This never challenged the original, it was a different approach to the book. Different adaptation with different focus and more exploration of the characters backstories and reimagining of the girls' feelings and motives
Adaptations can direct focus to the original work. I doubt any adaptation would ever match the original masterpiece but this helps to keep Lindsay's vision alive. I'd like to think she and also maybe Weir would appreciate this as an homage of sorts..
So... I originally wrote this on another trailer, it is an old post and I wanted to get some comments and thoughts about my experience in case anyone has had a similar experience, so posted here. This is a true story which still kinda creeps me out today. I had no real knowledge of any historical or fictional accounts at Hanging Rock, however, I did know the name of this movie, but not about the storyline, I still haven't actually watched or read the book. Back in March 2017, I went for a hike from Macedon train station (i live in Melbourne) up to the Camel's Hump via the memorial lookout, then down the northern slopes, on to Hanging Rock and then over to Woodend and the train station.... Im ashamed to say, but I had never been out in the area before, having at the time lived in Victoria for 7 years, except for stopping off at Woodend on my way north. So, I caught the train in around 10am and set off. The day was really odd weatherwise, warm and humid, occasional rain, but insanely foggy. The scenery was beautiful, but due to visibility, the going was slow. I can't recall the exact time I arrived at the Hanging Rock grounds, approximately 5.30pm I guess, maybe a bit later, my phone was low on battery, nobody was in the park, but there was a groundsman outside the closed cafe/toilet buildings who said I had just enough time to get up and back before the vehicle gates and grounds were closed for the day. I made my way up the track feeling excited for finally getting there and feeling relief that I got in before gates closed - I had no idea Hanging Rock was in a park, let alone it was fenced off. As I said earlier, I had no real knowledge of it. Upon reaching the summit, I wandered around the rock formations for approx 15 mins, taking it in and enjoying the views, especially looking back to Mt Macedon to the south where I had been earlier in the afternoon. There was a slight fog surrounding the "cliffs", but I could see the sun and the out-laying pastures and vineyards. Then, quite quickly a dense fog rolled in, i noticed it went really quiet, no birds or background traffic/rural sounds and I started to lose my orientation as I lost visibility to about 5 meters in front of me, I started to feel a little uncomfortable, but at the same time was not worried as the plateau of the formation is only limited in size "how could I possibly get lost right??"... Well.... now, Let me explain, what I can't really explain... what happened to me next.... I decided to slowly retraced my track looking for the path going down the hill, i hadn't walked too far from it, but now I couldn't locate it at all. Upon reaching the edge of the cliffs where a wire fence was, I carefully circumnavigated the top of the plateau twice trying to find the pathway leading down... however, I couldn't find it anywhere. I had completely lost the path and got incredibly disoriented. Luckily I managed to remember several formations and had an idea of when I got back to a particular area, just not in relation to the path back down. I am an architect and have pretty good spatial awareness and gasp of orientation - I have also spent many days hiking in forests and and parks, I know how to orientate myself and know how to recognize terrain features and commit a map to memory. For reference sake, I walked the razorback trial (Cathedral Range) in fog on my first go without really needing to reference my map and made it across without any issue. At times, I could just make out the location of the sun through the cloud, so knew where west was... well... some of the time. I was walking around for what I swear was atleast an hour. As panic slowly started to kick in on the second lap, the oddest feeling overcame me, I felt like other people where there with me, not like I was being watched by them and not like they were there that day, but people just there in time, like memories or their spirit, but the feeling of them was, there's no other way to describe it, but really very real and very present. At this point I must explain that I am a true atheist, I am not spiritual and although I can't prove ghosts or spirits or extra dimensions don't exist, I am very much a gimme-hard-proof-first kinda guy and a healthy dose of pessimismto boot. The strangest thing was when walking through the arches and holes and out crops, I started getting something akin to visual flashes of people, memories. I have put it down to an overactive imagination. But... it wasn't just visuals, i swear I heard and 'felt' the presence of people up there, going about their business.... I then came to this hole and ledge that I hadn't been to earlier, as it was more in the interior, there were some names and dates carved into the surface of the rock face, i manoeuvred myself through the opening and down to the lower level, it now started to rain and it was getting darker, my circadian clock was telling me it was closing in on 7pm, but I had no idea as my phone was now completely out of battery. As I made my way along the lower rock edge, I slipped and fell face first, I whacked my knee hard. Great!!! Now I was injured, disoriented, wet and it was getting dark!!! Adjacent to where I lay was a little overhang, which could shelter me from the downpour, so I got up and sat with my back against the rock face to wait out the weather. Now the drizzle/rain felt like it lasted about an hour, In that time i ate 2 muesli bars and re-read a pamphlet I picked up at the mt Macedon memorial lookout, i started getting a little into my head