The countries summoned England as an independent arbiter. With the auto industry gaining steam, demand for rubber boomed, and border disputes between Bolivia, Brazil and Peru threatened to erupt in a violent conflagration. Fact: Fawcett returned to the Amazon many times between his first and last expedition.Īs the movie depicts, Fawcett’s first expedition to the Amazon was a mapmaking mission. In pursuit of rumored treasure there, he had found the ruins of an ancient temple and knew then that he wanted to forge a path like those of Richard Francis Burton and David Livingstone. Whereas the movie presents Fawcett as somewhat reluctant to become an explorer - he says he hoped to rectify his undecorated uniform with some military action - the real Fawcett had been eager to work as an explorer since he was stationed in the British colony of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. Fawcett first visited the institution in 1900 and spent a year training there before his first mission. Though the RGS did tap Fawcett for a South American voyage, it didn’t happen as unexpectedly as the film suggests. MORE Review: James Gray’s Resplendent Lost City of Z Speaks to the Explorer in All of Us Mostly fact: The Royal Geographical Society summoned Fawcett out of the blue for a mission to Bolivia in 1906. But later in his life, any desire for status would be eclipsed by Fawcett’s fixation on finding Z, which would leave his own family destitute. The family scrounged up enough to send the younger Fawcett to elite schools and the Royal Military Academy. His father, Captain Edward Boyd Fawcett, began his life a Victorian aristocrat but squandered away the family’s wealth as he struggled with alcoholism.
The movie Fawcett’s preoccupation with social advancement draws from the real Fawcett’s impaired standing. Fact: Fawcett was at a social disadvantage because his father had damaged the family name. Here’s how the movie’s version compares to the way Fawcett’s life and fateful journey really unfolded. While it consolidates many of his experiences, it paints a portrait of a man teetering on the brink of obsession, with director James Gray offering his own interpretation of the explorer’s ambiguous fate. Spider-Man) as their eldest son Jack and Robert Pattinson as fellow explorer Henry Costin, hews close to Grann’s book. The film, which stars Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett, Sienna Miller as his wife Nina, Tom Holland (a.k.a.
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