Solutrean - the movie

[Ian Thomas]

New Ice Age hunters vs mammoths movie coming out. Got an idea 'Solutrean' does not technically overlap 'Upper Palaeolithic'?
It's probly the Atlantic Ice Bridge revisited and knowing Hollywood, i wouldn't be at all surprised to see dinosaurs in it.

Albert Hughes-Directed Ice Age Survival Tale ‘Solutrean’
deadline.com/2015/09/the-solutrean-albert-hughes-jeff-robinov-studio-8-first-project-survival-tale-1201528665/
.. an ambitious film called The Solutrean, and Albert Hughes will direct the survival tale set 20,000 years ago in the Ice Age. Word is getting around because they have begun casting a film meant to shoot late this year or early next, in Iceland and Canada. It is a visually striking epic-adventure, and the title refers to the Upper Paleolithic period

[Isengard]

I wouldn't be surprised to see them with bronze weapons or anything, probably lovely and clean shaven, women with shaven legs, etc too!

[Ian Thomas]

In Beowulf the movie Angelina Jolie's got nothing on except stiletto heeled shoes. In 800AD or therebouts.

Beowulf Trailer

[johannes]

If Beowulf's Hygelac and the eponymous 6th century ruler are one and the same person, than his nemesis Grendel is meant to represent the Merovingian ruler who defeated and killed him (in real life, there was no Beowulf to save Hygelac). Luckily, we have excellent archaeological sources about upper class female dress in 6th century Gaul: www.academia.edu/2921957/The_Arnegunde_Project_Conjectural_Merovingian_Clothing_of_the_6th_Century
but while all this purple, gold and silk must have been incredibly expensive, the eoverall effect is more Gormenghast* than Angelina Jolie.

*complete with social climbing kitchen urchin www.northvegr.org/histories%20and%20chronicles/history%20of%20the%20franks/042.html

[dennisw]

Beowulf legend has spawned countless tales from Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), to Lord of the Rings books and movies I have always assumed that there were so many embellishments that there is probably little accurate reflection of any real person.

[johannes]

ith wrote:

New Ice Age hunters vs mammoths movie coming out. Got an idea 'Solutrean' does not technically overlap 'Upper Palaeolithic'?
It's probly the Atlantic Ice Bridge revisited and knowing Hollywood, i wouldn't be at all surprised to see dinosaurs in it.

If this flick will really feature the Solutrean hypothesis, the political blowback from real and fake (I'm looking at you, Ward Churchill) Native American activists will be massive; I doubt anybody in Hollywood has the guts to endure this.

As for non-avian theropods, there were some animals in Pleistocene NA that were ecologically convergent to a degree, i.E. Terror Birds and the Panda Cat (a far too cute name for this lovecraftian beast) Xenosmilus ; both missed humans only by a few hundred thousand years and could feature in such a movie without bending the timeline too much. However, any realistic depiction of their hunting techniques would be off limits for a family-rated movie (those with strong stomachs can google Giant Petrel, but be warned).

[Isengard]

Ah typology versus DNA. DNA wins out I'm afraid as typology is based effectively on using aesthetics and best guess to produce seriation whereas DNA is a little more reliable!

[Ian Thomas]

Sept 29, 2015 23:41:41 GMT 10 johannes said:

ith wrote:

New Ice Age hunters vs mammoths movie coming out. Got an idea 'Solutrean' does not technically overlap 'Upper Palaeolithic'?
It's probly the Atlantic Ice Bridge revisited and knowing Hollywood, i wouldn't be at all surprised to see dinosaurs in it.

If this flick will really feature the Solutrean hypothesis, the political blowback from real and fake (I'm looking at you, Ward Churchill) Native American activists will be massive; I doubt anybody in Hollywood has the guts to endure this.

As for non-avian theropods, there were some animals in Pleistocene NA that were ecologically convergent to a degree, i.E. Terror Birds and the Panda Cat (a far too cute name for this lovecraftian beast) Xenosmilus ; both missed humans only by a few hundred thousand years and could feature in such a movie without bending the timeline too much. However, any realistic depiction of their hunting techniques would be off limits for a family-rated movie (those with strong stomachs can google Giant Petrel, but be warned).

There already is a Solutrean flick on Youtube - and they're all whiteys on the ice bridge! Yeah. Whitey discovered America - got that?

Solutreans: The first Americans - 1 of 9

You're right. If they put it on the big screen there'll be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the natives-deserve-special-treatment crowd. Don't worry, we got plenty of them Downunder.