and thought very odd things about what might be happening to me whilst also trying to stay as rational as I could, I didn't feel scared, the whole experience felt kinda safe even though I was now 100% lost and had no orientation of time or direction. The rain finally stopped and I got up and walked onwards, I knew it was getting late, maybe 8 or 8.30pm??, as it was definitely getting darker, my knee was in pain and I was wet, I was tired and felt defeated, I wanted to get out. Then, as I made my way forward about 15 meters into a open area... just suddenly, the path and steps downhill were there in front of me. Clear as anything. The crazy thing is I swear I'd been in this area 3-4 times previously walking around earlier, I recalled bushes and a post and rocks. The path was so easy to recognize now - how could I have missed it 3 times? I started walking down, and as I did, the fog was clearing away and the sun broke though... it was still up as high as when I started my trek up.... 'HOURS' earlier. I heard voices ahead, two guys were walking up the path towards me, I stopped them and said Hi, and asked what the time was, they told me nearly 6pm... I exclaimed loudly... WTF??!!, they said they had to quickly get moving as the gates were shutting soon and were told that they only had a short time left.... I walked off the path towards the buildings, there was no one around, I very quickly walked out of the park, the gates were still open and i continued on to Woodend (it took a lot longer than I'd hoped it would - my knee was not happy) and caught a train back to Melbourne. To this day I can't explain what happened up there, I swear on my life I was up there 2-3 hours, but It was apparently 15-20mins. I can't explain the timing and I can't explain feeling of being surrounded by people's 'memories'. It's so strange and normally I never believe in anything supernatural. Until now, I've only ever told a handful of people about this experience as it makes no sense at all.
+Timothy Sullivan - Well, that is quite something! I was there, 8 years ago. I followed the track up, there were lots of tourists, many from Europe, walking around and being wowed by the Koalas, lizards, etc. I walked to the top, looked around, started back and realized none of what I was seeing matched anything in the film (save for some of the track going up), so I walked off the main track and after wandering around for maybe 10 minutes, happened to come across the filming locations I remember from the movie. They were all still there. I noted a fallen tree people sat on and walked around back in '75, and it was still there, but by now half weathered away (2012). Nothing weird happened, and I was a bit annoyed that the Calder Freeway was too damn close at 2 miles away, so you could always hear it's traffic in the distance. Nonetheless it's quite a special place, and it was interesting to have found the filming spots and see them all alone, as they were off the main track some distance. Sounds like you got the "special treatment"!
Amazing story. I believe one can experience psychic phenomena no matter their belief system. I believe natural formations like that can hold "memories" & sometimes people can experience them like an old film being triggered. If there's quartz in the rock, it could affect everything you experienced up there. Eerie yet beautiful story. Glad you lived to tell the tale!
look up missing 411 or david paulides i think he has a channel now on youtube. he covers a lot of cases involving missing people in national parks. when you said suddenly there was no sound and an eary stillness my ears perked up. this happens a lot to people out in the woods hiking or hunting, its very unsettling, some even claim to have been wondering around for hours or even days only to find a short time had passed. and get this, these things happen a lot around boulder fields or rock outcroppings. ive always wondered if there was a link between experiences like yours and fairies/elves. gained time and missing time are part of that lore as well as ominous rock formations. ive personally have had paranormal encounter in the woods in pennsylvania, i dont think it relates but i know there things out there that havnt been explained.
The original movie is an Australian masterpiece. The pan flutes are so right in that film. What egghead decided to use The End by the Doors instead in this version. Most Aussies would regard this as a travesty and a joke.
Seriously? I was willing to give this remake a try- but when I read your comment about the Doors, I couldn't stomach it. They (Doors) have had their place in time, now though already). Thanks for the heads up! The original movie is brilliant.
I love Australia. Visited this awesome country twice.This movie sends chills down my back. We went bush walking in Blue Mountains National Park for a week. A memorable experience. Thanks Australia.
I ended up liking this way more than I thought I would. I think switching around character motivations and stories helped. Marion was the kindest, Miranda was troubled, Irma was more snooty but also desperate to find a home, Sarah was younger and more like everyone's sister while she wanted to find her brother, Mrs. Appleyard was not a lesbian like so many fans have thought but a social climber who wanted her man, like a meaner version of the French teacher, who wanted what most modern women have. The guys, I wish I could have had more answers about if they were romantic or not. Marion's story with her teacher was just so obvious and we spend more time feeling for her. I did think somethings like how sexual the scene between two straight girls kissing got were strange, but I think it was also to give them this close moment. In the original movie, I always had this idea Irma and Miranda were best friends, parallel pretty girls and Irma wanted Miranda's perfect girl label but also loved her too much to take her crown and it was more painful that she was gone for that reason.
