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As a big fan of Hunnam and "Sons of Anarchy", let me point out that SOA was on FX, not on AMC. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > “Lost City of Z” is a biopic about Percival Fawcett, a British military > cartographer who became obsessed with the notion that a highly advanced > civilization existed in the Amazon on the scale of the great empires to the > North–the Incas, the Aztecs and the Mayans. The film starts in 1906 when he > is sent by his commanders to the Royal Geographical Society to get his > marching orders for a map-making project. In a border dispute between > Brazil and Bolivia over access to rubber trees, a third party would be > tasked to define the exact borders between the two nations and Fawcett > would lead that expedition. > > Probably the best thing about the film is a stunning performance by > Charlie Hunnam, a 37-year old British actor best known for his portrayal of > a gangster biker in AMC’s “Sons of Anarchy”. When Brad Pitt decided not to > play Fawcett, it opened the door to a much more qualified actor in every > sense. Growing up in England, Hunnam embodies the stiff upper-lip demeanor > of Captain Fawcett, an artillery officer and to the manor born. When he is > being interviewed by the Royal Geographical Society’s top men, he is told > that doing this job would redeem his family’s honor. His father had been a > member of the society but died in shame as a squanderer of his family’s > fortune. > > Writer-director James Gray claims that class distinctions between Fawcett > and the RGS’s establishment was paramount in his mind when he began > developing the project. If so, he didn’t really succeed since Fawcett comes > across just as Colonel Blimpish as all the rest of the men who were an > integral part of the imperial mission of the late 19th and early 20th > century. > > full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/04/19/the-lost-city-of-z/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/sranz18%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
