Word: amazon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Many people don't like this Werner Herzog film, which is based on the true story of Aguirre the Madman, a mutinous conquistador who led an expeditionary force down the Amazon River on a disastrous search for gold and glory. Critics complain that Herzog treats his subjects too mechanically, and that the film is visually stunning but thematically vacuous. But such criticism misses the point: Herzog's relentlessly realistic re-enactment of the trip--of the assumption of power by a ruthless brute who rapidly develop into a raving megalomamac and whose subordinates lack either...
...centuries, means more well-paid jobs for the educated elite, and increased foreign exchange with which to import luxury goods. Senegal provided all the initial capital for Bud Antle's operation there, and removed villagers from land the company wanted for its plantations. The Brazilian government is clearing the Amazon rain forest to make way for American-owned companies who hope to grow beef, a luxury among foods, when it could give the land to the Brazilian landless as farms. The Shah of Iran spent millions of dollars on irrigation projects in the late '60s--systems that water the farms...
Aguirre is based on the story of a small expeditionary force that went in advance of the main troop, which was led by the famous conquistador Pizarro. Setting off down the Amazon to bring back word of El Dorado, the smaller group meets so many obstacles that its leader sensibly decides to turn back; Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) leads a rebellion, and the small band continues downriver in search of the golden city...
...overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique's proper habitat is the rain forests of the Amazon River valley half a world away. Yet he and 36 other delicate South American primates flourish in the Dordogne under the permissive care of Scott and Alika Lindbergh...
Schwenk says he would like to spend several months traveling through the Amazon River Basin region before returning for medical school next fall...