Our second foreign film is Peter Weir’s Gallipoli. Released in 1981 and starring a very young Mel Gibson, Gallipoli is a First World War Saga that traces the facts and fallacies of Australia’s involvement in a horrible battle that literally changed nothing but Australia’s attitude about what it meant to be a member of the British Empire. This is another one of my more rambling episodes so if you like the rigid scene by scene breakdown I usually give, this may not be your cup of tea. However, this also means you also won’t have to turn the podcast on to watch the film as I give nonsensical narration. The Super 70 Podcast is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, and my website at www.thatdylandavis.com. All music on The Super 70 Podcast is provided by Rozalind MacPhail and Joshua Cunningham whom you can also find on SoundCloud. Works Cited for this episode are: Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead and the Battle of Gallipoli by Philip Haythornethwaite.
