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A 1988 film directed by Michael Apted, ''Gorillas in the Mist'' starred Creator/SigourneyWeaver as RealLife naturalist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey Dian Fossey]].

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A 1988 film directed by Michael Apted, Creator/MichaelApted, ''Gorillas in the Mist'' starred Creator/SigourneyWeaver as RealLife naturalist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey Dian Fossey]].
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Per TRS, Aluminum Christmas Trees is YMMV. Removed this part because it's natter.


* ScarecrowSolution: In one scene, Dian wears a monster mask to scare the superstitious native poachers. It's just as ridiculous as it sounds, but it's something she ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees actually did in real life]]''.

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* ScarecrowSolution: In one scene, Dian wears a monster mask to scare the superstitious native poachers. It's just as ridiculous as it sounds, but it's something she ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees actually did in real life]]''.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Dian purchasing a monster mask to scare the poachers? She ''really did that''.
** Dian beating her chest to attract gorillas' attention and blend in better? Without turning them hostile or scaring them away? This really did happen in her early days. Fortunately, she quickly learned not to do it.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to ''provoke'' them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight. But she ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees really did that]]'' in her early days until she learned better.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Dian purchasing a monster mask to scare the poachers? She ''really did that''.
** Dian beating her chest to attract gorillas' attention and blend in better? Without turning them hostile or scaring them away? This really did happen in her early days. Fortunately, she quickly learned not to do it.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to ''provoke'' them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight. But she ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees really ''really did that]]'' that'' in her early days until she learned better.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Dian purchasing a monster mask to scare the poachers? She ''really did that''.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to ''provoke'' them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight.

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* AluminumChristmasTrees: AluminumChristmasTrees:
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Dian purchasing a monster mask to scare the poachers? She ''really did that''.
** Dian beating her chest to attract gorillas' attention and blend in better? Without turning them hostile or scaring them away? This really did happen in her early days. Fortunately, she quickly learned not to do it.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to ''provoke'' them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight. But she ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees really did that]]'' in her early days until she learned better.

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* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:The poacher who killed Fossey, as the film was made just as the investigation into her murder was underway.]]

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* TheFaceless: [[spoiler:The poacher individual who killed Fossey, as the film was made just as the investigation into her murder was underway.]]


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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Digit is decapitated at some point during or after his death.]]


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* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:When Dian is buried, her friend Sembagare uses stones to link her grave with Digit's, symbolizing how their souls now rest in peace together.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: To blend in with the gorillas, Dian beats her chest. In reality, this would be more likely to ''provoke'' them, since gorillas generally use chest pounding as a dominance display or a challenge to a fight.



* TheUnsolvedMystery: TruthInTelevision, The movie ends with the POV of Fossey’s murderer-- which remains unsolved.

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* SlainInTheirSleep: [[spoiler:Dian is killed by an unknown assailant with a machete while she sleeps.]]
* TheUnsolvedMystery: TruthInTelevision, The the movie ends with the POV of Fossey’s murderer-- [[spoiler:Fossey’s murderer]]-- which remains unsolved.
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: The movie ends with the POV of Fossey’s murderer, her murder remains unsolved.

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* TheUnsolvedMystery: TruthInTelevision, The movie ends with the POV of Fossey’s murderer, her murder murderer-- which remains unsolved.

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