His naivety schtick was too much - Crocodile Dundee (1986) Discussion

[–] wearsalan (5554) 3 years ago

Coming from a one horse town in the outback, his naivety was apt.
I knew a guy who had never left his little village in the Lake District (UK) until he went to College in Carlisle. He'd never seen so many people and had never been to a night club. As for drugs, he didn't have the foggiest what was what and why anybody would take them. Prostitution? Why pay for it? There's plenty of sheep in the fields!!!
Ok the last one was a joke. But, it shows that some people (cut off from the hustle and bustle of towns and cities) are that naive.

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[–] beauq81 (1085) 3 years ago

I came from a small town. I knew kids who'd never seen an elevator.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Kids, he was 46.

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[–] aavfreak (3313) 3 years ago

I came from a small town. I knew kids who'd never seen an elevator.

Of the kids that had never seen an elevator, did they also not know what one was? If they went to the "big city" and saw an elevator, would they be clueless as to what it was?

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[–] NGMI (1184) 3 years ago

Your ignorance of the Australian outback is too much.

Come on, not knowing there was no technology or media in the wilderness besides a phone and local TV? Not knowing what a guy does on the hunt in Australia?

It was the 80s for crying out loud!

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[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

Actually, there were places in the Outback that lacked modern electrical amenities until the later 20th century. I recently read a travel book, where the author mentioned someone waaay out there saying they'd had the first TV in town... circa 1980.

So yes, a guy who's spent much of his adult life out in the Bush, and the rest in small towns that had little contact with the outside world, could really be that naive about life on the rest of the planet.

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[–] Mustang (5418) 3 years ago

I don't think he had ever left his area so it's possible.

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[–] strntz (12225) 3 years ago

My dad once told me that when he was a GI training in the south in 1942, he met some hill people whose first pair of shoes they ever owned were army boots.

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[–] Mustang (5418) 3 years ago

I'd believe it. It's all relative. I was born in 1973 and even back then there was still a dairy in our suburb (we were urban not rural), back then a lot of people still had B&W TV's, not every house had a phone installed, our toilet at the time was still an outhouse for a while before plumbing was set up.

People take a lot of things for granted now. So the idea of this outback type bloke in an age before the internet who doesn't know what cocaine is or doesn't know that women standing on a corner are trying to prostitute* themselves is very possible.

* I would think he knew what prostitutes were they would have been around in the outback towns. He probably had never seen ones trying to find on the street that way.

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[–] strntz (12225) 3 years ago

Also, the girls he met earlier at the parties were dressed a lot like street walkers. It's possible in the small outback towns, working girls were the only ones actually dressed like hookers!!

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[–] Mustang (5418) 3 years ago

I'm Aussie and those outback towns, especially really outback like where Dundee is from have a real creepy vibe to them. The hookers in those places would have been rather tough and nothing like what he would have seen in NY!

They would have been catering to truck drivers and poachers etc Not frat boys and husbands looking to escape their wives.

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[–] strntz (12225) 3 years ago

The hookers in those places would have been rather tough and nothing like what he would have seen in NY!

That might be the answer then. Mick saw these two girls dressed up like party guests and didn't recognize them as prostitutes.

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[–] Mustang (5418) 3 years ago

I'd say so.

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[–] PaladinNJ (21509) 3 years ago

As they've said before, he was a fish out of water. They used this to exaggerate just how out of touch he was.

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