1. What qualities and values of people are privileged (presented
positively)?
The
Positive values that are presented are hope and love
2. Which groups are marginalised or silenced? (presented negatively
or not represented in the movie)
The
groups that are marginalised or silenced are the Aborigines and the church
3. What aspects
of Aboriginality are presented in a positive way? What words/images are used to
portray them this way?
The aspects that are presented positively are the love they give
one another and their free spirits the way this is portrayed is the way willy
and Rosie walk casually down the street together.
4. What aspects
of Aboriginality are presented in a negative way? What words or images are used
to portray them this way
The way that they sit around and get drunk like Willies father
did before Willy came and got him. The images of his father constantly drinking
are used to portray this.
5. How are
European Australians represented in the movie? What words/images are used to
portray them this way?
They
are represented in a negative way because the preacher wasn’t a nice man and
the son didn’t want to help Willy and his father.
6. How is Broome represented in the movie? (note down words used to
describe it and how images portray it as different from other places)
It
is represented as a small local town in the middle of nothing. The images show
long dirt roads and red sand and only a few cars travelling up the road.
7. How is Perth represented in the movie? (note down words used to
describe it and how images portray it as different from other places)
It
is represented as a busy place but it is also represented as somewhere you
wouldn’t want to be because broome is made to look so much better in terms of a
happy community.
8. How is Port Headland represented in the movie? (note down words
used to describe it and how images portray it as different from other places)
Port
Headland is represented in the movie as a negative place to be because that is
where willy gets in trouble and the football team takes him to the wrong place
9. Select two of the characters and explain,
using direct evidence from the movie, what type of ‘Australian-ness’ they
represent. (How do they and others view themselves as Australian? This might
include things that you think make them stereotypically Australian)
The football coach – he was very helpful towards willy and told
him to come and eat with the rest of the team and also offered to give him a
lift. That is what Australians do, help their mates out.
Willy – he loved who he was and didn’t want to change it just
because of what someone else said.
10. Overall what
representation of “Australian-ness” does Bran Nue Dae portray?
(attitudes/beliefs/ideas make someone an Australian according to the movie)
Overall
it represents that you should be yourself and help those who are in need.
Believe what you want to and don’t let anyone tell you who you are supposed to
be or you are supposed to become.
