The sound track of the movie is really great. I have the CD and the DVD. One of my very favorite movies. I listen to the soundtrack while I’m driving. Very calming and soothing.
Before she made it, when she would travel on the train to go to auditions, she told a story about how she was told to give up because, "quite frankly, you are not attractive enough to ever be a successful actress." She said she got back on the train and knew she had to decide to keep going and she did. She never let that a-hole or anyone else steal her dream and aren't we the lucky ones that she never did. What would this film or so many others be without wonderful Meryl Streep? And such a kind, smart human as well.
Such a wonderful movie. This sort of thing isn't shown enough ,even now a days. An accurate film of the American Civil war would show how many soldiers died from illness and venereal disease. The military had to build entire hospitals just for the VD cases alone!! LOVED her hat!
During the civil war, the Union army used to have “laundresses” that would follow the camps. It got so bad at any given time 1/4 of their fighting forces were on the casualty lists due to venereal diseases
@@ER-uy7ct I think the commoner was just providing something similar that does not relate to this film in that way. The comment was pointing out that this film was realistic while so many of the Civil War brush over this topic.
One of my most favorite movies. What a tandem Meryl and Robert Redford, what a production. It makes me feel sad as they unfortunately don’t make movies like this anymore…
I moved to Kenya just after this film was released and lived a couple of miles from the house that was used in the film, not far from Karen’s original house which was a museum. I watch this film regularly to remind me how beautiful the country is, even though Nairobi has changed a lot, even in the twenty five years since I left.
If I got an STD and all my husband (who would be the only person I would get it from) would say is “sorry”…well, let’s just say that he’d be lucky if a clean divorce was all he got.
Sure... You realize those were different times? It's easy to judge from a modern perspective. Plus, they had marriage of convenience (at least in the movie) and at this point were more like business partners so marriage wasn't beneficial at that point. They still divorced eventually.
This was a great film! I plunged myself into reading for the first time of my life when I saw it. I purchased all the works of Isak Dinesen and read her books over and over as it put me in a different world every time. She was an amazing woman.
I read a book by Emma Donoghue The Sealed Letter, a wonderful & sad story, coincidentally the couple in the true story were the grandparents of the pilot (played by Robert Redford). His mother had inherited 30,000 pounds making her rather wealthy back then.
I went to the doctor recently with a staph infection, and the doctor immediately accused me of having syphilis. Maybe don’t lead with that until you ask some questions first.
That's ridiculous. I went to the ER once with a rash and the doctor asked if i had been traveling to a 3rd world country because leprosy is making a comeback. He was dead serious.
If you don’t want to be exclusive to the woman you MARRY at least leave her and TELL her why instead of skirting around! Yes, it will hurt AND you may suffer great losses, just don’t ever do something cruel like this.
They had an arrangement. She wanted his title and he needed her money. It wasn’t a love match to begin with. Not excusing his behavior, just putting the situation in context.
in the 80s we used to say that Streep picked her roles according to whether she a) was required to learn a new accent and b) would play suffering. She really was the original Oscar bait movie star.
It is beautiful, isn’t it! I have it downloaded onto my computer. I first heard it when I was at the hospital with my friend for a couple of nights. She and her family had been in a horrible car accident. My friend was hurt the worst. She ended up being a quadriplegic from her injuries. Anyway, she asked me to play the Out of Africa soundtrack on the cassette player during those two nights I was there with her. It was calming for her. The power of music!
I watched Out of Africa just before finding out my application to the Peace Corps had been accepted, and that I was going to Africa. It fueled my excitement and was such a beautiful film.
She married him, but she was in love with this twin brother, she never loved him truly; secondly, she wanted a title, and he was Baron; he needed money to pay for his gambling habits... It started completely wrong and ended up worse. Unfortunately, she was a great person with a heart of gold and people took advantage of her.
I've been a fan of Meryl Streep since Kramer vs Kramer. I love this movie. However, when I received the book as a gift, I was terribly disappointed just as I was with the written novellas for Bridges of Madison County and a River Runs Through It, but I also love those movies.
I went for a student exchange in the 90ies to denmark and the host family took me to Karen Blixens house except at 15 i probably didnt appreciate it as much. Even so, im glad they did. Denmark is gorgeous!
