Далеко не первый раз смотрю этот фильм, но каждый раз восхищаюсь с новой силой: какая несгибаемая, сильная женщина! Как, наверное, хорошо быть такой! Мерил Стрип, как всегда, неподражаема, и даже морщинистая "белокурая бестия" (чуть не написала Брэд Питт) Роберт Рэдфорд хорош рядом с ней.
В поисках информации о книге (позднее обретенный-таки роман Карен Бликсен разочаровал), нашла прелестные цитаты из фильма:
Karen Blixen:
He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart.
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Karen Blixen:
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
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Karen Blixen: [Voiceover]
I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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Baron Bror Blixen: You could have asked, Denys.
Denys: I did. She said yes.
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[after placing a gramophone in a field near wild baboons]
Denys: Think of it: never a man-made sound... and then Mozart!
Scene: Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) washing Karen Blixen's (Meryl Streep's) hair on safari:
From THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
(Note: Denys Finch Hatton loved this poem. The lines
"He prayeth well, who loveth well /
Both man and bird and beast"
appear on commemorative brass plaques, once placed by Denys Finch Hatton's brother Toby on the obelisk at Denys's tomb in the Ngong Hills, and still found in Ewerby Church, Lincolnshire, England. In the flyleaf of the copy of the poem owned by Karen Blixen, Denys drew a picture of a rhinoceros. This drawing is reproduced in Isak Dinesen's Letters from Africa, page 140.)
"...- Laughed loud and long, and all the while /
His eyes went to and fro. /
Ha, ha, quoth he, full plain I see /
The Devil knows how to row.
Farewell, farewell, but this I tell /
To thee, thou Wedding Guest: /
He prayeth well, who loveth well /
Both man and bird and beast."
From THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
(Note: Denys Finch Hatton loved this poem. The lines
"He prayeth well, who loveth well /
Both man and bird and beast"
appear on commemorative brass plaques, once placed by Denys Finch Hatton's brother Toby on the obelisk at Denys's tomb in the Ngong Hills, and still found in Ewerby Church, Lincolnshire, England. In the flyleaf of the copy of the poem owned by Karen Blixen, Denys drew a picture of a rhinoceros. This drawing is reproduced in Isak Dinesen's Letters from Africa, page 140.)
"...- Laughed loud and long, and all the while /
His eyes went to and fro. /
Ha, ha, quoth he, full plain I see /
The Devil knows how to row.
Farewell, farewell, but this I tell /
To thee, thou Wedding Guest: /
He prayeth well, who loveth well /
Both man and bird and beast."
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Karen Blixen:
Karen Blixen:
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
Интересное есть здесь и здесь.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa
http://www.karenblixen.com/question69a.html
