{"id":9355,"date":"2009-09-04T12:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T02:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2009-09-04T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T02:37:13","slug":"vale-mr-percival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/09\/04\/vale-mr-percival\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Mr Percival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9356\" title=\"storm-boy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/storm-boy.jpg\" alt=\"storm-boy\" width=\"347\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/storm-boy.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/storm-boy-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, there&#8217;s not too many people who will know what i&#8217;m talking about, but if you&#8217;re South Australian and a lover of film, then you&#8217;ll know Mr Percival. Mr Percival was a pelican, and animal star of locally produced SA film <em>Storm Boy<\/em>, back in 1976.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yep, a pelican. However, the cult status of Mr Percival here in South Australia, and even in Australia as a whole, cannot be underestimated. In much the same way as the Taco Bell chihuahua was revered by all and sundry (?), Mr Percival was our very own cinematic equivalent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And this week, he died aged 33.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Storm Boy<\/em>, starring Greg Rowe and a young David Gulpilil (who, more recently appeared in Baz Lurhmann&#8217;s <em>Australia<\/em>), told a coming-of-age story of a young boy who saves 3 pelicans from hunters, only to be forced to realease them to the wild by his father, a tuna fisherman on the high seas. One of the pelicans, Mr Percival, returns to the boy of his own accord, and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, on this sad day, we tip our cinematic hat to the feathered friend we all had in Mr Percival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there&#8217;s not too many people who will know what i&#8217;m talking about, but if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}