The Lost City Of Z By David Grann

986 Words4 Pages
The Lost City of Z is a biographical film that follows the explorer, Percy Fawcett, and his adventures to find an ancient city within the Amazon. This film stems from true facts and is based on the book, of the same title, written by David Grann. The adventure-drama film released in 2016 and is written and directed by James Gray. Appointed to play the role of Percy Fawcett was Charlie Hunnam, fellow explorer, Henry Costin, was played by Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller as Nina Fawcett (Percy’s wife), and Tom Holland played Jack Fawcett (Percy’s eldest son). Overall, the film has well-received reviews and portrays the characters and events with distinction. This film is an almost-perfect example of how to properly represent anthropology cinematically. With all of its praise, there are still a few flaws within this acclaimed film. As the stormtroopers in Star Wars are known to have the worst aim, as are the aboriginals depicted in this film; raining arrows, and total deaths equal one, highly unlikely and yet The Lost City of Z represents the aboriginals as inadequate fighters. Secondly, the film addresses the fact that cannibalism is seen by the tribe as a tradition, rather than as a food source, and is later repeated, “Let us find a home for his spirit,” as the Geographical Journal states, we do not know the true events leading to Fawcett’s party’s deaths, but this fictional line seems only created in order to romanticize the explorers’ deaths (vol. 88, 1936, pp 66-72).

More about The Lost City Of Z By David Grann