Describe the images of Australians and Australia depicted in Crocodile Dundee. To what degree are these images true?

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Describe the images of Australians and Australia depicted in Crocodile Dundee. To what degree are these images true?

Many images were brought up in Crocodile Dundee, about Australia and Australians. All of these images are true, but the extent to which they are is questionable. Images include the land and nature, character and people and the Aboriginals. This movie was made for the American market, it confirmed their beliefs about Australia and Australians that they may have had, whether true or not.

The image portrayed in Crocodile Dundee in means of the land and nature in Australia is a hot and dry Outback, and humid, wet Tropics. This is true in the Outback and Tropics, but there is no evidence of any other main cities or towns in the country. There are a very small percentage of Australians and people in general living in the outback, and they don't show where the majority of people live in Australia.

The Outback was shown as a dry, barren and dusty open area, and the Tropics, peaceful, green and beautiful open areas. This is exactly what the Outback is like, and once again you get the impression that that is what Australia is like all over, except for the tropical areas shown. This is confirming the image that the Americans believed to be true. The Outback is very dry and hot, and the Tropics are very humid and wet, the climates that we don't usually get in the main cities and towns. Although these images are true in some parts of the continent of Australia, it is not true for the main part. This has given the Americans, and other viewers, a false image of where we live.
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The town that Mick Dundee was from was called Walkabout Creek. It was a small town with a small population of no more than 50 people. There are a few tin sheds, a house or two and the local pub, but other than that, there is very little else. This is a true image, if you are talking about a small country town, but as the movie gives no evidence anything else other than this, the Americans are given a false image that Australia is a very uncivilised country.

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