Tuesday 29 March 2011

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)

An adventure in obsession...

What a character John Huston was. A man of large gestures, with a large vision. A giant among pygmies. Also, an outspoken harsh vindictive man, a man with strong passions. Does Clint have sufficient wild danger in him to match up to the role? Maybe. The actress playing the Katharine Hepburn role does it well.

A few fantastic scenes: where he verbally destroys an anti-semitic society woman by inventing a parallel story about her; where he challenges and boxes a hotel manager for abusing his black staff; where he counters the accusation that it is a crime to kill an elephant with the admission that it is worse than that, it is a sin.

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Amendments: corrected spelling from "Katherine" to "Katharine" Hepburn. Removed link to Wikipedia-sourced image. Added ranking image.



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