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Filmography Stranded
Year: 2005
Director: Stuart McDonald (The Secret Life of Us)
Cast: Emily Browning, Emma Lung (House of Wax), Robert Morgan (The Proposition)
STUART McDonald rolls out the talent in this close-to-heart, local Australian drama. Stranded follows lives of seventeen year old Claudia (Emma Lung), her now strengthless father Rex (Robert Morgan) and irritatingly hyperactive sister Penny (Emily Browning), in the intermediate aftermath of her mother's death, occuring a year before the story is set. Set in the trailer trash outskirts of Melbourne, their three souls are isolated and separated by the loss - Rex, the only man of the house, only asserts enough authority to hold the family together enough for his two daughters to acknowledge that their kit-home is the place where they sleep every night, and even so, cannot stop the frequent and vicious clashes between Claudia and Penny, which often cause Claudia to leave the house in an ever-building storm of rage to sleep in their broken car.
Tensions grow to boiling point as the whole family engages in various irrational activities: Rex tries hard to keep his place at least somewhat liveable to prevent giving a pair of do-gooder god spreaders from the local mission a reason to remove custody of his daughters from him, in addition to picking up a seedy woman who dumps her kids of the three of them; Penny steps up her relentless campaign of childish, annoying tactics, as well as being a bad influence of the seedy woman's kids; Claudia explodes in rage multiple times, and acquires soul-piercing depression and a overwhelming urge to get away from her family.
Emily plays the hyperactive, purposely annoying sister to Claudia. Emily shows off great range and maturity, going from the victim in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" to the not exactly evil, but scene stealing rebel girl who smokes, steals pills, and refuses to go to school.
Directing is as good as it gets. Stuart McDonald manages to pull all the excellent on-paper merits of the film - brilliant script by Kathleen O'Brien, the rising talents Emma Lung, Emily Browning and David Hoflin - to create a very undiscovered masterpiece. Themes (the significance of the the the title "Stranded" is easily realised, giving added meaning to all the themes, characters, etc. - also likening the film theme-wise to "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"), and character developement and very, very well etched out, as are the film mechanics (such as lighting, camera angle) to create mood and other subtle components that make it complete. A feel-good watch, make so good use of its time you wish it could be longer.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Year: 2004
Director: Brad Silberling (City of Angels)
Cast: Emily Browning, Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty), Liam Aiken (Road to Perdition), Billy Connolly (The Man Who Sued God), Meryl Streep (The Manchurian Candidate), and more!
BRAD Silberling's seventeeth work is as much cut out for him as it is well resourced.
On paper, the credentials are impressive. In the foreground, he has the talents of Liam Aiken and Emily Browning leading the film, supported by an incredible lineup of old hands and masters-of-industry, including: Jim Carrey, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Meryl Streep, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, Cedric The Entertainer, and a cameo by Dustin Hoffman to round out the film of 2004 that perhaps had the highest concentration of A-list actors. But actors can only take you so far. Brad Silberling upholds his end of the deal fulfils the grand design and creates a film that is nothing short of a pleasure to watch.
Based on popular series of kids books by Daniel Handler, A Series of Unfortunate Events is a faithful film interpretation both visually and plot wise. Set in a fantasy-comical Dickensian time, one day while at the beach the Baudelaire orphans (Emily Browning as Violet, Lian Aiken as Klaus, and Kara/Shelby Hoffman as Sunny) learn that their parents have perished in a great fire at their manor. They are somehow related to and therefore sent to their uncle, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey). He is less than concerned with the children's safety and health, with an intention to claim the Baudelaire fortune. He uses a bunch of devious and underhanded covert tactics to kill the Baudelaire orphans to do so. Carrey's comic genius is aptly applied to a variety of Olaf's disguises.
The film has an overall darkly-humourous mood to it. Brad Silberling's creativity and excellent insight into the books allows him to successfully create an excellent origin film, constructing the visual and audio themes (soundtrack is nothing less than perfect), setting the stage for any sequels that follow.
Emily plays the eldest lead, as Violet of the Baudelaire orphans. Violet Baudelaire is an observant and thoughtful, serene young woman; a skilled inventor. She is caring and protective of her younger siblings.
Mel rates it 4/5. Shawna rates it 4/5.
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