Hey, I recall seeing this movie at the cinema when it was initially released like 23 years ago. However I don't remember that much of it. Braddy bear is in it and a kid playing the Dalai Lama as a child and an actor playing Mao Zedong.
I'll watch it again soon if YouTube hasn't demonetized it and post a review here:
Ok yes it's been a long time since watching it on the big screen with the back in the day Mrs back in 1998.
It starts with some amazing cinematography of mountain climbing. Very vertical rock faces. Like my recollection of the history like two years after me and the Mrs back then, passing by Everest base camp myself in mid August, we find Pitt's character doing the same but around 60 years earlier (not that long ago), during the Nazi Anchlüss of Austria.
Pitt's character is a narcissistic Austrian. He dumps his wife at the train station and leaves for Mt Everest in a fanfare of media, looking to be the first German speaker to scale Everest. Supposedly it's based on a true story by the actual Austrian mountain climber.
Compared to Fury, which is really a masterpiece, a flawless movie. The acting in this movie is clunky and clumsy at times. It's the director's fault for not being competent. Pitt's character is supposed to be hung up on his ex wife even though he dumped her, then hung up on some Tibetan lady. Narcissistic and braggardly. You can't even tell where Pitt's real personality ends and the character starts. The accent Pitt uses is also South African not Austrian. I mean Pitt was such a bug [sic] name in that phase of his life and known for being a pretty boy. So sometimes his movies were silly like that although actually he was very prolific and had a lot of fascinating movies like Fight Club, (very entertaining). Anyway so that was the general thrust of this movie, great cinematography, a stint in a British prison. Escaping around Tibet. A great way to see Tibet. Then in the last phase of the movie Pitt's character gets chummy with the (current) Dalai Lama when he was a kid before he had to flee Tibet. I'm still watching that part so might add more later. I want to learn about this 29th president Harding, for now. Interesting.
Pitt's character:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer
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