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10,000 BC is a 2008 (4 years ago) American movie from Warner Bros. pictures (wallpaper) set in the prehistoric era, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Steven Strait and Camilla Belle. The world premiere of the movie was held on Feb. 10, 2008 (4 years ago) at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. General release was on Mar. 7, 2008 (4 years ago).

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Plot

In the year 10,000 BC, a tribe of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl, who live on a remote mountain range, survive by killing mammoths. D'Leh, a young hunter, has a companion named Francis, an orphan who was found by the tribe. D'Leh, while hunting mammoths, manages to kill one and wins the "White Spear," which is given to the killer of the mammoth. He also wins Evolet in marriage, but feels he deserves neither since he killed the mammoth by accident.

One day, El Almeja and several others are away when horse-riding raiders called the "Four Legged Demons" attack the Yaghal camp. They enslave Evolet, and D'Leh, Tic'Tic, and Ka'Ren pursue them to save her. Baku, whose mother was killed during the raid, joins them later. They are attacked by terror birds in the jungle, along with the raiders. In this encounter, Tic'Tic gets wounded and Baku and Ka'Ren are captured. D'Leh rescues Evolet, but she is later re-captured. Continuing on, they meet others whose loved ones were taken by the raiders. D'Leh and Tic'Tic befriend Nakudu, leader of the Naku tribe. He tells D'Leh of a prophecy: whoever talks to the "Spear-Tooth" will help free their people. D'Leh had earlier saved a saber-toothed cat from drowning in a trap. The saber-tooth then spared his life, and he realizes the prophecy was about him. Nakudu explains that his loved ones were taken in the "Great Red Birds," or ships with large red sails, to the "Mountains of the Gods," from which no one has ever returned. They then come together with other tribes, who agree to form a coalition to pursue the raiders.

They find the ships with red sails holding Evolet and Baku. They have no means to follow the ships, so they journey through a vast desert, where they discover a relatively advanced civilization similar to ancient Egypt, which is ruled by an enigmatic figure known as "The Almighty," who is said to be the last survivor of his kind. The Almighty, who is regarded as a living god, possesses many thousands of slaves that he is using to build a huge pyramid complex in his honor and possibly for his burial. D'Leh finds an escaped slave, and notices he is wearing a bracelet worn by D'Leh's father. D'Leh's father left his tribe for food and found the Naku tribe before being stolen by the raiders. In a night attack, the guards of the slaves discover D'Leh behind a pyramid. Tic'Tic dies during the attack. Meanwhile, the Almighty's priests discover Evolet wears scars on her hand patterned after the "Mark of the Hunter," the brightest star in all of the heavens. The priests believe it is part of a prophecy that whoever wears the mark of the Hunter is destined to kill the Almighty. D'Leh starts a full-scale rebellion amongst the slaves. They cause the mammoth herd to stampede and kill a large number of troops.

The Almighty offers Evolet to D'Leh in exchange for abandoning his rebellion. The Almighty says that if D'Leh takes his wife, his warriors can return, but the rest must be his slaves forever. D'Leh feigns acceptance of the deal which allows him to throw a spear at the Almighty and kill him, proving that he is not a god. During the ensuing battle, a raider kidnaps Evolet on horseback. Evolet grabs an arrow and stabs the warlord in the side, knocking them both off the horse. D'Leh rushes towards her, but the raider shoots her in the back. D'Leh kills the raider and returns to Evolet, who dies in his arms. The scene shifts to the wise woman as she breathes in deeply and then breathes out her last breath. The scene then returns to D'Leh cradling Evolet's body when she suddenly awakens, restored by the wise woman's sacrifice. They depart for home and bid farewell to the other tribes. They return home and kiss passionately as the screen fades in the sun.

In an alternative ending, the scene shifts forward many years into the future, showing Baku's retelling of the story by the camp fire. It ends with a child asking what had happened to the "Mountains of the Gods," and Baku responds "They were taken back by the sands. Lost to time, lost to man."

Cast

Steven Strait as D'Leh (an anagram for "Held" which is the German, Dutch and Afrikaans word for "hero"), a mammoth hunter and the main protagonist.
Camilla Belle (9 walls) as Evolet, D'Leh's love and the only survivor of a different tribe; one which was killed off by the "Four Legged Demons" (fierce warriors on horseback). While kidnapped, her hands were whipped, leaving a scar in the shape of the "hunter" - a foreshadowing of the one who will defeat the Almighty. She is unique in that she has blue eyes.
Cliff Curtis as Tic'Tic, D'Leh's mentor.
Joel Virgel as Nakudu, leader of the Naku tribe.
Affif Ben Badra as Warlord, leader of the "Four Legged Demons"
Mo Zinal as Ka'Ren
Nathanael Baring as Baku
Mona Hammond as Old Mother, the Yagahl wise old woman.
Marco Khan as One-Eye, Warlord's main henchman.
Reece Ritchie as Moha
Joel Fry as Lu'Kibu
Kristian Beazley as D'Leh's father, who had lived with the Naku tribe and learned agriculture from them.
Junior Oliphant as Tudu, Nakudu's son.
Boubacar Badaine as Quina, leader of another tribe.
Tim Barlow as the Almighty. The Almighty is a tall, blue eyed man who dresses in long white robes and a face-concealing veil. He is the last of three kings, and the last of the Atlanteans. He also fears the "Hunter", who is foretold to bring about his downfall.
Omar Sharif as the Narrator / elderly Baku

Production

Director Roland Emmerich and composer Harald Kloser originally penned a script for 10,000 BC. When the project received the greenlight from Columbia Pictures, screenwriter John Orloff began work on a new draft of the original script. Columbia Pictures, under Sony pictures (wallpaper) Entertainment, dropped the project due to a busy release calendar, and Warner Bros. picked up the project in Sony's vacancy. The script went through a second revision with Matthew Sand and a final revision with Robert Rodat. Emmerich rejected making the movie in an ancient language (similar to The Passion of the Christ or Apocalypto), feeling it would not be as emotionally engaging.

Production began in spring 2006 (6 years ago) in South Africa and Namibia. Location filming also took place in southern New Zealand and Thailand. Before shooting began, the production had spent eighteen months on research and development for the computer generated imagery. Two companies recreated prehistoric animals. To cut time (it was taking sixteen hours to render a single frame) 50% of the CGI models' fur was removed, as "it turned out half the fur looked the same" to the director.

Release

The DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) of the movie was released on Jun. 24, 2008 (4 years ago) in single disc editions of DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) and Blu-ray Disc in the United States. Best Buy will release a 2-disc limited edition along with the DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) and Blu-ray Disc releases. It was released on 21 July, 2008 (4 years ago) in the United Kingdom. The movie grossed $31,341,721 in DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) sales, bringing its total movie gross to $300,414,491.

Reception

The movie received largely negative reviews from critics, stating that the movie is mainly visual and lacks a firm screenplay. Critics went on to say that the movie is extremely inaccurate archaeologically. As of dec. 29, 2008 (4 years ago), the review aggregator at Rotten Tomatoes has reported that 9% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 135 reviews. Metacritic reported the movie had an average score of 34 out of 100, based on 29 reviews.

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