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)
That said, this movie is tremendous entertainment. It is exciting almost all the way through. And when it's slow, there are lots of cute teenage girls in the altogether to gaze at. In fact, there's a demographically striking abundance of teenage girls in this particular tribe.
Favorite scene: During the courtship ritual, Tomme is given a club and is supposed "knock out" his girl in front of the villagers and then carry her off into the forest. She cowers. He hesitates, waves the club around. She glares at him and whispers, "Do it right!" So he hits her and she makes a show of being "knocked out." The whole courtship ritual is beautifully staged. I cannot attest to its authenticity, but it's perfectly clear as he "defends" her from menacing dudes, refuses to be carried off by the other girls, etc. The sheer enthusiasm portrayed is remarkable.
Powers Boothe, playing a dam engineer, makes a dashing Trader Horn-type. He has a great scene when he wakes up in the village only to see his son, Tomme, sleeping peaceful and embracing his girl, both practically nude in the next hammock. The expressions that run across his face are priceless.
The Fierce People live up to their name, but I am dubious that people who live in nature can be so infected with violence.
I learned something. You can climb a high-rise by wrapping vines around your feet. Who knew? The dam business at the end was totally righteous, but, really, pretty preposterous.
And how about that shot of the eagle in flight. Taken from about two feet away. Pretty neat.
Terrific Hollywood movie? You bet. Werner Herzog? Not so much.
- dave-sturm
- 27 janv. 2009
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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
- Consultez plus de crédits d'entreprise sur IMDbPro
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