Australian Values and Culture Portrayed in the Crocodile Dundee Movie

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Subject Area:Cultural Studies

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The woman character comes from the New York City and in the movie they exchange various culture and values. However, the film features multiple stereotypes which were common in the mid-1980s. The Hispanic maid displays some of the stereotypes. The movie also gives an overview of the affluent New Yorkers including their different styles of living. In the film, the African-Americans are displayed as gang members or chauffeurs. The movie displays this factor by the act of the woman after realizing the story of Dundee and the crocodile, he believes and trusts the man's masculinity. She thinks that the man was harsh because her city believes in the harsh alien life lived in Outback. After the hike, the lady asks Dundee to accompany her to New York something she accepts.

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On the other part of the movie, Dundee encounters various adventures in the new city. Both Dundee and Charlton swap their places in the city "fish out of the water. In the Uncivilized Australian culture, a man is displayed as a crocodile. Notably, a cultural media showed that this stereotype continued to exist even after 30 years the movie was produced. However, most countries are usually perceived by various characters and symbols. The media is used as a favourite way of robust which ingrains a sense of one society to the other one. Notably, the movie provides a powerful image of Australian culture. In the movie, it is clear that most of the stereotypes described by Dundee are mostly regarded as a curiosity.

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In other scenes of the film and mostly most of them see it as a curiosity ("Crocodile Dundee Full Movie"). It is why the upper-class people of New York see and hence treat Dundee as a spectacle. Instead, they have fun when watching him other than somebody who fits perfectly on the micro-culture associated with their affluent society. "Fish out of Water” It is a fact that various stories have been told on the subject of the proverbial "fish out of the water. For instance, he is mystified by the escalator he finds in the city's airport, and this disturbs the bidet in his hotel room. He wonders how he is supposed to do. This factor makes him sleep on the floor rather than resting on a strange bed ("Crocodile Dundee Full Movie").

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He is also fascinated by a revolving door which is found on the hotel. It is crucial to note that this stereotype should not be necessarily associated with a person who lacks intelligence nut it instead shows that this person is from a place where the strange things he sees on the foreign location are not available on his place of origin. Mason makes fun out of Dundee and demeans him, and he treats him as an inferior. Notably, the actions of Mason fit in the antithesis of stereotyping. On further enhancing the simpleton of stereotypes associated with the behaviour and actions of Dundee, Mason makes Dundee feel that he does not belong where the other people in the affluent society originated.

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Including the cabbie, he meets including the bar attendees, prostitutes on the corner, they all treat him as "fish out of the water. " These people show a friendly face with a sense of humour. While trying to prove the fact, Dundee walks over to the person he termed as a woman ("Crocodile Dundee Full Movie"). Not stopping, he quickly grabs the front of the woman and finds that he is a man after catching the front part between her legs. Astonishingly, he yells out that this she was a man. In response to this, the transgendered woman runs amidst the crowd, and a laugh responded this action. However, this scene indicated that in Australian culture, its values by then did not permit transgender and that is why Dundee was moved by the situation.

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General Overview Numerous Australian images were portrayed in Crocodile Dundee, about Australia and Australians. These pictures are valid. However, the degree to which they are is flawed. Photos incorporate the land and nature, character and individuals and the Aboriginals. This motion picture was made for the American market; it affirmed their convictions about Australia and Australians that they may have had, regardless of whether genuine or not. Thongs, Beach, sun, shrubbery, lager or Kangaroos, images, for example, these have been utilized to depict Australia for a considerable length of time, however, do they genuinely give the symbolism of the Australian national personality? The average Australian male has been portrayed as tall, suntanned, fair and blue-looked, short on words, getting alcoholic with mates, laid-back.

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Despite the fact that when we watch the Australian culture a considerable lot of these pictures invalidate reality in the 21st century, there is no sign that endeavouring to stop this issue, preferably, an ever-increasing number of contemporary writings are made that route these days to procure worldwide intrigue and acknowledgement. Individuals require groups of comparable individuals, they need acknowledgement, and countries require solidarity for peace. Subsequently, the uniqueness of Australia scenes and social character is not just diminished yet is significantly more underscored in Australian writings. The film is a medium, which can transpose crosswise over societies and countries. In this way, the pictures and scene it depicts in the film just concentrate on a little piece of reality about Australian and Australia's way of life foundation.

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Therefore, its mindfulness of Australian scene and social character of the film provide for abroad watchers weren't astoundingly valid and for the most part centred around the things customarily known to outsiders. The Australian personality is an extraordinary resource; a national fortune one may state. "Crocodile Dundee" contains the Australian generalization yet is to a significant degree overstated. The character in the motion picture has been deliberately misrepresented for the motivations behind satire. It clearly portrays the overused cliché which is found in the "fish out of water" which contains various elements associated with culture and most of its values especially for the Australians because it singles out and focuses more on Australians. In addition, the revolving humour found on the fear of transgender people is also a significant element which also portrays most of the cultural values of the Australian people.

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