History Film / Australia

* MrFanservice: [[HughJackman Give you one guess.]]

* MrFanservice: [[HughJackman Give you one guess.]]

* AustralianAccent - Well, yes.

* ArtisticLicenseShips - Having re-used effects footage from another movie, the warships shown during the Japanese raid do not remotely resemble any USN or RAN ships present at the time. The largest US ships were USS Perry (a four stack destroyer, sunk with 88 dead) and USS William B Preston (a seaplane tender of similar size to Perry). Largest RAN warship was HMAS Platypus (and ex submarine depot ship being used as a floating base ship and resembling a merchantman.) None of these ships or any of the others had the large tripod mast seen on at least one ship during the raid sequence.

* ActorAllusion - In a possibly unintentional one, David Wenham plays a completely evil bastard named Fletcher, just like in ''TheProposition''.
** The ranch owned by Lady Ashley's husband is called Faraway Downs; Nicole Kidman also starred in ''Far and Away''.

* FakeBrit - Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley
** She's Australian. You hire an Australian to make a film in Australia ''called Australia'' and then have her pretend to British. To be fair, otherwise she sounds just like KylieMinogue.

* PropRecycling - Large amounts of the Japanese air raid effects were re-used from Tora! Tora! Tora!, resulting in footage showing ships that were not present and showing the use of torpedos instead of the 600kg bombs the Kate bombers historically dropped.

** Although the camera lingers a tad too long on his naked torso, getting dangerously close to crossing the awkward line. Of course, Luhrmann may have done this on purpose.

* WorldWarII

* CriticalResearchFailure - 19th Battalion was CMF, the Australia Milita, and hence should have been shown with the chocolate coloured hatband instead of the normal khaki coloured one regular soldiers had the right to wear. Reversist soldiers in Australia are still refered to as Chocos because of this hat band. Extra embarassing as the movie was Oscar nominated for Best Costume.

* YouFailHistoryForever

** Hugh Jackman spoofed this in his AcademyAward opening monologue: "In ''Literature/TheReader'', [[KateWinslet Kate]], English, [[FakeNationality plays a German]], nominated. In ''Film/TropicThunder'', RobertDowneyJr, who was an American, playing an Australian, [[UncleTomfoolery playing an African-American]], nominated. Where's me? I'm an Australian, playing an Australian in a movie called ''Australia''... hosting."

** Hugh Jackman spoofed this in his AcademyAward opening monologue: "In ''Literature/TheReader'', [[KateWinslet Kate]], English, [[FakeNationality plays a German]], nominated. In ''TropicThunder'', RobertDowneyJr, who was an American, playing an Australian, [[UncleTomfoolery playing an African-American]], nominated. Where's me? I'm an Australian, playing an Australian in a movie called ''Australia''... hosting."

* RecycledInSpace! - (It's ''OutOfAfrica'' [-IN AUSTRALIA!-])

Set in the Northern Territory of the 1940s, ''Australia'', director Creator/BazLuhrmann's fourth feature film, centers around the lives of the English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (NicoleKidman), a half-Aboriginal boy, Nullah, and an Australian [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep known only by his occupation]]: Drover (HughJackman). The trio, accompanied by friends, attempt to drove the herd of 2,000 cattle from the property to the army's meat ship in Darwin. The town, port and the island that Nullah was shipped to when Australia would send Aboriginal children to Christian Missions is subsequently bombed by the Japanese.

Set in the Northern Territory of the 1940s, ''Australia'' centers around the lives of the English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (NicoleKidman), a half-Aboriginal boy, Nullah, and an Australian [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep known only by his occupation]]: Drover (HughJackman). The trio, accompanied by friends, attempt to drove the herd of 2,000 cattle from the property to the army's meat ship in Darwin. The town, port and the island that Nullah was shipped to when Australia would send Aboriginal children to Christian Missions is subsequently bombed by the Japanese.

* MrFanservice: Give you one guess.

* GeorgeLucasThrowback - Arguably. To the old-school period epics and Westerns of the Sixties and earlier, which probably would evoke the same lukewarm reactions as ''Australia'' today, but were beloved classics then.

Set in the Northern Territory of the 1940s, ''Australia'' centers around the lives of the English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (NicoleKidman), a half-Aboriginal boy, Nulla, and an Australian [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep known only by his occupation]]: Drover (HughJackman). The trio, accompanied by friends, attempt to drove the herd of 2,000 cattle from the property to the army's meat ship in Darwin. The town, port and the island that Nulla was shipped to when Australia would send Aboriginal children to Christian Missions is subsequently bombed by the Japanese.

* ActorAllusion - In a possibly unintentional one, David Wenham plays a completely evil bastard named Fletcher, just like in ''TheProposition''.

* ChekhovsGun - The prelude notes about how Australia sent Half-Aboriginal children to Missions in order to "clean" them (culturally speaking). Of course Nulla gets sent away.
* ChekhovsSkill - The Drover explains that cattle will fear a man standing alone and [[DeathGlare staring them in the eye.]] Guess how Nulla stops a cattle stampede?

Did we mention that it's not only called Australia and set in Australia, but stars Australians, was directed by an Australian, funded by an Australian (albeit one with US citizenship), written by several Australians, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment filmed in Australia]] and premiered in [[OverlyLongGag Australia]]. [-[[MemeticMutation In AUSTRALIA!]]-] [[note]](and as Hugh Jackman said during the Oscars, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Terhj8mjPwY Everything is being downsized due to the recession. For example, next year I'll be starring in a film called ''New Zealand''."[[/note]]

Did we mention that it's not only called Australia and set in Australia, but stars Australians, was directed by an Australian, funded by an Australian (albeit one with US citizenship), written by several Australians, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment filmed in Australia]] and premiered in [[OverlyLongGag Australia]]. [-[[MemeticMutation In AUSTRALIA!]]-] [[hottip:* :(and as Hugh Jackman told in the Oscars, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Terhj8mjPwY everything is being downsized due to the recession. For example, next year I'll be starring in a film called ''New Zealand''."]]