@@beth5529 I was upset about the aging down at first, but then I just liked the show. I do worry about romanticizing student and teacher relationships, although for this show, maybe at that time the age wasn't so bad. I actually really cared about them and did think they had chemistry, but maybe it was just so different, I went with it. I did have a feeling they meant Albert and Mike to be romantic, but it still felt like Mike might like Miranda and that that was his bigger goal. Maybe, he's bisexual or he saw in her something he connected with, but bisexual men are barely represented. To me, I think the story of Mike and Albert could have used more development, like a real statement of what they were. I'm used to them being straight and friends. In the book and old film, I just thought it was an intense friendship. I've had intense friendships and it can look romantic, but maybe the author did think of them as loving each other. I always felt Mike did love Miranda or his idea of her and in the film, especially, I felt like Albert might like Irma and she may have felt something for him, but Mike is rich and she needs that, so she went for him, once she was away from the rock. Albert holds Irma so desperately when she is found and I always wondered if on the rock they didn't feel their class and maybe she was aware of what was going on.
For those saying “We don’t need a remake! The original was better!” Firstly, it’s not technically a remake. In another adaptation of the book. Furthermore, it’s a mini tv series rather than a film. I like the original and I like this series. The series wasn’t trying to adapt from the movie, rather a reimagining of the book. It’s like with the recent IT films. They weren’t a remake of the original tv mini series, it was a new adaptation of the book.
Despite loving the original movie and the book, I can say I really enjoyed this miniseries. People are so dramatic in the comments, it was not supposed to challenge or replace the original, it was another adaptation of the book. I'm glad the original movie got more attention thanks to this and more room for discussion. It was nice to revisit the Hanging rock in another version!
Hey all, I just wanted to say that this is my favourite series and to give it a chance because, oh my goodness, will it tug at your heartstrings. I'm a 23 year old Australian woman and this book/movie/series is so fascinating and magical to me. This show is perfection.
The only reason I like the original is it’s recorded in the 70s so the cameras and audio they used made it really feel as if they were in the 1900s era despite they didn’t have colourised cameras but it just had that nostalgic old feeling that I can’t explain.
Watched this series recently and loved it, mostly because of the character Albert, played beautifully by James Hoare. What a great talent he is. Stunning scenery too.
I don't think it's necessary to remake Weir's film, most of which exists -- as it should -- in the imagination only. Weir created a framework and made suggestions, no more than the thinnest of deer trails that one is not sure are even there. It should be left at that.
The original film is such a masterpiece, why attempt a remake? Purely to make money I imagine, not to enhance the work in any way because that can’t be done.
"The missing are not to be spoken of or referred to." Maybe Mrs. Appleyard in this version is acknowledging, whether she likes it or not, that the old victorian europe influence on Australia is over and the country (including dreamtime) has found a new beginning.
You can't remake perfection. Picnic at Hanging Rock is my favourite Australian film. 10/10, and should never have been touched. Why don't you remake Citizen Kane while you're at it?
I have loved this movie since I way young, the hurting pan pipe movie in the original movie is what i loved most about it. I am looking forward to see this series.
Since always ... The only people who think that Australia is just all desert and farm land obviously don't live here 😂 plenty of rainforest And bushlands
they did! last time i went to the rock, they were filming (and we got a few pics :D), so everyone was getting into costumes, and they were shooting scenes, and when they'd do this, they'd tell us to stay back.
@@pinkprincezz31 That's the whole point; you're not supposed to get it. I'm not sure if you've seen the original, but it is never stated what happened to the girls and the mystery is never solved. People either loved the movie or hated it - those who love it, love it because they can put their own interpretations on it, and go back and read symbolism into nearly every scene - and those who hate it, hate it because they just want to know the solution to the mystery - and of course, there isn't one.
In boarding schools 19th Century Anglo-Ausralian discipline was far worse. The cane remained a part of the Australian education systemmwell into the early 1970s.
@@lodgeeighty-seven5802 Outlawed in 1985 in Victoria. I started Primary school in '82, but corporal punishment wasn't used at the school I attended. The Principal was frightening enough without it!
pinkprincezz31 I really liked it, but found it hard to follow. I felt it was too long as well. I did really like the cinematography and the location filming. I would watch it again.
Did these people even think about what they were doing? What a piece of crap! They should be embarassed and the producers prohibited from making further films. The original has mystery, atmosphere and was simply a truly great film. This is worse than bad from script to actor. If you had anything to do with it I am embarrassed for you, especially since money is all you care about.
Is there any explanation as to why on Earth three young and sound girls disappeared so completely from the scene?... Any continuation?... Any investigation?... I presume there is at least a bit of truth in this story. Perhaps there is at least one more chapter added by the Author to her story with some explanation. I am much interested in what finally happened to Miranda and colleagues. Is there that mythical second volume of the 'Picnic'? Or is it but an urban legend? 😊😊♍♍👍👍
The story revolves around three students and a school teacher who disappear on a picnic to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. The story revolves around three students and a school teacher who disappear on a picnic to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Director: Peter Weir
The reason people believe it to be true was because of how the novel was written. Joan Lindsay hinted that it was based on true events but she also left it open to readers' interpretation as to whether it was real or not.
