Karen Blixen and recent memories of Africa
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills ... ". Indeed it is the beginning of the masterpiece of Isak Dinesen and thus also begins a romantic movies and quintessential African. I am talking as you know to "Out of Africa" (Out of Africa). Few movies are quickly identified with a continent, a country, landscapes, a people and a way of life is as exceptional as this Oscar-winning film.
The backbone of the film (and novel) focused in Nairobi, in a vast land at the foot of the hills in the shape of knuckles (Ngong), at that time just outside the capital of Kenya, and today the vast city swallowed by and integrated as a neighborhood where everything is named after Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), the unforgettable star changed his home in Denmark for a new life in Kenya coffee late 1913. There remains the farm, now a house museum, one of the main attractions in Nairobi. It keeps the house filled with personal items, machinery ...
We could almost say that Karen Blixen (on behalf of the film) is currently in Nairobi, Kenya and by extension,, lo que Livingstone to Africa. Omnipresence. The explorer-missionary particularly in southern Africa and in Kenya Karen. Throughout the length and breadth of the country is a succession of corners and places where it appears the name of Karen Blixen and her lover Dennis Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). Karen has a neighborhood, museum, school, etc.. in the capital, but it is also important commercial claim baptized when such accommodations. Sometimes well acclimated, but have nothing to do with history and physical presence of the protagonist, such as the Karen Blixen Camp in Masai Mara (fantastic tented camp on the other hand), Other examples include the viewpoint Out of Africa in honor of one of the most beautiful scenes of the film, and more accurate as Dennis Finch Hatton suite at the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, where the players came together and provided with facilities Finch Hatton directory services for their clients wealthy and bourgeois. The hotel also features Karen Blixen suite and other celebrities who stayed at this five star Nairobi as Hemingway.
Volviendo to the film, in the adventure story and above all love, succeed also landscapes and scenes in which Robert Redford spends weeks hunting safaris guide (Masai Mara Samburu y mainly) and throughout the film is showing his beloved Karen.
to fly propeller also hit a lake full of flamingos taking flight as the plane passes overhead at low altitude
One of the most beautiful scenes is the ride on his private plane. A bird's eye view will reveal some of the most captivating scenery and prop blow fly is also a lake full of flamingos taking flight as the plane passes overhead at low altitude. It is the Lake Nakuru, one of the most impressive national parks in Africa and destination reference for photographic safaris today.
The lake is a tribute to the film with his viewpoint. This is the viewpoint named Out of Africa, and stands at the west end of park. Since it shows a breathtaking panorama of the lake, the banks and the incomprehensible stain pink flamingo ... also bird's eye view, as if we were in the very air of Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.
As you can see the Out of Africa and the seventeen years that Danish Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke happened in Kenya are still recent.
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Clara Benitez
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It remains to hear the wonderful music of the film and get on the plane, my favorite scene. I would love to make that journey that you propose. I have a doubt, Does the photo of the house which is?
Clara Garcia Benitez
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Alfonso Polvorinos
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Hello Clara, The house pictured is the house (farm) the Karen Blixen and Nairobi. It is a museum and is one of the main attractions in the capital of Kenya.
Thanks for your comment.
Greetings.
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