It's what led us to ultimate victory in the fraught and dangerous Emu War of 1932, when the Royal Australian Army, armed with nothing but Lewis guns and the battler spirit, saved this sunburnt country from a total avian invasion.like that. The "emu war" was actually more of a culling exercise after the growing emu population wouldn't quit munching on crops. And, it didn't really stop the problem.remains part of our collective folklore, so does the Aussie battler.
"But then I just reminded myself we have emu puppets. I think that always brought us back to 'this is too ridiculous to upset people'.""If you did it like World War II, but you're joking, and people are dying that would make people feel horrible," he says. Shot in four blocks from November 2021 to May 2022, the movie manages to sneak in some genuinely gorgeous views of the Victorian countryside.Dane Simpson, who stars as surprisingly level-headed soldier Archie, couldn't believe some of their shoot sites.
"Those lockdowns would happen so quickly. We were planning the shoot weeks out, we're travelling to set and suddenly a lockdown is announced and Gocsy can't come," Fineberg says. There are all kinds of emus in the film: soldier emus in tin hats; mother emus with calming voices; even baby emus covered in adorable fuzz. But the pièce de résistance is the Queen Emu. As big as a hippo and sporting some disturbingly droopy teats, Queen Emu is as impressive as she is fearsome."In our minds, we were thinking she's like Jabba the Hutt mixed with Slurm Queen from Futurama and a couple others in there," Morrissey says.