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...gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise. "Somehow or other, his imagination is wired up to the future," says actor and comedian Magda Szubanski, who has added zing to three of Miller's recent films, including his latest hit, Happy Feet, "and he really seems to be able to bring back to us in the present day possibilities that most of us couldn't even imagine...
...year-old filmmaker, whom Szubanski also describes as "a big cuddly bear with a brain the size of a planet," usually gives audiences and filmmaking rivals a five-year head start-the typical time it takes to get his notoriously painstaking projects (including his ongoing Sydney house renovations) off the ground. So in 2003, when Miller announced that following the stalling of his fourth Mad Max film, in part because of the war in Iraq, his next project would be an animated penguin musical, to be made in Australia with a production house relatively new to the game, Pixar must...
...narrator at one point. This being a George Miller movie, the answer is an entertainingly entangled double negative-together with a family-friendly environmental message as light on its feet as the dance work. "You can see that element of the healer in all of George's works," insists Szubanski. "And I think that's partly why he's drawn to the hero's journey, because it's ultimately very optimistic." Though he's one of Australia's greatest cultural exports, Miller is less sanguine when it comes to the local film industry and its ability to send stories...
...strut, for the cast members of Babe: Pig in the City are larger, busier and--shall we say?--more emotionally complex than their predecessors. They are mostly residents of the Flealands Hotel, a flophouse in a hellish--well, anyway, heckish--imaginary metropolis where Babe and Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) are obliged to take refuge when a personal appearance Babe was supposed to make goes awry...
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