Me too! I turned 17 in Denmark when I was there as an exchange student. I visited Karen's house and resting place with my host family, as well. I even saw the film in Denmark that summer with friends - it had been out only a year, and was new in the Danish theaters at the time. I fell in love with the country and its people.
a much older friend of mine, married lady, was given it by her husband in the 1970s. The coward took her out to a very posh restaurant in London to break the news to her. He knew she wouldn;t make a scene there. However, on coming home she collapse in the hallway - screaming. Unforgiveable of him. They divorced a few years later. I knew him slightly. Monster of a personality all round. She had four children by him and stood by him as he built a very successful firm, doing without out. This was her payment.
@@Serenityblu23 they also used arsenic to treat her as well as mercury. The syphilis degenerated her nerves for the rest of her life. She had to have a third of her stomach removed due to an ulcer. They think the mercury and arsenic treatment was from heavy metal poisoning that caused the heavy pain symptoms and the tabes like neurological symptoms.
@@Serenityblu23 after the horrible treatment I described with the mercury and arsenic and the horrible nerve damage and pain and the heavy metal poisoning with having a third of her stomach removed due to the ulcer. She eventually died of malnutrition.
If you meant the movie Aurore, made in 2005 about the young Canadian girl Aurore Gagnon who was killed by her abusive stepmother and father, no. According to IMDb, the actor who plays the doctor in this movie is not on the cast list.
Apparently when she died there was no sign of her having had syphilis. But she was a veteran speed user which accounts for her bizarre look later in life.
Different tastes. There are plenty of action movies out there. This is a beautifully done period story, for those of us who are bored by action movies.
The "I'm sorry" scene just doesn't play very well at all. "I'm sorry" for giving his wife syphilis? He's saying it like "I'm sorry for forgetting it was your birthday yesterday". ????? Who wrote this soap opera? Makes no sense to me.
The main character is based on the person who wrote it. Karen Blixen, who wrote as Isak Dinesen, her birth name. Out of Africa is One of the bestsellers of century 20. I love how you know zilch and act as though your feels are relevant.
I discovered Meryl Streep at the age of thirteen, I saw a lot of her work since the eighties and nineties and I kinda started losing interest in her films from the Devil Wears Prada. I didn’t even watch The Bridges of Madison County.
My first wife brought this movie home one night from Blockbuster. Fuck...Three hours before I can get laid because I watched a stupid movie with you on a Saturday night? Seriously? To my surprise....this was an amazing movie. Seriously top shelf. It was so good...we watched it again the next night.
@teresamagnusson So am I. We wanted very different things from life and we both deserved what we desired. I am sure that concept is something you can never understand.
What a way to find out your husband is a cheater
If you have not read the book you have really missed a treat! Is more a love story of Africa than about a male/female romance. Wonderful!
I’ve forgotten how beautiful Meryl was and how beautifully this movie was…the book as well…thank goodness there is still this film to be seen.
She is more beautiful today🎉🎉🎉 Confidence radiates from older women.
The sound track of the movie is really great. I have the CD and the DVD. One of my very favorite movies.
I listen to the soundtrack while I’m driving. Very calming and soothing.
Was? She looks great now too.
Before she made it, when she would travel on the train to go to auditions, she told a story about how she was told to give up because, "quite frankly, you are not attractive enough to ever be a successful actress." She said she got back on the train and knew she had to decide to keep going and she did. She never let that a-hole or anyone else steal her dream and aren't we the lucky ones that she never did. What would this film or so many others be without wonderful Meryl Streep? And such a kind, smart human as well.
Someone once told me I look like a young Meryl Streep. I don't really see it myself but I was flattered. 😊
Such a wonderful movie. This sort of thing isn't shown enough ,even now a days. An accurate film of the American Civil war would show how many soldiers died from illness and venereal disease. The military had to build entire hospitals just for the VD cases alone!! LOVED her hat!
During the civil war, the Union army used to have “laundresses” that would follow the camps. It got so bad at any given time 1/4 of their fighting forces were on the casualty lists due to venereal diseases
This movie wasn't set in the Amerocan Covil was. This was set in Africa in the way 1900s.
@@ER-uy7ct I think the commoner was just providing something similar that does not relate to this film in that way. The comment was pointing out that this film was realistic while so many of the Civil War brush over this topic.
Very few of the Civil War documentaries discuss the massive field hospitals like the Satterlee hospital which was in west Philadelphia.
@@ER-uy7ct1913- 1931.
