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...French Catholic missionaries languished last week in federal police headquarters in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, while they appealed eight-and ten-year sentences for alleged "incitement to kill." Father Aristides Camio, 41, and Father François Guriou, 40, got into trouble in the jungles of the Amazon basin by advising the impoverished natives that, under the law, they had a claim on land in a rain forest. When the natives hacked out villages, clearing the tangle of trees with machetes, they were attacked by gun squads hired by absentee owners of the forests. According to the priests...
...presenting his personal "biological vision," Wilson described his experiences in the rain forests of the Amazon to illustrate his amazement at the diversity of nature...
North Pole technicians ought to have quite a time trying to satisfy E.O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science. "I want a machine that would transport me instantaneously between the office and the Amazon rain forest," he says. Others seek equally uncanny research aids. Thomas R. Martin, assistant professor of the Classics asks for "an immense personal library open all hours...
...hand up into the old Heart of Darkness. Unfortuantely, this potentialty interesting irony is crushed by the film's mass. P>Early in journey upstream. Herzog achieves one scene of considerable,, if fleeting, power,. As the Molly-Aida slowly slices through the water, a low drumming echoes through the Amazon darkness. For almost 10 munutes, Fitzearruldo and his crew stand silently enthralled by the hypnotic tattoo. But Herzog loosens the straglehold of the dialogue only for a moment. The drums recede, day breaks and Kinski and his cre begin babbling and gesticulating again...
Especially disappointing is the lack of atmosphere throughout most of the film. Herzog spent years laboring in the Amazon, but for all that, Fitzcarraldo might just as well have been filmed on some Berlin soundstage, or even in a bathtub. There are some nice shots of the boat gliding along, framed by rosy-gray sunsets, but nothing that Marlo Perkins couldn't have shown us. Fitzcarraldo's guest is acted out in such grandiloquently theatrical terms that even the mighty Amazon gets relegated to the status of a cardboard backdrop...