- Title: AUSTRALIA: PREMIERE OF MOVIE "CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LA " HELD IN SYDNEY
- Date: 2nd April 2001
- Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (APRIL 2, 2001) (REUTERS) PAN DOWN FROM CINEMA SIGN "WORLD PREMIERE CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LA" / PANS PEOPLE GOING INTO CINEMA (3 SHOTS) VARIOUS, FANS WAITING OUTSIDE MOVIE THEATRE / MEDIA VARIOUS, LINDA KOZLOWSKI GETS OUT OF CAR FOLLOWED BY PAUL HOGAN / HOGAN WAVES TO FANS VARIOUS, HOGAN AND KOZLOWSKI POSING FOR MEDIA (5 SHOTS) SMV (SOUNDBITE) (English) HOGAN SAYING: "Yeah, that's what it's all about, the legs still work, strap, strap them up, lots of bandages, double mouth guards, here I am again." MEDIA PANS TO HOGAN SAYING: "It's not an important film, it's just a funny movie." (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS, KOZLOWSKI AND HOGAN POSING FOR MEDIA
- Embargoed: 17th April 2001 13:00
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- Location: SYDNEY AND GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVAE92KK2JCLKQF60WGXQ6Z5RXB2
- Story Text: The latest Crocodile Dundee film, "Crocodile Dundee in LA" has had its premiere in Australia. Several hundred people gathered to watch the film's star Paul Hogan and other Australian celebrities walk the red carpet in Sydney.
"Crocodile Dundee in LA" is the third installment in the adventures of Mick Dundee, an eccentric Australian who uproots himself from the Outback to accompany his partner, a journalist, to Los Angeles.
There, he accidentally gets caught up in her investigation into a major story, and the stage is set for a series of comic jibes that poke fun at the Southern Californian lifestyle from an outsider's view.
Dundee is played by Paul Hogan who had once vowed he would never make a third film in the hugely successful series.
The original "Crocodile Dundee", which hit movie screens 13 years ago, took 360 million U.S. dollars worldwide, and its sequel "Crocodile Dundee 2" grossed 250 million U.S. dollars.
Dundee's partner in the film, journalist Sue Charleton, is played by Linda Kozlowski, Hogan's wife in real life.
Paramount Pictures is due to release the film in the United States and Canada in April.
Some critics of the film, however, have claimed that Hogan has become out of touch with the quintessential Australian, having lived for more than a decade in Los Angeles.
Another criticism has been that he's perpetuating a stereotype of the Australian male that no longer exists.
But Hogan's view is that Dundee is a mythical character who doesn't need "updating".
Hogan, once a labourer painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is one of Australia's most famous, or at least most bronzed, exports, and has long been used in advertising campaigns to lure tourists Down Under.
He chose to premiere his film in Australia because, he says, this is where it all began. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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