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understood as rephrasing of famous and by 20th century modernists'
adored statement made by architect L. Sullivan in 1896:
“…form ever fol-
lows function…”
(Sullivan 1896). It may actually apply to cartography
more than to art, but does it mean, if the function is fulfilled, there is no
reason for a change? The movie is in the style of storytelling closer to the
1950 adaptation. The movie in a small and a very romantic way reflects
inner African problems and “European” look of the map can be attributed
to the presentation of travellers as intruders.
There are many occasions through the movie when we can see the map.
Actually, from all of the adaptations, this is the one where the map plays
principal role as an object. It is several times almost stolen, travellers are
consulting it, there are references of places on the map during quest pro-
gression (as are beforehand mentioned Sheba's breasts, but there is also
Sheba's eye or Sheba's smile) etc. For all of these actions concentrated
around the map, the visual appearance of the map is in the end absolutely
insignificant. In the most of the scenes with the map, the map is as a matter
of fact not shown. The most of the map is seen during titles, where the map
serves as the background.
Figure
5
:
The map from 2004 TV series