Australia was still a fairly young colony at the time. So people some still would've maintained an English accent if they hadn't been in the country for very long.
A remake is being shown at a film festival? Don't they usually focus their attention on new and original films? Artistic integrity is sorta dead now, isn't it?
An example how an incident which became folklore in Australia can now become an over-commercialised horror story just for the benefit of it's backers and the front office. Nicely done but personally i think in bad taste. I wonder, if any of those actually affected by this incident in 1900 knew it would eventually become selected as the latest round in what passes for modern entertainment in the questionable 21st. Century....i wonder what they would make of it. Poor old Mrs. Appleyard who wanted nothing but the best for her girls and who lost everything so much that she eventually committed suicide after main hullballoo had finished up amongst the rocks of the title....i wonder what she would have made if it. Then again, it could be said that the public must have their fun and nothing should get in the way of commerce (what do i know).
This new adaptation from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" novel is a totally nonsense! Where's that creepy peaceful and supernatural atmosphere? The mistress of the school looks like one of her schoolgirls and the girls look and act madly! This film looks like a mixture between a common horror film and a music video clip, nothing special, and completely different also from Peter Weir's sensitive artistry! Really disappointing!
but of course "Marion Quade" has been race swapped and is now an aboriginal woman which makes total sense and is in no way purely an ideological current year casting choice, just surprised she's not playing Miranda. Maybe in the next reboot/remake.
no mention of the original movie? no mention of the book that was based from? Something tells me this film may have gone woke as fuck. but... I shall see when I get around to watching this "remake"
You cannot remake perfection.
Calm down.. It's a mini-series adaptation.
Exactly my thought
If there is one cinema masterpiece that does not need a remake in any way ever, it's "Picnic at at Hanging Rock" in the original version!
This never challenged the original, it was a different approach to the book. Different adaptation with different focus and more exploration of the characters backstories and reimagining of the girls' feelings and motives
Adaptations can direct focus to the original work. I doubt any adaptation would ever match the original masterpiece but this helps to keep Lindsay's vision alive. I'd like to think she and also maybe Weir would appreciate this as an homage of sorts..
After watching the beloved original, I was curious about the remake. After watching the trailer, I'm no longer curious about the remake.
This isn't *the* trailer.... It's something a random fan made. I would've thought music by The Doors gave that away 🤔
So... I originally wrote this on another trailer, it is an old post and I wanted to get some comments and thoughts about my experience in case anyone has had a similar experience, so posted here.
This is a true story which still kinda creeps me out today.
I had no real knowledge of any historical or fictional accounts at Hanging Rock, however, I did know the name of this movie, but not about the storyline, I still haven't actually watched or read the book.
Back in March 2017, I went for a hike from Macedon train station (i live in Melbourne) up to the Camel's Hump via the memorial lookout, then down the northern slopes, on to Hanging Rock and then over to Woodend and the train station....
Im ashamed to say, but I had never been out in the area before, having at the time lived in Victoria for 7 years, except for stopping off at Woodend on my way north. So, I caught the train in around 10am and set off. The day was really odd weatherwise, warm and humid, occasional rain, but insanely foggy. The scenery was beautiful, but due to visibility, the going was slow.
I can't recall the exact time I arrived at the Hanging Rock grounds, approximately 5.30pm I guess, maybe a bit later, my phone was low on battery, nobody was in the park, but there was a groundsman outside the closed cafe/toilet buildings who said I had just enough time to get up and back before the vehicle gates and grounds were closed for the day.
I made my way up the track feeling excited for finally getting there and feeling relief that I got in before gates closed - I had no idea Hanging Rock was in a park, let alone it was fenced off. As I said earlier, I had no real knowledge of it.
Upon reaching the summit, I wandered around the rock formations for approx 15 mins, taking it in and enjoying the views, especially looking back to Mt Macedon to the south where I had been earlier in the afternoon. There was a slight fog surrounding the "cliffs", but I could see the sun and the out-laying pastures and vineyards. Then, quite quickly a dense fog rolled in, i noticed it went really quiet, no birds or background traffic/rural sounds and I started to lose my orientation as I lost visibility to about 5 meters in front of me, I started to feel a little uncomfortable, but at the same time was not worried as the plateau of the formation is only limited in size "how could I possibly get lost right??"...
Well.... now, Let me explain, what I can't really explain... what happened to me next....
I decided to slowly retraced my track looking for the path going down the hill, i hadn't walked too far from it, but now I couldn't locate it at all. Upon reaching the edge of the cliffs where a wire fence was, I carefully circumnavigated the top of the plateau twice trying to find the pathway leading down... however, I couldn't find it anywhere. I had completely lost the path and got incredibly disoriented. Luckily I managed to remember several formations and had an idea of when I got back to a particular area, just not in relation to the path back down.
