I swear, Eric should have won EVERY AWARD globally for Chopper. Jeez, he was brilliant. I actually just re watched it the other day. He studied his voice, and nailed it. 😮😊😊
@@JammaOGyeah, I watched that semi doco, which ever you call it as well. He was sparking up about the time it takes to release the movie, lol. Eric Bana was very patient with him. Enjoyed that as well.😊 cheers.😊
he was probably a nice guy before he entered a life of crime and was most likely bullied in jail which is why he wanted to leave H division regardless of the exaggerations. Some one who is bullied becomes a bully, no one is ever born that way
@@FreeSpeech-z6jhe was autistic and tortured in his childhood. Not exactly the best upbringing, so sure he wasn’t born that way, however he was probably broken very young. Though I still think he had a very strong moral code, it was just a bit different than most people’s.
On a personal level, I and lots of other Aussies like Chopper and as far as we know. he really didn't have it in for anyone except low life crims. He has become a "revered" Ned Kelly type of bloke. 😊
Re-watch the movie then check-out when Eric Bana spent some time with him to prepare for the movie. Fascinating. Eric did an amazing job portraying Chopper.👍
I came across chopper very late one satdy night in a pub in Smith St Fitzroy, we played pool and I won, he bought me a vodka and orange as I don't drink beer, and he was a top bloke. I also saw him and Jacko on their tour at the donny in, and it was shit. Over all, I liked him and never felt threatened at any stage. R.I.P. Uncle chop chop.
he mentioned the Toe Cutters - if you think Chopper was bad they were ten degrees worse. I remember walking home from work and went past the Druids hotel where a Painter and Dockers union guy had been assassinated. they were bad days.
He's wandering around on tv with a rifle, as a many-time convicted criminal. I always wondered how Chopper got a gun license for this... I struggled to get one, yet I was an ex-Aussie Army combat soldier, who ended up at Kapooka training civvies how to shoot and safely handle weapons... Somehow Chopper - a violent criminal in the same era, could wander around firing 'near' an assistant on national tv and it was no questions asked....
Tasmania is part of it, there's also the period when the interview was actually filmed. Not sure exactly when, but I'm pretty sure this interview was before the Port Arthur massacre and the more stringent gun control measures.
Even though Chopper was a criminal he was a top bloke. He is an aussie legend for what he has done. He took out the drug dealers other really bad gangs and criminals. Hence why most Aussie like him. He was nuts but a good nuts.
He aimed behind his own head and about 1 foot right of the interviewer's head. She was in on it, and it was shown in Australia, I saw the initial broadcast. He's more of a comedian than a sanitary engineer.
He was involved with raping prostitutes and he kidnapped and treatened to kill a judge and openly bragged about bashing random blokes up in pubs just for looking at him. So pull your head out your anus.
Misconception, him n his crew robbed massage parlour(rub n tugs) and they apparently raped the chicks there or at least his mates did why he stood watch(proven in court) Nota role model aye, funny bloke tho
@@elizabethpilarski1076 A lot of people have been waiting for the truth to come out about him. At least since the 6 December 1988 "toilet" incident in Soho London, when he was the coach of the Wallabies. Of course, the allegations are much worse than what happened in that incident. It probably would have blown up bigger at the time if the London cops had known who he was. They probably weren't rugby fans.
Chopper was dying of liver cancer and when they offered him a new one he refused it saying give it to a kid or someone else that deserves it. Fearless to the end the legend. R.I.P.
to psycho analyse why he said would actually reveal he has some remorse for being a bully (and indirectly admitting he was terminal no matter what kind of assistance he was being offered)
He was very sweet to women. Courteous almost. But he really did love the publicity, bit of a wanker. He would love that we’re still talking about him. I have never seen the film. I must find it. Eric Bana, 👍
Chopper is one of those Australian figures that you either love or just can’t condone. Chopper always said that he never executed innocents, only those that he was ordered to kill and who were criminals in their own right and who were threats. Chopper was very charismatic and no matter what you personally felt about him, he was real…no bullshit about him at all. He told his story as it was, no embellishment, no coverup…just opening himself for people to judge. He opened the door for more police investigation into our seedy underworld, opened the door for our TV stations to produce both dramatic and documentary series on those underworld figures and enlightened us hicks from the sticks as to what really goes on in our major cities behind the scenes.
@@elizabethpilarski1076 you’re right, Chopper loved to spin a good yarn. He, himself said so. It was also a deliberate strategy on his part because that way no one could quite build evidence on him.