One of my most favorite movies. What a tandem Meryl and Robert Redford, what a production. It makes me feel sad as they unfortunately don’t make movies like this anymore…
You are so right. The 90s produced some corkers.
This was 80's. I had the movie poster on my dorm room wall
One of my favorite movies. Meryl is absolutely incredible in this movie, she should have won an academy award .
I moved to Kenya just after this film was released and lived a couple of miles from the house that was used in the film, not far from Karen’s original house which was a museum. I watch this film regularly to remind me how beautiful the country is, even though Nairobi has changed a lot, even in the twenty five years since I left.
I lived in Nairobi for 2 years when it was still beautiful & safe. This film brings back so many memories
If I got an STD and all my husband (who would be the only person I would get it from) would say is “sorry”…well, let’s just say that he’d be lucky if a clean divorce was all he got.
This happened a lot way back then. It was too bad for the women, that was their attitude.
@@51Saffron I know.
I’m talking about today. If I was married today and I got an STD.
Sure... You realize those were different times? It's easy to judge from a modern perspective. Plus, they had marriage of convenience (at least in the movie) and at this point were more like business partners so marriage wasn't beneficial at that point. They still divorced eventually.
@@51Saffron~ It still happens a lot now. When children test positive for STDs, they are discovered to be victims of incest or sexual assault.
He gives her syphilis and then says sorry. Jeez! 🙄
Exactly and with a "what more do you want me to say" shoulder shrug. I can't stand that!!
I imagine these kinds of scenes were repeated many times down through the centuries. Many men were unfaithful and syphilis was not an uncommon result.
I doubt Jackie Kennedy even got a "sorry" from JFK.
And when she survives and comes back, she finds he has wrecked her farm plans! Sheesh!
The bast@rd Bond Villain!
This was a great film! I plunged myself into reading for the first time of my life when I saw it. I purchased all the works of Isak Dinesen and read her books over and over as it put me in a different world every time. She was an amazing woman.
I love this movie. This is one I would take with me to a deserted island and watch over and over.
"it's not what I thought would happen to me" I would imagine anyone w fatal illness feels that ❤
I think she means that she was hoping to be pregnant at this stage of her life.
She may have been referring to her husband cheating on her
“And if I’m not cured I will be insane”
What an amazing woman
Al Capone had syphilis it would go dormant & he'd be fine, then it would flair up & he'd be dangerous & erratic.
Insanity is a part of syphilis.
Pleased I'm celebate.
Haven't seen this movie in forever, time to watch it again. Thx for the clip.
I've never seen 😮
@@josefinagarza241 It's a great film based on a true story. The cinematography alone is stunning.
I read a book by Emma Donoghue The Sealed Letter, a wonderful & sad story, coincidentally the couple in the true story were the grandparents of the pilot (played by Robert Redford). His mother had inherited 30,000 pounds making her rather wealthy back then.
I went to the doctor recently with a staph infection, and the doctor immediately accused me of having syphilis. Maybe don’t lead with that until you ask some questions first.
That's ridiculous. I went to the ER once with a rash and the doctor asked if i had been traveling to a 3rd world country because leprosy is making a comeback. He was dead serious.
Accused? Or pondered?
That happened...
I don’t think doctors “accuse“ patients of illnesses.
@@anitas5817You might be surprised.😬
If you don’t want to be exclusive to the woman you MARRY at least leave her and TELL her why instead of skirting around! Yes, it will hurt AND you may suffer great losses, just don’t ever do something cruel like this.
They had an arrangement. She wanted his title and he needed her money. It wasn’t a love match to begin with. Not excusing his behavior, just putting the situation in context.
in the 80s we used to say that Streep picked her roles according to whether she a) was required to learn a new accent and b) would play suffering. She really was the original Oscar bait movie star.
I loved the soundtrack to this movie.
It is beautiful, isn’t it! I have it downloaded onto my computer. I first heard it when I was at the hospital with my friend for a couple of nights. She and her family had been in a horrible car accident. My friend was hurt the worst. She ended up being a quadriplegic from her injuries. Anyway, she asked me to play the Out of Africa soundtrack on the cassette player during those two nights I was there with her. It was calming for her. The power of music!
Love that movie. "I have a farm in Africa" I cried!❤❤😢😢
"I had a home in Africa"
Never watched this movie. I need to watch it ❤
It’s really is a brilliant movie and the music is too!
