Quest for Fire Comments

  • Morris 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The film won the 55th Oscar for Best Make-up Award. The film seems to adopt the theory of a single human ancestor. It is obvious that the IQ of the African Homo sapiens has surpassed that of the protagonist Neanderthal. I'm curious, since the Neanderthals in the film have learned some key skills, how come they finally disappear in the long river of...

  • Jonas 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    80,000 years ago, human ancestors experienced a journey of "civilization" in search of...

  • Makenzie 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    God film. Has love saved the world since the primitive age? Looking at this film, you will know what kind of pediatrics Jacques Arnold photographed later. The Xiong Story Tiger Brothers and Tigers are more pediatrics, and it is indeed after this film that Jacques Arnold has maintained this kind of big perspective and broad narrative...

  • Scarlett 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    Those who admire primitiveness should take a look to deepen their emphasis on...

  • Tyrel 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    Primitive society is good, primitive society is good, primitive society men and women run...

  • Heath 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    Restore prehistoric human life. Divine drama, highly recommended. I just can't find the resources, what's the...

  • Jevon 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    The history of the world made Jacques Arnold bold, sincerely admired, abandoning the lines, and narrating the whole process with lens language, which is a great test for the director's skill. The sophisticated make-up and fine arts, with the clues of primitive people looking for fire, reproduce the history of civilization development of human society, with a magnificent momentum. The ending full moon and the appearance of love symbolize that human civilization has reached a new...

  • Sonia 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    Plain savages, hills savages, mountain apes, beasts. Communication between tribes, technological progress, immigration and anti-immigration, civilization can't handle wildness, um, brotherhood and love of primitive people, pure scenery, the suffering of wild beasts and our ancestors...mmd such a complicated film Caused me to lose the ability to write all...

  • Sadye 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    The director did not hesitate to follow the historical truth and from a biological point of view to show that before Zhicheng, many human behaviors were inevitably animalistic: they ate and slept like animals, and they searched for the opposite sex according to their instincts. However, in order to find fire, they developed from instinctive life needs to having certain feelings, that is, the simplest "sympathy" and "mutual pity". This should be considered an advancement for...

  • Gail 2022-02-16 08:02:41

    6.5 Prehistoric movies, live-action animal world. There are wars, civilizations, enemies, hatred, and love, and it's still a strange love. Reality is inseparable from the dedication of the...

Extended Reading

Quest for Fire quotes

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    Title Card: 80,000 years ago, man's survival in a vast uncharted land depended on the possession of fire. / For those early humans, fire was an object of great mystery, since no one had mastered its creation. Fire had to be stolen from nature, it had to be kept alive - sheltered from wind and rain, guarded from rival tribes. / Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.

Quest for Fire

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Language: None,French Release date: February 12, 1982