Epic Win: Crocodile Dundee
Submitted and Written by Xavier B, possibly Australian
Crocodile Dundee was the second most bad ass australin ever (Steve Irwin, RIP). Dundee had no fear and made sure no one messed with him and his lady.
We adore Crocodile Dundee in the States, but what do Australians think of the movie? Well, it’s actually the highest grossing film of all time (adjusted for inflation) in the Land Down Under.
And the second highest grossing film of all time? Last year’s Baz Luhrmann film, Australia, which was both critically and commercial panned in the U.S. I’m going to make a film called Australia: A Movie About Australians, The Best People Ever.
this movie was great… i remember 2 scenes instantly…
1) mick is shaving and switches 2 his knife to impress the girl
2) they’re in town and about to get burglerd… “this is a knife”
it’s one of my all time favorit movies.
Crocodile Poupon your face
It’s wildly ironic that knives like that are against the law in Australia. Not making that up either.
yes knives are totally illegal in australia, that’s why we all cut things up with spoons!
That’s not a knife. THIS is a knife.
::pulls out spoon::
Ah, i see you’ve played knifey-spoony before.
“Coffee.”
“Beer?”
“Coffee.”
“Beer.”
“C-O–”
“B-E–”
<3
I love this line: “That’s no knife, this is a knife!”
What a coincidence…That’s like in Crocodile Dundee when he says, “That’s not a knife. That’s a knife.”
THANK you, if someone didn’t point that out, I was going to!
I thought it was “Theeeere’s a knife.”
I remember the mickey-take that The Simpsons did of that scene, when Bart and his family went to Australia. Bart plays with a knife. **Bushman pulls out a spoon from his jacket** You call that a knife, this is a knife. **Bart and Lisa both say “That’s not a knife, that’s a spoon** The bushman then says “I see you’ve played Knifey Spoony before”
Or the scene where he tells her that the place where they’re walking (in Australia) is called “Belongtamick” (Belong to Mick) and it takes her a while to realize that he owns it. It’s full of gold or diamonds or something like that. He thinks it’s small because you can walk across it in a few days. And she’s like, “You can walk across New York in a few days!”(Or was that scene from the sequel?) Wally, the old duffer was a nice comic foil to Mick, too.
Not to mention I believe “wally” in Australia is a slang word for penis. = )
The way the conversation about Mick’s land came out, his area was bigger than New York state, by a pretty significant amount; I tend to assume he’s got several hundred square miles, something like the area of Wyoming.
Pardon me, Wyoming is almost a hundred thousand square miles. Wooph.
The best thing about this movie is the fact that Linda Koslowski seemed to never wear underwear.
She looked marvelous didn’t she? And she’s aging pretty well too, which is always nice.
on my list to do before I die… Get a Croc Dundee hat
a knife like that would be too hard to get through airport security
Just put it in your checked baggage.
Paul Hogan used to have his own show prior to Dundee. I remember watching his show on PBS back in the early 80’s. Very funny, stuff, I seem to recall. Just do a search on youtube for the Paul Hogan show.
i’ve seen that show, they still play it!! ever notice how small his shorts were…. eeewww…. budgie smugglers!
I like how he just keeps smilin’…. kids havin’ fun ’s all.
And when he introduced himself to that randome guy on the street. Like oh hi, I’ll be here a few days so we’ll proly meet again….
My favorite scene ( aside from the knife scene) is meeting his friend in the Outback — tough Aborigine, at one with nature, etc., yelling, “I hate the bush!!”
I remember the scene with the two Aborigines meeting Sue for the first time and she says “Do you mind if I take a photograph of you”, one of them looks shocked and says “You can’t take a photo of us with that”. Sue says “Why, because you think it’ll take your spirit away.” The aborigine says “No, because you’ve still got the lens cap on”.
I’m an Aussie, but I never saw this movie (it eventually became something that I decided never to see, just to be obtuse!)
Even thought we’re one of the most urbanised countries in the world, this stereotype of the bronzed Outback-dwelling Strine-talking bloke is near and dear to out national heart.
just like the American cowboy is to ours
I’m also Australian and I feel obliged to point out that Mick is wrong in this instance both the gentlemen in question have knifes.
Now throw another bloody shrimp on the barby and crack me a tinny ya flamin galahs before I wollop ya.
(oh and we don’t all call our penis’s ‘Wally’ either, mine for instance is known as ‘Aaron’)
No way did the movie “Australia” make #2 in Australia. Maybe it was the #2 worldwide for movies made in Australia, even then I’d be suprised.
Movie like the most recent Batman, and the Lord of The Rings movies would have been much higher
I have no facts to back this up of course.
Yep as I thought lots of site say “AUSTRALIA has become the second highest grossing Australian film of all time.”
Note Australian film, not highest grossing IN australia.
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Man Petting a Squirrel
This movie came out when I was too young to even know what sexuality was, and I still had a crush on the guy.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched this movie.
I liked The Castle is better.
This one did do well in Australia, much of which was because of Paul Hogan himself. He has a long history as a comedian in Australia, and for evidence of what I mean, look up “the Paul Hogan Show” on Youtube. Save for a few details here and there, much of his humour is universal. Like Leo Wanker the stuntman and Superdag the Aussie superhero among other characters he’s come up with. Dag is Australian slang for what Americans would call a dork
Dude!My second cousin was in that.
Anne carlisle.