Film
Irish Rose – (Script completed)
Synopsis:Young Australians clash with English traditionalists on 1 January 1901, the day the Commonwealth of Australia breaks away.
Morrison of China – (Script completed)
Synopsis: The great Australian journalist, G.E. Morrison fights to establish the Chinese republic.
Fire in the Blood – Extended Film Treatment
Synopsis: Doyen of Australia’s bushrangers, Frank Gardiner has one last great adventure in his exile in San Francisco.
Kill The Tiger – Film Treatment
Synopsis: Love and betrayal as young Bob Page and his mates strike a blow behind the Singapore lines of the Japanese invader.
Chinese-Australian Film Treatments
The Other Side of Time – A Chinese-Australian love story with ghostly interventions
Against The Grain – A modern Chinese-Australian love story of a women torn between cultures
The Heirloom – A Chinese love story set in Australia with the couple trapped between cultures
The Patriarch – A Chinese family saga in Australia
A Debt of Honour – Film Concept for an Australian-Korean co-production. Synopsis: A Korean family repays a debt of honour to an Australian soldier caught in a vicious drug ring.
Television
Songs of the Southern Moon – Extended Treatment for an Australian-Chinese television mini-series. Synopsis: Three generations of a Chinese family in love and war in both Australia and China.
The Trial of William Shakespeare – Extended Treatment for Television mini-series Synopsis: Shakespeare and his contemporaries are ‘retrieved’ from the past to a British courtroom to determine whether the Stratford actor really wrote the plays standing in his name
Bravest of the Brave – Extended Treatment for Television Series Synopsis: The stories of twelve of Australia’s bravest Victoria Cross winners.
The Great Aussie Pie – Extended Treatment for Television Series Synopsis: The amazing history of the unique comestible and a contest for the finest Australia has to offer.
Bushranger Country – Extended Treatment for Television Series Synopsis: The wild adventures of six of our most notorious outlaws.
Books:
Terminal Ballistics – Synopsis of the book – publishing date October 2010
Synopsis: The SAS’s top sniper tells of his remarkable life story and for the first time breaks the news of the biggest Australian military engagement since Vietnam.
Essay
The remarkably unremarked association between William Shakespeare and William Herbert, the 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Synopsis: We explore the extraordinary relationship between Shakespeare and the man most now believe was the subject of the Sonnets.
Stage
Little Boy Blue – Two Act Play
Synopsis: Two couples in a retirement home struggle with their ‘golden age’ crisis.
The View From Golgotha – Two Act Play
Synopsis: Judas reveals the true story behind the crucifixion
Song Lyrics
| Don’t Look Back | The Best Revenge |
| Friday Night Blues | Fire in the Blood |
| This man is an Island |
Don’t Look Back
Verse
You really tried to keep her
You fought the whole night long
But now you gotta leave her
‘Cause you know she done you wrong
You really tried to keep her
You fought the whole night long
But now you gotta leave her
‘Cause you know she done you wrong
Chorus
So
Don’t look back!
When your head says you’re leaving
Don’t look back!
When your feet hit the road
Don’t look back!
When your heart starts grieving
‘Cause you will feel better the further
you carry your load.
Verse
You told her every secret
You talked the whole night long
But she shook her head; she cut you dead
Now you gotta move along
You told her every secret
You talked the whole night long
But she shook her head; she cut you dead
Now you gotta move along
Chorus
So
Don’t look back!
When your head says you’re leaving
Don’t look back!
When your feet hit the road
Don’t look back!
When your heart starts grieving
‘Cause you will feel better the further
you carry your load.
Bridge:
And you will forget her
and the load will seem lighter
the day will be brighter
the further you walk down that road
Chorus
Don’t look back!
When your head says you’re leaving
Don’t look back!
When your feet his the road
Don’t look back!
When your heart starts its grieving
‘Cause you will feel better –
the further you carry your load.
RM
February, 2005
The Best Revenge
When we were young we fought the good fight
‘Gainst the racists, the fascists, the radical right
But they beat us with slogans and vile propaganda
They turned our bright daylight to their darkest night
So now we sit on the wide verandah
Singing this song with spite
Oh, I like livin’
the good life
I like livin’
Where no one touch me
I like livin’
The good life
‘Cause that’s the best revenge
I like livin’
the high life
I like livin’
Where no one reach me
I like livin’
The high life’
‘Cause that’s the best revenge
I like livin’
The sweet life
I like livin’
Where no one find me
I like livin’
The sweet life
‘Cause that’s the best revenge.
I like livin’
The good life
The high life
The sweet life
I like livin’
My life
‘Cause that’s the best revenge
Copyright ©
Robert Macklin 2010
Friday Night Blues
I got the blues;
I got those Friday night, outa sight blues.
Come Monday and Tuesday
My man home at six
Come Wednesday and Thursday
We up to all kinds of tricks
But come along Friday,
I’ll give you the news
My lovin’ man, he gone out on the booze
I got the blues;
I got those Friday night blues.
Got those Friday night, outa sight blues.
All week he give me
The best kind of lovin’
He put sweets on my table
He put buns in my oven
But Friday night come and
I got no man to handle
He’s out on the town
With Jim Beam and Jack Daniel
Oh I got the blues
Got those Friday night blues
Got those Friday night, outa sight blues.
Come Sat’day and Sunday
He right by my side
One look from him and
I’m up for the ride
But Friday, I tell you he make me so blue
He say this is his time he gone out for a brew
Or two…
I got the blues
I got those Friday night blues
Got those Friday night, outa sight blues.
Copyright ©
Fire in the Blood
Fire in the blood
One look from you and I got
Fire in the blood
My heart starts thumpin’
My feet start jumpin’
‘Cause you light my fire in the blood.
You flash those eyes
You move those hips
You cross those thighs
You lick those lips
And I got fire,
Oh baby I got fire,
In the blood.
Fire in the blood
One touch from you and I got
Fire in the blood
My heart starts thumpin’
My feet start jumpin’
Cause you light that fire in the blood.
You flash those eyes
You move those hips
You cross those thighs
You lick those lips
And baby I got fire
Oh such fire,
Put out that fire…
Please, honey, please
Put out that fire…
That burning fire
In the blood.
Copyright ©
Robert Macklin 2010
This man is an Island
This man, is an island
This man has a heart made of stone
This man is an island
This man lives his life alone.
She came in to the place where I live
She came with her laughter and joy
She made a bridge to the land of the people
She warmed the heart of a boy
But she left just as I got to love her
She left and my heart tuned to stone
She went away and there was no returning
She left that boy all alone.
So this man, is an island
This man has a heart of stone
This man is an island
This man lives his life alone
But no man wants to be an island
No man wants a heart made of stone
Each man wants a bridge to the mainland
No man wants to live all alone
No, no man wants to live all alone.
No, no, no, no man, wants to live all alone.
Copyright ©
Robert Macklin 2010