I am an architect and have pretty good spatial awareness and gasp of orientation - I have also spent many days hiking in forests and and parks, I know how to orientate myself and know how to recognize terrain features and commit a map to memory. For reference sake, I walked the razorback trial (Cathedral Range) in fog on my first go without really needing to reference my map and made it across without any issue.
At times, I could just make out the location of the sun through the cloud, so knew where west was... well... some of the time. I was walking around for what I swear was atleast an hour.
As panic slowly started to kick in on the second lap, the oddest feeling overcame me, I felt like other people where there with me, not like I was being watched by them and not like they were there that day, but people just there in time, like memories or their spirit, but the feeling of them was, there's no other way to describe it, but really very real and very present.
At this point I must explain that I am a true atheist, I am not spiritual and although I can't prove ghosts or spirits or extra dimensions don't exist, I am very much a gimme-hard-proof-first kinda guy and a healthy dose of pessimismto boot.
The strangest thing was when walking through the arches and holes and out crops, I started getting something akin to visual flashes of people, memories. I have put it down to an overactive imagination. But... it wasn't just visuals, i swear I heard and 'felt' the presence of people up there, going about their business....
I then came to this hole and ledge that I hadn't been to earlier, as it was more in the interior, there were some names and dates carved into the surface of the rock face, i manoeuvred myself through the opening and down to the lower level, it now started to rain and it was getting darker, my circadian clock was telling me it was closing in on 7pm, but I had no idea as my phone was now completely out of battery.
As I made my way along the lower rock edge, I slipped and fell face first, I whacked my knee hard. Great!!! Now I was injured, disoriented, wet and it was getting dark!!! Adjacent to where I lay was a little overhang, which could shelter me from the downpour, so I got up and sat with my back against the rock face to wait out the weather.
Now the drizzle/rain felt like it lasted about an hour, In that time i ate 2 muesli bars and re-read a pamphlet I picked up at the mt Macedon memorial lookout, i started getting a little into my head and thought very odd things about what might be happening to me whilst also trying to stay as rational as I could, I didn't feel scared, the whole experience felt kinda safe even though I was now 100% lost and had no orientation of time or direction.
The rain finally stopped and I got up and walked onwards, I knew it was getting late, maybe 8 or 8.30pm??, as it was definitely getting darker, my knee was in pain and I was wet, I was tired and felt defeated, I wanted to get out.
Then, as I made my way forward about 15 meters into a open area... just suddenly, the path and steps downhill were there in front of me. Clear as anything. The crazy thing is I swear I'd been in this area 3-4 times previously walking around earlier, I recalled bushes and a post and rocks. The path was so easy to recognize now - how could I have missed it 3 times?
I started walking down, and as I did, the fog was clearing away and the sun broke though... it was still up as high as when I started my trek up.... 'HOURS' earlier. I heard voices ahead, two guys were walking up the path towards me, I stopped them and said Hi, and asked what the time was, they told me nearly 6pm... I exclaimed loudly... WTF??!!, they said they had to quickly get moving as the gates were shutting soon and were told that they only had a short time left....
I walked off the path towards the buildings, there was no one around, I very quickly walked out of the park, the gates were still open and i continued on to Woodend (it took a lot longer than I'd hoped it would - my knee was not happy) and caught a train back to Melbourne.
To this day I can't explain what happened up there, I swear on my life I was up there 2-3 hours, but It was apparently 15-20mins.
I can't explain the timing and I can't explain feeling of being surrounded by people's 'memories'. It's so strange and normally I never believe in anything supernatural.
Until now, I've only ever told a handful of people about this experience as it makes no sense at all.
+Timothy Sullivan - Well, that is quite something! I was there, 8 years ago. I followed the track up, there were lots of tourists, many from Europe, walking around and being wowed by the Koalas, lizards, etc. I walked to the top, looked around, started back and realized none of what I was seeing matched anything in the film (save for some of the track going up), so I walked off the main track and after wandering around for maybe 10 minutes, happened to come across the filming locations I remember from the movie. They were all still there. I noted a fallen tree people sat on and walked around back in '75, and it was still there, but by now half weathered away (2012). Nothing weird happened, and I was a bit annoyed that the Calder Freeway was too damn close at 2 miles away, so you could always hear it's traffic in the distance. Nonetheless it's quite a special place, and it was interesting to have found the filming spots and see them all alone, as they were off the main track some distance. Sounds like you got the "special treatment"!
Very bizarre and interesting, thanks for posting.
Amazing story. I believe one can experience psychic phenomena no matter their belief system. I believe natural formations like that can hold "memories" & sometimes people can experience them like an old film being triggered. If there's quartz in the rock, it could affect everything you experienced up there. Eerie yet beautiful story. Glad you lived to tell the tale!
look up missing 411 or david paulides i think he has a channel now on youtube. he covers a lot of cases involving missing people in national parks. when you said suddenly there was no sound and an eary stillness my ears perked up. this happens a lot to people out in the woods hiking or hunting, its very unsettling, some even claim to have been wondering around for hours or even days only to find a short time had passed. and get this, these things happen a lot around boulder fields or rock outcroppings. ive always wondered if there was a link between experiences like yours and fairies/elves. gained time and missing time are part of that lore as well as ominous rock formations. ive personally have had paranormal encounter in the woods in pennsylvania, i dont think it relates but i know there things out there that havnt been explained.
