A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
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I enjoyed the movie - it was a bit paint by numbers but it covered a huge area of his life and his motivations, it was also a story of decline, the derring-do of the British empire and particular type of hero. I think that he has been overlooked because he 'failed' but the film shows how he respected the cultures he found, in contrast to the other members of RGS. The class-based snobbery of the period is also well represented. Highly watchable and recommended.
- robbierunciman-1
- Mar 25, 2017
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- TriviaShooting on 35mm film posed significant logistical challenges in the middle of the Colombian jungle. "It was an act of absolute hubris to shoot this picture on film," said James Gray, who set up an elaborate routine to ship, process, and review the film during production. "First, we had to teach a young guy from Bogotà how to load the film, because nobody really knows how to do that anymore Then, every day after we finished our shoot, they'd put this film into a torn-up crappy cardboard box and load it onto a single-engine crop duster that would take off from this little runway. You're talking three flights every day just to get your film processed. The next morning, there was always this sense of dread when the satellite phone rang and you'd be thinking, 'I really hope the film arrived.'"
- GoofsIn many of the scenes the party is going visibly downstream while they are searching for the origin of the river.
- Quotes
Nina Fawcett: To dream to seek the unknown. To look for what is beautiful is its own reward. A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
- Crazy creditsNear the end of the credits, jungle noises resume.
- SoundtracksThe Rite of Spring: The Augurs of Spring, Dances of the Young Girl
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Published by Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. (ASCAP)
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- Also known as
- Z. La ciudad perdida
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,580,410
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $110,175
- Apr 16, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $19,263,938
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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