Lost City of Z

[Becky Lindroos]

I read the book by David Gran (the one the Pitt movie was based on) and found it to be okay -  travel/adventure basically.  Fun in its own way.  


Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Pretty much the same for me. I remember being underwhelmed, but can't even remember why.
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> Laura
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David Morris
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Lawrence
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> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 6:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Borders, surveys, mystical history, Single Capital Letters.  P is written all over this.
> > David Morris
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