Jesus can see everything. He tells me you moved, by Christ, I'll beat you brainless.
Be still.
Lick your tongue, now lick me here.... that prickles...
I sing this song when I want to be close to my good friend Jesus........
You still look good, Flo. You always were a good looking broad.
Hey son, you can call me pop. I'm your pop.
Yeah yeah alright. Don't go making a big thing of it.
Hey what's up son, you got a mental condition or something?
Christ, kid, you're a weirdo!
You're a fuckin' weird looking rooster aren't ya? C'mon get out the way, I gotta chop this tree down....... come on, come on or I'll chop your prick off..... hah he...."
Bad Boy Bubby is an
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dramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
film written and directed by
Rolf de HeerRolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...
. It stars
Nicholas HopeNicholas Hope is an English born Australian actor currently living in Sydney, Australia. He is probably best known for his role in Bad Boy Bubby , for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994...
and Carmel Johnson. It was released in 1993.
Bubby became notorious for pushing the boundaries of good taste with its strong scenes featuring violence,
incestIncest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...
and
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amongst other taboo topics.
Plot
Bubby (played by Hope) is a 35-year-old man who has never set foot outside his mother's (actress Claire Benito) dingy apartment in the back of a printing press in an industrial area of Adelaide. In addition to beating and sexually abusing him, she confines him to the apartment, telling him that the air outside is poisonous and warning him that he will die if he tries to leave. Bubby eventually escapes, joins up with a rock band, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and shocking mayhem.
Audio and visual innovation
Director Rolf de Heer describes the movie as one large experiment, the most prominent of which is the method used to record the dialogue;
binauralBinaural literally means "having or relating to two ears." Binaural hearing, along with frequency cues, lets humans and other animals determine direction of origin of sounds...
microphones were sewn into the wig worn by leading actor Nicholas Hope, one above each ear. This method gave the sound track a unique sound that closely resembled what the character would actually be hearing. The film also used 31 individual directors of photography to shoot different scenes. Once the character of Bubby reaches 'outside' a different director of photography is used for every location until the last third of the film - allowing an individual visual slant on everything Bubby sees for the first time. No director of photography was allowed to refer to the work of the others.
Awards
Bubby won four 1994
Australian Film InstituteThe Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
awards; Best Director (Rolf de Heer), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nicholas Hope), Best Original Screenplay (Rolf de Heer) and Best Editing (Suresh Ayyar). It was also nominated for Best Film (Rolf de Heer) and Best Cinematography (Ian Jones).
Release
On 23 April 2007 Eureka Entertainment released
Bad Boy Bubby on DVD for the UK market with all scenes intact. On the Blue Underground DVD, director
Rolf de HeerRolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...
claims that
Bubby was the 2nd highest grossing film in Norway in 1995, second only to
Batman ForeverBatman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Returns , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Batman...
. In the UK it was cut for cruelty to a cat. The film was released on DVD in April 2005 by the
Blue UndergroundBlue Underground is an American company specializing in releasing authoritative editions of cult and exploitation movies on Blu-ray Disc and DVD....
company, and a special Two Disc Collectors' Edition was also released in June 2005 by Umbrella Entertainment.
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