Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

March. 23,2010

Rating：

7.2

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Behind The Scenes Cinema On Cinema Film Shoot

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real African locations, barely overcoming all kinds of hardships and disasters.

Rudy Behlmer as Self

Theodore Bikel as Self

Guy Hamilton as Self

Tony Huston as Self

Norman Lloyd as Self

Nicholas Meyer as Self

Mark Rydell as Self

Martin Scorsese as Self

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Reviews

Ensofter

2010/03/23

Overrated and overhyped

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Smartorhypo

2010/03/24

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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Kien Navarro

2010/03/25

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Geraldine

2010/03/26

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Edgar Allan Pooh

2010/03/27

. . . the pot? I counted AT LEAST 27 folks opining during EMBRACING CHAOS: MAKING THE AFR!CAN QUEEN. Somehow, the masterminds behind this documentary could not squeeze in Clint Eastwood for HIS two cents' worth, even though he starred as "John Wilson," the fictional version of THE AFR!CAN QUEEN director John Huston, as well as directing the docudrama "Making of" for QUEEN, titled WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART. One of the main concerns in QUEEN'S notoriety (or infamy) deals with the cast and crew's "meat wrangler," who was hung himself by the shooting area's local government for feeding the Tinsel Towners tasty stews and cutlets made from the flesh of slain villagers. If I had an hour to examine a classic movie with such a unique tidbit of culinary data hanging in its closet, I would devote AT LEAST 45 minutes to exploring this aspect of Hollywood's insatiable appetite for "local color." Instead, less than a minute is spent here on this potential bombshell, as most of the "chefs" verbalizing here instead natter on about camera angles, diarrhea, lighting equipment, financial shenanigans, rewrites, whiskey, elephant hunting, toilet rafts, fake leeches, pseudonyms, blacklists, premiers, and Oscar races. I STILL want to know who "Et" whom, and what percentage the grub "donors'" survivors currently receive of the QUEEN's residuals.

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