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%% * TheStoryteller: Karen is very good at stories.

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* TheStoryteller: Karen is very good at stories.stories. Various characters play a game of sorts with her, giving her random prompts and she spins elaborate, epic stories out of those.
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* EpicMovie
* FindingABraInYourCar: Karen took Bror back ''after he gave her syphillis'', but after she finds someone else's underwear in her car (not shown in the movie), she kicks him out for good.

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* FindingABraInYourCar: Karen took Bror back ''after he gave her syphillis'', syphilis'', but after she finds someone else's underwear in her car (not shown in the movie), she kicks him out for good.



* MarriageOfConvenience: Bror is a baron who doesn't have any money, and Karen is an heiress who wants to get out from under the thumb of her family. It seems like a good deal, although Karen probably changed her mind right around the time Bror gave her syphillis.

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* MarriageOfConvenience: Bror is a baron who doesn't have any money, and Karen is an heiress who wants to get out from under the thumb of her family. It seems like a good deal, although Karen probably changed her mind right around the time Bror gave her syphillis.syphilis.



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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Especially when you play them Mozart.

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* CommitmentIssues: Seems to be Denys' problem, as he continually resists any attempts by Karen to get him to marry her or enter into a serious relationship.
-->'''Denys''': I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life.



* InstantExpert: Denys and flying.

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* HopeSpot: Denys finally seems interested in a serious relationship with Karen, saying she's "ruined being alone" for him. [[spoiler: And then he's killed in a plane crash.]]
* InstantExpert: Denys and flying. [[spoiler: Averted when he dies crashing his plane.]]
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Before leaving Africa, Karen shames the colonial governor into letting the Kikuyu community on her property keep their homes by pleading on her knees in public.
--> '''Karen:''' You mustn't be embarrassed. I've lost everything. It costs me very little to beg you.
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Creator/MerylStreep stars opposite Creator/RobertRedford as Denys Finch-Hatton and Klaus-Maria Brandauer as Bror Blixen. It's directed by Creator/SydneyPollack, scored by Music/JohnBarry, and absolutely ''full'' of SceneryPorn.

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Creator/MerylStreep stars opposite Creator/RobertRedford as Denys Finch-Hatton and Klaus-Maria Brandauer Creator/KlausMariaBrandauer as Bror Blixen. It's directed by Creator/SydneyPollack, scored by Music/JohnBarry, and absolutely ''full'' of SceneryPorn.
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* AmicableExes: Bror and Karen remain fairly civil and friendly even after he gives her syphilis, and she kicks him out of the house and takes up with Denys. Karen lampshades this in a bemused fashion.
--> '''Karen:''' How do you manage it? To keep us friends?
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Based on the eponymous novel by Isak Dinesen, [[MoustacheDePlume pen name]] of Danish writer Karen Blixen, ''Out of Africa'' (1985) tells of Blixen's time in the Kenyan highlands in the years before, during, and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. It includes her unhappy marriage, her attempts at a failed coffee farm, and her romance with big game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton.

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[[TheFilmOfTheBook Based on on]] the eponymous novel by Isak Dinesen, the [[MoustacheDePlume pen name]] of Danish writer Karen Blixen, ''Out of Africa'' (1985) tells of Blixen's time in the Kenyan highlands in the years before, during, and after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. It includes her unhappy marriage, her attempts at a failed coffee farm, and her romance with big game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton.

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