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Gorillas in the Mist
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A 1988 film directed by Michael Apted, Gorillas in the Mist starred Sigourney Weaver as Real Life naturalist Dian Fossey.Fossey was one of "Leakey's Angels", at the time the world's leading researchers in the field of primates, inspired by anthropologist Louis Leakey. In the 1960s, she traveled deep into the isolated jungles of Rwanda to study endangered mountain gorillas. Fossey devoted her life to ending poaching at the cost of her relationships with the people around her. Her fight became more and more heated, to the extreme ends of confronting the Rwandan government and eventually burning down a poachers' village, which quickly put her in their crosshairs. | |
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The Unsolved Mystery | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_1181a575 | comment |
The Unsolved Mystery: Truth in Television, the movie ends with the POV of Fossey’s murderer— which remains unsolved. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Made just a few years after Dian Fossey's murder in December 1985. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to provoke them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight. But she really did that in her early days until she learned better. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_19da8a03 | comment |
Incurable Cough of Death: Subverted. If you don't know the story of how Dian Fossey died, you're liable to think her nagging cough late in the film, combined with her constant smoking earlier in the film, is foreshadowing a death by lung cancer. You would be brutally wrong.note Fossey did suffer from Emphysema toward the end of her life | |
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Going Native | |
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Going Native: After 15 years on the mountain, Dian most definitely qualifies. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Dian is murdered by poachers, but her efforts saved the gorillas from extinction. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: When Dian is killed in her sleep with a machete, all we see is the killer in shadow and her blood splashing onto a photograph of the gorillas. Rather justified, as in real life, the blow split her face. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_6acb89db | type |
Evil Poacher | |
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Evil Poacher: Dian has to defend the gorillas from poachers, who come off as this due to Dian being the POV character. They kill Dian in the end. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: The individual who killed Fossey, as the film was made just as the investigation into her murder was underway. | |
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Slain in Their Sleep | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_7bd88e4a | comment |
Slain in Their Sleep: Dian is killed by an unknown assailant with a machete while she sleeps. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: Digit is decapitated at some point during or after his death. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Dian to Van Vecten: "You like this ring? You want to keep the hand this ring is on? If I see or hear or smell you anywhere near my gorillas, you'll be writing with your other hand and I'll have a new ashtray." | |
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Scarecrow Solution | |
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Scarecrow Solution: In one scene, Dian wears a monster mask to scare the superstitious native poachers. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_9710c9a7 | type |
Biopic | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_9710c9a7 | comment |
Biopic: Of Fossey. While the film uses the title of her own partly autobiographical book, it is also based on other books and articles written after her death. A subplot of the film is Fossey's affair with a National Geographic photographer, which isn't mentioned in her book. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_a964d140 | type |
Gentle Gorilla | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_a964d140 | comment |
Gentle Gorilla: Once Dian manages to earn the trust of the gorilla troop, they treat her in a gentle, sometimes playful manner. Appropriate, as it was Dian Fossey's work that debunked the Killer Gorilla trope in Real Life. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: After Digit's death, she refers to her team as "fucking wogs". It's a sign of her Sanity Slippage. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Dian Fossey. | |
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Primal Chest-Pound | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_cfe31421 | comment |
Primal Chest-Pound: Dian beats her chest when she imitates the gorillas' behaviour to blend in with the group. The scene is a bit of a Fridge Logic, considering that chest-beating often means a display of dominance or a challenge to fight - probably not the best idea when you are trying to earn the trust of a 300-pound silverback. | |
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Mama Bear | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear: Dian Fossey came to consider the gorillas her family and was very protective of them. Do not hurt the gorillas when she's near. | |
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| Gorillas in the Mist / int_eeb2d092 | type |
Killer Gorilla | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_eeb2d092 | comment |
Killer Gorilla: Mostly averted, considering that Dian Fossey's research is exactly what debunked the myth behind this trope. The closest the movie gets to it is when Dian encounters the gorillas for the first time and the silverback charges at her. | |
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Motherly Scientist | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_f59bfc23 | comment |
Motherly Scientist: Dian Fossey, who considers her research subjects, the gorillas, as family. | |
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Together in Death | |
| Gorillas in the Mist / int_f6624c30 | comment |
Together in Death: When Dian is buried, her friend Sembagare uses stones to link her grave with Digit's, symbolizing how their souls now rest in peace together. | |
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