"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them"
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Coming from Serious, the subtext lands harder. He’s a filmmaker whose moment of mainstream recognition (the early-’90s burst of high-concept, larrikin comedy) became inseparable from the way the industry and media turned him into a punchline, then moved on. That history haunts the word “untold”: it implies gatekeeping, selective memory, and a national cinema that often mythologizes its successes while letting its misfires, feuds, and institutional failures disappear into gossip.
The phrase “this has been one of them” is the quiet twist. It’s not triumph, it’s survival. He’s placing himself inside a pattern, suggesting his experience wasn’t a freak accident but a symptom. It’s a compact bid to reframe his narrative: not “whatever happened to that guy,” but “look at the machinery that produces these disappearances.” In a film culture obsessed with breakout hits and international validation, that’s a pointed, almost weary act of self-authorship.
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