Editing Out of Africa (film) (section)

==Production==
The film tells the story as a series of six loosely coupled episodes from Karen's life, intercut with her narration. The final two narrations, the first a reflection on Karen's experiences in Kenya and the second a description of Finch Hatton's grave, were taken from her book ''[[Out of Africa]]'', while the others were written for the film in imitation of her very lyrical writing style. The pace of this film is often rather slow, reflecting Blixen's book, "Natives dislike speed, as we dislike noise..."<ref>''[[Out of Africa]]'', p. 252</ref>

[[Klaus Maria Brandauer]] was director Sydney Pollack's only choice for Bror Blixen, even having trouble to pick a replacement when it appeared that Brandauer's schedule would prevent him from participating. [[Robert Redford]] became Finch Hatton, with Pollack thinking Redford had a charm no British actor could convey. [[Meryl Streep]] landed the part by showing up for her meeting with the director wearing a low-cut blouse and a [[push-up bra]], as Pollack had originally thought the actress did not have enough sex appeal for the role.<ref>"Song of Africa", ''Out of Africa'' DVD</ref> Before it went to Meryl Streep, the role of Karen Blixen was offered to [[Audrey Hepburn]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-14 |title=Anna Cataldi {{!}} Out of Africa |url=https://www.beautifulhumans.info/anna-cataldi/ |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=Beautiful Humans |language=en-US}}</ref>

''Out of Africa'' was filmed using descendants of several people of the Kikuyu tribe who are named in the book, including the grandson of chief Kinyanjui who played his grandfather. Much of it was filmed in the [[Karen, Kenya|Karen]] / [[Lang'ata]] area near the actual [[Ngong Hills]] outside Nairobi. The [[Chyulu Hills]] stood in for the less picturesque Ngong Hills. As Karen's farmhouse was at the time of filming a part of a local nursing school, the filming took place in her nearby first house "Mbogani", which is a dairy today. Her actual house, known as "Mbagathi" is now the [[Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya|Karen Blixen Museum]]. A substantial part of the filming took place in the Scott house and in a recreation of 1910s Nairobi built in an area of unoccupied land in Langata.

The scenes depicting the [[Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth|Government House]] were shot at [[Nairobi School]] with the administration block providing a close replica of British colonial governors' residences.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The thinking behind Nairobi's grand schools|url = http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/DN2/The-thinking-behind-Nairobis--grand-schools-/-/957860/1625562/-/128vpwfz/-/index.html|website = www.nation.co.ke|access-date = 2015-11-05}}</ref> The train sequences were filmed along a section of abandoned track between Gilgil and Thompsons Falls some {{convert|97|km|abbr=on}} north west of Nairobi. The steam locomotive, taken from display in the Nairobi Railway Museum was non functional, therefore a diesel locomotive was hidden inside a box car behind the steam locomotive and the diesel pushed the train along while steam and smoke effects were provided.  The scenes set in [[Denmark]] were actually filmed in [[Surrey]], [[England]].