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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 16, 2010 2:49:02 GMT -5
"The Man From Earth"
Its about some history professor who suddenly decides to leave the university and quits. At a going away party, he cuts out and heads for his cabin in the woods. Some of the other faculty follow him and catch him as he's loading his pick up truck readying to leave.
He tells them that every ten years, he leaves wherever he is so people don't notice he never ages and that he's really a 14,000 year old Cro Magnon man and that sparks a very interesting conversation (which is the whole movie) ...as Jon takes them all through history with his memories of events in history, including some of the famous people he was in his time. Most of his peers don't believe him and others dont care as his tales are so believeable. The faculty at the party includes an Archeologist, a biology teacher, a Christian Literalist, and a professor of psychiatry. Its about an hour and 15 minutes and I think anyone interested in history and such will enjoy it much.
I'd love to discuss it if anyone's already seen it.
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Post by maddogblues on Jan 16, 2010 14:48:25 GMT -5
Beginning to watch it now: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7342194084094610348&ei=4BZSS7OnMoimqQP6wvXZCw&q=the++man+from+earth&hl=en#"The Man From Earth" Its about some history professor who suddenly decides to leave the university and quits. At a going away party, he cuts out and heads for his cabin in the woods. Some of the other faculty follow him and catch him as he's loading his pick up truck readying to leave. He tells them that every ten years, he leaves wherever he is so people don't notice he never ages and that he's really a 14,000 year old Cro Magnon man and that sparks a very interesting conversation (which is the whole movie) ...as Jon takes them all through history with his memories of events in history, including some of the famous people he was in his time. Most of his peers don't believe him and others dont care as his tales are so believeable. The faculty at the party includes an Archeologist, a biology teacher, a Christian Literalist, and a professor of psychiatry. Its about an hour and 15 minutes and I think anyone interested in history and such will enjoy it much. I'd love to discuss it if anyone's already seen it.
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Post by werewolf on Jan 17, 2010 9:21:40 GMT -5
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Post by ninjamantis on Jan 27, 2010 1:36:03 GMT -5
I thought it was an interesting conversation and I like the way it ended. Let me know what you thought about it.
Thanks for that link WW, I checked out some of the comments and they were all pretty good on both sides of the argument!
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