Whenever I hear Chopper Read, I have flashbacks to the film Reservoir Dogs. Was that as good for you as it was for me. HEY what's going on, did you hear that..... Best Primary School book author.LOL
Russian roulette isn’t as dangerous as many people believe. The weight of the bullet makes it far more likely to settle at bottom of the gun, away from the firing mechanism, especially if you only load it with one round.
You’ve asked for more about his background- In Chopper’s own words, he had a maggot of a childhood from the moment he was born. As a child, his own mother (a devout Seventh Day Adventist) tried to kill him several times and when he was fifteen, she and an elder from the Adventist church, had him committed to a mental asylum where he was subject to repeated electro shock treatments and brain altering antipsychotic drugs. Read’s father broke him out of the asylum. Here is an interview of Chopper with Andrew Denton on a programme called, “Enough Rope” where Chopper discusses all this and he gives great insight into the events that made Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, the man he became. This is a TH-cam clip of the interview but sadly, it’s audio only. th-cam.com/video/HrV7SXXecpo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rAtarSCjbpSVLSy_
Chopper retired to Tasmania. Yes the villages are very reminiscent of English ones because in reality that’s what the early settlers re-created. Choppers son went to school for a while with my lad but unfortunately the former has also been in trouble with the law frequently which is unfortunately largely a legacy and burden of being the son of Chopper. This must be pre - 1996 as we now have strict gun laws post the Port Arthur Massacre and unless you have a very legitimate reason then the semi auto shotgun, 22 rifle and handgun chopper is using are no longer available ‘over counter’ so to speak.
To be honest, i think they set her up to do this interview to see her crash and burn. Expected her to be scared and have someone else take over. But, no, she fully went right in on it, and gave him a run for his money. Do not underestimate someone and their capabilities. Both her, and Choppa.
A few people have already touched on it, and tbh I was a year off being born when this interview aired, but from growing up no one in the general public worried about Uncle Chop Chop. He was obviously a questionable and violent character, but he never hurt civilians. He was in a sense a bit of a vigilante in his own right, which is why so many of us were drawn to him, he was just a larrakin. He also refused a liver transplant after his diagnosis with liver cancer, stating it should go to someone who deserves it, and succumbed to his cancer in the end.
there was a 3rd shot out into the scrub & the bullet came out then, he was crazy like a fox, he knew exactly where the bullet was by the sound as he had played that game for $ many times, he was just good ole uncle chop chop to most aussies, like bikers, he only messed with those in same scumbag crowd, not a prob for anyone else
Ill say this also, you wouldve gotten a totally different interview if it had been a man interviewing him. There wouldnt have been such lighthearted/ jokingness from Choppa. He wouldve been way more serious and i don't think it wouldve been a good interview. I think Choppa was testing her aswell. But major kudos to her, as she didn't back down or flinch. Literally the only time she flinched was the " i dont think i want to play" comment with the shooting.
Tasmania is very British-looking. Chopper came from a good family. His uncle was arguably the most famous doctor on television in this country, Dr James Wright (his tv name, but real name was John Knight), who was on daytime talk shows and all kinds of other programs giving medical advice. He was a Seventh-day Adventist, as was Chopper's Mum.
I don’t think it was a good idea for the camera operator, sound boom person and the reporter to go out to such an isolated place for that interview. A lot of Aussies don’t really care when criminals off each other with guns, or even torture each other as in Chopper’s case, but if you think about it, it’s a million light years from a Robin Hood scenario of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Even our worst criminals, we don’t physically torture with implements when we lock them up. It’s too far beyond inhumane. As for chopper stealing from criminals, and torturing criminals, and seeing that as being alright? Well he was taking money from *other* criminals and criminal gangs to to perform that torture.His moral compass is clearly off in a nasty way, and his enjoyment of burning someone’s toes off is straight up sadistic ASPD. I wouldn’t trust his assertion he never harmed innocents, or never hurt them worse than they hurt others. I don’t think he’s got strong enough ethics or self control. I also think he’d outright lie about it for self preservation, even to himself. There’s no doubt he was fascinating, but it should only be in the same way a serial killer is fascinating. Sliding into approval or admiration because he preyed on criminals is a big ethical slip up.
My father worked as a detective for many years in NSW in the 60s and 70s - some pretty rough times, he knew a few hitmen and criminals with that mentality of ‘only killing/torturing scum’. Problem was they didn’t always get it right, so occasionally some lightweights like burglars/getaway drivers and even completely innocent people (usually mistaken identity) copped it. Those guys would then just put it down to “oh well, we get it right most of the time”.