That crack sounds like good stuff.
The original movie is an Australian masterpiece. The pan flutes are so right in that film. What egghead decided to use The End by the Doors instead in this version. Most Aussies would regard this as a travesty and a joke.
You don't have to be an Aussie to be disgusted by this mess.
For real. Who looks at any Peter Weir movie and thinks "meh. I can do better."
thats unfortunate cuz i love samara weaving(australian). Guess she enjoyed the original enough to want to be a part of it
jesus, yall are annoying. don't watch it if you don't like it.
Seriously? I was willing to give this remake a try- but when I read your comment about the Doors, I couldn't stomach it. They (Doors) have had their place in time, now though already).
Thanks for the heads up!
The original movie is brilliant.
Some films you don't remake.
Samuel Luria isn’t this a mini series?
Samuel Luria I didn't know there was another one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what year was it made?
Heather Bliss 1975
I don't think Hollywood got your message
right,
The doors seem an odd choice for a period 1900 film
Mrs Appleyard? She looks like one of the girls. Preposterous.
I love Australia. Visited this awesome country twice.This movie sends chills down my back. We went bush walking in Blue Mountains National Park for a week. A memorable experience. Thanks Australia.
Nice.
Blue mountains are spectacular aren’t they.
And all the small suburbs from Sydney to blue mountains add to the beauty.
I ended up liking this way more than I thought I would. I think switching around character motivations and stories helped. Marion was the kindest, Miranda was troubled, Irma was more snooty but also desperate to find a home, Sarah was younger and more like everyone's sister while she wanted to find her brother, Mrs. Appleyard was not a lesbian like so many fans have thought but a social climber who wanted her man, like a meaner version of the French teacher, who wanted what most modern women have.
The guys, I wish I could have had more answers about if they were romantic or not. Marion's story with her teacher was just so obvious and we spend more time feeling for her.
I did think somethings like how sexual the scene between two straight girls kissing got were strange, but I think it was also to give them this close moment. In the original movie, I always had this idea Irma and Miranda were best friends, parallel pretty girls and Irma wanted Miranda's perfect girl label but also loved her too much to take her crown and it was more painful that she was gone for that reason.
@@beth5529 I was upset about the aging down at first, but then I just liked the show.
I do worry about romanticizing student and teacher relationships, although for this show, maybe at that time the age wasn't so bad. I actually really cared about them and did think they had chemistry, but maybe it was just so different, I went with it.
I did have a feeling they meant Albert and Mike to be romantic, but it still felt like Mike might like Miranda and that that was his bigger goal. Maybe, he's bisexual or he saw in her something he connected with, but bisexual men are barely represented. To me, I think the story of Mike and Albert could have used more development, like a real statement of what they were.
I'm used to them being straight and friends. In the book and old film, I just thought it was an intense friendship. I've had intense friendships and it can look romantic, but maybe the author did think of them as loving each other.
I always felt Mike did love Miranda or his idea of her and in the film, especially, I felt like Albert might like Irma and she may have felt something for him, but Mike is rich and she needs that, so she went for him, once she was away from the rock. Albert holds Irma so desperately when she is found and I always wondered if on the rock they didn't feel their class and maybe she was aware of what was going on.
For those saying “We don’t need a remake! The original was better!” Firstly, it’s not technically a remake. In another adaptation of the book. Furthermore, it’s a mini tv series rather than a film. I like the original and I like this series. The series wasn’t trying to adapt from the movie, rather a reimagining of the book.
It’s like with the recent IT films. They weren’t a remake of the original tv mini series, it was a new adaptation of the book.
Lol, it's still rubbish
Despite loving the original movie and the book, I can say I really enjoyed this miniseries.
People are so dramatic in the comments, it was not supposed to challenge or replace the original, it was another adaptation of the book. I'm glad the original movie got more attention thanks to this and more room for discussion. It was nice to revisit the Hanging rock in another version!
Well said. Nothing could take away from Lindsay's or Weir's masterpieces and this adaptation is worthy in its own right, I think.
Hey all, I just wanted to say that this is my favourite series and to give it a chance because, oh my goodness, will it tug at your heartstrings.
I'm a 23 year old Australian woman and this book/movie/series is so fascinating and magical to me.
This show is perfection.
Okay I take a crack at it!
There is only one Miranda, Anne Lambert.
FK yeah!!!
The only reason I like the original is it’s recorded in the 70s so the cameras and audio they used made it really feel as if they were in the 1900s era despite they didn’t have colourised cameras but it just had that nostalgic old feeling that I can’t explain.
