THE EMERALD FOREST
The Emerald Forest is a 1985
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The Emerald Forest is a 1985 film set in the remote Xingu region of Brazil's Amazon rain forest that was directed by John Boorman, a noted English filmmaker. During his long career, his films have ranged from male-bonding action films such as Deliverance (1972) to those that relate to keeping the nuclear family intact, a theme prominent, for example, in his 1987 film Hope and Glory. In that film, the family at stake was being torn apart by World War II and the Blitz on London (a story based on his own experiences as a child during that time). In The Emerald Forest, an American family called the Markhams is irretrievably fractured when their son, Tommy, is kidnapped by Amazonian Indians. The film concentrates on his identification with his adopted tribe, his disinterest in returning to "civilization," and his family's (especially his father's) ultimate acceptance of his life with the tribe who reared him. Based on a true story (although perhaps more loosely than most people realize), The Emerald Forest documents in a fictionalized form the final, and successful, search of the father for the son over a period of ten years. The film begins with the family starting their new life in South America when Bill Markham is posted there on an engineering job for a huge dam (however, acceptance of their new culture and home is not an issue directly addressed in the film). While on a picnic at a site where the rain forest is being cleared, young Tommy wanders into the forest, whe
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likely conjecture given his seemingly inherent aversion to the "Termite People" (so-called because they chew down all the trees) in their "Dead World" (presumably called that because nothing grows there).
Similarly, in a later scene Kachiri tells Tomme that he should take one or two more wives, as is allowed for the tribal chief, which he will one day be. Yet, it is obvious that she is averse to him doing that and that she is jealous at the thought. This jealousy, however, is suspiciously like the stereotypical reaction of a monogamously socialized female, and Tomme's reassurance that he wants only her is the partly expected answer found in most film scripts the world over, ensuring a happy ending that leaves the audience satisfied on their own cultural level without imparting any real knowledge about what an actual married couple's attitudes would be. For example, it is unclear whether in such a male-dominated society (which it must be if the man must take his wife by force from another man, her father) a wife would have the right to discuss such matters with her husband or whether it would be considered his business or perhaps tribal business, but not hers.
The attacks of the Fierce People are justified in the film by the
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)
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