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Hawaii (1966)

Drama | 161 minutes / 189 minutes (pre-release)
2,87 23 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 161 minuten / 189 minuten (pre-release)

Country: United States

Directed by: George Roy Hill

Stars: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow and Richard Harris

IMDb score: 6,5 (4.059)

Releasedate: 10 October 1966

Hawaii plot

"James Michener's novel reaches the screen."

1820. Abner Hale, a stern and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island of Hawaii, where he sets out to convert the people. However, the contrast between the two cultures turns out to be too great, although Jerusha does her best to understand the islanders.

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Jerusha Bromley Hale

Rafer Hoxworth

John Whipple

Charles Bromley

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Filmkriebel

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Exotic drama based on a book by Michener, about the conversion of the natives in Hawaii in the early 19th century. The film looked really good thanks to the outdoor shots, and with a story that gives a very plausible but also rather grim picture of the interference of the whites. Michener was known for his diligent study before writing, so you can also count on authenticity.

By the way, I found the missionary Hale, played by Max Von Sydow, an unbearable fanatic throughout the film, who was determined to eradicate age-old traditions. The film has some tough scenes, including the outbreak of measles, a disease imported by whites. Hawaii is not the romantic island film you would expect from the 1960s, because Michener came to the conclusion that conversion had a devastating effect on people who had lived harmoniously according to their own customs for centuries. Definitely worth watching, but the unsympathetic main character and the long running time regularly put pressure on the experience. With an early role by Gene Hackman.

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The idea of adapting a Michener novel into a film is, of course, absurd from the outset. Or at least for this kind of book, which is about a thousand pages thick and deals with a segment of the history of a place, a country, a people in a series of discrete chapters—or rather novellas in their own right. Perhaps the creators thought they could solve this problem with a trick, by extracting just a single chapter from this book. Still clearly hopeless, because despite the mercilessly sluggish running time, the story degenerates into a series of "and then, and then, and then." Here and there, the clever use of a voiceover that's actually the translator's voice, half-off-screen—that's an interesting trick, and one I don't think I'd seen before. And in the beginning, during the sea voyage, the visuals are beautiful—though also hopelessly amateurish in a technical sense.

The subject matter is rather cringeworthy: a fire-and-brimstone missionary who will convert the Black people without any respect for the thousands-of-years-old culture he's destroying with his braying. And even worse is the knowledge that there are still plenty of people who think such a thing is justified or even necessary. Von Sydow plays it frighteningly well, by the way, but that doesn't make his role enough to pull the film out of the doldrums. And Julie Andrews doesn't succeed either, and Gene Hackman doesn't stand a chance with his somewhat minor supporting role, to be honest. Apparently his first "real" film role, but hardly worth sitting through for that reason. And I can't find any other reason either.

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