Other better-known versions include one by British director Tony Richardson in 1970 starring the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, and another in 2003 directed by Gregor Jordan with Heath Ledger in the lead. The first of these was an hour-long account in 1907 directed by Charles Tait and reportedly the longest-ever feature film up to that time. Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang is the 16th movie devoted to Kelly. In the latter part of the 19th century, bushranging developed in response to endemic rural poverty and was animated to a large extent, particularly with Kelly, by hatred of wealthy landowners (the so-called squattocracy) and the colonial state apparatus and its vicious and corrupt police force. Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s iconic series, painted in 1946–47, about the bushranger’s life is a striking and influential work.īushranging-a form of banditry in 19th century Australia-initially emerged between 17 as an escape from, and form of survival against, Australia’s tyrannical convict labour system. Kelly, who is widely known in Australian folklore as an anti-establishment outlaw, has been the subject of numerous biographies, films, poetry and songs. The film had a brief season in Australian cinemas early this year and is currently available on video-streaming platforms. Director Justin Kurzel and scriptwriter Shaun Grant’s True History of the Kelly Gang is loosely based on Peter Carey’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same title about the late 19th century Australian bushranger Ned (Edward) Kelly.
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