Very beautiful movie and throughout the movie there is a sort of tragic feeling. Sigourney is splendid as Dian Fossey. She lived her character. Absolutely nothing can be said against this movie. The slaughter of Digit, the Silverback was very painful and heartbreaking
Sigourney Weaver is disgustingly under-rated. Every time I see her in a movie, I get completely spellbound. She is up there with Meryl Streep and Glenn Close as one of the most talented and versatile actresses of the modern era.
I had the privilege and honour of seeing this movie with a close friend of Dianne Fossey - who corrected all the Hollywood embellishment and distortions of most things pertaining to Africa ... again and again ...
@AtLastOnTheGround yes she is. i totally agree with you. the first time i saw her was in the movie tadpole. she has this kind of thing over her that pulls my eyes to the screen.
@gallieman I'm dying to see her perform live onstage. She has a sort of presence that I feel would captivate the audience -- Something that so many stage actors lack.
To honor the memory of the now extinct Black Rhino, I plan to watch this film tonight then think about what might have been had there been more people like Dian Fossey.
The Black rihino isnt extinct,a subspecies of it is,the western black rhino,but thankfully to people like diane fossey the black rhino still survives,although still critically endangered.
@rodentcafeteria The name of the lady is Diane Fossey, and no, she was not killed by the gorillas. She was murdered by a person. Someone broke into her mountain cabin and split her skull with a machete. They never found out who did it.
No one knows for sure. Actually it is highly speculated that it was someone who knew her, not a poacher. Since they seemed to know their way around her home pretty well the night of the murder. But this movie does seem to portray it as being poachers. (Probably since it's suppose to 'drive the point home')
Weaver looks a hell of a lot like Lara Croft here...??? Nikolai is confused. Random line:Hey, to get through that forest, Weaver, don't fuck around in a jeep, get a flamethrower like everyone else for Christ's sake!
Muy bonito que hagan películas para "CONCIENTIZAR" a la gente y todo eso... Pero me parece una jugada bien sucia el hecho de que se tomen la vida de la gente luchadora y los buenos ejemplos para el mundo, con el fin de reclamar derechos de autor y lucrarse, lo que además contradicen lo que tenían como propósito para crear y publicar dichas películas. En realidad lo que hacen es acaparar esa información y retenerla al público general, y se exige solicitar dinero para destinar las ganancias lucrativas a los grandes magnates mundiales que luchan en contra de la proliferación de espíritus libres y luchadores como Dian Fossey, y más bien se contribuye al control, manipulación, explotación y atemorización de las masas.
@jshorva65 why are you using liberal as a slur? In the dictionary liberal is defined as "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties." Why do conservative Republicans think that's bad? Furthermore, you're showing your racism by calling black people "gorillas."
Very nice to make movies for "RAISING AWARENESS" people and all that ... But I think a good dirty trick that the life of the struggling people and good examples for the world taken, to use in order to claim copyright and profit, which also contradict what were intended to create and publish such films. Actually what they do is grab and retain this information to the general public, and solicit money required to allocate the lucrative profits to major global magnates fighting against the proliferation of free spirits wrestlers like Dian Fossey, and rather contributes to the control, manipulation, exploitation and terrorizing the masses.
@AtLastOnTheGround Well unfortunately Sigourney Weaver is flat chested, and doesn't have a face made for pornography, and in the Hollywood eye, those two elements are far more important than actual talent. That is why Megan Fox is more popular. *spits on ground*
@musicaltheatergeek79 " liberal is defined as 'a person who favors ... progress and reform and ... civil liberties.'" In practice, however, Liberals' idea of "progress and reform" is the replacement of the concept of Inalienable Rights with one of arbitrarily-defined and State-granted privileges called "civil liberties" and of permitting the State to conveniently usurp the power to re-define, suspend, revoke, or ignore "civil liberties" at its whim. In practice, modern Liberalism = neo-Marxism.
