Lost City of Z

[Bruno]

If you focus on the main character you'll enjoy the film. It's about
obsession and its connection to British imperialism.
One aspect of powerful nations is "the industry of memory": turn the past
into products like museums, books, flags in the South and North Poles and
the Moon, etc.

Nowadays, I bet there are biopirates working for big corporations behaving
exactly like Percy Fawcett, searching for plants that will turn into
profitable shit.


2017-09-25 6:17 GMT-05:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> 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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