Gorillas in the Mist

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Summary: Tragedy Turning To Triumph
Review: "Gorillas In the Mist" is one of the Top 10 films released in 1988. It explores Dian Fossey's life in Africa during her struggle to save the gorilla population, whom were close to extinction. The producers and the writers wonderfully desplict the emotional value of the times: determination, leadership, loneliness, love, friendship, and many more. The movie events are accurate to the actual events. Their research on the gorillas and Dian Fossey proves well thorough. Sigourney Weaver plays Fossey beautifully in her well-deserved Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated role(Best Actress). Her every drop of heart and soul is poured into the character in every scene. No other actress could perform this role at this level. All other actors also performed their roles wonderfully. "Gorillas In the Mist" is a triumphant movie perfect for all audiences. This film will be a classic in a few years.

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Summary: Animals!!!!
Review: "Gorillas In the Mist" is one of the Top 10 films released in 1988. It explores Dian Fossey's life in Africa during her struggle to save the gorilla population, whom were close to extinction. The producers and the writers wonderfully desplict the emotional value of the times: determination, leadership, loneliness, love, friendship, and many more. The movie events are accurate to the actual events. Their research on the gorillas and Dian Fossey proves well thorough. Sigourney Weaver plays Fossey beautifully in her well-deserved Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated role(Best Actress). Her every drop of heart and soul is poured into the character in every scene. No other actress could perform this role at this level. All other actors also performed their roles wonderfully. "Gorillas In the Mist" is a triumphant movie perfect for all audiences. This film will be a classic in a few years.

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Summary: Tragedy Turning To Triumph
Review: "Gorillas In the Mist" is one of the Top 10 films released in 1988. It explores Dian Fossey's life in Africa during her struggle to save the gorilla population, whom were close to extinction. The producers and the writers wonderfully desplict the emotional value of the times: determination, leadership, loneliness, love, friendship, and many more. The movie events are accurate to the actual events. Their research on the gorillas and Dian Fossey proves well thorough. Sigourney Weaver plays Fossey beautifully in her well-deserved Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated role(Best Actress). Her every drop of heart and soul is poured into the character in every scene. No other actress could perform this role at this level. All other actors also performed their roles wonderfully. "Gorillas In the Mist" is a triumphant movie perfect for all audiences. This film will be a classic in a few years.

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Summary: I've seen most of her stuff. This is one of her best.
Review: A great, and moving film. If you don't have it and like Siggy, then get it.

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Summary: Gorillas in the Mist
Review: Anyone passionate about wildlife will identify with this story and with Dian! Anyone who is not, will be transformed.

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Summary: Sigourney Scores
Review: Exciting true-life story of Dian Fossey, the American woman who fought to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa from extinction. The film makers faced considerable obstacles in reaching the remote area of Rwanda where Fossey worked and was originally planned to be made prior to Fossey's murder in 1985, but the film--directed by Michael Apted--is nonetheless so fluidly told that most of these limitations don't show on screen. Although the excellent on-location photography is essential to Gorillas' success, the film's greatest asset is Sigourney Weaver's bigger-than-life presence as Fossey. Weaver's tremendous physique--used so effectively in making her a match for the creatures of Alien series--allows her to hold her ground with the huge gorillas. Always a charismatic on film, Weaver meets the heroic demands of the film, whether confronting poachers, communicating with gorillas, mourning their loss, or even--in the least interesting aspect of the film--falling in love with Bryan Brown as the National Geographic photographer Bob Campbell. Probably no other American actress in the 1980s could have risen to this challenge as she did. The all-too seldom seen Julie Harris also has a small part as a Rwandan plantation owner and adds her own luminosity to her few scenes. Rick Baker ingeniously handled the film's make-up, mixing both made-up and real gorillas. As suggested above, the film does have a few drawbacks: much like the relationship between Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in 1985's Out of Africa, the romance between Weaver and Brown feels tacked on, and it is less interesting than her relationship to the gorillas. Also, Weaver's descent into seeming madness (which Weaver's unexplained coughing in the last section of the film suggests may have been prompted by her declining health) occurs suddenly in the sequence immediately following the end of her romance with Brown. I wonder how Weaver's character

might have been developed at the end of the film had not Fossey's murder occurred while the film was still being planned: would the end of her romance with Brown have been the end of the film, with a conclusion emphasizing the courage of her decision? And, if so, is that why the final mad sequence occurs so suddenly?

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Summary: Powerful, Beautiful, and Magnificent...
Review: I have always loved Gorillas and other primates along with Africa, so I have always had the deepest respect for women like Jane Goodall. But this movie was an introduction for me to an amazing woman known as Dian Fossey.

Sigourney Weavers wonderfully portrays Dian Fossey who leaves her life in the US to go to Africa to work with and study Gorillas. She falls in love with them and her work and stays. But she faces many problems including the safety and protection of her beloved Gorillas. Poaching is the largest problem and what poachers have done drive her to great lengths, including revenge...

Many people think of Dian Fossey as 'crazy' or 'weird,' but I have a very deep respect for this amazing woman who has worked so hard for what she loved. Her devotion has saved a species from extinction and the Gorilla population continues to grow.

I think it is time that we all wake up and open our eyes to what has been happening in our world...what will it take?

This movie is wonderful and should be seen by all people...it is a powerful story that we all should know about...Dian is an inspiration, and this beautiful film brings it all out. Enjoy!

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Summary: BRAVO!!!!
Review: I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has never seen it. I did find the poaching scenes very disturbing and difficult to watch but that may be because I am a passionate animal lover and activist. They are however vital to bringing an understanding to the poor gorilla's plight. Who would ever want a gorilla hand ashtray anyway....GROSS! It also broke my heart when Sigourney Weaver had to give up the orphaned gorilla she nursed back to health to the zoo broker only to find out she died a year later. If it weren't for Dian Fossey efforts, gorillas might very well be extinct by now. My praise goes out to her, as well as Ms. Weaver for the splendid job she did in portraying her.

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Summary: Sigourney Shines....
Review: I was lucky enough to have met Dian Fossey, at the Kigali Rwanda airport, in 1980 when my brother and I traveled to Rwanda for the smmer. We were in the Virunga Mountains and were mere yards from a giant silverback gorilla.

Sigourney did a masterful job portraying Dian. She really caught the gruff yet compassionate person that Dian was. She was successful in bringing Dian to the screen. That's something that seemed very hard to be able to do.

The only things that I found in error were just the following. She had a saint bernard, a real big saint bernard. Also, I don't think she would've run from a gorilla. Running from a mountain gorilla is the biggest mistake you can make. They run far faster then any person, and are far far stronger. There is no way that anyone could have out run them in that setting. It's pure jungle, you need to move branches out of your way no matter where you go. The only man made trails are almost never frequented by gorillas. Any paths that the gorillas make are much lower to the ground. They also don't stay too long in one spot, and don't return to that spot until the vegetation grows back.

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Summary: Environmentally Aware Tear-Jerker
Review: It's been a few years since I've seen this film, but I will never forget the impact it had upon me. Dian's passion for her work is relatable to lots of people who love their jobs. She is independent and very aware of what she wants. Her relationship with the gorillas is the most substantial part of the movie, in my opinion. The audience grows to care for them just as she has and when their lives are threatened, the audience fears for them as well. This is worth the watch and is the movie where I first grew to admire Sigourney Weaver. She is a wonderful actress and it is evident in this riveting and emotional film.