Watched this series recently and loved it, mostly because of the character Albert, played beautifully by James Hoare. What a great talent he is. Stunning scenery too.
Easy folks, it's just a TV series.
I don't think it's necessary to remake Weir's film, most of which exists -- as it should -- in the imagination only. Weir created a framework and made suggestions, no more than the thinnest of deer trails that one is not sure are even there. It should be left at that.
it's not a remake, but a different adaptation of the book
The original film is such a masterpiece, why attempt a remake? Purely to make money I imagine, not to enhance the work in any way because that can’t be done.
This is not a remake
They were wrong to cast Appleyard so young
I’m sorry, but ‘The End’ will to me is exclusively associated to Apocalypse Now and no other movie could possibly make it work.
Music : the End by The Doors
"The missing are not to be spoken of or referred to." Maybe Mrs. Appleyard in this version is acknowledging, whether she likes it or not, that the old victorian europe influence on Australia is over and the country (including dreamtime) has found a new beginning.
Hateful dread to imagine anybody dared to remake such a masterpiece. Blasphemy.
You can't remake perfection.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is my favourite Australian film. 10/10, and should never have been touched.
Why don't you remake Citizen Kane while you're at it?
I have loved this movie since I way young, the hurting pan pipe movie in the original movie is what i loved most about it. I am looking forward to see this series.
I just loved this serie
Watch them fuck up a classic.
Since when is the Australian bush that green lol
Its forest, not bush
I live near the hanging Rock and can confirm it is not usually that green 😂
It’s like that on a lot of the east coast
Since always ... The only people who think that Australia is just all desert and farm land obviously don't live here 😂 plenty of rainforest And bushlands
@@jarredmoldygriffin6450 ofc but it’s not set in the rainforest it’s set in the bush.
I didn't know there was a remake
Miss you Miranda always !!
But the only Miranda is Anne Lambert
loved loved this series
Please tell me that used this music only in the trailer.
*just go up there Miranda and don't ever come down*
Seen this version. It was mostly based on Hester's (Mrs Appleyard) past.
Una porcata del genere era da molto che non la vedevo.
I've got the 1975 version. I'll stick with that.
Louça pra assistir.
What kind of dress is the white?what does it called?
The fashion is from the later Victorian era to the early Edwardian period. 1890s-1900s
wtf they remade it?
Good.But the original film will always rule the best !!
What is the original movie
@@tahaniakshara1550 - Same title: Picnic at Hanging Rock. From 1975. It's a masterpiece.
I watched the original last night. I was really hoping to find some decent reviews online. No luck.
But it was dated. Going to watch this later.
Why remake a masterpiece?
Yes!
I'm from Iran and I loveeeeeeeeee it
Didn’t even know they remade this I live near hanging rock did they actually film it here?
they did! last time i went to the rock, they were filming (and we got a few pics :D), so everyone was getting into costumes, and they were shooting scenes, and when they'd do this, they'd tell us to stay back.
@@socialgoat5519 that’s awesome as!
can anyone please tell me the song name
"The End" by The Doors
@@shteve119 thanks a lot
This trailer is terribly cut but I hope the pacing in the series is better
Thumbs down for not even TRYING to edit out the helicopter sounds from the Apocalypse Now soundtrack. Beyond blatant and lazy.
Why would they remake this. It’s so unnecessary
$$$$. That's why. Sad, really.
Its not just that they are remaking something that doesn't need it. But they are also going to totally mess it up.
This was such a mind fuckery. I didn't get it.
@@pinkprincezz31 That's the whole point; you're not supposed to get it. I'm not sure if you've seen the original, but it is never stated what happened to the girls and the mystery is never solved. People either loved the movie or hated it - those who love it, love it because they can put their own interpretations on it, and go back and read symbolism into nearly every scene - and those who hate it, hate it because they just want to know the solution to the mystery - and of course, there isn't one.
Normally i hate every kind of remake, but this project seems interesting.
Jim Morrison makes anything more appealing
I feel outraged ! The original version is perfect. WTF should someone remake it?
AN Feuerstahl - Came here to say the same! It's embarrassing to be human in cases like this. Can't ANYTHING just be LEFT ALONE?!?
Please tell me they haven't remade this. Please, please tell me!
Just binged it on Binge, I still don't get what happened, it was great though.
Were girls really caned on the hands like that, it looks very painful.
In boarding schools 19th Century Anglo-Ausralian discipline was far worse. The cane remained a part of the Australian education systemmwell into the early 1970s.
@@lodgeeighty-seven5802 My school still had it in the 80's
@@lodgeeighty-seven5802 Outlawed in 1985 in Victoria. I started Primary school in '82, but corporal punishment wasn't used at the school I attended. The Principal was frightening enough without it!
What’s next, remake Casablanca? 😂
Have any of you ever been to Hanging Rock? It's about as foreboding as a turnip.......
