It's the perfect frame up as Simon and Simon discover everyone has a double, including them.
More than double trouble in Simon and Simon, 8.30 Saturday.
The cinema has always projected our age-old fantasies of sex and horror.
From folktales and fairy stories have come the vampires, demons, monsters and zombies
that terrorized people's imaginations and filled the movie houses.
Wherever there was a pure virgin's heart to be corrupted from Transylvania to Tennessee,
there was always an evil beast-like man on the prowl.
In 1922, Murnau's German classic put sex on the screen using the vicarious thrill of horror.
The bloodlust of Nosferatu mingled the threats of sex and death.
But other monsters were once human.
Their transformations could be caused by science, a witch's spell, a full moon or sheer naked desire.
And the most popular of these monsters was the werewolf.
In the 1930s, Universal's Lon Chaney Jr. turned the wolfman into a Hollywood star.
In the 1950s, werewolves were into blue jeans when an evil psychiatrist turned this all-American teenager,
Michael Landon, into the kind who liked his hamburgers raw.
And the polite suburban rituals of rock and roll and dating turned very nasty.
Only the magic of a timeless fairy tale setting, as filmed by Jean Cocteau in Beauty and the Beast,
hinted at the more poetic and dreamlike possibilities.
Was it possible that a beautiful woman could love such a monster?
Such sensitivity was rare.
It's hard to imagine Hell's Angels turning into anything worse, but in this 70s epic, Werewolves on Wheels, the impossible came true.
Wow! Hey, Adam. Hey, what are we going to do now, man?
What's the plan, Adam?
We want to find out where the hell we are.
In a heady brew of Satanism and mysticism, a psychedelic experience transformed one of the angels into the ultimate in horror.
A vicious drug-crazed teddy bear on a Harley Davidson.
Come on, come on!
Werewolves came back with a vengeance in the 80s in Joe Dante's The Howling.
Jesus Christ!
What? God! What? I'm burning up!
Nowadays, our hairy friends seem to crack jokes, drink in bars, and listen to rock music.
Even when the going gets tough, we're supposed to laugh at our fears.
John Landis, who directed Michael Jackson's thriller, made an American Werewolf in London and took the modern mix of gore and laughs to a rather nasty conclusion.
Help me! Please! Help me! Help me!
But now the beast in Man couldn't resist a joke or two.
I didn't mean to call you Meatloaf, Jack!
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Here at Chapitin Studios on a closed set, once again we are being taken back into the magical cinema world of demons, witches and wolves, but in a very different way.
Jesus, what big teeth you have.
All the better to eat you with.
The Company of Wolves is the new film by director Neil Jordan.
It's adapted by Jordan and Angela Carter from a short story that appeared in her collection, The Bloody Chamber.
It stars David Warner, Tussie Silberg, Angela Lansbury as Granny and introduces 13-year-old Sarah Patterson in the central role of Rosaline.
The idea of being in something totally unique is always exciting to be involved with.
I've had the good fortune to be asked to be in other films which have been very different.
This is a very, very different kind of film. It's very exciting.
Shall I take her home with me tonight? Her mother's in no fit state to look after her.
The Company of Wolves takes us back to our childhood fantasies and nightmares, centering on the most famous of all fairy stories.
The fact that it took a legend like Red Riding Hood and sort of enlarged it and took it into areas that one sort of hadn't really thought about.
I'm scared of Granny, but I do quite like her. I'm interested by her. She tells me more than my mother does.
I think it's about a little girl who's on the brink of adolescence and knowing about boys and wanting to know about boys and dreaming about herself in relation to boys
and suddenly finding her little body becoming attractive to little boys in the woods.
I think it all has to do with all of that, which makes it doubly interesting too.
I think all little girls tend to think in those ways. They sort of flirt with men. I think there are a lot of truths in the story.
Mother would never mention to me about wolves or things like that. Granny doesn't have any qualms about telling me what I should know at that age.
At 12 I don't think it's right.
Why can't Mummy grow roses like that?
Well, it's a question of a green thumb. She likes that. No hand at pastry either.
Good morning, Father.
Good morning.
They say the priest's bastards often turn into wolves as they grow older.
What do you mean?
If the child is born on Christmas Day, if he's born feet first, he'll be the one. If he's born feet first, and his eyebrows meet in the middle.
Oh yes. Very bad.
One day he'll meet the devil in the woods.
Now use it wisely.
Waste not, want not.
Waste not, want not.
Waste not, want not.
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Well, here I am in Italy to test Australian made Nanda. Now from the Nanda range I've chosen lasagna, spaghetti and cannelloni. So, let's get to work.
Uh, prego signora, vuole provare Nanda dell'Australia?
Mmm, spaghetti Nanda buonissimi.
Molto buoni. Sono molto buoni.
Mmm, Nanda eccellente.
Nanda, eccellente.
Australian made Nanda, um, eccellente?
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It's not often you get a script which will actually give you as much, actually designing a world. I mean basically what we're doing is designing a community. We're starting from scratch.
My job really is to give a context for a completely isolated world that doesn't actually exist in time even.
When I was designing the film I obviously drew on what I could remember from fairy stories. Certainly Grimm's and Gustaf Dore's illustrations for Grimm's fairy stories.
