Wentworth Prison (Australian TV Series), a blog by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

 Wentworth Prison (Australian TV Series), a blog by Alan Ewing

 

     Leading characters together, Bea Smith, Joan Ferguson, Franky Doyle take the centre stage
 

 

 Wentworth Prison is an Australian prison drama, based on Prisoner Cell Block H, an Australia prison dram from the 1980s. It is a complete reinvention. Wentworth is the ultimate prison drama. The sheer brutality of the power struggles that go on with thin this women’s prison are harrowing as they battle for Top Dog status, and yet compelling viewing, as the correction system tethers on collapse at times. Lesbianism, drugs, knife crime are rife, as is betrayal and scheming. The prison staff meanwhile have the good characters and the bad characters. This blog is an introduction to five of the main players within this drama.




Prisoners

BEA SMITH (Danielle Cormack):   The ultimate Top Dog. Begins life in Wentworth in a state of terror. Following the death of her daughter a new edge develops that turns her into the most power fun character within the whole series. Her reinvention owes more than a little to Joan Ferguson (see below).

FRANKY DOYLE (Nicole Da Silva):  In a battle for Top Dog when Bea Smith arrives. Franky was a victim of childhood abuse and this has shaped her outlook upon the world.

                                                                         Allie Novack

ALLIE NOVACK: (Kate Jenkinson)  The most unlikely of Top Dogs. Ally is the blonde bombshell whose survival skills have been learnt through years of drug dependency. She becomes Bea Smith’s lover.

 

 

 Staff

JOAN FERGURSON (Pamela Rade): A Prison Governor who likes to wear her uniform. “The Freak” as the women call her. A voyeur, a manipulation. Game-player supreme.

 

                                                                           Will Jackson

WILL JACKSON(Robbie Magasiva): If you are looking for a good guy then Will is your man. Helps the girls where he can, though is very much a Ladies man.

 

Theme Music

 

 

Seasons 1 - 8 are currently on Box Set on the My 5 Player ... the final season (9) is due to be released over the Summer.

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Conspiracy Theorist, a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

  Conspiracy Theorist
a lyric by Alan Ewing

I’m a conspiracy theorist
If you get my gist
Spend my days spreading memes
If you get my drift

Don’t believe the news
Just believe in me
I’ll fill your mind
With some conspiracy

Get all my facts straight
Within my own world

Gonna give you the whole truth
The best you’ve heard

I have worked it all out
What they’re gonna do
I’ll tell you right now
Then it’s up to you



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British Film Noir "Marilyn/Roadhouse Girl", a blog by Alan Ewing

 

 

 BRITISH FILM NOIR" "MARILYN"

a blog by Alan Ewing

 

This British film noir has an usual connection to Marilyn Monroe. Released in 1953, the same year as MM’s “Niagara”, it was released in the UK as “Marilyn”, while in the USA as “Roadhouse Girl”.  The British made film is not about Marilyn Monroe in any way, though it does, with its main character, played by British actress, Sandra Dorne, bear a sticking resemblance to the character of Rose Loomis, in “Niagara”.

This well received film veers around themes of narcissism. The lead character is Marilyn Saunders, who lives in a make-believe world of fantasy where all is perfect. When reality intrudes upon this, then whoever intrudes upon her dream will pay a heavy price. She is unhappily married at the start of the film. A roaming mechanic comes to work for her husband and soon she is involved with him. This leads to the accidental death of her husband. She has fed her dreams to the mechanic and quickly drops him as she finds another stepping stone to her perfect life in the form of a playboy who is passing through. 

 

Sandra Dorne

The film is well worth checking out. I should say that the ending has not been given away here. Its themes are absolutely relevant to the world that we find ourselves in today. An age where narcissism is encouraged through social media.

 

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