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1990·Adventure·2h 16m
7.1
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
Directed by Bob Rafelson
based on novel or book
africa
river
expedition
nile
british empire
exploration
lake victoria
19th century
gay theme

Cast

Patrick Bergin
Patrick Bergin
Richard Burton
Iain Glen
Iain Glen
John Hanning Speke
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Oliphant
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw
Isabel
John Savident
John Savident
Lord Murchison
James Villiers
James Villiers
Lord Oliphant
Adrian Rawlins
Adrian Rawlins
Edward
Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan
Lord Houghton
Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo
Mabruki
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill
Dr. Livingstone
Matthew Marsh
Matthew Marsh
William
Richard Caldicot
Richard Caldicot
Lord Russell

Crew

Bob Rafelson
Bob Rafelson
Director
Bob Rafelson
Bob Rafelson
Screenplay
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins
Director of Photography
Mario Kassar
Mario Kassar
Executive Producer
Andrew G. Vajna
Andrew G. Vajna
Executive Producer
Michael Silvers
Michael Silvers
Sound Editor
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins
Camera Operator
Tim Lewis
Tim Lewis
Second Assistant Director
John Higgins
John Higgins
Gaffer
Ben Davis
Ben Davis
Clapper Loader
Scott Stevenson
Scott Stevenson
Assistant Editor
Todd Boekelheide
Todd Boekelheide
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Tommy
Tommy
Mountains of the Moon
Type of thing that once you start watching it’s impossible to pull your attention from it. Watched most of this at a bar event at Sugarloaf, it was awesome. The visuals, cinematography, animation, insanely talented athletes, and obviously the music all come together to make a truly memorable experience. 

Man those colors 😍.
Type of thing that once you start watching it’s impossible to pull your attention from it. Watched most of this at a bar event at Sugarloaf, it was awesome. The visuals, cinematography, animation, insanely talented athletes, and obviously the music all come together to make a truly memorable experience. 

Man those colors 😍.
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Alex Berkowitz
Alex Berkowitz
Mountains of the Moon
Mountains of the Mid.

The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.

That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.

What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.

I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.

hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol

P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
Mountains of the Mid.

The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.

That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.

What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.

I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.

hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol

P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
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