History Film / TenThousandBC

* GenreThrowback: To ''One Million Years B.C'' and other "prehistoric caveman adventures" films of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: Should be pretty obvious from just watching ten minutes of the film. See also MisplacedWildlife.

One of the most infamous and blatant examples of RuleOfCool in all of film history. Make sure to bring your {{MST 3 K Mantra}}.

* GenreThrowback: To ''One Million Years B.C'' and other "prehistoric caveman adventures" films of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]]/[[SdrawkcabName Sdrawkcab]] Name: "D'Leh" is "Held" backwards; "Held" means "Hero" in German/Dutch. And apparently the woman is named Evolet. Telove. The love. Dang, they named her after her role.

* {{Misplaced Vegetation}}: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Moutains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

* TheDogBitesBack: A subtle example, among the numerous people from disparate countries D'Leh brings with him to the pyramid include a group of giant African warriors. They all sneak in disguised as slaves and an overseer begins continuously whipping their leader, who just crouches down and takes it until D'Leh gives the signal, when he immediatly stands up to his full, seven-foot plus height, grabs the overseer by the throat and effortlessly hurls him off the pyramid to his death.
* VillainousCrush: The warlord leader of the four horsemen falls for Evolet and buys her to make her his lover, even kidnapping her from D'Leh near the end. Of course, when he realizes she doesn't want him [[spoiler: he throws a spear into her back, killing her before D'Leh kills him. [[IGotBetter She gets better]] though.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The movie probably isn't meant to evoke historical accuracy. Naming the movie on an actual prehistoric date was [more likely] done for promotional purposes.

* VillainousCrush: The warlord leader of the four horsemen falls for Evolet and buys her to make her his lover, even kidnapping her from D'Leh near the end. Of course, when he realizes she doesn't want him [[spoiler: he throws a spear into her back, killing her before D'Leh kills him.]]

* BlackSpeech: The "Egpytians".

* {{Misplaced Vegetation}}: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Moutains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

* AnachronismStew: the first pyramid wasn't even built until 2630 BC. They didn't even have ''agriculture'' back then.
** At one point, the villains use a 17th century telescope.
** Boats that wouldn't be made until 6,000 years after this movie is supposedly set.
** Corn. In Europe. 12,000 years or so before the first recorded ships came to the New World.
** The [[FeatheredFiend terror birds]] became extinct millions of years before the year the film supposedly takes place in.
** Well...not ''millions'' of years. One or two million maybe.
* AncientAstronauts: Implied. The slaves tell Moa & Baku that The God of the Pyramid [[{{Stargate}} came down from the stars]].
** Or from Atlantis. Given the ridiculously advanced (for the setting) technology he and his servants use, they may well be right.
** It would be about the only way to explain the future technology, but not the extinct life forms-unless those were preserved by them too or something.
* AndroclesLion: D'Leh and the giant sabretooth tiger

* BlackSpeech

* GenreThrowback: To ''One Million Years B.C.''

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: D'leh and his buddies destroyed one of the only BASTIONS OF CIVILIZATION and set humanity back god knows how long. [[ValuesDissonance A few sacrifices isn't that much of a price to pay]].

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The confrontation with the Smilodon is featured heavily. [[spoiler: It gets stuck in a pit that's filling with water. D'leh says to it "Do not eat me after I free you!". He frees it, then it goes off on it's way.]]

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The film itself never makes it quite clear where it is all set; but given the locations seen, there are a few obvious choices. In the first part of the film, it can be assumed that they were a "[[InNameOnly Native American]]" tribe (even though they're Caucasian). When they reach the forest, it is obviously intended to be South America. Now this part is all fine and dandy... but then they end up in AFRICA. Which they WALKED to. And this is excluding the fact that the transitional zones between each climate is about ten yards across. You don't go from tundra to jungle to desert in one day without a lot more variety. Technically, they could have been going from sub-Saharan jungles, through grasslands, up through the desert, and finally reached Egypt...Except what the bleep are tanned WHITE GUYS (and one [[color:blue: blue-eyed]] woman) doing living on a tundra in extreme southern Africa?

