Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1967 Daffy's Diner, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the final Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short to be produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, as the next three would be produced by Format Films before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts took over. It is also the only DePatie-Freleng short to be released in 1967.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has been watching another appearance by our favorite talk show guest -
Nathan Lane, funny as hell and a national treasure
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1971 drama, Walkabout , directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. To tell you that the movie depicts the contrasts between the “civilized” world of Westernized cities with the traditional lifestyles of the Aboriginal people does not begin to explain the extraordinary beauty and strangeness of the Outback. A brief heads up - this is not a movie for viewers queasy with the idea of watching actual footage of animal slaughter as there is plenty such footage and it is graphically detailed. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Walkabout.
Jenny Agutter was embarrassed when doing the scene of her swimming naked in the lake, so as many as possible of the crew were sent away. She said in an interview that when the director first asked her to do the full nude swimming scene, she was reluctant because she was "a very reserved 16-year old girl." But after he explained his reasons for it and that it was a very important part of the story, she agreed to do it because she trusted him. The day of filming she was extremely nervous and felt uncomfortable, but she just went for it, took all her clothes off and kept swimming while they filmed her from several angles. When she saw the final film, she agreed it was the right thing to do because it depicted the innocence of her character. However, in a 2015 interview, she had expressed a strong aversion about how shots of her nude body were taken out of context and exploited on the internet, something that was unthinkable at the time the film was made.
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