The film where you won't die laughing
Suzanne Carbone
May 30, 2011
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Mark Mitchell as Con the Fruiterer.
THE stomach-churning film Snowtown relives the South Australian ''bodies in the barrels'' murders and was the last place comedian Mark Mitchell expected to find scenes of light entertainment. ''Imagine going to the cinema to see a horrendously violent and disturbing movie, Snowtown, and seeing the killers watching The Comedy Company between hacking up their victims,'' Mitchell said. Other cast members who have seen the film were also surprised to find the skits but Mitchell is certain that in the 1990s, Con the Fruiterer was not sending subliminal messages to would-be killers with his ''coupla days'' and ''bewdiful'' lingo. ''Apparently, the producers chose to use Comedy Company footage because it was the leading show of the time and not because it inspired anything untoward.'' Director Justin Kurzel juxtaposed the atrocities of sadistic killer John Bunting with day-to-day scenes, as SBS online film critic Fiona Williams writes: ''Kurzel skilfully places the violence within its contradictory context in unsettling scenes (in one, a Comedy Company skit is heard in the background and in another, a silent rape plays out to the strains of a Test match).'' Con was a killer, but only in the joke department.
Fruitful advice from Tula
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THIS is not meant to be a Comedy Company reunion but the actor who played Con the Fruiterer's daughter Toula really is called Toula, though she spells it Tula. You need to know this because Tula Tzoras has reached out to aspiring actors by writing an e-book, The Secret of Your Success as an Actor, detailing the dizzy highs and crushing lows of her career. Take 1994 when she appeared in the thriller The Seventh Floor with Brooke Shields, playing her assistant. Here's Tula's high: ''I got quite close to Brooke and had lunch with her and her mum Teri.'' And the low: ''A lot of myself ended up on the cutting-room floor.'' Which is a painful stab in the heart when the movie is called Seventh Floor. Back to the bewdiful daughters of Con and cuddly Marika, Tula believes it was a coincidence that Toula was the sibling of Roula, Soula, Voula, Foula and Agape.
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