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Nearly 40 years on, Crocodile Dundee remains Australia’s biggest film—what made it a cultural icon, and why does it | dG1fSmhLYUZGYWhQakU
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00:00It's the biggest movie ever made outside of a major studio.
00:04Action!
00:06Blockbuster.
00:08Through the roof.
00:09Michael J. Crocodile Dundee.
00:14Action!
00:16They're sensational.
00:18That's a knife.
00:22Ooh, that's a knife.
00:26Right at the start, John wanted to make a movie.
00:28We'd never made a movie.
00:29We grew up in Granville, and in Granville you learnt to have a go.
00:31So, we were having a go.
00:34He was the brains of the outfit.
00:35John said, you know, we're going into show business.
00:37The Paul Hogan show was huge.
00:39Good evening, viewers.
00:40Gravitas, Swagger, those guys had it in spades.
00:44Now, nobody knew anything about Australia, really.
00:46G'day, America.
00:48We wanted to make a movie that appealed to people from 7 to 70.
00:50Here's to Crocodile Dundee.
00:52I virtually wrote it walking down the street.
00:54Laughed my frock off.
00:55I said, well, now there's an opportunity, and I think we should grab it.
00:59There was one significant naysayer.
01:01It was his view that the script was a load of bollocks.
01:04It's dust.
01:05Linda freaked.
01:07She suddenly recognised, well, hang on, I'm working with an amateur here.
01:11I'm like a double bourbon to start the day off right.
01:13I wasn't prepared for what it really was.
01:16I get a phone call from Packer.
01:18He put in some money and then pulled it out.
01:20Left us with a shortfall.
01:21But John, he loved to solve problems.
01:24Hulk said, let's go make a movie.
01:28Crocodile Dundee is a good film.
01:31Crubbery and dance. Enjoy it.
01:34You have to follow your heart, and they did.
01:36I love you!
01:38Love.
01:41There's probably never been anything so large across the spectrum.
01:45Farm larrikinism.
01:47To the rest of the world, that was Australian.
01:49This was a terrific Australian film.
01:52Oh, mates.
01:54He did take a bullet for me, John.
01:56He's done a great job.
01:57This is really...
01:59I miss my mate.
02:01Health dropped.
02:03Changed my life.
02:11But, you know, if you've got the ability to make people laugh
02:14and forget their woes for a bit,
02:16what a job.
02:18What a job.
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