Murray Ball RIP
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@Virgil said in Murray Ball RIP:
bugger, grew up reading those.
Your not a kiwi if you didnt love Dog, Horse and Wal and co.A woman once said to me, "You're not a kiwi if you haven't watched Shortland Street." I did grow up on Footrot Flats though. Sad news.
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@Samurai-Jack said in Murray Ball RIP:
@Virgil said in Murray Ball RIP:
bugger, grew up reading those.
Your not a kiwi if you didnt love Dog, Horse and Wal and co.A woman once said to me, "You're not a kiwi if you haven't watched Shortland Street." I did grow up on Footrot Flats though. Sad news.
Then that woman is a fluffybunny Jack
A dunny was incomplete if it didn't have afew footrot flats books within easy reach.
RIP and thanks heaps Murray
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RIP Murray Ball. Thanks for adding to my childhood.
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RIP.
You could not measure the amount of pleasure his writing has given millions of children in NZ and beyond. I absolutely loved the movie as a kid, no idea how many times I watched it.
A true Kiwi legend.
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He "got" NZ.
I recall the story that when they were doing the movie the Australian animators or background artists just couldn't get the NZ farm imagery: kept doing gum trees and stuff so they had to take them out to the country. Ball just seemed to do macrocarpas and fern and bush just so naturally.
I always imagined Raupo was somewhere like Wairoa.
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There was a great interview with him about a year back in the weekend Dominion post, he had a bloody interesting life before he settled down on the farm .
I remember the books being a regular xmas gift for me and my mates, those wild pigs near the Murphys house used to scare the shit out of me when I was little. -
@Samurai-Jack said in Murray Ball RIP:
@Virgil said in Murray Ball RIP:
bugger, grew up reading those.
Your not a kiwi if you didnt love Dog, Horse and Wal and co.A woman once said to me, "You're not a kiwi if you haven't watched Shortland Street." I did grow up on Footrot Flats though. Sad news.
That woman needs to shut the fuck up.
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I must have seen the movie 20 times. Farking love it.
For some weird reason it was shown on a movie channel when I was staying at a hotel in Norway. This was during the 2011 RWC and I took that as a sign that it was finally our year.
"We're still the world champions! Nanananana."
"I've been shit on by a bloody vulture."
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@booboo said in Murray Ball RIP:
I recall the story that when they were doing the movie the Australian animators or background artists just couldn't get the NZ farm imagery: kept doing gum trees and stuff so they had to take them out to the country. Ball just seemed to do macrocarpas and fern and bush just so naturally.
Its a different landscape. You have green stuff, for example. And we don't have land slips!
The humour easily transferred to this side of the ditch. My Dad - as a sheep farmer - loved Footrot Flats, even though the dusty hills and plains of our place were miles from what was illustrated in the comic strips. As a kid, I laughed most at the intro pieces in each volume, where Dog compares the Murphy Dogs to Germans in WW1 and other imagery.
Great stuff
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loving this thread, all the little bits of peoples memories....am going out tomorrow to buy TR Jnr one of his books!
Pretty sure the kids have seen the movie, but I am gonna get that this week too!!
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@jegga said in Murray Ball RIP:
Going to make the whanau watch it tonight, we saw it on the big screen a couple of times as a kid. Theatre was packed both times.
Always remember how cool the helicopter scenes sounded at the local theatre, buzzing around from all directions
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When I worked in the US one of my American work colleagues lent me his DVD copy of "The Dog's Tale" once he found out I was a Kiwi. He had briefly spent time working in NZ and had fallen in love with Footrot Flats. The comic strip/movie did have universal appeal.
