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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

  • 1978
  • 2h 2min
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAfter suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.

  • Dirección
    • Fred Schepisi
  • Guionistas
    • Fred Schepisi
    • Thomas Keneally
  • Elenco
    • Tommy Lewis
    • Freddy Reynolds
    • Angela Punch McGregor
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Fred Schepisi
    • Guionistas
      • Fred Schepisi
      • Thomas Keneally
    • Elenco
      • Tommy Lewis
      • Freddy Reynolds
      • Angela Punch McGregor
    • 17Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 27Opiniones de los críticos
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    • Premios
      • 5 premios ganados y 10 nominaciones en total

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    Tommy Lewis
    Tommy Lewis
    • Jimmie Blacksmith
    Freddy Reynolds
    • Mort Blacksmith
    Angela Punch McGregor
    • Gilda Marshall
    • (as Angela Punch)
    Ray Barrett
    Ray Barrett
    • Farrell
    Jack Thompson
    Jack Thompson
    • Rev. Neville
    Steve Dodd
    • Tabidgi
    • (as Steve Dodds)
    Peter Carroll
    Peter Carroll
    • McCready
    Ruth Cracknell
    Ruth Cracknell
    • Mrs. Heather Newby
    Don Crosby
    Don Crosby
    • Jack Newby
    Elizabeth Alexander
    Elizabeth Alexander
    • Petra Graf
    Peter Sumner
    Peter Sumner
    • Dowie Steed
    Tim Robertson
    Tim Robertson
    • Healey
    Ray Meagher
    Ray Meagher
    • Dud Edmonds
    Brian Anderson
    • Hyberry
    Jane Harders
    • Mrs. Healey
    Julie Dawson
    • Martha Neville
    Jack Charles
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    • Harry Edwards
    Arthur Dignam
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    • Man in Butcher Shop
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      • Fred Schepisi
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      • Fred Schepisi
      • Thomas Keneally
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    10ollirrap

    introspective film that many people miss.

    Deals with the antihero that goes over the edge...beyond obvious comprehension. Many miss the point...."he's half white." This film explore what structural racism produces, especially in that individual that seems to have the chance of crossing lines. Instead these are the individuals that are repeatedly humiliated and demeaned by those they are seeking acceptance from. This is the point of the film. It is the potential from the "half breed" that contextualizes the journey to where is own people/ family see him as a devil. He is a man gone rabid...tormented by the world he does not fit. This film is moving on many levels and provides a glimpse into a history foreign to many. A tragedy in the deepest sense.
    9Quinoa1984

    How to Racist and Senslessly Slaughter Australian. Powerful film

    Truly startling and mortifying and a real challenge because it shows everything as plain as it needs to be shown. It takes its time to show Jimmie as a man who is put down upon at every step by those he works for, under so many who see him at every turn as less than. Compounding that is that he elopes with a white woman, and she seems to have his child (until, well, you should watch to see the reveal on that which makes for a further wrinkle for Jimmie), and that others tell the woman to get away because... he's Black, after all, what, he cant be a farher.

    So when Jimmie finally snaps, it is not shown as some inevitable act, it is more as many common acts of violence are in the world: brutal, stupid and sudden escalation, which gets reframed by everyone, Jimmie and the White citizens, as "right" and "wrong." The thing aboht "Chant" is it's a story that means to reckon with the very real horrors of racism (it could be America or Australia or South America or anywhere), while at the same time the filmmakers are not making Jimmie Blacksmith into a sympathetic figure (which would be... not sure what that movie looks like!)

    Or, let me amend that, it is not that there isn't some sympathy that Shlepsi and company have for Jimmie, rather that he and the writers show that he is a man, originally shaped by a very low-wrung working class life with little education and the double problem of being mixed race (which is commented on later on in the film by the white folks who did care for him, in their way, once), so he is of his time just like everyone else is of their time. And everyone is already so scared of their own shadows that the murders make it into bedlam.

    You know Jimmie has gone way over the edge once he commits those murders, but going into the movie I had the (very) mistaken impression it was a series of revenge killings. But there isn't any sense in what is going on as being righteous or worth having some vicarious "yeah, you go, Jimmie!" Like say, oh, Django Unchained to give a basic example. While it's extreme to compare it to, oh, 12 Years a Slave, it is a film that looks on in despair at what humanity is capable of.

    The violence here is quick and ugly and senseless, and by the end there is little catharsis. But throughout the film there are nuances to the depictions of the Whites, and not everyone is out to immediately snuff out one of the Aborigines like Jimmie - the focal point to me about three quarters in with the more bookish man that Jimmie and his brother take along and they actually sit and talk, and while he brings up to Jimmie the bigger picture of what White's have given to Aborigines (alcohol, diseases, school), what so powerful is how muted it is. This isnt some giant dramatic scene, it is low key and sad and grubby.

    Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is not always an easy watch except that Shlepsi is a terrific director of actors (Tom E Lewis's debut! But also Thompson, Barrett and Punch in a difficult role) and keeps the pacing here moving along well while finding time for meditative images (extreme close ups of ants and bugs in perpetual violence and conquering of their own), and even though it's set in the late 19th century, turn of the 20th, it packs a message without being preachy.
    edgeofreality

    Great film

    I have seen this several times and it remains the best film I've ever seen about racial oppression. White Australians are shown to be so deeply convinced of their own superiority they can only see Aborigines as half-human good for nothings. This is the story of a hal-aborigine raised by missionaries who tries and fails to be integrated into white society - even into it's fringes. Everything works here: performances, photography which captures something of 19th century Australian paintings, great music that evoked the tragedy of Jimmy's plight, and intelligent script and direction. The build up to Jimmy's explosion is perfectly sustained, and the violence unforgettable.
    5ptb-8

    a very black song...

    This film from 1978 as directed by Fred Schipisi of SIX DEGREES fame and of Thomas Keneally's book - he wrote SCHINDLER'S LIST - is a grim and disturbing depiction set during colonial 19th century Australia of a young Aboriginal man's descent into frustrated violence against his white English landowner masters. It becomes a really brutal film with explicit axe murders, especially against young girls and older women, and it is this visually distressing depiction that ultimately alienated the cinema audience. Jimmy's humiliation and cruel treatment is equally explicit and it is a relentless string of unhappy experiences by his inhumane 'boss' that ultimately causes him to crack - and hack. As a novel it is all in the mind of the reader but as a cinemascope color film, the 'running amok with an axe' sequences make any crowd want to run from the cinema. It was not seen on TV in Australia for almost 20 years and it is not likely to be either without most of the violence cut out, thus blunting the heavy handed message and the ultimate impact. Like poor Jimmy himself, the film version is in no man's land either. Past all that, it is a well made film and with an excellent cast; but very tough going. It fits well into a series of very sharply observed Australian films depicting the British colonial mind and its misunderstanding or cruelty towards Aboriginies: JEDDA in 1956, WALKABOUT in 1970, this film in 1978, RABBIT PROOF FENCE in 2001 and THE TRACKER in 2003. Each and every one are unique and excellent in their story. This one however, is the most violent which does derail its message. White urban Australia run amok is hilarious in a 1966 comedy THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB or demented boozy antics in THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE in 1972... and alarmingly, horrifyingly realistic, soaked in beer bullets fists and dead kangaroos blood in Ted Kotcheff's superb 1971 drama OUTBACK. See the lot! It is a head-shaking but enlightening string of films, especially if seen in chronological order....like we all did! (may explain why our film makers in the 90s made musicals)
    9tim-764-291856

    The Best Australian Film?

    Fred Schepisi's 1978 film may well be just that but it's not included in my Australian Cinema 12 disc boxed set and I've never known it to be on TV, here. I became aware of it through my old film 'bible' Halliwells and they rated it very highly, awarding a rare maximum score, citing it as 'one of the greatest achievements in Australian cinema'.

    It's taken me a good number of years to finally find a copy that was on region of DVD I could play and wasn't a silly price.

    The first thing you notice is the sheer authenticity. Language is as brutal as any and is more akin to a Victorian Scorsese than starched collars and stiff upper lips. The language used to describe the aboriginal natives is as coarse and racist as you'll find in any gritty 70's set LA cop show and for that it is both upsetting and rather embarrassing, but at least goes to show the leaps and bounds humankind has largely made on this issue, since.

    Jimmie Blacksmith is a half-cast, a subject that has been visited in a few memorable films, particularly 'Rabbit Proof Fence' and as 'these' were often the result of rape against white women, were seen as worse than the lowest. Jimmie (superbly played by Tommy Lewis) does have an advantage, he's overseen by the local white vicar and is known as a hard and honest worker.

    He soon goes on to work for white farmers, along with his fully aboriginal brother, erecting fences. Miles of them. He does too good a job and they don't want to pay, so he moves on. His relationship with a white girl, then marriage results in a child, that by colour alone, cannot be his. Then, around half-way in, all this pent-up anger boiling up inside the civilised and decent Jimmie erupts. This is when the violence (extreme in its day, now, maybe sadly, average) erupts as he goes on a vengeful killing spree.

    I need not go further than this, except that obviously, he is then a wanted criminal and a fugitive on the run.

    There's a real sense of the epic, with cinematic hints and nods to Nicolas Roeg's 'Walkabout', with the natural geography, fauna and the culture all vividly brought to life, superbly filmed by Ian Baker .

    Thankfully - hopefully, this can now be seen as a historical drama, the like of which can never happen again. It is as hard-hitting and making as powerful a statement on in-bred racism there is and is without doubt a five star classic.

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    • Trivia
      Tommy Lewis had never had any acting experience when he was cast as this film's lead character Jimmie Blacksmith.
    • Citas

      McCready: You can't say we haven't given you anything. We've introduced you to alcohol, religion.

      Jimmie Blacksmith: Religion.

      McCready: Influenza, measles, syphilis. School.

      Jimmie Blacksmith: School.

      McCready: A whole host of improvements.

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      Featured in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith: Melbourne Premiere from Willesee at Seven, June 1978 (1978)

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      • 22 de junio de 1978 (Australia)
    • País de origen
      • Australia
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    • También se conoce como
      • Die Ballade von Jimmie Blacksmith
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
    • Productoras
      • The Film House
      • Australian Film Commission
      • Film Victoria
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      2 horas 2 minutos
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