@@janetmannis8042wait until you see Robert Redford
I watched Out of Africa just before finding out my application to the Peace Corps had been accepted, and that I was going to Africa. It fueled my excitement and was such a beautiful film.
Excited for syphilis? 😂
so u grew up privleged lol
@@schoolinJOO So you grew up making assumptions? And you have the word School in your ID? Lol
STD's are up 300% or more in every state of the US for the entire past decade. The study did not include HV, HPV or Herpes.
Which clearly shows what else has gone up in the US. (Romans 1:26,27,28,29)
Lack of public health care.
@@nicolad8822No. Lack of morals and personal responsibility.
I don’t know the %’s, but they have all increased in the UK too, including syphilis
@@couldbegoodthere a new treatment resistant syphilis affecting young males
Beautiful movie, the soundtrack makes me cry so much. What would this world be without music 🎧 Beautiful music ❤
Meryl Streep. The best. 💜💕💜
Fiona Barnett would disagree. look it up
She married him, but she was in love with this twin brother, she never loved him truly; secondly, she wanted a title, and he was Baron; he needed money to pay for his gambling habits... It started completely wrong and ended up worse. Unfortunately, she was a great person with a heart of gold and people took advantage of her.
By far my favourite movie ever!
Meryl had been a beautiful woman and one
The best actress ❤
Any movie w her
Is a piece of gold ❤❤
She still is beautiful!!!
that's why she is called the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) by every actor that works with her.
Great movie, amazing music… Beautiful clothes…
You can’t have ‘just a touch’ of syphillis!
They mean low symptomatic exhibition.
I've been a fan of Meryl Streep since Kramer vs Kramer. I love this movie. However, when I received the book as a gift, I was terribly disappointed just as I was with the written novellas for Bridges of Madison County and a River Runs Through It, but I also love those movies.
Meryl Streep still sounds like herself with the accent, but Robert Redford sounds like a whole different actor .
she best actress of generation i remember what movie house i saw this movie in 1985
People should visit Karen blixen museum in Kenya
Tuskokee Syphilis studies. 🇺🇸
Wait a minute!!! I hate that i've never seen this but In all my years I never thought SYPHILLIS??!! would come out of this movie.!🤣
Memories of this film in high school
She loves Polanski the fugitive from American Justice.
True.
Sorry. That's all?
With that little 'shrug' as if to say, what can I say? The treatments at that time were horrendous.
It’s sickening
I went for a student exchange in the 90ies to denmark and the host family took me to Karen Blixens house except at 15 i probably didnt appreciate it as much.
Even so, im glad they did. Denmark is gorgeous!
Me too! I turned 17 in Denmark when I was there as an exchange student. I visited Karen's house and resting place with my host family, as well. I even saw the film in Denmark that summer with friends - it had been out only a year, and was new in the Danish theaters at the time. I fell in love with the country and its people.
Wow, I was a young when I saw this movie. I was today years old when I found out she got an STD!🤣😂
a much older friend of mine, married lady, was given it by her husband in the 1970s. The coward took her out to a very posh restaurant in London to break the news to her. He knew she wouldn;t make a scene there. However, on coming home she collapse in the hallway - screaming. Unforgiveable of him. They divorced a few years later. I knew him slightly. Monster of a personality all round. She had four children by him and stood by him as he built a very successful firm, doing without out. This was her payment.
Just in case you don’t know the treatment was horribly painful back then.
Did she live?
@@Serenityblu23 yes she did. I’m sure though she didn’t have a life without suffering. And I’m also sure it probably aged her pretty badly.
@@Serenityblu23 the treatment used mercury, so they often got mercury poisoning.
@@Serenityblu23 they also used arsenic to treat her as well as mercury. The syphilis degenerated her nerves for the rest of her life. She had to have a third of her stomach removed due to an ulcer. They think the mercury and arsenic treatment was from heavy metal poisoning that caused the heavy pain symptoms and the tabes like neurological symptoms.
@@Serenityblu23 after the horrible treatment I described with the mercury and arsenic and the horrible nerve damage and pain and the heavy metal poisoning with having a third of her stomach removed due to the ulcer. She eventually died of malnutrition.
Why are you deleting so many comments?
This was made during the aids crisis. That explains the weaping in the theater in my avant garde neighborhood.
Now she gives it to Redford.
Did she survive, go insane? I'll have to look it up. This movie never interested me but I thought I saw it - probably fell asleep before this part.
