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A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude, with a lot of [[World of Chaos|random shit]] happening in the meantime.
 
'''''He Died Withwith Aa Felafel Inin His Hand''''' (2001) is a flamboyantly pointless housemates-from-hell story, based on a book by John Birmingham. Despite mediocre circulation, it’s become something of a [[Cult Classic]] among unemployed yobbos, leftist uni students, and anybody else who’s experienced the joys of sharehouse living in Australia. Memorable mainly for that scene in backyard Brisbane, plus a kick-arse [[Nick Cave]]-centric soundtrack and snappy writing that makes it the most quotable text since Oscar Wilde.
 
Stars Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton and, for some reason, Romane Bohringer. And while most of the people described in the page quote show up in the film, ''all'' of them show up in the book.
 
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* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Aluminium Christmas Trees]] – One of the first shots in the movie is at the Brisbane house, where [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Taylor plays golf with a cane toad]]. Golf ain’t the half of it; cane toads have reached plague proportions and everyone turns a blind eye when it comes to how you kill them...
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* [[Les Yay]] – Romane Bohringer pashing Emily Hamilton! Yay!
* [[Land Down Under]] – As with ''[[The Castle]]'', Australia’s own version of the trope: Sydney is horribly plastic and full of anal retentives, Melbourne is a town of corrupt cops where it’s always raining miserably, and Brisbane is overrun with cane toads.
* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]] – About half of Danny’s lines, mimicking the faux-philosophical ramblings of [[Troper Demographics|Australia’s semi-educated]].
* [[Object Ceiling Cling]] - 'It's a beef patty. Been up there for years.'
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] – The neo-pagans in the backyard. Although it's actually a list of goddesses from every culture imaginable.
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