History Film / QuestForFire

''Quest for Fire'' (French: ''La Guerre du feu'') 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. It is set in Paleolithic Europe, around 80,000 years ago, and concerns a small group of cavemen as they search for the fire their tribe needs to survive.

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Subverted, they're Cro Magnons and Neanderthals present.

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Subverted, they're Cro Magnons.
** The cannibals, however, are Neanderthal.

* GenreKiller: Of the "One Million BC" referenced below. The movie set the bar so high that nobody's dared try to compete with it.

* RapeIsLove: Granted, they're cavemen who have no idea of how romance works...

* [[spoiler:RapeisLove: Granted, they're cavemen who have no idea of how romance works...]]

* [[spoiler:RapeIsLove: Granted, they're cavemen who have no idea of how romance works...]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TwinPeaks Big Ed Hurley]] and [[Creator/RonPerlman Hellboy]] are cavemen now! And Ika is played by [[TheColorPurple Squeak.]]
** The primitive language the people use was devised by Creator/AnthonyBurgess.

* ScienceMarchesOn: It was done with the knowledge of its time. Many aspects displayed by the film are wrong, but nobody knew back then.

-->--'''Music/IronMaiden, "[[FilkSong Quest For Fire]]"'''[[note]]Yes, the one that starts with the [[{{Narm}} infamous]] [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth"]][[/note]]

* NationalGeographicNudity

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TwinPeaks Big Ed Hurley]] and [[RonPerlman Hellboy]] are cavemen now! And Ika is played by [[TheColorPurple Squeak.]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: Inevitably.

* OneMillionBC: One of the more accurate depictions of this period.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears

''Quest for Fire'' (French: ''La Guerre du feu'') 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. It is set in Paleolithic Europe, around 80,000 years ago, and is set around a small group of cavemen as they search for the fire their tribe needs to survive.

* SceneryPorn, RealPlaceBackground, ShootTheMoney: The film was shot on location in Canada, Scotland, Iceland, and Kenya. The backgrounds are simply gorgeous.

-->"Drawn by quest for fire, they searched all through the land\\
Drawn by quest for fire, discovery of man"

** The primitive language the people use was devised by AnthonyBurgess.

-->--'''Music/IronMaiden, "[[FilkSong Quest For Fire]]"'''[[hottip:*:Yes, the one that starts with the [[{{Narm}} infamous]] [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth"]]

-->--'''Music/IronMaiden, "[[FilkSong Quest For Fire]]"'''[[hottip:*:Yes, the one that starts with the [[{{Narm}} infamous]] [[SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth"]]]]

'''This film provides examples of:'''

* GoryDiscretionShot: Brutally subverted.

* BilingualBonus, GeniusBonus: The dialogue is left untranslated. However, both tropes are [[ZigZaggingTrope zig zagged]] in that ''no one'' knows this language except the one who created it.
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: The group returns with fire...only for it to be extinguished by a careless man. Naoh tries to make fire with sticks, to no avail. Then Ika tries...and succeeds!]]

Most of it is just people in hairy suits and makeup walking around, fighting animals, and talking in some weird gibberish language.

Most of it is just people in hairy suits and makeup walking around, fighting animals, and talking in some weird gibberish language. It's BetterThanItSounds.

** The primitive language the people use was devised by [[Literature/AClockworkOrange Anthony Burgess]].

* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Subverted, they're Cro Magnons.

** The primitive language the people use was devised by [[AClockworkOrange Anthony Burgess]].