Whether these were Australian films is a more difficult question. They were based on books by an Australian writer, Moore Raymond, but the films were made for British companies by British writer-director Anthony Kimmins, using mostly American money. It certainly is that, but the film is freighted with all sorts of ideologies, most of which are Anglo-centric. Moore Raymond was born and grew up in Queensland but spent most of his writing life in the UK.
He wrote radio plays and series for the BBC in the s and worked as a film critic for the Sunday Dispatch. Smiley was published as a novel in and Raymond appeared uncredited in in a George Formby comedy, George in Civvy Street. Kimmins was an experienced writer and director with a distinguished war record in the Royal Navy. His films before the war were mostly comedies; after the war they were mostly dramas, with varying degrees of success.
Moore Raymond was writing about his own childhood in Queensland in the s, which is why the film has horses and buggies and vintage cars. The town is thus a kind of movie fantasy of what a rural Australian community was like the town settings were constructed from scratch on the famous Camden Park estate outside Sydney. The local policeman is somewhere in the middle — and a guardian of public morals, as we see in clip two , when he scolds the drinkers and the new teacher for allowing Smiley to sing in the pub.
The other moral guardian of the town is the less conventional Reverend Lambeth, played with typical eccentricity by the great Ralph Richardson. Will he succumb to the dark side, represented by his father the drunk and Rankin the drug runner, or will he become responsible and upright, working hard for his money and saving to buy the material rewards of his honest labour — in this case, a bicycle? In one sense, Smiley sees this drama in the same terms as much writing on Australian history — as a conflict between the English and Irish influences — order or rebellion, sobriety or drunkenness.
Smiley is primarily a moral lesson in favour of temperance, rectitude and religious principles, situating itself firmly on the English side. Not just any religious principles, either. The Reverend Lambeth is clearly a Protestant vicar, not a Roman Catholic, albeit one with an unconventional approach to violence he approves of fisticuffs in the right situation. Casting Richardson as the vicar gives the role considerable weight, but the theme of religion was already strong in the script.
That is true, but the frankness is largely confined to the way the film shows the impious — the drinkers and stockmen, and the urbanised Aborigines living in a town camp. This allows Kimmins to depict the Aboriginal camp, which is highly unusual in any film of the period. This scene is unprecedented in Australian films of the time.
The depiction of a town camp in a film for children tells us that Anthony Kimmins and Moore Raymond wanted to make a point about living conditions for Australian Aborigines at the time.
The vicar is the key figure in this conflict — he holds the connection to the mother country, to England. Smiley is like Australia, in this conception: young, brash, full of promise but susceptible to temptation and errant behaviour.
He needs a steadying hand, a father figure, and the film offers a couple of examples in the muscular Christianity of Reverend Lambeth, the gruff but dinkum Sergeant Flaxman, or the kindly and upright headmaster. Smiley is much more optimistic. Glasgow Phillips screenplay story Michael J. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Ashley goes to her new college while getting over the death of her mother. She meets some new people there including Binder 'Shane Dawson' while at a party and she learns about an urban legend of an online killer that has the nickname "Smiley" who can only be seen on the web and he apparently kills people after they type in "I did it for the lulz" three times.
Soon after going to the party Ashley and her flatmate Proxy go online to test it out, with horrific results. She becomes paranoid and she starts to think she sees Smiley all over the place and feels that he may be chasing her, but how can that be if he is not real? Have they somehow released him from the internet? Evil wears a smile. Rated R for violence, terror, language, some sexual references and substance use by teens.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Has only sold 30, copies. Goofs When the detectives are talking to Ashley and they reveal the Youtube video where she's smashing her computer in the library, you can clearly see the editing options on top of the video edit video details, edit annotations, audio swap, etc.
This would indicate that the detectives were the ones who uploaded the video, as they were logged into the account where the video was uploaded. Quotes Binder : [on Ashley] Damn Crazy credits At the very end after the credits are done, Ashley wakes up! Soundtracks Il trovatore : Act I: Tace la notte! User reviews 94 Review. Top review. Smiley tells the tale of a city full of the most stupid people in America. So bad is this movie--there really is no "plot"--with its bad acting, bad scripting, and not-very-scary killer at work, the viewer prays for a short viewing time.
With little gore, scares, sex or even action, this is a B movie wanna-be, so if that's what you're looking for, forget it! The only clever thing about this movie is the idea of a killer wearing a twisted smiley-face hood.
After you've seen that on the ad for the movie, it's all down hill from there. Its silly "surprise" ending does nothing to compensate the viewer for the previous 85 minutes of boredom. Do yourself a favor and don't watch this movie. Details Edit. Release date October 12, United States. United States. Official site. I Did It for the Lulz. Glendora, California, USA.
Level 10 Films Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations Paramount Pictures. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 35 minutes. Related news. Netflix unveils two original features as part of Spanish production slate. Oct 28 ScreenDaily. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap.
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