That is the tagline for the new movie, "10,000 B.C." D'leh is the said hero, and the movie follows him and his love interest, Evolet, through their journey to secure the future of their people.
The cast was unrecognizable to me (which clearly worked with this film) and the director/ co-writer was Roland Emmerich, who made "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow."
The film is not historically correct, as the setting takes place during the Mesolithic period which falls immediately after the Ice Age. The creation of Egyptian temples and pyramids (which is depicted in the movie) happened around 2650 B.C. making the movie about 7,350 years off. The cast is way too groomed (perfect white teeth and waxed eyebrows) to help you believe that you are looking at a prehistoric epic. There is a kindly saber tooth tiger that makes a couple of appearances, hundreds (maybe thousands) of cooperative wooly mammoths wearing harnesses, and at the end of the movie, D'leh is given corn/maize seeds which at that time were only in the Americas.
Having said that, the movie is a lot of good geek fun. Watching two wooly mammoth stampedes on the big screen was worth the price of admission alone. There are crazy raptor/emu man-eating thingies that move at warp speed in a few scenes, and at one point in the movie we see a blind mind come up from the floor of the slaves' quarters, share valuable knowledge with our hero, D'leh, and then get lowered back into the floor. That scene made me just laugh right out loud.
Too funny.
I found the movie very entertaining, and I do recommend it to all who enjoy geek eye candy.
D'leh is "Held" spelled backwards, and "Held" is the German word for "Hero." The name was chosen by Emmerich himself.
I wonder what "Telove" means in German?
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Evolet >> Telove >>> The love :)
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