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Post by janntosh on Jul 22, 2021 1:59:03 GMT
Definitely a classic! Bogart and Hepburn are great and have great chemistry. Filming most of the movie in Africa adds to the authenticity. You can see the influence of this movie on loads of adventure type movies after it (the dumping of the gin scene immediately brings up the part where Elizabeth gets rid of the rum in the first Pirates movie). There are some terrible rear projection effects on the boat but what can you do. Though you have to wonder, aren't they pretty much doomed in the end? Who is rescuing them? If they don't get eaten by alligators first. Lol also has one of the best lines ever "I now pronounce you man and wife, prepare the execution"  |
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 22, 2021 2:12:06 GMT
Doesn't Disney now have a new version of this or something?
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Post by mgmarshall on Jul 22, 2021 2:12:10 GMT
Definitely a classic! Bogart and Hepburn are great and have great chemistry. Filming most of the movie in Africa adds to the authenticity. You can see the influence of this movie on loads of adventure type movies after it (the dumping of the gin scene immediately brings up the part where Elizabeth gets rid of the rum in the first Pirates movie). There are some terrible rear projection effects on the boat but what can you do. Though you have to wonder, aren't they pretty much doomed in the end? Who is rescuing them? If they don't get eaten by alligators first. Lol also has one of the best lines ever "I now pronounce you man and wife, prepare the execution" I'd like to believe they swam to safety. They're too adorable for me to contemplate the alternative.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 22, 2021 2:14:39 GMT
Doesn't Disney now have a new version of this or something? Jungle Cruise? |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 22, 2021 2:27:06 GMT
Walt Disney Pictures presents
the story of a special girl from a little village in Nairobi
who discovers that she is next line for the English throne.
But she's really a boy!
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
The poster would be under a picture of her/him holding a spear while sitting on a throne and
all these white officials and servants behind her
The tagline would say:
In a land of privilege and prejudice,
they all got the royal shaft!
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 22, 2021 9:13:47 GMT
Grand adventure. A two-person show for the most part. Hepburn already proved she was able to handle broad comedy in Bringing Up Baby, but who at that time would have thought Bogart could match her scene for scene without it slipping into farce.
I've always liked Bogart-Bacall over Tracy-Hepburn. In The African Queen the new matchup works with perfection. It's a shame they didn't get together again (and I don't mean for a Queen sequel), because the chemistry on screen is terrific.
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Post by wmcclain on Jul 22, 2021 11:46:03 GMT
The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston. When I first saw this it seemed to me that Bogart and Hepburn lacked chemistry. It works better for me now. At first they squabble like an old married couple, then fall in love like goofy teenagers. Somehow I missed the fade-to-black sex scene. Afterward she calls him "dear" and gives him breakfast in bed -- a blanket on the deck. Something I noticed for the first time: Jack Cardiff's photography and the score by Allan Gray give this a strong Powell & Pressburger tone. Even the titles remind me of their films. A notoriously difficult shoot, the African scenes figure in several histories and biographies, as well as a Clint Eastwood picture: White Hunter Black Heart (1990). Huston was always difficult: he and Bogart lived on whiskey instead of water, which Hepburn admits kept them from getting sick. She wasn't so lucky. It's not all on location: they use studio and process shots and some model work. Is the film unkind to the locals? They scramble for a castoff cigar and seem generally unlovely. At least they show up for Methodist services and leave their weapons at the door, even if they don't know the hymns. Anyway: they're gone after the first 10 minutes. Available on Blu-ray. 
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Post by politicidal on Jul 22, 2021 12:49:42 GMT
Elements of this movie were almost incorporated into Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade during its early development as Indiana Jones and the Monkey King.
This was when it was set in East Africa (despite the Monkey King being a mythic Chinese figure but whatever) with a long segment set on a rusty steamboat and the love interest was described as a Katherine Hepburn type.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jul 22, 2021 13:32:13 GMT
As much as I love Bogie, and even though it's a classic, I just can't warm up much to this one. It's well-acted, directed, and has some genuinely great moments it just seems like the sum is lesser than its parts. I'm not terribly fond of Hepburn, that might be a large factor for me. Still, I do have a respect and admiration for the movie, even if it's not amongst my top Bogie films.
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Post by louise on Jul 23, 2021 13:45:21 GMT
Great film. my favourite line is Kather8ne Hepburn after shooting the rapids “I never dreamed any mere physical experience could be so stimulating”
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