Louis Proyect wrote: > > <http://www.socialistworker.org/2008-1/667/667_08_10000BC.shtml>http://www.socialistworker.org/2008-1/667/667_08_10000BC.shtml
that reminds me: Alan Maass, the author of the review above, refers to the Neolithic Revolution, in which >groups of people changed the ways they provided what they needed to live, and that led to the development of the basis for the first settled human societies.< This is the introduction of agriculture and the domestication of animals. The bad Egyptoids had clearly gotten beyond the Neolithic Revolution, since otherwise it would have been impossible to feed all those overseers and slaves, who were involved in the patently unproductive activity of building pyramids. In addition, these guys had domesticated woolly mammoths to help them move the stones. But actual agriculture is not shown. (They did have cool-looking sailboats.) What Maass reminds me of is that at the end (plot detail ahead! plot detail ahead! stop reading if you want to truly enjoy this movie!) the good guy and his rescued wife are given seeds, which they plant when they get back home. Next to a river (which didn't seem to exist in earlier scenes of the semi-polar home somewhere in Africa), they find that the seeds are growing really well. The Neolithic Rev has hit! So next thing you know, Cargill shows up (led by an Egyptoid) and says "you can't use those seeds without paying!" Nah. that last bit isn't in the movie. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
