me: > The ethnic undertones are amazing. The whole point of the movie is > that White guys can play Indians, complete with war paint. Omar > Sharif's voice-over helps, by including such pseudo-Indian clichés as > "many moons" and "white rain" (snow).
I forgot to mention that the special effects in this movie were partly paid for by economizing on script-writing. None of that snappy dialog or character development for these film-makers. > The main plot starts with > slavers riding horses stealing many of the band's people (including > the heroine). Somehow, the good guys had never heard of horses before. > The slavers have distinctly semitic noses and have guttural accents, > so that some can think of them as Arabs and others can think of them > as Jews. They are really bad guys, whose only positive side is that > they betray each other a lot. > > Anyway, our hero (whose name seems to be "Delay," as in Tom) gets > upset and goes off to seek & save his wife, the heroine. Since the > latter was dragged off to the heavily-armed Big City, our hero has to > organize an international coalition of the willing to invade > Baghdad... I mean something that looks like Egypt. (The Egyptians look > a bit Mayan to me, but I'm not an expert in anthropology the way the > movie-makers are.) He is helped in this task by his kitty. Charles: > Not that Jim said there were....but there were no pyramids in Egypt nor > monumental architecture anywhere in 10,000 BC. Pyramids were built starting > maybe 2650 BC. ( Quick Study bar chart on "Western Civilization 1") > When Egyptian civ arose, they didn't "capture slaves". This is a > Mesopotamian, Greek thing from later.< You don't understand. The Egyptoid folks who built the pyramids in the documentary 10,000 B.C. ruled long before the "ancient Egyptians." The reason why we don't know much about them is because Delay and his comrades destroyed the pyramids (which had little gold pyramids on top, BTW). The "ancient Egyptians" were merely imitating the previous rulers of the area, based on obscure (but true) oral traditions. -- 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
