Lost City of Z

[Allan Balliett]

They did well in making you think you were watching a young Brad Pitt in
the lead roll, I felt. Looking into it further, I find this in Wikipedia:

The project went through numerous casting changes for the lead role.
> Initially Brad Pitt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt> was to star
> as Colonel Percy Fawcett, additionally providing production duties through
> his Plan B Entertainment
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_B_Entertainment>.[13]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-13>[14]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-14> In
> November 2010, Pitt withdrew from the lead role due to scheduling
> conflicts, but remained attached as the producer to the film.[15]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-15> On
> September 4, 2013, Benedict Cumberbatch
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch> came on board to
> portray Fawcett,[16]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-16> along
> with Robert Pattinson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pattinson>,
> who also joined the cast as fellow explorer Henry Costin.[17]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-17>[18]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-18>
>
> In February 2015, Cumberbatch also dropped out of the project due to
> scheduling conflicts, and was replaced by Charlie Hunnam
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hunnam>, while Sienna Miller
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sienna_Miller> also joined the cast as
> Nina Fawcett.[19]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-19>[20]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)#cite_note-20>
>

Again, the Lost City itself played to whatever part of my being it is that
resonates with mythology coming to truth. Or the part of me that was
twisted inside out with the assertions of "!491" that have come to be
accepted as 'fact' in the modern world, as far as I know: that the Amazon,
thought to be essentially uninhabited when I was studying Anthro in college
in the 70's is now seen as teaming with dense populations of very
intelligent cultures, that lamentably constructed their cities of wood, and
not stone, and slipped into being invisible soon after the European
diseases (and some amazingly unsanitary customs)  wiped them out.

-Allan in WV

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw it on a big screen, which brought out its panoramic scale, but can't
> pretend it gripped me or left much of an impression. Suffered from an
> uncharismatic lead.
>
> On Monday, September 25, 2017, Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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