The Gods Must Be Crazy

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You find it wierd little miss greg sanders., why said so??

shrrshrr,

Thanks.. Yup I did!

Hmpp. I am from massahusetts, and sorry for my grammar, I was in a hurry while I am writing this one...I jsut realized it when I opened it earlier, and had read your message. It is really very stupid.. :( Not necessarilly had a strong impact, as what I have said earlier we jsut find it very funny and nothing else.. :)


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leahn - no worries, you're doing just fine. :) I can't beleive you skipped school to see this, though! I hope you don't mind my asking, but where are you from? English doesn't seem to be your first language, so I'm curious to know that this film had such a strong social impact on your community when you were growing up that people would stay home again and again to watch it. That's totally interesting. :look:

And wow - you guys watched it in class? Maybe I should take another look at this film - it's been years since I've seen it (maybe 20 or so), but obviously people still think it's relevant...
 
Wildatheart,

you mean you was just able to watch this last year??lolz.Me i was able to watch this when i was still in my elementary grade.

shrrshrr,

Its okay, and thank you for welcoming me..

Yup i just get this on the wikipedia, cause I cannot realy remmeber the whole thing and the characters.., so I need to reasearch it on the net..

The things that I remember about this film, was, this is the film, which I usually watch way back then, and guess what, i am always absent in school, just to watch this film.. My whole family was watching it, and even our neighbors are trying to go to our house just to watch this film..it is one of the funniest film I have ever watched. :)


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I edited the title of the thread to the actual one - hopefully this way people won't think you're posting religious propoganda.

Thanks for the thread and welcome to the boards! :wave:

It's an interesting film, although the second one was really unnecessary. Since you didn't cite the source of your excerpts (I'll presume the first is Wikipedia from the way it's structured) I'm unable to properly address some of the issues, but I do remember a lot of Caucasians seeing this film. Funnily enough I don't recall many people of color I knew watching this film...

:lol: Now you've got me thinking! This was mid-high school for me, and a period when I was heavily going to the theater, as were most of my friends. This movie certainly created buzz at the time, but I remember trying to like it (especially as I grew up with the music of Miriam Makeba), but not being able to...
 
Do you still remember this film "the god's must be crazy" way back 1980's??

Well i must say, this is the most freaking funny movie I have ever watched.. As long as I can remember, I was in my elementary grade when this film was being aired.. And still until now, I can remember some of the darnest things being shown in this film..lolz..

Here are some of the excerpts of the film..

"The first two films both present the Bushmen as noble savages leading a simple, fairly utopian life in contrast with western culture. There are several slapstick situations, accentuated by the use of fast motion.
These films, and the songs of Miriam Makeba, are probably the only exposure to a click consonant language for most people living outside of southwest Africa.[citation needed] Conversely, the arrival of a Coca-cola bottle thrown from a passing light aircraft represents the only exposure that the bushmen have with western culture, reminiscent of so-called New Guinean 'Cargo Cults'.
While a large Western white audience found the films funny, there was some considerable debate about its racial politics. The portrayal of Xi (particularly in the first film) as the naive innocent incapable of understanding the ways of the "gods" was viewed by some as patronising and insulting. The film was banned in Trinidad and Tobago for this reason. However, its many fans believe that it is exactly the opposite, a send-up of so-called civilization and condemnation of racism with Xi as the hero.
Some of the debate centered on Xi's reaction to the first white people he met, assuming they were gods since they were strange (he had only known Bushmen before), rode vehicles (which he also had never seen before), and were comparatively huge. However, within minutes he began doubting they were gods. The second film clearly shows Xi's greater understanding as he tells the children about the people he had met: "heavy people ... who seem to know some magic that can make things move," but are "not very bright, because they can't survive without their magic contrivances."
It should also be noted that the films' depictions of the Bushmen, even if they were accurate in the 1980s (also a source of debate), are clearly no longer accurate. The DVD's special feature "Journey to Nyae Nyae" (N!xau's homeland in northeastern Namibia), filmed in 2003, demonstrates this.

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