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After having his way with classic theater ("William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet") and musicals ("Moulin Rouge!"), Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann wanted to apply his everything-and-the-kitchen-sink aesthetic to the genre that could most naturally accommodate it: the historical epic.

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After spending a couple of years developing an Alexander the Great project (Oliver Stone beat him to production), Luhrmann's thoughts turned to his native land. "I researched the whole history of Australia," says the talkative director, 46. "I knew that these epics are usually painted on canvases made up of landscape and historical events. But what historical events?" How about ones that would lend themselves to sweeping romance (of course), cowboy action, war drama, racial intolerance and the former penal colony's edgy relationship with its mother country, Great Britain? And also accommodate knockabout comedy. And magical realism. boy, Nullah (newcomer Brandon Walters), whom the authorities want to legally ship off to an isolated isle where he'll be trained to be not so native - if he isn't killed by Japanese dive bombers first.

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