#The Gods Must Be Crazy

[cosmonautroger]

The Gods Must Be Crazy, 1980

[periodically80s]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This was one of the most-loved, longest -running films ever. A breath of fresh air from the African plains. One of the films I’d wished I’d watched with my daughter. But maybe can watch with my partner.

“Jamie Uys conceived the premise of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980) while making the 1974 documentary film" Animals Are Beautiful People". The documentary was filmed partially on the Kalahari Desert, where Uys first encountered the San people and "fell in love with them."

"After I made ['Animals Are Beautiful People'], I went back to the Kalahari very often to visit the Bushmen. The more I visited, the more I discovered this thing about them: they don't have a sense of property. They don't know about ownership. If I put my jacket down, one of them would put it on. They share everything. Where they are, there is nothing you can own. It seems so different from the rest of us, who will kill one another over a diamond, because of its scarcity value."

Uys chose a Coca-Cola bottle as the object that the San people would discover and covet in the film because he felt that the bottle was representative of "our plastic society", and because it "is a beautiful thing, if you've never seen glass before."

After writing the script, Uys reportedly spent three months traversing the Kalahari Desert with an interpreter, searching for a San person to play the role of Xi in the film. Visiting areas of the desert inhabited by the San, Uys took photographs of individuals he felt he might cast, and then "marked the longitude and latitude, so we could find them again."

Uys decided to cast Namibian San farmer Nǃxau as Xi, and later recalled that "At first [Nǃxau] didn't understand, because they have no word for work. Then the interpreter asked, 'Would you like to come with us for some days?'" N!xua agreed and flew with Uys by airplane to Windhoek, Namibia, which served as a base for the film's production. Uys stated that "The airplane didn't impress him at all. He thinks we are magicians, so he believes we can do anything. Nothing impressed him." In his hotel room, N!xau agreed to use the toilet, but slept on the floor rather than on the provided bed.

According to Uys, N!xau would be flown back to his home in the Kalahari Desert every three or four weeks to prevent him from suffering from culture shock. During his time in urban areas, N!xua learned to smoke and acquired an affinity for liquor and sake. Uys said that he paid N!xua $300 for his first 10 days of work, but that the money was reportedly blown away by wind. N!xua was then compensated with 12 head of cattle.”

[Leila L'Abate]

[trolledu]

[eyelinertestosterone]

ODIN-SHE WAS THE ONE

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[plakatierenverboten]

Armand Hammer: The Gods Must Be Crazy (Official Audio)

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Armand Hammer - The Gods Must Be Crazy

From the album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, out September 29th via Fat Possum.

[cosmonautroger]

The Gods Must Be Crazy, 1989

[rbvcdeluxe]

every time someone makes good richie lipschitz characterization an angel wins their wings back

[welcometogrouchland]

I've been binging Batman Beyond recently (Terry ily so much) and thought about how- bc of the JLU twist which I think isn't even canon to the comics BB verse but shhh bare with me- he'd technically be Damian's half brother??? Which is just so ridiculously soap opera to me. I need them to interact in a silly time travel adventure so bad you don't even understand (ID in alt)

[slythereen]

i know we say it often but there is truly no beating the batshit crazy, could not make this up, absolute insanity of lestappen lore. wdym they’re about to start on the front row together on the anniversary of the inchident like what kind of fucked up coincidental magic is THAT

[ygamiraito]

i REALLY really need harlan to specify what he meant by this. like what the fuck.

bonus : here's am calling ted sweetheart in text form!

(P.S. this is from the official strategy guide if you guys wanna check it out!)

[mewtwo24]

I just started reading the svsss volumes (and re-read them again because A LOT IS GOING ON) but like. This shit is so hysterically funny I don't even know where to begin.

Was no one????? Going to tell me that one of the cornerstone jokes in the damn series is that lbh's adoration for his one and only 'tism person who literally cannot express his emotions to save his life is basically genetic?????????

Was no one???? No one AT ALL going to tell me that Mobei-Jun straight up yeets Airplane at the problem in one of the scenes?????? And that in the most hilarious twist of fate Airplane then unyeets Mobei-Jun not twenty minutes later?????

It's one thing to see people joke about sqq and lbh being unable to communicate but it's on a league of its own when you have to read HUNDREDS OF PAGES of sqq's inner monologue be like 'that's my darling boy. my baby. my sugar plum pumpy umpkin you're my sweetie pie' but on the outside he says "get lost binghe" and somehow deems that an effective expression of his affection that lbh will surely understand. 'Why is lbh whining and crying and tugging at my sleeve like a plaintive wife, why is he so angry?' Sqq asks, the entire circus, as lbh is about to fling himself off a cliff for attention--

In short, MXTX is the queer comedian of our generation and nobody appreciates her enough