Its ironic that they can prove it's his body but 42 years on no one has still been able to prove that there was actually a script for that movie....

Gazza wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 7:02am:

Geez,they make us sound intelligent........and that's not easy to do.

Interesting, I didn't know a remake was made of the movie in 2003, I thought when Ned Kelly came out it was great with Mick playing him, of course back then there was hardly anything around of the Stones or Mick not like today, to see one of his movies was great! now I don't think to much of it, I think "Performance" was the best he ever did.

Tony Robinson recently made a doco about the Kelly gang. It was rivetting viewing. The simple easy-to-explain statement that can be made about Ned was that he was a cop killer. of course, there are many sides to the story. The "Police" in those days were nothing like the modern forces. They were made of mostly illiterate Irish people, overseen by "born to rule" drunken English. I work for the cops, and things have certainly changed. The force is now made up by drunken Aussies! YAY for us!

The Kelly family were often victimised by the local Irish constabulary, who would visit Ned's mother's house whilst drunk and intimidate the family. His mother got locked up herself for some trumped up charge. One famous event is a drunken duffer tried to get a bit frisky with Ned's sister.

Obviously, a very, very stupid thing to do! Ned was in da house!

According to Tony Robinson's show, Ned's plan for his "stand" was to derail the train bringing dozens of cops up from Melbourne. Tough luck for him that some one ran down the tracks and alerted the driver before he reached the bend that would have ended all their lives. The sight of Ned making his stand in his armour was pretty much accurately depicted in Jagger's movie. Kelly was shot 28 times.

The judge that sentenced Kelly to hang died just over a week later.

So, our national heroes are a outlaw cop killer and a New Zealand race horse.

Aint we bloody cool?