Fast Talking

Fast Talking is a 1984 Australian film written and directed by Ken Cameron.

I think I was playing around with an idea of a Ginger Meggs, Junior Ned Kelly, character who was in a state of flight and rebellion from, I suppose, his school as prison. Its a strange work in the sense that its never really resolved, his story. He remains on the run at the end just as he was at the beginning. I guess that comes from 400 Blows. I think I was very influenced by 400 Blows, by Ken Loachs work. It was an amalgam of all those things. I think at that stage in my career I was trying to graft the things that had influenced me onto the things that I saw in my own world.He wrote the first draft at a time when he did not think Monkey Grip would get made. He put it off to make that movie then went back to it in 1982. ........

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