{"id":1056,"date":"2008-02-02T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/02\/ten-thousand-here-one-million-there-and-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-history\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:22:00","slug":"ten-thousand-here-one-million-there-and-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/02\/ten-thousand-here-one-million-there-and-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten thousand here, one million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real history."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I have to review 10,000 B.C.<\/a><\/i> next month, so I figured I might as well see the similarly-titled One Million Years B.C.<\/a><\/i> (1966) last night \u2014 and I have to say, I kept staring at Raquel Welch\u2019s eyebrows. Yes, her eyebrows. I know she has other assets, too, but they didn\u2019t seem remotely as anachronistic or implausible to me as those perfectly manicured lines above her eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the two films presumably don\u2019t have all that much in common, beyond the similarities between their titles.<\/p>\n

One film takes place in truly prehistoric times, with cavemen and dinosaurs somehow occupying the same timeframe, whereas the other film \u2014 based on what we see in the trailers<\/a> \u2014 seems to take place in the earliest days of civilization, with cities and temples and the elaborate social and physical structures that go with that. (I don\u2019t know where<\/i> the new film takes place, but cities like Jericho<\/a> and Damascus<\/a> are<\/i> believed to have been inhabited<\/a> as early as 9,000 B.C. and 10,000 B.C., respectively.)<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, One Million Years B.C.<\/i> has no intelligible dialogue \u2014 everyone speaks in a \u201cprehistoric\u201d language \u2014 whereas the most recent trailer for 10,000 B.C.<\/i> indicates that the actors in that<\/i> movie will probably speak English. And in a weird sort of way, that difference alone almost makes me want to take the Raquel Welch movie more seriously than the other movie.<\/p>\n

As cheesy and stupid as One Million Years B.C.<\/i> may be, the lack of modern dialogue gives it a sense of \u201cotherness\u201d that helps to transport the viewer back in time, whereas I suspect the dialogue in 10,000 B.C.<\/i> will sound hopelessly modern, no better than the lines that were spoken by The Rock and friends in The Scorpion King<\/a><\/i> (2002). And let us not forget that 10,000 B.C.<\/i> is directed by Roland Emmerich, whose Revolutionary War film The Patriot<\/a><\/i> (2000) featured such absurdly anachronistic exchanges as: \u201cMay I sit here?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a free country \u2014 or at least, it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

And speaking of Mel Gibson movies, the trailer for 10,000 B.C.<\/i> makes the new film look like Apocalypto<\/a><\/i> (2006) with CGI mammoths \u2014 and Apocalypto<\/i>, of course, also benefitted from foreign, ancient-sounding dialogue, even if the dialogue was undercut at times by modern colloquial subtitles. So that\u2019s one more comparison that doesn\u2019t work in 10,000 B.C.<\/i>\u2018s favour.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the night before I watched One Million Years B.C.<\/i>, I happened to see Jason and the Argonauts<\/a><\/i> (1963) on the big screen \u2014 and both films feature visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. That was purely coincidental, and in fact I had forgotten that the Raquel Welch movie featured his work, but it was a nice surprise to see his name in the credits again, twice in two nights.<\/p>\n

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