* YouFailGeographyForever: The film itself never makes it quite clear where it is all set; but given the locations seen, there are a few obvious choices. In the first part of the film, it can be assumed that they were a "[[InNameOnly Native American]]" tribe (even though they're Caucasian). When they reach the forest, it is obviously intended to be South America. Now this part is all fine and dandy... but then they end up in AFRICA. Which they WALKED to. And this is excluding the fact that the transitional zones between each climate is about ten yards across. You don't go from tundra to jungle to desert in one day without a lot more variety. Technically, they could have been going from sub-Saharan jungles, through grasslands, up through the desert, and finally reached Egypt...Except what the bleep are tanned WHITE GUYS (and one [[color:blue: blue-eyed]] woman) doing living on a tundra in extreme southern Africa?

* YouFailHistoryForever: Sure, the film probably isn't meant to evoke historical accuracy... but they really kicked themselves in the teeth when they decided to name the movie on an actual prehistoric date.

* RuleOfCool: Creator/RolandEmmerich's other specialty.

* {{Misplaced Vegetation}}: [[BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Moutains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

* {{Misplaced Vegetation}}: Film Brian notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chase the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Moutains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

* LightIsNotGood / OrderVersusChaos: the false god wears white and is charismatic enough to build a civilization around him. And then the good guys come around and destroy the civilization he formed. Seems like an inverse version of the order/light against chaos/darkness more often present.

** Also, the Sabre-Tooth in Africa. Sure, some species of Sabre-Toothed Cats did live in Africa, however the species featured in the film is clearly a [[PopularityPower Smilodon]], which only ranged from North and South America.

* YouFailGeographyForever: The film itself never makes it quite clear where it is all set; but given the locations seen, there are a few obvious choices. In the first part of the film, it can be assumed that they were a "[[InNameOnly Native American]]" tribe. When they reach the forest, it is obviously intended to be South America. Now this part is all fine and dandy... but then they end up in AFRICA. Which wouldn't have been that much of a problem... if they hadn't WALKED the entire journey. And this is excluding the fact that the transitional zones between each climate is about ten yards across. You don't go from tundra to jungle to desert in one day without a lot more variety. Technically, they could have been going from sub-Saharan jungles, through grasslands, up through the desert, and finally reached Egypt...Except what the bleep are tanned WHITE GUYS (and one [[color:blue: blue-eyed]] woman) doing living on a tundra in extreme southern Africa?

* RuleOfCool: RolandEmmerich's other specialty.

* GeorgeLucasThrowback: To ''One Million Years B.C.''

** Assuming that WordOfGod is correct and this takes place in South America, ''everything'' is misplaced.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh [[strike:slays]] ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead.) Then guilt over cheating causes him to give the spear back, angering said childhood friend.

Soon after, [[AnachronismStew horsemen with swords]] show up and kidnap many of the villagers, including D'Leh's [[strike:wife]] girlfriend. He and the few surviving hunters set off on a quest to track down these raiders and get their families back.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The FridgeLogic sets in that, you know, D'leh and his buddies destroyed one of the only BASTIONS OF CIVILIZATION and set humanity back god knows how long. [[ValuesDissonance A few sacrifices isn't that much of a price to pay]].

* VillainousCrush: The warlord leader of the four horsemen falls for Evolet and buys her to make her his lover, even kidnapping her from D'Leh near the end. Of course, when he realizes she doesn't want him [[spoiler: he throws a spear into her back, killing her before D'Leh kills him.]] Don't worry [[spoiler: [[{{I Got Better}} she gets better]].]]

* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]]/[[SdrawkcabName Sdrawkcab]] Name: "D'Leh" is "Held" backwards; "Held" means "Hero" in German/Dutch. And apparently the woman is named Elovet. Telove. The love. Dang, they named her after her role.

* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler: Elovet]].