This article is about Rod Taylor who plays Daddy'O in the film. Here it can be seen that Taylor himself may be a throwback to the good old days that Elliott is so inspired by. This first remark is also important when discussing Australian film. The fact that Woop Woop was made in Australia and released there first is an important change that has happened in Taylor's lifetime. This phenomenon can also be seen in the composition of cast and crew now a mixture rather than all American, or all Australian. The move towards a globalisation can also be seen in the American iconography in the film. If Elliott is attempting a throwback to the old "ocker" days, why does he include a sense of globalisation, why the parallels between Woop Woop and the first scene in America?
"because there was no filmmaking here... there was nowhere to go."
Here is Taylor, himself a throwback to the old days, vernacular and all.
"His appearance - even the cold can of beer he clutches - echoes Daddy-O, his wild and dangerous character in Welcome to Woop Woop"
"There's nothing charming and wonderful and exciting about it really, it's just immensely expensive mastabatory work."
"It's waiting to burst, the Aussie in me you know."
"For once he doesn't 'feel like a fucking phoney.'"
"He tells the story in his trademark larrikin style."
"Taylor slugs another mouthfull of his can of XXXX beer and keeps talking without a pause ... My treat every Christmas holidays was to go up to Uncle Charlie who was a real country bastard, who would work me from four in the morning till dark."