I think the film's unusual from my point of view for the amount of exterior one has to do in a studio and the problems of scaling down the environment to a studio situation. So we've had to involve a lot of perspectivised sets in order just to fit them in, physically fit them in.
The trees for instance, we've got them on a scaffold rig whereby we can shunt them to any part of the studio and re-landscape quite quickly.
They're really jokes aren't they, most modern horror films with a lot of quick lines and a few effects and you're actually meant to laugh at your fear and your threat.
In The Company of Wolves I suppose we really went back to something older, something like Morneau's films and Nosferatu and those kind of great silent classics.
In the 20s Nosferatu, Morneau brought the art of make-up so much to the fore that it's only this present generation that's been able to emerge from his shadow.
The creator of the special make-up effects on The Company of Wolves was Christopher Tucker who won an Oscar for the elaborate make-up devised for John Hurt in The Elephant Man.
Things have become a lot more sophisticated and the requirements nowadays are such that the audiences are expecting to see far more than they've ever seen in the past, naturally they always do.
It's full of great special effects of course, we're all party to that. There's a little head sitting in an office somewhere here on the lot and it's mine, need I say more.
After some of the bigger epics like Star Wars and Dark Crystal or the one I'm just working on now, The Company of Wolves, they tend to expect to see a lot more elaborate effects.
Instead of just expecting somebody to turn into a wolf for example, they want to actually see the man turn into a wolf which is quite a tall order to actually transform a face, it means distorting all the anatomy and bending things around.
The transformation sequence, the major transformation sequence is very complex indeed, it involves some five or six stages and some of them are very complicated, they've taken many months to construct and in fact they take quite a lot of men to operate each model as it goes through its various gyrations.
Well there are a lot of people nowadays who do these kind of animatronic effects they're called, which are basically effects, they're basically modelled heads that are operated with a lot of complexity to perform like ordinary actors.
We really worked with Chris then to achieve effects that were stunning and incredible in themselves but actually that merged totally with the actor.
People turn into wolves, into real wolves and we had to think very hard in the early stages of how we would turn a man into a wolf as opposed to a werewolf.
A werewolf really just becomes a very hairy man which isn't too difficult once you've got over the transformation to deal with.
Unfortunately we turned them into real wolves and they were a lot more difficult to deal with.
We had to take an enormous amount of precautions, we had a man standing by every time we shot with a loaded shotgun, we had a vet standing by with tranquilisers, we had a man standing by with a net, so if there was any problems at all they'd net it and shoot it or tranquilise it.
Wolves are extremely difficult to work with, they're very very unpredictable and quite dangerous and they're also terribly shy so when you want them to look vicious they don't look vicious and when you want them to actually look calm they bite your arm off you know.
Sit down, sit. Sit, ok, sit Queenie, good girl Queenie.
Shhh, they're leaving you are they? They'll be all alone. I'll tell you the story of a wounded wolf.
I'll tell you the story of a wounded wolf.
Working with wolves was only part of the problem for this 13 year old London school girl who found herself at the heart of a major motion picture after being selected from a thousand hopefuls.
A screen test can only tell half the story. Neil Jordan's gamble that this untried actress could convey the underlying sensuality of the story was amply rewarded.
Adam Neeson pinched me, went down to the sea to bathe. Adam and Eve were drowned. Now who do you think was saved?
Pinch me. Out.
Well basically Sarah contributed an atmosphere to the whole thing. The sultriness and the quiet passionate gaze that she has really built up its own mood as we were shooting and you know actually suggested to me certain things to do that would otherwise have not been the case.
Is that all you left of her? Your kind can't stomach hair can you? Even if the worst wolves are hairy on the inside.
What do you know about my kind? My granny told me plenty.
Are you very much afraid? Wouldn't do me much good to be afraid would it?
What big eyes you have. All the better to see you babe. They say seeing is believing but I'd never swear to it.
You must be wet through. Won't you take off your shawl?
The Company of Wolves is about a young girl reaching puberty. Really it's about the beginning of a woman's sexual life. The redness of the cloak, the redness of the hood, the redness of the girl's garment is common to all the traditional variations of Freeriding Hood.
In all these stories there's a young girl who goes into the forest and who meets an animal. Well I mean animals usually are something to do with the animal instincts as we call them. The animals, the wolves that she meets stand in some way for sexuality.
I think they probably stand for the girl's own sexuality rather than rough hairy male sexuality.
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Do you know how many people use public transport to get around Melbourne?
150,000
300,000
In fact, it's 420,000 every weekday.
Imagine if all these people had to get around any other way. It would be a nightmare.
By moving so many people, our public transport system helps avoid all that, but it doesn't stop there. Moving them in comfort is another thing.
That's why we've introduced air conditioning and better seating to more and more vehicles. Let's face it, isn't this a far more pleasant picture of Melbourne to wake up to?
The Met. We're getting there.
The company of wolves takes us into a new dimension, laying bare our secret desires and fantasies. The werewolf legend here transformed into a magical fairy tale for adults.
So fast through the forest, she ran and ran.
To the well and the village from whence she came.
She crept inside to the world below.
And that's all I'll tell you, because that's all I know.
Golden Holm, Edward Albert and Eileen Hackett, in her Academy Award-winning role, star in a delightful comedy everyone will love! Butterflies are free. Ivens Movie Classic, Friday, 8.30.