Chopper
Clip 2: ‘A good bloke down on his luck’
2 min 30 sec
Taken from the feature Chopper (2000)
Original title classification R – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
This clip contains medium-level coarse language.
Curator’s clip description
Back in jail in 1991 for the malicious wounding of a drug dealer, Chopper (Eric Bana) enjoys being interviewed by an attractive television reporter (Renee Brack). He is now a best-selling author with fans all over the world, and young offenders in the prison who look up to him, even copying his tattoos. Chopper introduces Bucky (Fletcher Humphrys), one of these admirers, to the camera but then directs the camera back onto himself. He is the star of the show, after all.
Curator’s notes
Andrew Dominik frames the beginning and end of this scene with a camera lens, to accentuate the growing celebrity cult surround Mark ‘Chopper’ Read. The lens is also a reference perhaps to the film itself, the ultimate expression of Read’s achievement. He has become a movie star, as well as a best-selling author.
Paul Byrnes, curator
