History Film / QuestForFire

* {{Slurpasaur}}: As stated above, the aforementioned sabre-toothed cats are played by trained lions with prosthetic teeth and painted on stripes.

* UndignifiedDeath: While trying to perform an IntimidationDemonstration a Kzaam gets his club stuck between some rocks and leaves himself wide open for Noah to attack and kill him.

** The Wagabu are typical hairy ape-man that can only be likened to australopithecines. AnachronismStew aside, australopithecines never ventured outside the tropics of Africa (unlike various members of ''Homo''), while this film takes place in a temperate environment resembling Pleistocene Europe.

* MisplacedWildlife: A Marabou stork appears in one scene. Marabou storks are found only in Africa and are thus out of place in Pleistocene Europe. The bird was probably chosen for it's bizarre "prehistoric" appearance.

''Quest for Fire'' (French: ''La Guerre du feu'', "The War of Fire") is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based off [[Literature/QuestForFire the book of the same name]] by Belgian author J.H. Rosny aîné.

* OneMillionBC: Slightly more accurate than most examples. The caption, as noted above, reads "80,000 years ago", but Annaud admits in the DVD commentary that it might just as well be 800,000, so...

* FanDisservice: There is a lot of straightforward sex and nudity in this film, but most of it isn't very sexy. Most of the people aren't very pretty and the sex is rough and animalistic.

''Quest for Fire'' (French: ''La Guerre du feu'', "The War of Fire") is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based off [[Literature/TheQuestForFire the book of the same name]] by Belgian author J.H. Rosny aîné.

''Quest for Fire'' (French: ''La Guerre du feu'', "The War of Fire") is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based off the book of the same name by Belgian author J.H. Rosny aîné.

* StockDinosaurs: No non-avian dinosaurs are present, but the prerequisite woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed cats show up.

** The Wagabu are portrayed as a more primitive, ape-like species covered in shaggy hair. In the traditional view of human evolution, the idea of such a primitive species living alongside Neanderthals and modern humans seemed unlikely but the recently-discovered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people#cite_note-5 Red Deer Cave people]] seem to share features in common with early species like ''Homo habilis'', and given the sketchy nature of the fossil record, it is entirely possible that many such archaic species may have survived until recent times in habitats where fossilization doesn't occur.

* AllThereInTheMannual: Or in the original novel in this case, since the movie has no dialogue outside of fictitious language made for this movie. The Neanderthal tribe the protagonists belong to is the Ulam, the ape-like people that attack at the start of the film are the Wagabu, the tribe of hairy people the protagonists steal fire from are the Kzamm, and the tribe of Cro-Magnons that cover themselves in ash and have learned how to make their own fire are the Ivaka.

* AllThereInTheMannual: Or in the original novel in this case, since the movie has no dialogue. The Neanderthal tribe the protagonists belong to is the Ulam, the ape-like people that attack at the start of the film are the Wagabu, the tribe of hairy people the protagonists steal fire from are the Kzamm, and the tribe of Cro-Magnons that cover themselves in ash and have learned how to make their own fire are the Ivaka.

* TruthInTelevision: As mentioned under ArtisticLicensePaleontology, this film got many things wrong, but it got a few things right as well:

* IAteWhat: Amoukar has this reaction when he learns that the leftover meat he's been chewing on is human.

* IntimidationDemonstration: A big factor in conflicts between human and proto-human tribes. The Kzamm smash their clubs on the ground when they approach the Ulam. Amouker boldly responds with his own demonstration.

** The Ulam don't understand laughter. When Ivaka laughs for the first time, they become unsettled. Later, they seem to have adopted the concept and bring it back home with them.

* PromotedToLoveInterest: Ika, in as sense. She is in most ways an original character to the film but Naoh did bond with a modern human woman who taught him the secret of fire in the book. The difference is that their literary counterparts [[InterspeciesFriendship kept their relationship platonic]].