She did survive, she did not go insane. She wrote and wrote.
@@Kate-lk6tw Thank you. Then I got to wondering about her husband. She was lucky, Churchill's father went insane and died of it.
@@Kate-lk6tw I read somewhere it made her lose her hair. She always wore turbans after that.
Bravissima, anche con accento inglese
Yeah, he’s sorry, but not sorry enough to change his ways.
Out of Africa
I forgot how young Meryl was.
WHY did I never see that Movie?!
Was that Dr. actor in Aurour?
If you meant the movie Aurore, made in 2005 about the young Canadian girl Aurore Gagnon who was killed by her abusive stepmother and father, no. According to IMDb, the actor who plays the doctor in this movie is not on the cast list.
@@taylordelqeda1510 The actor who played the doctor was Irish actor Donal McCann.
McCann died in 1999, and didn't make too many movies. He's best known in the US for playing Gabriel in "The Dead."
Well...he is sorry.
Did the husband play in a James Bond movie? 🍿
I wonder if she told dennis?
She told him before they became lovers, after she came back from the home country and being treated. It's based on a true story
I❤Meryl streep ❤
Good movie just so depressing. Her lover dies she can't have kids and has to leave Africa. Her love interest is kind of jackass and treats her bad.
That is life
I watch this movie at least once a year. It's a beautiful movie, even though the time period was when women were second class citizens.
Apparently when she died there was no sign of her having had syphilis. But she was a veteran speed user which accounts for her bizarre look later in life.
The mercury "cure" she took for syphilis destroyed her health
Karen Blixen was also an anorexic
She was hardly alone in that, so was anyone who could afford it, including President Kennedy
@@Kate-lk6tw
Kennedy was prescribed amphetamines for Addison’s.
He got it from other men maybe...
Brothels
Saw this in the theater and thought it was awfully boring. I thought maybe I would have grown up since then , but apparently not!
It's a slow film but it's a good story.
I did not like this film when l saw it in the theatre and still don't.
I thought it sucked
Hahah same😂
Different tastes. There are plenty of action movies out there. This is a beautifully done period story, for those of us who are bored by action movies.
The "I'm sorry" scene just doesn't play very well at all. "I'm sorry" for giving his wife syphilis? He's saying it like "I'm sorry for forgetting it was your birthday yesterday". ????? Who wrote this soap opera? Makes no sense to me.
That's exactly what he was like in real life. They got his character spot on.
In their class and age, she was incredibly lucky to get that. It is a very, very common story.
The main character is based on the person who wrote it. Karen Blixen, who wrote as Isak Dinesen, her birth name. Out of Africa is One of the bestsellers of century 20. I love how you know zilch and act as though your feels are relevant.
Can you do better?
I discovered Meryl Streep at the age of thirteen, I saw a lot of her work since the eighties and nineties and I kinda started losing interest in her films from the Devil Wears Prada.
I didn’t even watch The Bridges of Madison County.
You saw a lot of her work in the 90s but not her biggest hit. Interesting.
@@richardherdman2121 And so, am I supposed to cry?????.
@@adaoramadike3543 nonlinear reply
@@adaoramadike3543 do you want to cry?
@@richardherdman2121
No there is no reason to.
My first wife brought this movie home one night from Blockbuster. Fuck...Three hours before I can get laid because I watched a stupid movie with you on a Saturday night? Seriously? To my surprise....this was an amazing movie. Seriously top shelf. It was so good...we watched it again the next night.
Get laid…seriously
That’s not why you didn’t get laid. It’s cos you’re unfuckable.
I'm glad she left you.
@teresamagnusson So am I. We wanted very different things from life and we both deserved what we desired. I am sure that concept is something you can never understand.
@@davidstick9207I'm guessing you wanted to be serviced on demand, and she wanted to be treated with basic dignity and respect.
Not quite Crawford, davis. The scripts are average.
Jesus saves.
Watching this clip gives me the feeling it was boring and slow moving film.
For your intellect, that’s likely true. It’s not for shallow dopamine addicts. Go back to shorts.
Dull.
A Streep detractor yet has the most comments on here. Interesting.
almost like real life ey Meryl? #fionabarnett
Does she have an STD?
Wish it was Meryl.
Limited range. Not quite a Bette.
limited gaslighting ability
Oh come on.....she's one of the greatest actresses of all time.