The tourists are a group of characters in the Jungle Cruise film.
Description[]
This was a group of presumably unrelated indivisuals who for unknown reasons went on vacation to Porto Velho, Brazil during 1916. The group recruited the services of the colonial Jungle Navigation Company and their skipper, Frank Wolff to take them on a tour of the Amazon rainforest. However, Wolff was actually a charlatan who used crude machines and performance to con the tourists out of their money.
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History[]
Background[]
In 1916 during World War I, this group travelled to Porto Velho, Brazil. They employed the Jungle Navigation Company for a tour where they were shown crude mechanical hippos (including anachronistically placed hippos), misidentified plants, and an artifcial waterfall deemed, "The Backside of Water". Frank later feigned being attacked by the local Puka Michuna tribe, purported by Frank to be headhunting cannibals. In actuality, these were actors employed by the Jungle Navigation Company to portray racist caricatures of the tribe as a means of threatening tourists of their money, a plot which worked. They later returned to Porto Velho where they gave money to Frank's lackey, a young boy named Zaqueu.
Development history[]
The tourists are an attempt at meta-humour regarding the Jungle Cruise ride, being a representation of guests who ride the Jungle Cruise.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
The tourists appear in Frank's first scene, being conned by Frank Wolff and Zaqueu.
Trivia[]
- It is unknown why so many clients travelled to the small town of Porto Velho during World War I for an obscure riverboat tour of a real hostile location (with children).
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