Out of Africa is an American 1985 epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is loosely based on an Out of Africa autobiography book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on Grass and other sources. The film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The book was adapted into a screenplay by author Kurt Luedtke, and directed by American Sydney Pollack. Streep plays Karen Blixen; Redford plays Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria Brandauer plays Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film include Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole; Malick Bowens as Farah; Stephen Kinyanjui as Head; Michael Gough as Lord Delamere; Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and model/actress Iman as Mariammo. It was filmed in 1984.
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Plot
Karen Blixen reminded her life in Africa where in 1913 she, as an unmarried Danish woman, was rejected by her Swedish noble lover, and moved to Nairobi, East Africa to complete a pleasant marriage with her brother, Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Bror had gone through his money and was reduced to wooing the servant girls; couples plan to build dairy farms. On the way to Nairobi, he meets Denys Finch Hatton, a great local game-hunter.
It was Farah who greeted him at the train station; Bror could not be found. So, at Muthaiga Club, she enters the men's bar to ask for her, and she is asked to leave. Karen and Bror get married before that day out in a "long" ceremony. When Baroness Blixen learned that Bror had changed the plan they had agreed to, instead set up a coffee plantation. However, his interest is more in running a great hunt on safari than in farm management.
Finally, Karen developed feelings for Bror, but she contracted syphilis from her during the First World War. Bror agreed to run the farm while he was undergoing treatment in Denmark. When he returned, he returned to work on the safari. They begin to live apart.
The relationship between Karen and Denys develops, and she comes to live with him. Karen and Bror are divorced. When Denys invites the same female friend on the safari, Karen realizes that Denys does not want the same kind of relationship she is looking for. She assures him that when he's with her he wants to be with her, and that marriage is not material to their relationship. He moved.
The farm eventually produced a good harvest, but the fire severely damaged Karen's farm and caused tremendous financial losses. Karen prepares her departure from Kenya Colony to Denmark by asking the ground for K'il? workers to enable them to stay together, and by selling goods he would not bring to Denmark.
Before the sale was searched, Denys visited the empty house and Karen commented that the house should have been so long; Denys says that he is getting used to his stuff. They agree that next Friday Denys will fly him to Mombasa; Karen went on to Denmark. Friday's coming; Bror arrives to inform him that the Denys biplane has crashed and burned.
After the funeral, he goes to the Denys club to complete arrangements to manage all the letters that in his absence may arrive; the members visited him toast. At the train station, he said goodbye to Farah, then came back to ask him to mention his name.
Karen later became a writer and storyteller, writing about her experience in Africa, even though she never returned.
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Cast
Production
The film tells this story as a series of six episodes fused loosely from Karen's life, interspersed with her narrative. The last two narratives, the first of which is a reflection on Karen's experience in Kenya and the second is the description of Finch Hatton's tomb, taken from his book Out of Africa, while others have been written for the film in a very lyrical style. The pace of the film is often a bit slow, reflecting Blixen's book, "Indigenous people do not like speed, because we do not like sound..."
Klaus Maria Brandauer is Sydney Pollack's sole director for Bror Blixen, even having difficulty choosing a successor when Brandauer's schedule will prevent him from participating. Robert Redford became Finch Hatton when Redford thought he had a charm that could not be touched by a British actor. Meryl Streep landed that part by appearing for her meeting with the director wearing a low-cut blouse and push-up bra, since Pollack initially thought the actress did not have enough sex appeal for the role.
Out of Africa was filmed using the descendants of some people from the Kikuyu tribe mentioned in the book, near the actual Ngong Hill outside Nairobi, but not inside Karen's three-room house "Mbagathi" (now the Karen Museum Blixen). The filming took place in his first house "Mbogani", close to the museum, which is today's milk factory. An important part of the filming took place at Scott's home, which is still occupied, and the Nairobi 1910s recreation was built throughout the year. The scene depicting the Government House was shot at Nairobi School with an administrative block that provided a close replica of the residence of the British colonials. The scene set in Denmark was actually filmed in Surrey, England.
