10,000 BC (2008)
10,000 BC is a 2008 American action-adventure film produced and directed by Roland Emmerich, who co-wrote with Harald Kloser (who also co-composed). The cast includes Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, and Cliff Curtis. The film depicts the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters. 10,000 BC premiered at Potsdamer Platz on February 10, 2008, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 5. Despite the film being a box office success, it received negative reviews, being considered one of the worst films of 2008.
Plot:
In 10,000 BC, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl live in the Ural Mountains. They survived by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the lone survivor of an attack of “four-legged demons”, the Yagahl’s shamanistic Neanderthal Old Mother prophesizes that the demons will come to them as well after their last mammoth hunt; the girl, named Evolet, will be betrothed to the champion of this hunt, and the pair will lead the Yagahl into a new way of life.
Unwilling to leave the Yagahl’s future up to this prophecy, the tribe’s chief hunter and bearer of the White Spear leaves on his own to search for another way to save his people; he entrusts the White Spear, his young son D’Leh, and the true purpose of his quest to his friend Tic’Tic. The tribe’s children ridicule D’Leh for what they view his father’s cowardice, and when he seeks comfort from Evolet, the two begin to fall in love.
