[Pen-l] 10,000 BC

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Jim Devine

Last night, because my wife was out of town, I saw the flick "10,000
BC." I made this sacrifice because I needed to know how bad it was,
because every New Year's eve we host a bad movie party. Alas, it was
too long for our party. It also lacked the je ne sais quoi that
defines classic bad movies such as "Bo Derek's Tarzan" or "The Brain
that Wouldn't Die."

The ethnic undertones are amazing. The whole point of the movie is
that White guys can play Indians, complete with war paint. Omar
Sharif's voice-over helps, by including such pseudo-Indian clichÃs as
"many moons" and "white rain" (snow). The main plot starts with
slavers riding horses stealing many of the band's people (including
the heroine). Somehow, the good guys had never heard of horses before.
The slavers have distinctly semitic noses and have guttural accents,
so that some can think of them as Arabs and others can think of them
as Jews. They are really bad guys, whose only positive side is that
they betray each other a lot.

Anyway, our hero (whose name seems to be "Delay," as in Tom) gets
upset and goes off to seek & save his wife, the heroine. Since the
latter was dragged off to the heavily-armed Big City, our hero has to
organize an international coalition of the willing to invade
Baghdad... I mean something that looks like Egypt. (The Egyptians look
a bit Mayan to me, but I'm not an expert in anthropology the way the
movie-makers are.) He is helped in this task by his kitty.

^^^^
CB: Not that Jim said there were....but there were no pyramids in Egypt nor monumental architecture anywhere in 10,000 BC.  Pyramids were built  starting  maybe 2650 BC. ( Quick Study bar chart on "Western Civilization 1")

When Egyptian civ arose, they didn't "capture slaves".  This is a Mesopotamian, Greek thing from later.   

The Israelites were not captured by the Egyptians.  They were invited into Egypt when Joseph became the Phaorah's "chief economist". Then they started to outgrow the Egyptian in population ( See Genesis). When they didn't institute population control, they were put under discipline. When they left with Moses,they weren't escaping , but removed.

The origin of the state is in Mesopotamia (Iraq) at the Tigris-Euphrates in , I think , 5,000 BC. Gotta check my books.

^^



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