When he shot at the glass it was maybe an easy shot but the glass flew off and hit the kid in the head. Watch it again lol Chopper was a knob. No decent criminal needs to brag like that. Also I reckon a few of those scars- especially the symmetrical crosses- self inflicted I reckon.
have you got a link for your TV interview ? if your going to critique you better be equal or better so let's see it whats the name of the movie based on you 🤣
@ lol I’m not the type of person that would want a movie made about me- even if there was some reason I attracted enough attention that someone wanted to make a movie about me.
@@ozzietad666 just doesn't make sense why you would critique someone when you can't manage to do any better his son Charlie would love you to visit and tell him all about it I can give you a lift to his house if you want, im his mechanic 🤣
@ seriously- by the way you talking I’m guessing you’re one of his close friends - close close close - who would get down on your knees for him. There was plenty of that as well.
Rewatch the movie now and you’ll appreciate how good of an actor Eric Bana is
I swear, Eric should have won EVERY AWARD globally for Chopper. Jeez, he was brilliant. I actually just re watched it the other day. He studied his voice, and nailed it. 😮😊😊
@@louise7552 he spent a day with him sinking beers bana is a legend
@@JammaOGyeah, I watched that semi doco, which ever you call it as well. He was sparking up about the time it takes to release the movie, lol. Eric Bana was very patient with him. Enjoyed that as well.😊 cheers.😊
Met him about 25 years ago, scary but perfectly polite and friendly.
What the f
Thats a claim to fame!
D
he was probably a nice guy before he entered a life of crime and was most likely bullied in jail which is why he wanted to leave H division regardless of the exaggerations. Some one who is bullied becomes a bully, no one is ever born that way
@@FreeSpeech-z6jhe was autistic and tortured in his childhood. Not exactly the best upbringing, so sure he wasn’t born that way, however he was probably broken very young. Though I still think he had a very strong moral code, it was just a bit different than most people’s.
Met him about 20yrs ago in Collingwood. He was jovial but i was told to think before you speak, coz he can turn. He was nice and quite funny.
On a personal level, I and lots of other Aussies like Chopper and as far as we know. he really didn't have it in for anyone except low life crims. He has become a "revered" Ned Kelly type of bloke. 😊
Spot on 👍👍
Yep! He despised drug dealers and rock spiders.
Ned Kelly did what he did out of desperation, seems a disconnect with the reason Chopper was a criminal
Re-watch the movie then check-out when Eric Bana spent some time with him to prepare for the movie.
Fascinating.
Eric did an amazing job portraying Chopper.👍
I came across chopper very late one satdy night in a pub in Smith St Fitzroy, we played pool and I won, he bought me a vodka and orange as I don't drink beer, and he was a top bloke. I also saw him and Jacko on their tour at the donny in, and it was shit. Over all, I liked him and never felt threatened at any stage. R.I.P. Uncle chop chop.
he mentioned the Toe Cutters - if you think Chopper was bad they were ten degrees worse.
I remember walking home from work and went past the Druids hotel where a Painter and Dockers union guy had been assassinated. they were bad days.
He's wandering around on tv with a rifle, as a many-time convicted criminal. I always wondered how Chopper got a gun license for this... I struggled to get one, yet I was an ex-Aussie Army combat soldier, who ended up at Kapooka training civvies how to shoot and safely handle weapons... Somehow Chopper - a violent criminal in the same era, could wander around firing 'near' an assistant on national tv and it was no questions asked....
Tasmania
Tasmania is part of it, there's also the period when the interview was actually filmed.
Not sure exactly when, but I'm pretty sure this interview was before the Port Arthur massacre and the more stringent gun control measures.
Even though Chopper was a criminal he was a top bloke. He is an aussie legend for what he has done. He took out the drug dealers other really bad gangs and criminals. Hence why most Aussie like him. He was nuts but a good nuts.
As an Australian I’m absolutely shocked and disgusted by that shooting scene at the beginning. What an absolute waste of beer, it’s disgraceful.
There's another interview which is later on and is very good. Mark was very charming and you could never tell if he was lying...
Eric Bana as Chopper, that deserved all the film awards
Good old Chopper. You either love him or hate him.
He aimed behind his own head and about 1 foot right of the interviewer's head. She was in on it, and it was shown in Australia, I saw the initial broadcast. He's more of a comedian than a sanitary engineer.
Chopper only ever killed members of the underworld, he didn’t touch civilians
He was involved with raping prostitutes and he kidnapped and treatened to kill a judge and openly bragged about bashing random blokes up in pubs just for looking at him. So pull your head out your anus.
Misconception, him n his crew robbed massage parlour(rub n tugs) and they apparently raped the chicks there or at least his mates did why he stood watch(proven in court)
Nota role model aye, funny bloke tho
I have more time for Chopper than the corrupt politicians & governments👍
They definitely do not make garbage cleaners like they used to
He called out Alan Jones now the truth has come out.
