Third Person Plural Explained

Third Person Plural
Director:James Ricketson
Starring:Bryan Brown
Runtime:92 minutes
Country:Australia
Language:English
Budget:AU$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]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/about_us/new_directions/DPG/DPG_documents/JamesRicketson_comment.pdf Comment by James Ricketson on Screen Australia draft program guidelines November 2008
  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. https://archive.today/20130112141049/http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=James+Ricketson&bl Interview with James Ricketson, 22 May 1995