Max, Thanks for posting that quite amusing and very readable found text.
I wonder if those involved in the pre-production of the film didn't have
the Austrian/Australian architect Harry Seidler in mind, who could be said
to have transmitted the un-ornamented look of Adolf Loos' buildings and
certainly shared with him an interest in social architecture. Whether any
of the casting crew wanted to invoke Loos' famous 1908 essay "Ornament and
Crime", which references Papuans, may never be ascertainable. Barry
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