Australian beach films have celebrated everything from life, love and freedom to the flesh-piercing dangers of renegade umbrellas
The late comedian Bill Hicks once appeared on the Hey Hey It’s Saturday, joking about how he would have loved to have been a convict sent to Australia. “You were the criminal class in Britain,” Hicks quipped, “and the Brits, in order to punish you, sent you to your old prehistoric Eden-like island continent”.
The beach, of course, is a big part of that Eden-like continent, so it is no surprise that coastal locations with glistening sand and glowing skies became an important fixture of Australian cinema. More surprising is how thematically flexible the beach has proved, used by film-makers for a wide range of purposes – from celebrating physical prowess to evoking metaphors about life, love, freedom and the flesh-piercing dangers of giant renegade umbrellas.
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