I also feel "Killers of the Flower Moon" suffers from depicting too much of its story from a white perspective, as opposed to that of the members of the Osage Nation it focuses on. Personally, I agree "The Lost City of Z" should've gone further in examining Fawcett's racism. In a piece for The Spectator, Hemming dismissed Grann citing his own "three-volume, 2,100-page history of Brazilian Indians and five centuries of exploration" as a primary source of information for his work, describing much of his book and the movie it inspired as "artistic license and hype of an absurd order." Hemming didn't mince words about Percy Fawcett, either, calling him "a nutter a racist" whose greatest triumph was propagating myths about his so-called discoveries. Historian/explorer John Henry Hemming, who specializes in Amazon's Indigenous peoples, took both Grann and the "Lost City of Z" film adaptation to task for this exact reason.
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