Totally forgotten $105m adventure film riddled with flaws

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Totally forgotten 105m adventure film riddled with flaws

This Saturday, the August 19, 2023 shows Tele5 at 8:15 p.m an action-adventure that propels Independence Day director Roland Emmerich into a previously unexplored era in Hollywood cinema. However, the film had to 10,000 BC endured much ridicule after its publication due to errors and historical inaccuracy.

Adventurous action by Roland Emmerich: 10,000 BC travels back in time to early human history

For a budget of $105 million (and grossing almost $270 million worldwide), Roland Emmerich sent his audience in in 2008 prehistoric adventure: The mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) leads a simple existence with his hill tribe in the Mesolithic period. When the orphaned Evolet (Camilla Belle) is taken in by them, he falls in love with her.

But the young woman is abducted by horse warriors and D’Leh pursues the kidnappers to save his beloved. His journey becomes one Odyssey of Survivalwhich confronts him with saber-toothed tigers, terror birds and also human dangers of advanced civilizations.

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10,000 BC: D’Leh with saber-toothed tiger

German director Roland Emmerich and his co-screenwriter Harald Kloser hid clues in their characters’ names. D’Leh means “hero” read backwards and Evolet is an anagram for “The Love”. However, what is also hidden in 10,000 BC are various historical discrepancies that oscillate between artistic freedom and factual errors and put the film in a ranks with The Core, which was ridiculed as unscientific. (Warning, 10,000 BC spoilers follow.)

An Adventure Movie With Flaws: What’s Wrong With 10,000 BC?

Despite archaeological excavations, there is no written evidence of the events 12,000 years ago that can testify to the truthfulness of Roland Emmerich’s film. So the Independence Day director went for show values ​​and added fantasy elements (such as prophecies and an implied Atlantis as Evolet’s origin). However, some of what the film shows has been historically substantiated since its release factually incorrect chalked. We have compiled the best of for you:

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10,000 BC: Mammoths built the pyramids?

  • The Smilodon in 10,000 BC is a
    Saber-toothed tiger found only in America    . However, the adventure film takes place in the area between the Ural Mountains and Egypt.
  • The earliest pyramids in ancient Egypt were only ca. 2000 years before Christ, not 10,000 B.C. built.
  • Although slaves are said to have been involved in building the pyramids, graffiti near Giza makes it clear that the bulk of the builders skilled craftsmen and paid workers instead of slaves were .
  • The ones (incorrectly) helping with the construction in the movie Woolly mammoths would have died in the desert heatbefore they could have helped build any pyramids in Egypt.
  • Although the film shows this several times, mammoths cannot gallop, because their physique (as with elephants) does not allow it. Only a fast trot was possible.
  • Those consumed in 10,000 BC peppers and cereals did not reach the “Old World” until the 16th century from Latin America.
  • The use of certain tools as well metal works, animal breeding and stone houses were still in the distant future at the time of the film.
  • In one of the first scenes, a tribe member reacts angrily and whispers in the original English a cursing “Jesus”. Stone Age people didn’t speak English, of course, but Christ they knew 10,000 before Certainly not Christ.

    • If you missed the adventure film 10,000 BC with all its mistakes on TV, you can’t stream it in any flat at the moment, but you can rent or buy it as a stream *.

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