Heatwave (film)

Heatwave is a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the murder of Juanita Nielsen. It was the second of two films inspired by this story that came out around this time, the first being The Killing of Angel Street 1981.

The original script was called Kings Cross and was written by Tim Gooding and Mark Stiles. The final script was by Phil Noyce and Mark Rosenberg. Phil NoyceHeatwave was the story of a workingclass Protestant boy who made good. I dont know whether audiences realised that, but we had always assumed that he was a workingclass Protestant and that Judy Daviss character was a middleclass Catholic girl. She, in the Catholic saintly tradition, had adopted a social cause had set herself up as the spokesperson and protector of the working class. He, as a workingclass boy, of course, was now forced to confront the moral implications of his own success and how that affected other people. In a way, the religious and ethnic backgrounds of the two characters were just a continuation of the conflicts that we had seen in Newsfront, but Australia had by this stage moved from a principally workingclass and upperclass society to a principally middleclass society. Thats captured in the atmosphere of inner Sydney, its buildings and the regulations of law and government. ........

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