Gray does, at least, sympathize with Nina: As her husband heads off on what would be his final adventure, a tiny reverie sees her imagining herself walking into the jungle too. I wish Hunnam could sell Fawcett’s passion as well to Sienna Miller as Fawcett’s wife, Nina, who keeps getting left behind to raise their children on her own when he goes off for years to South America. There are a few riveting moments, but Robert Pattinson, as Fawcett’s aide-de-camp Henry Costin, creates a much stronger presence just sitting quietly in the background. It’s a teeny bit of a shame, then, that the weakest aspect of the film is Charlie Hunnam, who is a bit blah as Fawcett. It’s this weighty centering of his storytelling that gives his films a genuine feel of freshness and discovery even when they cover well-trod ground, and that true of Z too. Filmmaker James Gray - who based his script on journalist David Grann’s 2009 book about Fawcett - has moved far away from the New York City that has been the setting for all his previous films, including such marvels as Two Lovers and We Own the Night, but he retains his focus on character over plot, on cause over effect, on the journey rather than the destination.
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This is not an action movie but an adventure of the intellect and of the heart, focusing on what drove the mapmaker and historian. The Lost City of Z is here to remedy that, though it’s not likely to have the impact of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Why isn’t Fawcett as well known, at least by name, as Ernest Shackleton or Amelia Earhart? His adventures in the early 20th century captured the public imagination in Europe and the United States newspaper dispatches from the jungle kept citizens up to date. A cartographer and archaeologist, Fawcett was obsessed with the idea that remnants of a lost civilization were hidden in the Amazonian jungles, and he disappeared in those jungles in 1925 on what would be the last of many expeditions to prove his theory. The Lost City of Z opens in NY and LA on April 14, 2017 and then gets an expanded wide release the following week on April 21.The Harrison Ford character was based on British explorer Percy Fawcett. An epically scaled tale of courage and obsession, told in James Gray’s classic filmmaking style, THE LOST CITY OF Z is a stirring tribute to the exploratory spirit and those individuals driven to achieve greatness at any cost. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as “savages,” the determined Fawcett – supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland) and aide-de-camp (Robert Pattinson) – returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925. Here's the synopsis: Based on author David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller, THE LOST CITY OF Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. The movie is being distributed by Amazon Studios, it comes from writer and producer James Grey ( The Immigrant), and it also stars Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, and Robert Pattinson. I just love these kinds of stories, and I'm excited to see Fawcett's story retold in this upcoming film. I first read about Fawcett when I was in high school and became obsessed with his story for awhile.
I love a good adventure thriller, and The Lost City of Z looks like it will be a great movie! The film is based on the true story of Percy Fawcett ( Charlie Hunnam), a soldier and explorer who, in the 1920s, disappeared while searching for a mythical city of an advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle of Brazil.