Plucky heroes, villains, clichés and fetishes – how scriptwriters see the end of the 2017 AFL season
In this most competitive of years, how would three authors and two screenwriters pen a finale befitting an already random 2017?The playwright Wendy Wasserstein once remarked “I think there is in the arts an envy of sports”. But were the 2016 Bulldogs a movie, would it have received good reviews? The on-the-road win against the Eagles? The Tom Boyd redemption sub-plot? Luke Beveridge placing his grand final medal around his injured skipper’s neck? No, the Bulldogs movie seems contrived and a little...