| Reference Type |
The Australian
newspaper
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| Title |
Car Culture Drama Crashes Boundaries |
| Author(s) | Lynden Barber |
| Publication Date |
24-02-1995 |
| Page Number |
72 |
| Comments |
This article provides an in-depth review of Lyndon Terracini's theatrical adaptation of 'The Cars that Ate Paris' which played at the Festival of Perth in 1995.
The journalist, Lynden Barber, has compiled a conscientious account of both the play and the film, balancing his review with a particularly insightful interview with Peter Weir, whereby he asks the director to comment upon the reinterpretation, 22 years after the original was released in Australian cinemas. |
| Synopsis |
In his review, Barber interviews the Lyndon Terracini, the director of the theatrical version of The Cars that Ate Paris. Barber states that the mutants (or crash victimed 'vegies' in the original film) in Terracini's interpretation "...dress in inner tubes and anything else they can salvage from the deliberately engineered smashes from which the town earns its grisly living".
Barber cites that the modern-day interpretation bares modern-day significance, with "....Terracini's idea to change these characters into mutants was partly inspired by George Miller's 'Max Max' films and partly by the "feral" kids he regularly sees living rough on the Northern NSW coast"(72).
Yet, conversely upon asking Peter Weir of his opinion, the director states that while he is 'delighted' to see it being revived, he has "no understanding of why that story would appear to be topical now"(72). |
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