Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In class we watched a movie called "Mountains of The Moon". The movie started very intresting when Burton lived after a spear cut right through his face. This movie implied imperialism because Richard Burton and John Speke were on a mission to find the source of the Nile river. One of the fnniest parts of this movie is when the english people present the tribe with advanced technology equipment and burton gives the leader a gun, and the leader decided to shoot somone and as he did the whole tribe became terrified at the object.

On the road to find the source on of the nasties parts was when Speke was sleepin and forgot to put up his bug net and a beetle climbed up his ear. When Speke claims that he had found the Nile river problems evolve between the two explorers and Burton questions him how is Speke sure that what he has found is the source, and this leads to a trial. In the end Speke couldn't take much more and ends up killing himself.

Burton then decides not to continue saying anything after hearing that his companion has died and finalli it is proven that Speke indeed was right Lake Victoria was the source of the nile. A question that was encountered by the global class after the video was why was the lake called after the English queen when the lake was located in Africa and in the class concluded that this was due to that during that period imperialsm was occurring and since the Europeans had more better technologies they could capture and rename whatever they wanted and pleased.