March 25, 2011

who, what, when, where, why, and how

If you can handle the clunky — and dramatic! — reenactments, this archeological history of North America shows how people from Europe, and eventually Asia, met to populate the Americas — the Europeans arriving some 17,000 years ago across a giant ice bridge connecting the European and North American continents.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on March 25th, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    Clunky reenactments are so my thing, if you catch my drift.

  2. Sheila Ryan on March 25th, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    I want to see marionettes struggling across phenomenal distances. Hopping and stumbling, ideally.

  3. Deron Bauman on March 25th, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    That would have required no qualification.

  4. Deron Bauman on March 25th, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    Preferably with a Herzog voice over.

  5. Sheila Ryan on March 26th, 2011 at 9:54 am

    Let’s write Werner.

  6. Sheila Ryan on March 26th, 2011 at 9:57 am

    It worked for Errol.

  7. Sheila Ryan on March 26th, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Marionettes modeled on an imaginative reconstruction of pre-Clovis humans. Bumping along the western coast of North America in little boats. Hopping onto shore and stumbling southward, hauling their boats and entangling themselves.

    The absence of narrative tension and propulsion could be problematic. I might need to introduce dinosaurs. Or gigantic possums.

    I’m leaning toward the gigantic possums.

  8. Deron Bauman on March 26th, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    I think a Herzog voice over takes care of all that.

  9. Sheila Ryan on March 26th, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Good point.

  10. Jones on March 26th, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    It’s always hard to pull off a good documentary with bad acting, so far I’ve seen very few who’s succeeded.

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