L'ingénieur Bill Markham passe 10 ans de sa vie à la recherche de son fils enlevé par une tribu aborigène à la lisière de la forêt tropicale.L'ingénieur Bill Markham passe 10 ans de sa vie à la recherche de son fils enlevé par une tribu aborigène à la lisière de la forêt tropicale.L'ingénieur Bill Markham passe 10 ans de sa vie à la recherche de son fils enlevé par une tribu aborigène à la lisière de la forêt tropicale.
- Nominé pour le prix 3 BAFTA Awards
- 5 nominations au total
- Trader
- (as Atilia Iorio)
- Carlos
- (as Gracindo Junior)
- Wanadi
- (as Rui Polanah)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAccording to TV Guide, "In October 1972 an account written by Leonard Greenwood appeared in the Los Angeles Times. It told of a Peruvian engineer whose son had been kidnapped by a band of Indians and of the man's successful search to locate the child. Screenwriter Rospo Pallenberg saw the news item and took it to producer-director John Boorman". The result was this movie.
- Citations
Bill Markham: Why did you take my son?
Wanadi: One day, i was hunting at the Edge of The World when Tomme appeared and he smiled; and even though you were a Termite Child, I had not the heart to send you back to The Dead World.
Tomme: Why are they called The Termite People?
Wanadi: They come into The World and chew down all the grandfather trees. Just like termites.
- ConnexionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Jungle Movies (2016)
The central character here is a teen, played by the director's son, who is kidnapped by Amazonian Indians at six and raised in nature. There are threats, adventures, encounters with "civilization." They provide the focus of the energy in this thing. Its all about that energy which we take from the juice of adolescence, perceive as the energy of an action movie and conflate (as we are intended to) with the natural richness of the rainforest.
Its a simple trick, but by gosh it works. Why is not a mystery: the teen drive is transformed into something pure here, done so by the actresses who play the teen Indian girls, lovely, and effectively nude. In order to underscore the point, the plot has them (importantly, as a group) kidnapped into civilization as a the complement of the original kidnapping. But the purpose here is prostitution.
When someone knows what they are doing and delivers the goods, its always a remarkable thing. The narrative engineering conveys the lack of engineering, and makes us desire the purity of encountering things without artifice.
Conveying this notion is then mixed with a completely unrelated message about the destruction of the rainforest and its central importance to the global ecology. Its rather dishonest, this, but because its such a noble cause we let it slip. But its a shame. In their defense, the acknowledge that just being native doesn't endow goodness: there is an "evil" tribe. Part of the tragedy is not shown: natives everywhere in the world aggressively damage the environment as much as their capabilities allow.
The perfect delicacy of this puts "Apocalypto" to shame.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
- tedg
- 10 août 2008
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Emerald Forest
- Lieux de tournage
- Hidrelétrica Plant of Tucuruí, Tucuruí, Pará, Brésil(dam construction)
- sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 24 468 550 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 4 345 150 $ US
- 7 juill. 1985
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 24 468 550 $ US
- Durée1 heure 54 minutes
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1