in the Coorong region of South Australia, focuses on the relationships the boy has with his father Hide-Away Tom, the pelican, and an outcast Australian Aboriginal man called Fingerbone. Storm Boy is a 1964 Australian children's novel written by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican.
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