

With the help of an Aboriginal man, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), the boy and the bird become inseparable, until the outside world encroaches.
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New cover to coincide with a new major movie remake of Storm Boy starring Jai Courtney and Geoffrey Rush. A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. A wild strip it is, windswept and tussocky, with the flat shallow water of the South Australian Coorong on one side and the endless slam of the Southern Ocean on the other. A classic Australian story, illustrated with paintings by renowned artist Robert Ingpen that capture the wave-beaten shore and the windswept sandhills of the Coorong in South Australia, home of Storm Boy and the pelican, Mr Percival. His home was the long, long snout of sandhill and scrub that curves away south-eastwards from the Murray mouth.

Projection designer Justin Harrison explains how the stunning images of the Coorong were captured and manipulated to evoke the wild beauty of coastal South Australia in Storm Boy. STORM BOY LIVED between the Coorong and the sea. Among the teeming birdlife of the Coorong, Storm Boy finds an injured young pelican whose life he saves. Emily Burton, Ellen Bailey and Drew Wilson. The pelicans sat in a row, like a lot of impatient old men with their heavy paunches sagging, and rattled their beaks drily in greeting: the moorhens fussed and chattered the ibises cut the air into strips as they jerked their curved beaks up and down and the blue crane stood in silent dignity like a tall, thin statue as Storm Boy went past. Storm Boy and his father live alone in a humpy among the sandhills between the Southern Ocean and the Coorong - a lonely, narrow waterway that runs parallel to a long stretch of the South Australian coast. The 2019 version of STORM BOY is a lost opportunity to retell a beloved story with a more realistic setting. Also, the direction could use some speeding up, because scenes of little consequence linger. When Storm Boy went walking along the beach, or over the sandhills, or in the sanctuary, the birds were not afraid. Beautiful Coorong, South Australia, makes an enticing backdrop, which the movie could have used even more. The pelicans sat in a row, like a lot of impatient old men with their heavy paunches sagging, and rattled their beaks drily in greeting: the moorhens fussed and chattered the ibises cut the air.
