The mutation that causes blond hair did not appear until about 11,000 years ago, which is long after this movie takes place. This is just a little nitpick of mine, and it doesn't effect my opinion of the movie. It's just one of those stupid little insignificant things in a movie that for some reason bugs me.
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The *beep* I don't
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde#Origins
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Don't trust wikipedia, fine, I guess I can't blame you there. Try this source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article735078.ece
If you still think I'm full of sh*t then I'm afraid I don't know what else to tell you. If you don't agree with the info, then you could have just said that, but I don't know what you feel like you're accomplishing by calling me a 'dummkopf' or 'yapping idiot'. Actually, you're calling the geneticists who did the research dummkopfs. Saying nobody knows because "we weren't there" is a flawed argument because going by that 'logic' we wouldn't know anything that happened prior to our birth because "we weren't there".
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Oh. I see. You're one of those pompous *beep* who think they know better than everyone else, which includes experts. Instead of just simply saying why you disagree with what I posted you had to resort to unnecessary insults. But it's easy isn't it? It's easy to be a condescending prick behind the safety of a computer screen but I bet you're probably to *beep* to talk to someone like that to their face.
"people should be far more skeptical of what they read or hear"
If you're implying that I blindly swallow whatever anyone says before thinking for myself and coming to my own conclusions, you are sadly mistaken. But sometimes if we want to learn anything we have to put our trust in the people who are well educated in the topic or field in question. Are they ever wrong? Sure they are, but if I have to choose between an expert who more than likely knows what they are talking about or some pompous blowhard on an internet forum who for all I know hasn't even graduated high school, sorry, I'm going with the expert. But since you're making assumptions about me, I'm going to make assumptions about you.
You're probably some middle-aged bachelor and a conspiracy theorist who spends almost every waking hour of his life on internet forums lecturing people on how Big Brother is out to get us that how one day we'll all wake up in a one world government with tracking devices implanted in our asses. I think it's a safe bet that you're an alcoholic too. You know what, you're not even worth my goddamn time because you've proven to me that trying to have a civil discussion with you is futile. Congratulations, you are the first person to go on my Ignore list. So go ahead and take your time and type out a long 'rebuttal' but I won't see it. I'm done with you. So you can kindly swivel on my extended middle finger or feel free to get the *beep* off my thread. Have a lovely day.
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Hey uhh, this dreckula cat is a total loser--check out his post history--snarky troll comments all day and night. Lonely fat kid (my guess) with enough time on his hands to insult fans of "Ugly Betty." Wise to ignore this particularly repugnant a$$-head. Maybe oneday he'll take up a new hoby, perhaps masturbation.
**You haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.**
Yeah, I've seen that he's been pissing other people off on here. I had to put him on ignore because I knew if I didn't, I would end up reading his response,I just wouldn't be able to resist. Then I would just have to say something back and then he'll say something back and then the next thing you know this whole thread has turned into a flame war, and that's not what I started this thread for.
shareIgnored even in a virtual world. What a sad comment on him as a human being...
**You haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.**
I understand the nitpick. However, this movie was based off the book. In the book she is blonde, the only blonde person in the clan as they hadn't developed that. It is less a nitpick with the movie as it is a nitpick about the book. Also, bear in mind that the book was written in 1980 so I'm not sure what teh research was like about that period in history. Also wikipedia states "The archaeological and paleontological research for this book was carried out by Auel from her public library and by attending archaeological conventions. Some of the descriptions are based on the cave burial at Shanidar." :) I do understand about the nitpicking though, just thought I'd give you extra info so that the nitpick could be placed in context kinda.
shareYou're right. I forgot about how old the book itself was. Now that I think about it, it's a pretty stupid nitpick. It's kind of like criticizing an old futuristic movie that takes place in a time that has already come and gone. It's not like at the time the movie was made that they would have any idea of the world would actually be like when the movie takes place.
shareI agree, although you're original post set me to thinking and searching about the blond gene, for what it's worth.
There are classic dystopia books to which you have to apply the logic of your statement in order to enjoy. The one that comes to mind is Brave New World where it is clear Huxley didn't even conceive of a computer (when he describes warehouses loaded with file cabinets full of cards holding information).
Fear is the Mind Killer
I was there and there were blondies....now what do you have to say about that? HUH HUH!!! Yeah I thought so! I was both THERE and KNEW blondie Cro-Magnons! SO HUMPFH!!!
shareDarn, I was also there, we could have hung out together.
http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?HuckleberryBeej.
What about the blondism of Australoids in the Pacific and Australia? When did they first pick it up?
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I can understand the nit pick I wouldn't even call it a nit pick its more along the lines of movie triva about facts they get wrong (similar to noting that in the movie the ripper a witness is shown a post mortem pic of mary kelly long before she is killed)
Of course though movies of this types are meant to be more fantasy adventure rather than historicallly or scientifically accurate.
Isn't it entirely possible that the mutation appeared earlier and just never became fixed in the population, or was for some reason lost again until more recent times?
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She's blonde because that is how she's described in the book... It's poetic license....
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