As far as the film itself is concerned, I think it's pretty good, but I didn't get into the drama for half an hour at the beginning. It's because I'm a lot more impetuous now, and it definitely wouldn't be the case when I was in college. Cynthia played by Ava Gardner is the key to bringing me into the play. This woman is not the kind of person who looks very bright at first glance, but her elegant temperament makes it particularly attractive. Especially the pain when she later found out that her lover's values were far from her own, which was vividly interpreted by Ava, which made her appreciate Hemingway himself. It seems that people really need to know as much as possible about each other's ideals in life before getting married, otherwise it will be really troublesome.
But the biggest accident in this film is Gregory Peck. In my impression, Peck always looks like a gentle gentleman, but in this film, he is a bohemian, talented, adventurous but depraved and depressed image. It can be said that Parker's self-challenge this time was very successful. He was very high-spirited and smug in the early days, and later lost, depressed, and indifferent. Even if it's not exactly like Hemingway himself, it can make this complex character appear very three-dimensional and believable in the film.
Due to age constraints, many of the natural scenes in the film look a bit fake, but for a film shot in the studio at that time, this is already quite technical, and it also won the film two Oscar technology awards. nominate. It's just that there is "Kilimanjaro" in the title, but there is no shadow of the mountain in the film. It seems to have become a legend, and it only appears in the puzzle about the leopard.
Regarding the leopard, I don't want to understand that it froze to death after getting lost. Maybe it was because I wanted to see the scenery on the mountain but died of physical exhaustion on the way? I haven't read the novel, so I don't know which one Hemingway thought he was more like. All I know is that he told Ava Gardner that the reason he kept hunting was to replace suicide, but he ended up killing himself.
The ending of the film is different from the novel, Harry was saved, but I thought from the beginning of the film that he would eventually die. No way, a happy ending has always been a guarantee for Hollywood to attract the box office. In fact, regardless of the outcome of the story, each of us, including Harry, including Ernest Hemingway, will eventually be eaten by that hyena like death. Fortunately, before being eaten, there is still some time for us to do those things that can leave a little imprint on life.
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