@@elizabethpilarski1076 A lot of people have been waiting for the truth to come out about him. At least since the 6 December 1988 "toilet" incident in Soho London, when he was the coach of the Wallabies. Of course, the allegations are much worse than what happened in that incident. It probably would have blown up bigger at the time if the London cops had known who he was. They probably weren't rugby fans.
which politicians are you referring to that rival uncle chop-chops legend?
In reality, he was a can't.
Chopper is Australia's Dexter.
I have a sister who is a sociopath. He wasn’t a sociopath. He was a true psychopath.
Chopper was dying of liver cancer and when they offered him a new one he refused it saying give it to a kid or someone else that deserves it. Fearless to the end the legend. R.I.P.
to psycho analyse why he said would actually reveal he has some remorse for being a bully (and indirectly admitting he was terminal no matter what kind of assistance he was being offered)
He was very sweet to women. Courteous almost.
But he really did love the publicity, bit of a wanker.
He would love that we’re still talking about him.
I have never seen the film. I must find it. Eric Bana, 👍
100% real
I've seen this a few times. He is a crazy bastard. Pretty sure the pistol would of been loaded.
👍🙂
the pistol was loaded, the 3rd shot the bullet went out into the bush & he was crazy "like a fox!" he knew exactly what game he was playing!
Chopper .... fucking legend 😂
You should check out the "nigel " song
We love chopper from a distance. lol
Chopper is one of those Australian figures that you either love or just can’t condone. Chopper always said that he never executed innocents, only those that he was ordered to kill and who were criminals in their own right and who were threats. Chopper was very charismatic and no matter what you personally felt about him, he was real…no bullshit about him at all. He told his story as it was, no embellishment, no coverup…just opening himself for people to judge. He opened the door for more police investigation into our seedy underworld, opened the door for our TV stations to produce both dramatic and documentary series on those underworld figures and enlightened us hicks from the sticks as to what really goes on in our major cities behind the scenes.
Nah...he said "Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn". There definitely would have been some embellishments in his stories.
@@elizabethpilarski1076 you’re right, Chopper loved to spin a good yarn. He, himself said so. It was also a deliberate strategy on his part because that way no one could quite build evidence on him.
There another interview of him in jail and his skin was a bit yellow due to his liver cancer. He died shortly after that.
Lol false yes he became ill contracted hepatitis, But he lived for around 20 years in Tasmania before he died
@raymondhardy8468 NO he died from liver cancer actually, in that last interview he was very Jaundiced.
@louise7552 I said liver cancer. 🙄
@@raymondhardy8468don't spread false information trying to big note yourself
It was a 60 Minutes report, which I believe was conducted in Pentridge Prison, which closed down in 1997.
Whenever I hear Chopper Read, I have flashbacks to the film Reservoir Dogs. Was that as good for you as it was for me. HEY what's going on, did you hear that.....
Best Primary School book author.LOL
I watched Reservoir Dogs, freaking messed up my head big time. Too violent for me.😮😮
He was serious. No acting.
Rene Brack was also in the movie.
Russian roulette isn’t as dangerous as many people believe. The weight of the bullet makes it far more likely to settle at bottom of the gun, away from the firing mechanism, especially if you only load it with one round.
So "apparently" it was a trick of his where he could feel where the weight of the single bullet was when he spun it.
He took out people that most people fantasize about taking out.
You’ve asked for more about his background- In Chopper’s own words, he had a maggot of a childhood from the moment he was born. As a child, his own mother (a devout Seventh Day Adventist) tried to kill him several times and when he was fifteen, she and an elder from the Adventist church, had him committed to a mental asylum where he was subject to repeated electro shock treatments and brain altering antipsychotic drugs. Read’s father broke him out of the asylum. Here is an interview of Chopper with Andrew Denton on a programme called, “Enough Rope” where Chopper discusses all this and he gives great insight into the events that made Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, the man he became. This is a TH-cam clip of the interview but sadly, it’s audio only. th-cam.com/video/HrV7SXXecpo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rAtarSCjbpSVLSy_
Aussie legend.
Watch the 60 minutes interview he did about two weeks before he died in 2013.
2:03 dude...
You should watch his final interview where he confesses to some of his crimes
Chopper retired to Tasmania. Yes the villages are very reminiscent of English ones because in reality that’s what the early settlers re-created.
Choppers son went to school for a while with my lad but unfortunately the former has also been in trouble with the law frequently which is unfortunately largely a legacy and burden of being the son of Chopper.
