10,000 BC
Just watched 10,000BC last night. Entertaining, and not a bad movie - except for the complete lack of geographic knowledge in it...
D'Leh and Tic'Tic's people are Mammoth Hunters living in a snowy valley. Mammoth populations, and their hunters, were located mostly in Siberia, which gives us a start point. After some Persian-looking-guys capture half of the village, D'Leh and Tic'Tic have to cross "The Great Mountains" - the Himalayas, check. After crossing the mountains, they find themselves in a sweltering jungle - S'gotta be India. So far it makes sense. Then after leaving the jungle, they trek for a day or so across a barren tundra and find themselves in an African Village.... Wait, what happened to Persia and Arabia?
Not only that, but they've apparently wound up somewhere closer to Central Africa, say around Chad or Sudan. They travel for a while, amassing warriors from other African tribes, and wind up on the west bank of the Nile. It's clearly the west bank since they wind up at the Great Pyramids without crossing the river. They decide to cut through the desert as a short cut to Giza, rather than following the river itself. They wind up using the North Star as a guide, so it's proof that they're traveling due north. The ONLY place where it makes sense to travel due north and cut through a desert rather than just following the river itself - which runs almost exactly North/South - is close to the Sudan-Egypt border.
So how exactly does one get over-land from India to Sudan without passing first through Persia, Arabia and Egypt?
Watching the movie, maybe partially due to the fact that it had Cliff Curtis as Tic'Tic (who will be playing Ozai) I couldn't help but compare it to The Last Airbender.
On the subject of Racebending, Curtis is Maori, the guy who played D'Leh is Caucasian of some sort, the kid who played Baku looked to be mixed (at least some African), and the Old Mother is a woman who's Chinese-Jamaican. And Evolet, the outsider girl with the blue eyes, is half Brazilian. All those ethnicities were chosen to represent one Siberian tribe. For the most part, I'd almost say that it worked in that they chose people who were just generically ethnic, rather than one specific look.
Everyone else in the movie were definitely African or Arab/Persian.
Curtis (and everyone else from his tribe) wore Dread-locks.
Also, Evolet, who's actress has brown-eyes, had blue eyes for the purpose of the story. I'm almost positive they did this digitally, since her eyes were TOO blue. The same kind of creepy-glowy royal-blue eyes that we're seeing on Princess Yue in Last Airbender.
Makes me wonder if M. Night saw the movie and decided to give Yue the same kind of eyes and the Fire Nation dread-locks...
D'Leh and Tic'Tic's people are Mammoth Hunters living in a snowy valley. Mammoth populations, and their hunters, were located mostly in Siberia, which gives us a start point. After some Persian-looking-guys capture half of the village, D'Leh and Tic'Tic have to cross "The Great Mountains" - the Himalayas, check. After crossing the mountains, they find themselves in a sweltering jungle - S'gotta be India. So far it makes sense. Then after leaving the jungle, they trek for a day or so across a barren tundra and find themselves in an African Village.... Wait, what happened to Persia and Arabia?
Not only that, but they've apparently wound up somewhere closer to Central Africa, say around Chad or Sudan. They travel for a while, amassing warriors from other African tribes, and wind up on the west bank of the Nile. It's clearly the west bank since they wind up at the Great Pyramids without crossing the river. They decide to cut through the desert as a short cut to Giza, rather than following the river itself. They wind up using the North Star as a guide, so it's proof that they're traveling due north. The ONLY place where it makes sense to travel due north and cut through a desert rather than just following the river itself - which runs almost exactly North/South - is close to the Sudan-Egypt border.
So how exactly does one get over-land from India to Sudan without passing first through Persia, Arabia and Egypt?
Watching the movie, maybe partially due to the fact that it had Cliff Curtis as Tic'Tic (who will be playing Ozai) I couldn't help but compare it to The Last Airbender.
On the subject of Racebending, Curtis is Maori, the guy who played D'Leh is Caucasian of some sort, the kid who played Baku looked to be mixed (at least some African), and the Old Mother is a woman who's Chinese-Jamaican. And Evolet, the outsider girl with the blue eyes, is half Brazilian. All those ethnicities were chosen to represent one Siberian tribe. For the most part, I'd almost say that it worked in that they chose people who were just generically ethnic, rather than one specific look.
Everyone else in the movie were definitely African or Arab/Persian.
Curtis (and everyone else from his tribe) wore Dread-locks.
Also, Evolet, who's actress has brown-eyes, had blue eyes for the purpose of the story. I'm almost positive they did this digitally, since her eyes were TOO blue. The same kind of creepy-glowy royal-blue eyes that we're seeing on Princess Yue in Last Airbender.
Makes me wonder if M. Night saw the movie and decided to give Yue the same kind of eyes and the Fire Nation dread-locks...