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Gorillas In The Mist
Dian Fossey launched a one-woman crusade to protect the mountain gorillas of central Africa and chose to live alone in their midst to study their habits. Passion gradually verged on obsession and ultimately she paid with her life for her fearless pioneering research. Sigourney Weaver stars in this remarkable testimonial to a heroic woman whose commitment was ultimately her downfall.
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Gorillas In The Mist [1988]
Sigourney Weaver more than earned her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in <I>Gorillas in the Mist</I>, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorising an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur scientist who researched and spotlighted Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas in <I>National Geographic</I>, Weaver is the passionate heart that keeps an otherwise flaccid film alive. <p> Unfortunately, the film's stodgy script and direction simply document Fossey's magnificent obsession, offering no insight into what lonely impulse of the soul led this extraordinary woman to climb up an African mountain to bond so strongly with gorillas. Cardboard characters include an eternally smiling, sexless African soulmate (John Omirah Miluwi), a perfect boyfriend (Bryan Brown) who has to be dumped in favour of gorilla-love, and stereotypical villains. Still, the African scenery is spectacular, and who can resist the cross-species thrill when the huge dark hand of Digit, Fossey's favourite, first rests in her outstretched palm? <I>Gorillas in the Mist</I> will please those who savour Sigourney Weaver's Amazonian fervour and the pure fire of her physical and spiritual passion--and harbour a slightly misanthropic fondness for liaisons between beauties and beasts. --<I>Kathleen Murphy</I>
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Gorillas in the Mist
A personal account of thirteen years spent living and working with a family of gorillas in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa. Dian Fossey explains her relationship with these shy and affectionate beasts and the ever-constant threat from poachers. author: Fossey, Dian; publisher: Phoenix
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GORILLAS IN THE MIST
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Phoenix Press Gorillas in the Mist: A Remarkable Story of Thirteen Years Spent Living with the Greatest of the Great Apes
<I>Gorillas in the Mist</I> is the story of Dian Fossey, an occupational therapist from Kentucky who, in 1963 travelled to central Africa in the quixotic hope of seeing a mountain gorilla in its natural habitat. Fossey had read everything she could about the reclusive and much-feared animal, and she returned from her trip convinced that most of the books were wrong.<p> During her seven-week stay in Africa, Fossey had a chance encounter with the famed primatologists Mary and Louis Leakey, who encouraged her to follow her dream of living among the mountain gorillas and learning their ways. In 1967 she did just that, setting up a camp on the slopes of the 14,000-foot Virunga Volcanoes of Rwanda and studying four gorilla families there. Although it took them some time to accept Fossey's presence among them, she was immediately impressed by their peaceful nature and by their generous, guileless behaviour--so unlike the images found in popular culture.<p> But, Fossey discovered, despite their peaceable way of life, the gorillas had many enemies in the form of poachers who hunted them for their hands, skins and heads--ghastly remains sold to the tourist market. Much of Fossey's thoughtful but often rightly angry memoir <I>Gorillas in the Mist</I> is a well-reasoned plea for the protection of the gorillas and the suppression of the poachers' black market. That argument found a wide audience when her book was published in 1983, but Fossey's work remains unfinished: she was murdered, probably by those very poachers, in 1985, and today there are fewer than 650 mountain gorillas in the wild. To read <I>Gorillas in the Mist</I> is a first step for anyone concerned with their preservation, and that of other wild species everywhere. --<I>Gregory McNamee</I>
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