Love the original movie. Love the doors. What the fuck is this shit?
Woke kraap 🎉
Is this worth watching? I love the original
I really didn't get it. 😑
pinkprincezz31 I really liked it, but found it hard to follow. I felt it was too long as well. I did really like the cinematography and the location filming. I would watch it again.
Read the book, then watch the 1975 film.
Did these people even think about what they were doing? What a piece of crap! They should be embarassed and the producers prohibited from making further films. The original has mystery, atmosphere and was simply a truly great film. This is worse than bad from script to actor. If you had anything to do with it I am embarrassed for you, especially since money is all you care about.
UFO GOT'UM
Is there any explanation as to why on Earth three young and sound girls disappeared so completely from the scene?... Any continuation?... Any investigation?... I presume there is at least a bit of truth in this story. Perhaps there is at least one more chapter added by the Author to her story with some explanation. I am much interested in what finally happened to Miranda and colleagues. Is there that mythical second volume of the 'Picnic'? Or is it but an urban legend? 😊😊♍♍👍👍
Please no stupid remakes. The original and stop
It is not even nearly as good as original. Who would dare to remake perfection? It only looks foolish.
Apocalypse Now version? Schoolgirls don’t surf!!!
I doubt it is better than the original.
The story revolves around three students and a school teacher who disappear on a picnic to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900.
The story revolves around three students and a school teacher who disappear on a picnic to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's
Director: Peter Weir
Wait, this is a joke right!
So they turned the headmistress into an evil villain and removed all semblance of subtlety from the original?
No thanks.
The most rediculous thing about this movie is the fact that there are still people that believe with all there heart that this shit actually happened
King Lizzard hanging rock is a real place and girls went missing there
The reason people believe it to be true was because of how the novel was written. Joan Lindsay hinted that it was based on true events but she also left it open to readers' interpretation as to whether it was real or not.
@@isobelduncan the novel itself is truly remarkable and also filled with magic.
when i started to watch this movie i thought is a very good one but after the first episode i realised its a completely shit , dont waste your time
An adaption that didn't work due to inevitable comparisons with a superior version.
Accents are a bit fucked for an Australian film.
Australia was still a fairly young colony at the time. So people some still would've maintained an English accent if they hadn't been in the country for very long.
A remake is being shown at a film festival? Don't they usually focus their attention on new and original films? Artistic integrity is sorta dead now, isn't it?
An example how an incident which became folklore in Australia can now become an over-commercialised horror story just for the benefit of it's backers and the front office. Nicely done but personally i think in bad taste. I wonder, if any of those actually affected by this incident in 1900 knew it would eventually become selected as the latest round in what passes for modern entertainment in the questionable 21st. Century....i wonder what they would make of it. Poor old Mrs. Appleyard who wanted nothing but the best for her girls and who lost everything so much that she eventually committed suicide after main hullballoo had finished up amongst the rocks of the title....i wonder what she would have made if it. Then again, it could be said that the public must have their fun and nothing should get in the way of commerce (what do i know).
You're nuts, the whole thing is fiction.
No no no
I didn’t enjoy it as much as I expected it’s was too dark and twisted!
Check out the book instead.
Well, this looks pointless.
The original movie had an intergenerational cast that seems to be lacking here. also, the acting is very wooden.
The original movie, that sticks to the book, cant be outdone by modern woke garbage.
Not interested at all in this.
Ridiculous.
This new adaptation from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" novel is a totally nonsense! Where's that creepy peaceful and supernatural atmosphere? The mistress of the school looks like one of her schoolgirls and the girls look and act madly! This film looks like a mixture between a common horror film and a music video clip, nothing special, and completely different also from Peter Weir's sensitive artistry! Really disappointing!
Absolutely meaningless adaptation
but of course "Marion Quade" has been race swapped and is now an aboriginal woman which makes total sense and is in no way purely an ideological current year casting choice, just surprised she's not playing Miranda. Maybe in the next reboot/remake.
Don't bother watching this series. It's terrible.
Nobody :
Boomers on this comment section : tHe OriGiNaL mOviE wAs gReAt a MaStErpiEce tHiS iS aN iNsuLt blablablaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yup. And they're right. This was garbage.
At least we Boomers know how to use the technology which we invented.
Your keyboard skills are virtually non-existent.
I have to be honest. The 1975 trailer was much better than this
This is the most stupid idea ever, the original is a masterpiece, this remake looks like shit.
Probably a sham
no mention of the original movie? no mention of the book that was based from?
Something tells me this film may have gone woke as fuck. but... I shall see when I get around to watching this "remake"
This looks awful the original was fine
let's see, "burning crosses, empowered lesbian witchy crap"....looks pretty "Woke".....PASS
I needed a bucket to puke 🤢 of this nonsense.
The original was great, I also fantasized about the girls endlessly on the first one ☹️