Embracing Chaos: Making the African Queen (2010 Video) User Reviews

Can too many "talking heads" (or chefs) spoil . . . "

[oscaralbert · 8/10 · 23 March 2014]

. . . 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.

Splitting the cruel Man and the oustanding filmmaker!!!

[elo-equipamentos · 8/10 · 22 May 2019]

When I'd Watched "White Hunter Black Heart" l'd realized who actually John Huston really was, he claims kill an elephant as just a "Sin", on this marvelous making of The African Queen, all his weapons were seized at Nairobi's customs, then he goes to Belgian Congo where the hunting is free, in this point, I had to split the cruel man and the great filmmaker, so Huston was back to make an fabulous achievement at nowhere on Africa's core where he already had chosen to shooting the unpredictable and bold enterprise, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn at last will be make something together, the producer Sam Spiegel got the money and Huston got Bogie, who asking for Hepburn, who accept at once, the whole thing were a true mess, improvised installations was made in nearby area for all crew and casting, hard takes on African Queen were made under raft or another bigger boat, back on England they finally finish the underwater scenes, many curious stories and rumors are told by the living crew and old footage!!

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First watch: 2012 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8