Finally, a Live-Action Movie About the Paleolithic Era!
Wait...um...
A big-budget movie about prehistory is about to come out, in March of 2008! It's called 10,000 BC. I just have a few questions...
1. Why isn't it called "10,000 BCE?" For all those who sneer at "PC" terms, let me explain. It is one thing to call an old person "chronologically advanced," since the word "old" means the same thing. It is another thing to call a black person a "nigger." Oh, but PC is stupid! So go on, call them the "N" word. There's nothing really wrong with that, right?
As for "BC" and "BCE," the two mean two different things. "BC" is based on Christianity. Although we have been measuring time this way for a while, it is time to start calling it "Before the Common Era," because frankly, using what we know now about the New Testament, Christ would have been born in 4 AD anyway (that is, if he existed at all). On IMDB, it says that it's called "BC" because "Christians find BCE offensive." Talk about being PC! What about the rest of the population on Earth, you don't think any of them find BC offensive? There are a lot of minority groups who get offended every day, but we're protecting Christians. Riiiiiiight.
2. Seriously, 10,000 BCE?! I don't think so. It refers to an "empire." There were no empires before the agricultural revolution, in 8,000 BCE. Sumer would have existed, using the most liberal estimates, around 8,500 BCE, though most scholars put it closer to 4,000 BCE.
3. Woolly mammoths in Africa? Think evolution. Wool + arid climate = ...disaster, anyone? That's all I have to say about that.
4. What's up with the wars and the "good vs. evil" bullshit? The polarizing concept of "good vs. evil" is fairly new, compared to human history. In 10,000 BCE, populations were not large enough to have full-fledged warfare, and hunter-gatherers made up the majority of the world. Hunter-gatherers live in egalitarian bands. They're not known for their warlike-ness.
So, another movie filmed partially in New Zealand. New Zealand is the place, if you're looking for large, uninhabited scenery. Hmm...maybe woolly mammoths lived in New Zealand. Yeah...
A big-budget movie about prehistory is about to come out, in March of 2008! It's called 10,000 BC. I just have a few questions...
1. Why isn't it called "10,000 BCE?" For all those who sneer at "PC" terms, let me explain. It is one thing to call an old person "chronologically advanced," since the word "old" means the same thing. It is another thing to call a black person a "nigger." Oh, but PC is stupid! So go on, call them the "N" word. There's nothing really wrong with that, right?
As for "BC" and "BCE," the two mean two different things. "BC" is based on Christianity. Although we have been measuring time this way for a while, it is time to start calling it "Before the Common Era," because frankly, using what we know now about the New Testament, Christ would have been born in 4 AD anyway (that is, if he existed at all). On IMDB, it says that it's called "BC" because "Christians find BCE offensive." Talk about being PC! What about the rest of the population on Earth, you don't think any of them find BC offensive? There are a lot of minority groups who get offended every day, but we're protecting Christians. Riiiiiiight.
2. Seriously, 10,000 BCE?! I don't think so. It refers to an "empire." There were no empires before the agricultural revolution, in 8,000 BCE. Sumer would have existed, using the most liberal estimates, around 8,500 BCE, though most scholars put it closer to 4,000 BCE.
3. Woolly mammoths in Africa? Think evolution. Wool + arid climate = ...disaster, anyone? That's all I have to say about that.
4. What's up with the wars and the "good vs. evil" bullshit? The polarizing concept of "good vs. evil" is fairly new, compared to human history. In 10,000 BCE, populations were not large enough to have full-fledged warfare, and hunter-gatherers made up the majority of the world. Hunter-gatherers live in egalitarian bands. They're not known for their warlike-ness.
So, another movie filmed partially in New Zealand. New Zealand is the place, if you're looking for large, uninhabited scenery. Hmm...maybe woolly mammoths lived in New Zealand. Yeah...