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Unconditional and perennial number one! The greatest comedy of all time. "The Gods Must Be Crazy" in two parts. I watched it for the first time over 20 years ago. The first film is already 40 years old, the sequel, the 2nd part is over 30. And how fresh they look! Despite the fact that they have such a very charming flair of the "retro" 80s.
Ah, what a movie! All the excellent epithets are missing! Incredible! Brilliant! Awesome! Brilliantly! Masterpiece! And this is without the slightest exaggeration.
Starting Ingredients: Director, screenwriter, producer, editor, performer of a small role, sometimes cameraman - Jamie Uys. In one person. From South Africa. Almost unknown to the general public at the time. Sixty year old self-taught. The main character is an African Bushman, a savage. (Who actually saw so many white people just on set!)
The rest of the actors are also from South Africa. Like the director, hardly anyone known at the time of the film's release. No stars. The location is Africa. The Kalahari Desert. Relatively modest budget. The main character, Bushman Niksau, received $300 for filming!
And one more thing: the amazing talent of the author, without pretensions and frills, kind and understandable to everyone humor, a sense of tact and respect for the viewer. Plus love for native and beautiful Africa, for all the heroes of our history.
"…No way. Do not go to Africa, Walk to Africa! Sharks in Africa, Gorillas in Africa, Big evil crocodiles in Africa. They will bite, beat and offend you! .. "
Film tie. A small tribe of Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert who have never encountered civilization and have never seen a white man. They live in a "soft" world, in every sense of the word. In it there is not only iron and concrete, but also anger, greed and envy. All that they have - no one's, i.e. general. But one day, not very beautiful for them, a large noisy bird (airplane) flew in the sky. The pilot finished his Coke and threw the empty bottle out the window. Bushman picks up this bottle and brings it to his tribe.
The strangest and most beautiful thing the Bushmen have ever seen. Clear as water, but hard as stone. An empty bottle, garbage, this product of civilization, turns out to be very useful to the Bushmen. She is both kitchen utensils and a musical instrument, and she can also create an ornament. If not for one "but". There is only one bottle, and everyone in the tribe wants to own it.
It causes quarrels and fights! They came up with a name for it - an "evil thing", from which you need to get rid of, returning it to the gods. This responsible mission is entrusted to the bushman Khi. He must reach the very edge of the Earth and throw it out! Those. return the bottle to the gods.
The protagonist received a worthy goal, and the story began!
He, of course, will walk for a long time, meeting white people along the way, and all their incredible inventions of our civilization. For example, a car. Which for him is an outlandish animal with four spinning legs. Various adventures and alterations will happen to him, he will even end up in prison.
The film has three storylines. And how inventively they are intertwined! The first is a bushman with a bottle.
Second: a biologist who lives permanently in the savannah, and a young teacher who flew in from the metropolis.
Well, and the third - "rebel revolutionaries", after another unsuccessful attempt to make a "revolution" in some neighboring country. (And we remember well how many there were of these “liberation revolutions” in African countries!).
A biologist, he sees almost all the time in the wild, with animals, and has completely lost the skill of communicating with people, especially with women. But he will have to learn it. The local pastor (played by Jamie Yues) asks him to meet the teacher. The teacher is beautiful and charming. The biologist, his name is Mr. Stein, reluctantly agrees ... And then a cascade of hilarious situations will follow. "God, what an idiot!" But a biologist is not so simple. He likes the girl. And he will try very hard to please her too.
But each time it will look like an absurd laughingstock ... This is the "love story" of the film.
When the “rebel revolutionaries” take both the teacher and her students hostage, it is the biologist with the help of the Bushman who will save them! Although even here he turns out to be ridiculous and awkward in her eyes.
Each hero of this wonderful story gets what he deserves or achieves what he wants. Robbers-"revolutionaries" are arrested. The biologist seeks reciprocity from the teacher.
And the bushman finds the ends of the earth! And he saves his tribe from the "evil thing" - the bottle. This frame is incredibly beautiful. A small bushman at the "end of the earth", over a deep abyss. And it looks just like that, because there are solid clouds at the bottom of the abyss! Bravo!
That Africa, which the viewer sees in the film, is stunningly beautiful! It's impossible not to fall in love with her. The wild world of Africa is woven into history very organically.
Behind the scenes, the voice of a wise narrator sounds. He translates to us the thoughts and words of the little Bushmen. Their thoughts and feelings are simple and childishly naive. They treat animals as equals. Contact them with requests. They ask their forgiveness if they become their prey.
Each character in the film, even the most minor one, is bright and colorful. What is Sam Boja, the leader of the "revolutionaries".
The film is flawless. To find fault, with all the desire, there is nothing. Yes, and there is no such desire. So now they don't make movies. Alas. Without these close-ups, piercing glances and meaningful pauses, loud chords. And how the Bushmen children play there! And the music in the film is also wonderful. Yes, there is a lot of funny in the film, but there is also wise, deep there too.
And what a wonderful episode towards the end. The biologist says goodbye to the bushman and gives him money for his help. The Bushmen have no money, and he does not understand what it is and why he needs it, although he takes it. Bushman again continues his journey to the ends of the earth. Somewhere in the savannah, he leaves colored pieces of paper he doesn't need, and the wind blows them away...
...Yes, of course, "Gods Gone Crazy-2" is somewhat repeated both in storylines and in characters. All the characters in it, except for the Bushman, are like "modernized" heroes from the first part. But the talent of Jamie Yues in this sequel did not change him at all. I will not write anything about the second part! It is better to see once than hear and read a hundred times. Both films are watched in the same breath.
Have you watched yet? Run! Watch with the whole family!