Line #18 Film/AoTheLastHunter


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3	''Ao: The Last Hunter'' (French: ''Ao, le dernier Néandertal'') is a French prehistoric epic directed by Jacques Malaterre and loosely based on the novel trilogy ''Aô, l'homme ancien'' by Marc Klapczynski.
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5	Ao, a neanderthal, loses his clan to an enemy raid and sets out to find his long lost brother in a journey that takes him across Pleistocene Europe. On his journey, he encounters another type of human (''Homo sapiens sapiens'') and befriends a woman named Aki and her baby Wama.
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7	!!Provides Examples Of:
8	* AttemptedRape: It's not treated like rape in the setting due to DeliberateValuesDissonance but Ao tries to "unite his body" with Aki's against her will. She later does consent to sex with him though.
9	* BabiesEverAfter: In the epilogue, Ao and Aki are raising Wama[=/=]Nea together and Aki is pregnant with Ao's child.
10	* BearsAreBadNews: At the beginning of the film, Ao kills a polar bear after it killed two members of his clan.
11	* BeeBeeGun: Ao weaponizes a beehive against Aguk and his men.
12	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Ao kidnaps Aki's baby because he believes her to be a reincarnation of his own child who was killed. Aki still ends up mating with him after this rocky start.
13	* CaughtInTheRain: A variation: a rain storm coincides with the first time Ao and Aki have sex but they skip the finding shelter part and get it on right there in the mud.
14	* DeadGuyJunior: Wama is an odd case. Ao sees her as his own deceased daughter Nea reborn and calls her accordingly, to the dismay of Aki, who quite justifiedly disapproves of him claiming her daughter. Finally, Ao has a HeelRealization moment and stops acting this way, but then again Aki accepts the new name and Ao as her daughter's father.
15	* DeathOfAChild: The catalyst of the story is the murder of Ao's entire tribe, including his newborn baby daughter.
16	* FamilyThemeNaming: Ao and his brother Oa.
17	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ao is one with nature and can communicate with animals, even animals he's hunting.
18	* GroinAttack: Ao grabs one of Aguk's men by the genitals during a fight.
19	* HumansAreBastards: A recurring theme. To Ao, man is far more evil and cruel than any beast.
20	* HumanSacrifice: Aguk sacrifices Aki's original mate.
21	* InterspeciesRomance: Ao and Aki, if you consider neanderthals a separate species from ''Homo sapiens''.
22	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Aki is a beautiful woman who is unburdened by taboos about nudity.
23	* LastOfHisKind: Ao is implied to be the last neanderthal after his clan is killed and his brother's, his birth clan, is found to be no better.
24	* MisplacedWildlife: A bald eagle is very out of place in Pleistocene Europe. American bison are too but they are likely [[{{Slurpasaur}} stand-ins]] for the extinct Eurasian steppe bison.
25	* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler: Ao desperately tries to feed healing herbs to a very dead neanderthal.]]
26	* NationalGeographicNudity: Casually topless women are shown throughout and Aki has a couple fully nude scenes.
27	* NatureTinkling: Obviously enforced by the setting but given some focus when Aki squats to urinate in a cave early on.
28	* ScreamingBirth: Aki gives birth screaming and naked in a cave.

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