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10,000 B.C. (2008)
Release Date:
Friday, March 7, 2008
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Rating Reason:
For sequences of intense action and violence
Genre:
Adventure, Drama
Starring:
Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Tim Barlow, Marco Khan, Reece Ritchie, Mo Zinal, Mona Hammond, Joel Virgel Vierset, Suri van Sornsen, Joel Fry, Nathanael Baring, Joe Vaz
Written By:
Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, John Orloff, Matthew Sand, Robert Rodat
Director:
Roland Emmerich
Official Site:
Synopsis:
The film centers on a 21-year-old who lives among a primitive tribe that survives by hunting a mammoth each year as the herd migrates through the tribe's homeland.
It was a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind. "10,000 B.C." follows a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric predators as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts to rescue the woman he loves (Camilla Belle) from an evil warlord determined to possess her.  |
    
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10,000 B.C. (2008) | Preview
What's Legend, and What's True?
Maurice Broaddus
"It takes a hero to change the world." 10,000 B.C. almost looks like the kind of epic movie one might see during the summer, minus the big booms and car chases since this takes place in prehistoric times. I'm probably cued to think this since this movie comes to us by way of Roland Emmerich, who brought us Independence Day (1996). The movie follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. While the tag line has me intrigued, there is another idea that has me fascinated by this movie. It is the idea of separating legend from fact. The premise reminds me of what I will call the dilemma of Christ. As I come to the story of Jesus the Christ, a hero who changed the world, I have to ask myself a few questions: Is the Jesus portrayed in New Testament accurate? Or is it legend put together to fulfill a vision, to propagate a story to rally a people? Hero myths weren't even new by the time of Christ. We'd already seen the Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek and Roman myths, the series of polytheistic cultures that helped shaped the monotheistic Judeo-Christian faith since these cultures sat alongside one another, their people trading stories. Jumping ahead a few centuries, to help put the dilemma in perspective, how different is the story of Jesus from the legend of King Arthur? Again we have a prophesied hero/king who comes to help free his people, who dies but with the promise of returning: a grand, heroic mythic tradition; yet we believe the Jesus story is different. The story of Jesus is deeply rooted in history—historically probable—but we can't know with anything like absolute certainty if it is true. Nor could any amount of inquiry prove such articles of faith as Jesus is Lord or that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. This is where faith comes in. Faith is like a math problem: History/evidence + personal experience + intuition = faith. We have the story, rooted in history, that still shapes and inspires us today. Sorting myth from fact? That's for another day, another set of inquiries. Until then, I look forward to the Story. Copyright © 2008 Hollywood Jesus. All rights reserved.
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