Out of Africa

Out of Africa

  • Director: Sydney Pollack
  • Writer: Karen Blixen,Judith Thurman,Errol Trzebinski
  • Countries of origin: United States, United Kingdom
  • Language: English, Swahili
  • Release date: December 20, 1985
  • Also known as: Jenseits von Afrika
  • "Out of Africa" ​​is a romance film produced by Universal Pictures, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford . On December 10, 1985, the film was released in the United States.
    The film is adapted from Karen Brixen’s autobiographical novel of the same name. It tells the story of Karen who married Kenya in order to get the title of a baroness, and later she had a relationship with the British explorer Dennis. In 1986, the film won the 58th Oscar for Best Picture and the 43rd American Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture in Drama   .

    Details

    • Release date December 20, 1985
    • Filming locations Shaba National Game Reserve, Kenya
    • Production companies Mirage Enterprises

    Box office

    Budget

    $31,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $87,071,205

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,637,290

    Gross worldwide

    $227,514,205

    Movie reviews

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    • By Sophia 2022-07-28 11:19:25

      Out of Africa--An Independent and Brave Love Story

      I had a farm in Africa at the foot of Ngong Hill. I had a farm in Africa. I have never been to Africa, never seen the savannah. But I always felt that I had to go once, and my life would be complete. I saw the sunset in the desert, in a small camp in the Middle East. It is big and round, with a bloody orange color, and it is on the front of an old European lady, full of desolation and desolation. The...

    • By Cullen 2022-07-25 15:49:42

      Out of Africa--Brave to Go Your Own Way

      "Dennis gave me a compass. He said it was used to guide the direction, but then I realized that we each have our own way to go." Maybe he already knew that the reason the earth is round is not to let us go too fast. I know the results.

      I recently found a new way. Life was so unhappy, and when I felt like I couldn't make it, I made myself even...

    • By Julia 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Traveled all over the land, but couldn't get out of the stickiness of fate

      When my cousin first fell in love at the age of sixteen, she took me to watch Out of Africa.
      I was about ten years old at that time, although in the class, the secret love notes between male and female classmates spread all over the classroom, and when there was a little secret with the opposite sex classmates in the class, I immediately spread it everywhere and thought it was love. love, for fear that the secret will remain a secret forever.
      But I subconsciously felt that it was not...

    • By Karson 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Africa through the eyes of the white woman

      Like another Meryl Streep-starring film, "Sofie's Choice," this one is narrated by a single author to unfold memories and stories. Two hours and forty minutes didn't feel long at all. There are distant clouds floating on the vast African land, inhabited by various wild animals, a lone figure is reflected in the hot red sunset, there are long and narrow waterfalls, rolling mountains, twinkling starry sky, blue sea, Seeing it makes you open-minded. A large amount of space in the film is used to...

    • By Bettie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Perseverance in the wilderness

      The magnificent music is probably the most eye-catching aspect of this film, and it is even a bit exaggerated, rendering the atmosphere a bit too much. By contrast, Karen's bleak and peaceful African career. What I want is gained and lost, and I feel a little helpless in the face of the free and boundless African wilderness. Marriage cannot limit a free soul, and fame and fortune are only the shackles of marriage. She has realized both. She could only accept it silently. She loves life, not the...

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    • By Vivian 2023-08-21 20:37:00

      1 The scenery is so beautiful and the camera is so atmospheric 2 The independent and strong women are really beautiful 3 We are not the masters, we are just passing by 4 Aunt Mei was so beautiful when she was young Touching a lot falls to the pen and pales. ....

    • By Luciano 2023-08-09 17:03:55

      I really don't like the love that happened between the colonizers and the hunters. Against the vast African background, this contest between marriage and freedom is a bit trivial, and the care for the indigenous people is also like a leader's inspection. Meryl Streep is an optimistic and open-minded independent female professional. One star for...

    • By Kelsie 2023-08-01 08:50:46

      The film based on the three books has a rich storytelling. The wild natural scenery in Africa is refreshing, and I don't know how the scene of fighting the lion was filmed in 1985. The heroine's character can be described as a model of strong and independent women, and the hero is so free and uninhibited like Brad Pitt. I always thought it was a documentary, but only after watching it did I know it was a romance, a love left in the African...

    • By Ophelia 2023-07-13 18:37:44

      If I know a song that belongs to Africa, belongs to the giraffe and belongs to the African Crescent, does Africa know that it belongs to me. Is my color still in the sky above the quivering plain. Will children invent games in my name. The shadow cast by the full moon falls on the gravel driveway, does it look like my figure? Compared with raw love, the simple wildness in the mysterious land is more moving. Melson wasn't facing the camera at all as he looked down on the wavy flock of birds from...

    • By Elfrieda 2023-07-02 15:25:25

      In fact, Karen played by Meryl Streep can be a little more...

    Movie plot

    Karen (Meryl Streep) is a wealthy girl who loves vanity. In order to get the title of baroness, she left her homeland Denmark to marry East Africa Kenya. However, the title of baroness did not bring Karen a happy marriage. In that vast land, Karen can often go out hunting and exploring, and she gradually fell in love with this magical land. In a hunting distress, Karen met Dennis (Robert Redford) , a young British nobleman . After...
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    Movie Highlights

    Although the film was shot in Kenya, Africa, the lions used for filming had to be transported from California because Kenya’s law prohibits the use of wild animals for filming.
    Audrey Hepburn was originally going to play the role of Karen.
    A lot of Bleeson’s real furniture was used in the filming.
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    Evaluation action

    "Out of Africa" ​​is one of the most representative literary romance films in the 1980s. The film is beautifully produced and faithfully reproduces the vast and magnificent exotic scenery of the Kenyan wilderness depicted in the original work. Sydney Pollack not only played a solid directorship in the film, but also injected many of the best film elements into the film. The excellent soundtrack and photography, and the affectionate...
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    Movie quotes

    • Denys: I like animals. Nothing they do is half-hearted. Everything they do is for the first time: they hunt, they eat, they mate...

    • Karen Blixen: [After Bror has agreed they can divorce] I suppose I should accuse you of something.

      Baron Bror Blixen: Say what you like.

      [laughs]

      Baron Bror Blixen: Whatever it is, I've probably done it.

    • Karen: He has got lovely books. Does he lend them?

      Berkeley: We had a friend... Hopworth, he'd got a book from Denys and didn't return it. Denys was furious. I said to Denys... "You wouldn't lose a friend for the sake of a book." He said, "No, but he has, hasn't he?"