Out Of Africa (1985)

 

 

 

광활한 아프리카 하늘을 가르는 자유인의 비행   덴마크 출신의 여류작가 아이작 디너센의 자전적 소설을 영화화한 작품. 광활한 아프리카의 풍경과 모짜르트의 클라리넷 협주곡을 잊을 수 없게 하는 영화. 아이작은 부친의 자살 때문에 사춘기를 충격과 방황속에서 보낸다. 하지만 막대한 유산을 물려받은 그녀는 과거를 짓누르는 고통에서 벗어나고자 스웨덴 귀족 브로와 결혼해 케냐로 향한다.   방랑벽을 가진 남편으로 인해 광활한 아프리카 대륙에서 고독하게 지내던 아이작은 모험가 데니스와의 만남으로 새로이 삶의 활력을 되찾는다.그러나 안정적인 삶에 익숙한 아이작은 데니스를 사랑할수록 그의 자유로움을 속박하게 된다. 간신히 이어지던 그들의 사랑도 잠시, 데니스의 비행기 사고 소식을 들은 아이작은 고향으로 돌아갈 결심을 한다. 오랜 세월 뒤 아이작은 데니스에게서 선물받은 만년필을 바라보며꿈결같은 지난 추억에 휩싸인다.장대한 아프리카를 배경으로 개성이 강한 두 남녀의 사랑과 삶을 다루었는데, 1985년 아카데미 최우수작품상을 비롯 7개 부문을 수상했다. 절정에 오른 로버트 레드포드와 메릴 스트립의 연기, 완벽한 연출과 훌륭한 촬영이 나무랄 데 없는 영화 ... 흐르고 있는 노래는영화 [아웃 오브 아프리카]에서 주제곡으로 삽입 되었던 바로 그 노래...         Stay with me till the morning...   Dana Winner   Dawn breaks above the neon lights Soon the day dissolves the night Warm the sheets caress my emptiness as you leave Lying here in the afterglow Tears in spite of all I know Prize of foolish sin I can't give in Can't you see Though you want to stay You're gone before the day I never say those words How could I Stay with me till the morning I've walked the streets alone before Safe I'm locked behind my door Strong in my belief No joy or grief touches me But when you close your eyes It's then I realize There's nothing left to prove So darling Stay with me till the morning when you close your eyes It's then I realize There's nothing left to prove So darling Stay with me till the morning Stay with me till the morning 네온 불빛 위로 새벽동이 트고 밤은 점차 사라지면서 곧 날이 밝아오네요 당신이 떠나며 내 공허함을 어루만져주고 따뜻하게 해주었죠 저녁 놀 아래 여기에 누워 모든 걸 알지만 난 눈물이 나네요 어리석은 잘못의 보상을 난 포기할 수 없어요 모르시겠어요? 당신은 머물기를 원하지만 날이 밝기 전에 떠났어요 아침이 올 때 까지 내곁에 있어 달라는 그 말을 차마 할 수 없었어요. 난 문 뒤에 갇혀 안전하느니 홀로 나와 거리를 걸어왔죠. 기쁨도 슬픔도 날 감동시키지 못한다는 나만의 확고한 믿음이 있어요 하지만 당신이 눈을 감으면 그때 난 깨닫게 되요 확인할 것이 아무것도 남지 않았다는걸 그러니 그대여 아침이 올 때 까지 내곁에 머물러 주어요 당신이 눈을 감으면 그때 난 깨닫게 되요 확인할 것이 아무것도 남지 않았다는걸 그러니 그대여 아침이 밝아오기 전까지 내곁에 머물러주어요. 아침이 밝아오기 전까지 내곁에 머물러주어요.

 

 

 

 

For the 1985 film based on this novel.

For the theory on the origin of modern humans.

 

 

Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then translated it into Danish.

 

 

 

Plot

 

The film opens in Denmark as an older Karen Blixen (Streep) briefly remembers hunting in Denmark, then the years she spent in Africa (1914–1931). Looming large in her memory is the figure of Denys Finch Hatton (Redford), a local big-game hunter she met when she arrived in Africa to start what she thought would be a dairy farm together with her husband, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke (Brandauer).

Things turn out differently for her than anticipated, as the blue-blooded but poor Baron has used her money to purchase a coffee plantation instead of a dairy farm. He also shows little inclination to put any work into it, preferring to hunt game instead. While from the beginning, their marriage is depicted as mostly symbiotic (her family has money, while the Baron has a title), Karen does eventually develop feelings for him and is distressed when she learns of his extramarital affairs.

To make matters worse, she contracts syphilis from her philandering husband, which at the time was a very dangerous condition, necessitating her return to Denmark for a possible cure using the (1910) medicine Salvarsan (before the advent of penicillin).

After she has recovered and returned to Africa, a relationship between her and Denys begins to develop. However, after many unsuccessful attempts at turning their affair into a lasting relationship, she realizes that Denys is as impossible to own or tame as Africa itself.

Karen lives surrounded by fine European furniture and opens a school to teach European reading and customs to the native people, whereas Denys prefers the freedom of the outdoors and leaves the natives to their own customs. His eventual death in a plane crash is foreshadowed in the movie by the tale of Maasai people who would perish in captivity. At his funeral in the Ngong Hills, as Karen prepares to toss a handful of soil into the grave, she hesitates, then turns away from the other Europeans, brushing her hand instead through her hair, in the native custom.

In the film Karen is forced to return to Denmark, following a catastrophic fire that destroys her entire crop of coffee. After more than 20 years, Karen has become an author, a storyteller, writing about her experiences and letters from Africa, and remembering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Out of Africa Soundtrack - John Barry