Chopper is a knowing wink at the audience. Will audiences 20 years later still wink back?
- Written by: Alison Taylor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bond University
Mushroom Pictures and Pariah ProductionsBased on the autobiographical books of notorious stand-over man and self-made celebrity Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, Andrew Dominik’s outlandish biopic Chopper detonated on Australian screens in 2000.
The film was an audacious combination of hard-hitting crime and oddball charm, perhaps...
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