This must be pre - 1996 as we now have strict gun laws post the Port Arthur Massacre and unless you have a very legitimate reason then the semi auto shotgun, 22 rifle and handgun chopper is using are no longer available ‘over counter’ so to speak.
I can't believe you haven't watched this before.
I dunno about that, did Keithy deserve it? Well I suppose he did seem to do himself a mischief.
I have a full unopened slab of uncle chop chop beer
(Choppers)
To be honest, i think they set her up to do this interview to see her crash and burn. Expected her to be scared and have someone else take over. But, no, she fully went right in on it, and gave him a run for his money. Do not underestimate someone and their capabilities. Both her, and Choppa.
Uncle Chop chop.
A few people have already touched on it, and tbh I was a year off being born when this interview aired, but from growing up no one in the general public worried about Uncle Chop Chop. He was obviously a questionable and violent character, but he never hurt civilians. He was in a sense a bit of a vigilante in his own right, which is why so many of us were drawn to him, he was just a larrakin. He also refused a liver transplant after his diagnosis with liver cancer, stating it should go to someone who deserves it, and succumbed to his cancer in the end.
there was a 3rd shot out into the scrub & the bullet came out then, he was crazy like a fox, he knew exactly where the bullet was by the sound as he had played that game for $ many times, he was just good ole uncle chop chop to most aussies, like bikers, he only messed with those in same scumbag crowd, not a prob for anyone else
Ill say this also, you wouldve gotten a totally different interview if it had been a man interviewing him. There wouldnt have been such lighthearted/ jokingness from Choppa. He wouldve been way more serious and i don't think it wouldve been a good interview. I think Choppa was testing her aswell. But major kudos to her, as she didn't back down or flinch. Literally the only time she flinched was the " i dont think i want to play" comment with the shooting.
Great man old Chopper. A beloved Aussie character
Tasmania is very British-looking. Chopper came from a good family. His uncle was arguably the most famous doctor on television in this country, Dr James Wright (his tv name, but real name was John Knight), who was on daytime talk shows and all kinds of other programs giving medical advice. He was a Seventh-day Adventist, as was Chopper's Mum.
Google the interview done by Ray Martin
I don’t think it was a good idea for the camera operator, sound boom person and the reporter to go out to such an isolated place for that interview.
A lot of Aussies don’t really care when criminals off each other with guns, or even torture each other as in Chopper’s case, but if you think about it, it’s a million light years from a Robin Hood scenario of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Even our worst criminals, we don’t physically torture with implements when we lock them up. It’s too far beyond inhumane. As for chopper stealing from criminals, and torturing criminals, and seeing that as being alright? Well he was taking money from *other* criminals and criminal gangs to to perform that torture.His moral compass is clearly off in a nasty way, and his enjoyment of burning someone’s toes off is straight up sadistic ASPD.
I wouldn’t trust his assertion he never harmed innocents, or never hurt them worse than they hurt others. I don’t think he’s got strong enough ethics or self control. I also think he’d outright lie about it for self preservation, even to himself.
There’s no doubt he was fascinating, but it should only be in the same way a serial killer is fascinating. Sliding into approval or admiration because he preyed on criminals is a big ethical slip up.
My father worked as a detective for many years in NSW in the 60s and 70s - some pretty rough times, he knew a few hitmen and criminals with that mentality of ‘only killing/torturing scum’. Problem was they didn’t always get it right, so occasionally some lightweights like burglars/getaway drivers and even completely innocent people (usually mistaken identity) copped it. Those guys would then just put it down to “oh well, we get it right most of the time”.
My kind of criminal. Only wrongs the wronguns
He’s a bloody thug.
When he shot at the glass it was maybe an easy shot but the glass flew off and hit the kid in the head. Watch it again lol
Chopper was a knob. No decent criminal needs to brag like that.
Also I reckon a few of those scars- especially the symmetrical crosses- self inflicted I reckon.
have you got a link for your TV interview ?
if your going to critique you better be equal or better so let's see it
whats the name of the movie based on you 🤣
@ lol I’m not the type of person that would want a movie made about me- even if there was some reason I attracted enough attention that someone wanted to make a movie about me.
@@ozzietad666 just doesn't make sense why you would critique someone when you can't manage to do any better
his son Charlie would love you to visit and tell him all about it
I can give you a lift to his house if you want, im his mechanic 🤣
@ seriously- by the way you talking I’m guessing you’re one of his close friends - close close close - who would get down on your knees for him. There was plenty of that as well.
He is sinister 😬
I far prefer Chopper the comedian !
Hard Copy was the trashiest current affairs show ever.
He wasnt a good guy or a legend or anything but a dumb crim.
''Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story.'' You really do have to take the man with a grain of salt.