Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of the author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film included Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole; Malick Bowens as Farah; Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief; Michael Gough as Lord Delamere; Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model Iman as Mariammo.
The story begins in 1913 in Denmark, when Karen Dinesen (a wealthy but unmarried woman) asks her friend Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Maria Brandauer) to enter into a marriage of convenience with her. Although Bror is a member of the aristocracy he is no longer financially secure, therefore agrees to the marriage and the two of them plan to move to Africa to begin a dairy farm.
Out Of Africa
Listen to the rhythm of the distant drums - Africa, Africa
Antilopes are running when the lion comes - Africa, Africa
Mountains rising high above the rageing sea - Africa, Africa
Life is never certain but the souls are free in Africa
Oh, out of Africa come the sweetest peace and the toughest fights
Oh, out of Africa comes the heartbeat of the world, out of Africa
Listen to the howling of a desert storm - Africa, Africa
Look at all the stars on a night so warm - Africa, Africa
Crickets say hello when the evening comes - Africa, Africa
Listen to the rhythm of the distant drums out of Africa
Oh, out of Africa come the sweetest peace and the toughest fights
Oh, out of Africa comes the heartbeat of the world
Out of Africa
Oh, out of Africa come the sweetest peace and the toughest fights
Oh, out of Africa comes the heartbeat of the world
Out of Africa
I struggle to think of a beastier beast
than the beast I became
Gone to the pub in pyjamas and slippers again
Driven only by the Herculean desire
To fill my body with anything
that helps me forget it's a body in the first place
Gone to the pub in pyjamas and slippers again
Humankind, never stood a chance
Too scared to leave the house
Far from the madding crowd
Gonna be a fatcamp hero now
So began, the chronicles of man
This weak distorted thing
Evil and all that jazz
Came out of Africa
Follow the Yellow Brick Road wherever
the damn thing goes
Winter just hangs around,
like a smoker's cough of sixty years
Stumbling through a no-frills life with a chip
on my shoulder the size of an iceberg
Winter just hangs around like a smoker's
cough of sixty years
Human Kind, never stood a chance
Too scared to leave the house
Far from the madding crowd
Gonna be a fatcamp hero now
So began, the chronicles of man
This weak distorted thing
Evil and all that jazz
Came out of Africa
Does winter just hang around
Like a smoker's cough of sixty years
We go where the bad people go
Gonna be a fatcamp hero now
So began, the chronicles of man
This weak distorted thing
Evil and all that jazz
Look what God is doing all across the land
See His Spirit moving
Feel His mighty hand
Breaking chains of darkness
Setting captives free
Look what God is doing for those who do believe
Glory Halleluia, look what God is doing (2x)
He is calling faithful men
To carry out His plan
So in the power of Jesus name
Go possess the land
Look what God is doing all across the land
See His Spirit moving
Feel His mighty hand
Breaking chains of darkness
Setting captives free
Look what God is doing for those who do believe
Glory Halleluia, look what God is doing (2x)
Take the living gospel
Mix it with some love
Add a little action
And see what our God does
Glory Halleluia, look what God is doing (2x)
1st verse again...
Glory Halleluia, look what God is doing (several times)
Out of Africa they took us
And they sold us as slaves for money
Who they could not sell
Dem kill dem, kill dem, kill dem
Now these things are changing
Black people killing black people
Some a dem a use guns
Some a dem a use knifes
But most of all the rest a dem a use dem mouth
Dem mouth
Black people we will never learn
We've got to stop this fussing and fighting
Stop this cheating and backbiting
Let us all try to unite
In these times my brethren