![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “They all say Dennis is crazy,” he reported.ĭavid Gulpilil in The Tracker, 2002. Upon his return, he explained that he had wanted to ask the kookaburras and the trees for their opinion of his co-star. (He was jailed in 2011 for assaulting his wife, and later entered rehab.)ĭuring the making of Mad Dog Morgan, Gulpilil disappeared from filming and had to be retrieved by Indigenous trackers. Their dynamic was reproduced off-screen: it was Hopper’s hard-drinking antics that introduced the younger actor to drugs and alcohol, addictions that would blight his later life. His range was exemplified by two very different films made in 1976: the family favourite Storm Boy, in which he helps a boy to raise pelicans, and the outlaw adventure Mad Dog Morgan, starring Dennis Hopper as a 19th-century Irish bushranger and Gulpilil as his partner-in-crime. Asked by a young fan why his character hanged himself at the end, he said: “I wanna know, too!” (Portrayals of Indigenous Australian characters in cinema of the time, such as the 1967 drama Journey Out of Darkness, were by actors of other ethnicities.) Which is not to say that he necessarily understood this ambiguous, poetic film. Photograph: Max Raab/Si Litvanoff/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstockĭespite speaking no English in the film, Gulpilil conveyed meaning unhindered to audiences who would surely never have encountered anyone like him before on film. David Gulpilil in Walkabout, 1971, with Jenny Agutter and Luc Roeg, the son of the film’s director, Nicolas Roeg. ![]()
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