Historical differences
The film quotes the beginning of this book, "I have a farm in Africa, at the foot of Mount Ngong" [p.Ã, 3], and Karen recites, "He prays well who love both humans and birds and animals" from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , which became the tombstone inscribed on Finch Hatton's tomb [p.Ã, 370].
The film differs significantly from the book, leaving devastating locusts of locusts, several local shootings, and Karen's writings about the German army. Production also underestimated its 4,000-hectare (16 km km) landscape, with 800 Kikuyu workers and 18-ox carts. The scene shows Karen as the owner of only one dog, but in truth, she has two same dogs named Dawn and Dawn .
The film also takes the liberty with the romance of Denys and Karen. They meet at a hunting club, not on the plains. Denys was away from Kenya for two years on a military assignment in Egypt, which was not mentioned. Denys flies and begins to lead the safari after he moves along with Karen. The film also ignores the fact that Karen was pregnant at least once with Finch Hatton's son, but she suffered a miscarriage. In addition, Denys is an English aristocrat, but this fact is underestimated by the recruitment of actor Robert Redford, an American actor who previously worked with Pollack. When Redford receives a contract to play, he really intends to play it as an Englishman. Pollack, however, felt the British accent would upset the audience, and told Redford to use his original accent. In fact, Redford is reportedly having to re-record a few lines from the initial filming, where he still speaks with an English accent.
The title scene of the film shows the main train, from Mombasa to Nairobi, while traveling through the Kenyan Rift Valley, on the steep back side of the actual Ngong Hill. However, the actual railway line is located on the higher side, opposite the Ngong Hills. The passenger car was actually a small/sleeping combination office originally used by a supervisor during the construction of the Uganda Railway and was the actual car from which a man was taken and killed by a lioness robber.
Soundtrack
The music for Out of Africa is composed and done by the English veteran composer John Barry. His scores include a number of outside pieces such as Mozart Clarinet Concerto and traditional African songs. This soundtrack collects Barry an Oscar for the Best Original Score and sits fifteenth on the list of 25 top American films in the American Cup. The soundtrack was released via MCA Records and featured 12 tracks scores at run times over thirty-three minutes. A rerecording performed by Joel McNeely and performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was released in 1997 through VarÃÆ'¨se Sarabande and featured eighteen tracks scores at run time in just under thirty-nine minutes.
Technical notes
In the Director's Notes on the DVD movie of Pollack 2005 The Interpreter , Pollack himself stated that he filmed Out of Africa and the subsequent movies of the decade in the 1.85: 1 widescreen; and that "... is probably the one I should have on the big screen" (ie the 2.39: 1 widescreen anamorphic display). In the director's note, Pollack stated that prior to the filming of Out of Africa films he made the film exclusively in the format and style of the 2.39: 1 anamorphic widescreen, and that he did not continue the anamorphic 2.39: 1 widescreen format until the film, The Interpreter , in 2005.
Release
Reception
Out of Africa received mixed criticism from critics.
The film currently holds a 59% "foul" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. Out of Africa is one of only a few films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture but currently has a "rotten" score (under 60%) in Rotten Tomatoes.
Accolades
- Academy Awards
The film won seven Academy Awards and was nominated in four further categories.
- Won
- Best Picture (Sydney Pollack)
- Best Director (Sydney Pollack)
- Best Art Direction (Stephen Grimes, Josie MacAvin)
- Best Cinematography (David Watkin)
- Best Adaptation Scenario (Kurt Luedtke)
- Best Original Score (John Barry)
- Best Sound (Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford)
- Nominated
- Best Actress (Meryl Streep)
- Best Supporting Actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer)
- Costume Design (Milena Canonero)
- Film Editing (Fredric Steinkamp, ​​William Steinkamp, ​​Pembroke Herring, and Sheldon Kahn)
- Golden Globes
The film won three Golden Globes (Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Original Score).
- AFI
Recognition of the American Film Institute
- 2002 AFI 100 Years... 100 Passions # 13
- 2005 AFI 100 Years Movie Score # 15
References
External links
- Sign out of Africa on IMDb
- Sign out of Africa in the TCM Movie Database
- Sign out of Africa at AllMovie
- Sign out of Africa in Mojo Box Office
- Sign out of Africa at Rotten Tomatoes
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