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Third Person Plural

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Third Person Plural
Directed byJames Ricketson
Written byJames Ricketson
StarringBryan Brown
Release date
  • 1978 (1978)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU$30,000[1]

Third Person Plural is a 1978 film directed by James Ricketson and starring Bryan Brown.[2]

The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop.[3]

Ricketson has since called the film an "experiment":

I just wanted to see whether it would be possible to make a film on that small budget, shoot the whole thing with a hand-held camera, integrate improvised dialogue with scripted dialogue, work with a small core of actors on a character-based piece, which is what I did, and then to approach the editing of the film in an innovative way. Now, I happen not to like the film myself. Having done the film - it was fun to do it - I decided that I didn't like it, and it certainly wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Comment by James Ricketson on Screen Australia draft program guidelines November 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2012
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p136
  3. ^ Robin Anderson, "Third Person Plural", Australian Film 1978-92, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p24
  4. ^ Interview with James Ricketson, 22 May 1995. Retrieved 20 October 2012
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