Lost City of Z

[David Morris]

It got good reviews, but I kept watching in about 15 min spurts before
turning it off.  Didn't make it to the Jaguars.

David Morris

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:05 AM L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> Sounded interesting so I found it on Amazon Prime. Started watching it but
> when they got into the jungle I became distracted by hearing what seemed to
> be Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Yes. No doubt about it. What the hell was
> that doing here? I wonder if his heirs got credit for the snippet. Okay
> back to the film. Wait. Some soprano is singing. Where did that come from?
> Oh. They came across an opera being performed in an unmapped town somewhere
> in the jungle around Bolivia. All right. So now more film. This time to
> Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe. I can see the writer now. Let’s see this is
> getting boring, what can we do on a river in Amazon country? Why of course.
> Flesh eating fish. Can’t have an Amazon film with out piranhas. Oh. As long
> as we have piranhas lets throw in some natives with spears and arrows. And
> so it went… about this time I looked to see how long until it was over.
> <sigh> Okay. I’ll watch a bit more. Nice water falls. Just in time as they
> are out of food, a nice boar pops up for them to shoot and eat, The
> obligatory jaguar makes a brief appearance, but apparently got most of its
> footage left on the cutting room floor. But wait? Our hero spots something
> off in the jungle. What could it be? Oh. A small pottery shard. What a
> great eye he had! I gave up then.
>
> How do people get funds to make such shit? I was curious to see if Ravel,
> Stravinsky, Bach and so on got credit, so I watched the credits. There were
> hundreds of names! And yes, they did list the music and give credit.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 6:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Borders, surveys, mystical history, Single Capital Letters.  P is
> written all over this.
> > David Morris
>
>
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