Most certainly, Percy wants to restore some luster to his tarnished family name but he's also looking to prove a number of members of the Royal Geographic Society wrong. The multi-faceted depiction of why Percy wants to discover this lost city so badly is one of the key components of James Gray's phenomenal screenplay.
#Lost city of zed movie
But don't go into this movie expecting a one-note depiction of a man's mania. This is a tale of obsession, with Percy's mind over decade upon decade becoming more and more fixated on discovering Zed. He becomes determined beyond all costs to track this legendary location down, with Zed becoming the white whale to his Captain Ahab.
Once there, he finds evidence in the form of intricately made pottery that suggests the existence of something previously thought to be malarkey an ancient city he dubs Zed. Despite the fact that it'll take him away from his newly formed family (which will soon expand with another child) for multiple years, Percy sets off to this harsh terrain where few outsiders have ever traveled to and even fewer have survived. He'll get his chance to be held in high regard after all these years though if he embarks on a dangerous mission that'll have him mapping out uncharted territory of South America on behalf of the Royal Geographic Society. But he still feels undervalued in society thanks to his lack of recognition by his colleagues and his ancestry (particularly his father's mistakes) that still haunt him and prevent him garnering the high-profile respect he yearns for. As the story starts out in 1905, he's a man with a lot of accomplishments under his belt, including starting a family with his wife Nina Fawcett (Sienna Miller). Whereas the likes of Congo and The Legend Of Tarzan were action blockbusters, The Lost City Of Z is firmly planted an epic drama, one that retells a true story that spans decades and centers around Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam). Case in point, last month brought a brand spanking new jungle adventure movie in the form of James Gray's newest directorial effort, The Lost City Of Z. But just because it's scarce doesn't mean it's gone extinct.
While last year brought the new Jungle Book remake from Disney and The Legend Of Tarzan, jungle adventure movies have otherwise been mostly scarce in 2010's cinema as well, a sign that that particular subgenre may really have just fallen by the wayside for a variety of reason. In his 1995 review of Congo, Roger Ebert mentioned how the jungle adventure movie had "fallen out of fashion", which is true, we didn't really see a whole bunch of such movies in the years leading up to 1995.
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