The clan of the cave bear movie movie#

Many years later, Ayla (all grown up into Darryl Hannah at the very height of her popularity - a popularity that this film's monumental financial failure played a major role in ending) is the odd woman out in the Neandertal community: tall and graceful and blonde and blue-eyed, while they are all swarthy and stocky. Near to where they lived was a small Cro-Magnon community that was decimated in an earthquake, leaving only a small girl named Ayla, who was adopted into the Clan of the Cave Bear because of the kindly medicine woman of that tribe, Iza (Pamela Reed). Now then, somewhere around the end of the last ice age, there was a tribe of Neandertal people who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.

The clan of the cave bear movie movie#

Lucky for the novel, because the sins of the movie start early and they never really do stop. No, the cinematic Clan of the Cave Bear is even something of a disaster, losing an immense sum of money, and the author took the extreme and unusual step of suing the filmmakers for spoiling her property so badly meaning that if nothing else, we cannot use the sins of the movie to judge the novel. However, the 1986 movie based on it? Not ingenious in any way (it is a blight on the career of screenwriter John Sayles, responsible for many fine genre flicks and observational indie movies about small communities). I'll admit to never having taken the plunge into Auel's Earth's Children series, of which TCotCB is the first volume and thus I will take her fans at their word. Auel's 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear will have you believe that it is an ingenious mixture of romantic fiction with impressively-researched historical fact (allowing that we know things now that we did not at the time of the book's publication, and by the cold light of 21st Century anthropology, its depiction of Neandertals is pretty far off course), and that the whole thing is as enlightening a fantasy hybridised with then-current archeological thought could ever manage to be.

Let us thus pay attention to a movie that teach ADULTS a fantastically inaccurate version of what life was like 25,000 years ago.įans of Jean M. This week: Ice Age: Continental Drift is the fourth entry in the inexplicably durable franchise that teaches our children a fantastically inaccurate version of what happened in the last glacial period. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons' evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthals’ mysterious disappearance from our world.Every Sunday this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend's wide releases. She's different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance of social taboos. Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated Neanderthal clan. and away from more primitive groups like The Clan of the Cave Bear. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Daryl Hannah is Ayla in the film version of Jean M. and This film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan.

Summary: This film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan.