#MOVIE EXPLORER DISAPPEARED IN AMAZON MOVIE#
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When Fawcett & crew finally reach the end of the journey, the explorer finds shards of ancient pottery, leading Fawcett to conclude he has found proof of an ancient society, which he calls “Z,” that could perhaps even predate civilization in the Western World.įawcett returns to England a hero and is reunited with his wife Nina (Sienna Miller) and his family. The spears and arrows come fairly early into the trek, but Fawcett attempts to make friends with the natives and even leads the crew to a jolly time with a group of cannibals.

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Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson, virtually unrecognizable in a full bushy beard) along with the usual motley cannon-fodder crew (see paragraph 1), and along the river they go. (It’s always been all about money.) So Fawcett teams up with his best bud Cpl. With his path to Army glory blocked, Fawcett jumps at the chance offered by the Royal Geographic Society to lead an expedition into remote areas of the Amazon in order to find promising locations for the lucrative rubber trade. (With his father a well-known gambler and a drunk, it is said of Fawcett that he is “rather unfortunate in his choice of ancestors.”) But I’m getting ahead of myself.īased on the 2009 book by Henry Grann, “The Lost City of Z” centers on the real-life Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a bold British Army officer in the early 20th century who longs for recognition but never receives it, probably due to his station in life. But The Great White Hunter here is a man who takes on what he thinks is a job but which soon becomes a lifelong obsession.

Yes, there are still natives who attack the explorers’ boat with a shower of spears and arrows headed their way. “The Lost City of Z” is nothing like those films…kind of.

There’s usually a motley collection of crew members who mostly serve as cannon fodder for the bloodthirsty savages and, of course, a beautiful woman who doesn’t want to be treated as a beautiful woman so she sneaks on board so that she can prove that she’s as tough as any man.

#MOVIE EXPLORER DISAPPEARED IN AMAZON MOVIE#

By that, I don’t mean “Apocalypse Now” or “Raiders of the Lost Ark” - what I’m thinking of is the kind of jungle movie that stars The Great White Hunter, who’s after some rare animal or a treasure chest or something equally nonsensical. “I’d never heard of him at that point and then found all these amazing headlines about his disappearance and I got intrigued,” said Grann whose research led to his new book “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.”įawcett was an experienced explorer who undertook about seven expeditions to South America and is believed by some to have been the inspiration for movie explorer Indiana Jones.One of the several movie genres that has blessedly disappeared from the nation’s theater screens is the jungle movie. Grann, 41, stumbled across the story of Fawcett and his search for the “city of Z” when researching writer Arthur Conan Doyle who had used the Amazonian field reports of his explorer friend as the inspiration for his 1912 book “The Lost World.” The story of Percy Fawcett became an obsession for Grann, a writer at The New Yorker magazine, who was intrigued by the failure to find out what really happened to Fawcett whose 1925 trip - and disappearance - made international headlines. CANBERRA, Feb 25 (Reuters Life!) - A legendary British explorer disappearing in the Amazon with his son while searching for a lost ancient city? For New York writer David Grann it was an irresistible mystery and one crying out to be solved.

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