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Bienvenue à Woop Woop (1997)

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Actor Rod Taylor himself conceived and originated his Daddy-O character's regular expression of speech of "Fahfangoolah!".
In an interview once, Julie Andrews stated how she had consent rights over the use of her image in La Mélodie du bonheur (1965). The film was screened for her, and she was allegedly a bit hesitant, but in the end just said OK go ahead and use it.
The phrase "Woop Woop", according to the 'Urban Dictionary', is an "Australian term, a collective description for any destination outside your local area, ie: far away" whilst the Wikipedia Website state it "is an Australian term meaning far away from anything of interest, as in 'he lives out woop woop'. Equivalent terms include 'beyond the black stump' (also Australia), 'Boondock' (S. United States) and 'out in the sticks' (E. UK)", with Wikipedia adding, according to Tom Parry in 'Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback' (2006), "the term is said to have been derived from the nickname given to men who carried fleeces in shearing sheds, after the sound they made as they ran around. It was also the name of a sawmill near the town of Wilga in South West of Western Australia that was abandoned in 1984", and further, according to 'The Dinkum Dictionary' (2010) by Susan Butler, Wikipedia states that "the term was being used in the early 1900s to describe a mythical outback town", which is what "Woop Woop" is in this movie.
The version of the film shown at the Cannes Film Festival where director Stephan Elliott's previous picture Priscilla, folle du désert (1994) had been a smash there, ran about 106 minutes. Film production investor and distributor Goldwyn Entertainment Company re-cut the film down to the 97-minute released length cut, trimming the film down about nine minutes.
One of the few times in movies when an actor or actress makes their first appearance in the movie after their name is listed in the end credits. Shane Paxton as Sonny and Bindi Paxton as Cher don't appear in the movie until a scene after the credits are done rolling, which takes place 15 years later.

Cameo

Barry Humphries: As Blind Wally.

Director Cameo

Stephan Elliott: The film's director appears uncredited as a truck driver.

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