can you guess the movie from its first and last image?
the answer is after the jump...
Of course it's Best Picture winner Out of Africa (1985) which we haven't talked about in a long while. It's impossible to convey to today's youths how obsessed people were with that movie at the time since it's fallen so far out of favor / public interest. But seriously it was a massive hit (roughly as popular with moviegoers in its year as The Batman was last year or Captain Marvel was pre-pandemic!), winning 7 Oscars, inspiring fashion trends, the soundtrack going Gold, etcetera. Even Streep stans don't obsess over it anymore! What is it that keeps some traditional prestige dramas in favor and others fade from the cultural canon?
Don't say "quality" because quality is wildly subjective and plenty of older movies of questionable quality are widely loved to this day! Why do you think people don't speak of Out of Africa anymore? Is it because Meryl didn't win for it and in the grand scheme of her career it now pales in comparison to some of her other acting transformations?