Yahoo Serious is a bit of a sad story unfortunately. He has popped up a few times since but his films are few and far between. I vaguely remember “Mr Accident” from 2000 but that’s about it. He recently surfaced in the news after being evicted from a rental property:https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp...after-falling-27000-behind-in-rental-payments
Paul Hogan was huge here well before his portrayal of Mick Dundee (in fact, the “shrimp on the barbie” line was from a Tourism Australia campaign that was first launched in the US two years before the Crocodile Dundee movie).
An enduring depiction of Australia that has very little basis in reality: nobody here uses the word “shrimp” and until the age of about 12 I only knew the word as a colloquialism for a short person. A “shrimp” is a prawn. And don’t get me started on Outback Steakhouse. Literally none of that stuff bears any resemblance to anything here.
Makes me wonder how badly we get local adaptations of different types of international cuisine wrong. I’m pretty sure the beef vindaloo takeaway I get from Bombay Nights up the road isn’t the real article given the reverence for cows.
On the topic of Australian movies/actors, and drawing the above themes together, I don’t know how big it was internationally, but Babe (the movie about a talking pig) was absolutely huge here.